Actually, the last estimated tracks that I've seen have Isabel making landfall in the Cape Hattaras or Virginia Beach areas, and then tracking up into the Chesapeake Bay.
Being someone who lives outside of Baltimore (-west- side, thankfully), it really doesn't matter if it 's 50 miles farther east, we're -still- going to get the crap beat out of us.
While I detest some of the things that George and Ashcroft have been pulling, praying that DC gets levelled (which is essentially what you're doing) ain't kosher, man. It gets levelled, and 2 of my brothers and my parents likely get whacked, too.