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'Isabel was definitely more fun than this'

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Published 08/29/11

With winds gusting up to 47 mph, Firefighter Rodney Hyde had a tough decision: Mint chocolate chip or cookies and cream?

Scott Daugherty — The Capital
County firefighters Andy Clemenko and Mike Prokopchak from the West Annapolis Fire Station watch a plume of smoke rise yesterday morning from a stand of trees near the Rams Head Road House on Generals Highway. Numerous small fires started on power lines post-Irene, but firefighters had to wait for BGE before putting the fires out so as not to risk electrocution.

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"If you go to a firehouse and there isn't ice cream, it is a code violation," joked Hyde, one of seven career and 11 volunteer firefighters who rode out Hurricane Irene Saturday night at the West Annapolis Fire station on Jennifer Road.

It wasn't that the veteran firefighter didn't want to respond to an emergency. And it wasn't that there were no emergencies to be found as the storm dumped several inches of rain.

There just weren't many catastrophes in the Annapolis area...

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