One of my friends just emailed from Japan--gasoline availability is dwindling

Godhumor

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Sun Mar-13-11 12:13 PM
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One of my friends just emailed from Japan--gasoline availability is dwindling

Edited on Sun Mar-13-11 12:13 PM by Godhumor

Already out where she lives--between the seaports being shut down or used for search and rescue operations and the horrible conditions on most of the major roads, gasoline is becoming rare, already.

My friend lives rural, so it makes sense those communities would run out first, but still...

Scary times.

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jpak

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Sun Mar-13-11 12:16 PM
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1. That's what happens on the Gulf Coast when they issue hurricane watches/warnings

The gas stations are mobbed and run out within a few hours.

After Katrina, there was no gas in AL or the FL Panhandle for weeks

Supermarket shelves emptied

Very scary to be stranded, unable to escape with little food

my sympathies

:(

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Justyce

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Sun Mar-13-11 12:30 PM
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3. Yep, after going through that in

Rita and Ike, we keep our tanks topped off during hurricane season so we can get out of here if we have to. I also buy canned goods, staple goods, mosquito repellent, etc., to put back at the beginning of the season because as you said, once a hurricane forms, they sell out of everything so fast.

I feel so bad for those people going through this that I have a knot in my gut :(

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Warpy

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Sun Mar-13-11 12:21 PM
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2. You have to have a lot of sympathy for people who jumped into their cars

and started to drive north to check on friends and family, not realizing the roads were choked with other people doing what they were doing or gone, impassible under rubble or washed away.

Still, the first thing that should happen in any disaster is that gas stations should shut down except for rescue vehicles. That never seems to happen until they've sold out.

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