I'd begun to get a little panicky, which considering I still had half a tank of gas, seems a bit unreasonable. However, I hadn't seen any gas all week, except the one place with an hour wait, and I began counting how many trips to town I have to make this weekend and it occurred to me that if I don't find any gas before I take Ethan to school Monday morning, I'd be hard pressed to get home--and there's no promise of gas even then. The news is saying this shortage may last a month or so. So, I took a drastic step.
After I dropped Ethan at school in North Carolina, I turned around and drove 90 minutes back to South Carolina to run some errands I'd been putting off, and gamble that the rumors of gas in SC proved true. I knew that if I didn't find gas there, I'd have just burned the little that may have taken me through Monday morning. So, I found my heart beating rapidly as I approached my favorite fill stations--the first was empty, but as I got closer to the city, I began to see signs of hope. Stations with one grade, two grades, some with three grades and, best of all--NO LINES! God bless America and South Carolina. I now have gas!!! At least until sometime next week. I may have to make SC errands a weekly ritual.
5 comments:
That is just crazy!!! I hope you guys get gas again soon!
It's always a better day when you have gas.
What do you mean there's no gas? Nothing like that is happening in Utah that I can tell. In fact, our prices thankfully keep falling. Should I be nervous and go stock up on gas? What exactly is causing this shortage in your neck of the woods (no pun intended)?
You Utards should be safe. We are still suffering the effects of hurricane Ike. From what I understand some refineries were damaged and some were just shut down for the storm. Then, it's taken some time to get power back to the non-damaged facilities and of course repair the others, so there have been shortages around here. Part of the problem is that people here are panicking and stocking up, so no, don't go stock up, not yet anyway.
But seriously, do the gas jokes ever get old? They do? Oh.
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