FOX News is in our county, showing live video of a mile of cars waiting for gas...that will come in the morning! It is 10pm now. They have a long wait ahead! This particular gas station is the only open station in Daphne, Alabama, they are reporting. Daphne is along I-10, where refugees drive on their way to this county or to Florida to find shelter.
In Pensacola, Florida, today, we were able to get gas after waiting in a line of about a dozen cars. We paid $2.79 per gallon. Not bad. In other places in Pensacola, we saw lines of cars that wrapped around city blocks.
We returned home today to Baldwin County, Alabama, just over the Florida border. We had gone to Pensacola after the hurricane since my parent's had electricity, but we did not. All of our utilities have been turned back on already! We are so, so blessed tonight.
On our way home, there were fewer and fewer open gas stations, until they were completely non-existent.
In Mobile County, Alabama (home to Mobile, and just across the border from Mississippi), there is such a great gas shortage that people are sleeping in their cars at night, hoping the stations will have gas in the morning. To make matters worse, much of Mobile County does not have electricity yet, and without that, the gas cannot be pumped.
The Mobile County United States Postal Service (USPS) is not operating yet, four days after the hurricane. They say that they could deliver mail to most areas, but their trucks need gas, too, and they have none.
Gas conservation is a necessity these days. Especially here.
- Lori Seaborg
Thursday, September 01, 2005
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