I mean when your getting off work at 5:30 PM Friday evening and you need to fill your gas tank up for the weekend's work, (sure we've heard the news and weather about hurricane Ike coming ashore) and you drive to your local gas station and it's pump handles are covered. (but the first clue was there was only one car driving away, like myself, when normally it is packed!!) Then I look across the street to the small station where hardly anyone frequents and there are cars lined out in the street in both directions! "Nope, I'm not gonna do that!!!!" So I drive a little further and the pumps continue to be closed. Finally after driving a couple miles up the road I find a station, not my favorite, but in this instance it looks pretty inviting and even though price had jumped 50 cents that day, I proceeded to fill my tank. You just don't wanna believe that there would be a shortage or rationing here in South Carolina. Well, guess what, it did. After continuing my drive home I ran across only 2 stations that still had gasoline service and several stations that the pumps were closed or empty. I hope things are better by next week. It's amazing our society is so dependent on commodities such as gasoline and how a couple days of damage can leave us paralyzed.
Waiting for the pumps to open....
Nance Burdette
Keller Williams Realty
864-580-9604
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