This chat if you are actuly chatting you may post a link to one image from your day do you have any gas station shots?
How are the gas prices where you are?
Any lines around the block yet?
Are you afraid to go to the gas station when things get crazy?
Have you braved the gas lines today?
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we have a gas hog ill be going back out this evening and will be checking it again. lines are forming at our stations only two cars deep so far but by 8 tonight i think its going to be bad
As we were driving back from the Homecoming Parade at 4:15 this afternoon, it was up to $4.29/gal. Some stations in the city have already run out and are closed. Glad we don't really have to go anywhere or do anything this weekend, and that includes the Homecoming game. We'll read about it in the newspaper, um, if the carriers have enough gas to deliver them.
So Jax, don't put it off if you need it.
oh that sound horrible
cheap gas
now it'll be like 3.79/gal after customer discount.
The Category 2 storm had 110 mph winds as of 7 p.m. ET, speed that has been steadily increasing with each advisory from the National Hurricane Center. It is expected to make landfall late Friday or early Saturday near Galveston, and by that time may have strengthened to a Category 3, forecasters say.
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Ike is 900 miles wide, measuring the cloud cover at its widest point. On Friday, its tropical storm-force winds extended up to 275 miles -- the length of the Texas coastline -- from its center, for a total reach of about 550 miles.
A fire broke out at a Galveston yacht basin, where boats are stored and fixed, said Galveston Fire Chief Michael Varela Sr., and firefighters were unable to reach it because the area was flooded with about 8 feet of water.
If the fire spreads, Varela said, firefighters may be able to contain portions of it. But he said he was more concerned that new fires might break out elsewhere in the city, where many spots are impassable.
About 200,000 residents have fled low-lying areas of metro Houston, which has 4 million residents.
Earlier Friday, authorities rescued more than 120 people stranded by rising seas along the southeast Texas coast. But 22 people aboard a 584-foot Cyprus-flagged freighter were unable to be rescued by helicopter because winds were too strong, the U.S. Coast Guard said. At 6 p.m. ET, Coast Guard officials said the freighter, which had stalled in the water when it lost power, had regained electricity.
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The military has 42 search-and-rescue helicopters on standby, one official said.
*excerpts from the CNN article*
Yep, Gas is probably going to go up more...