I grew up in Florida. Every hurricane season one of the things we’ve always been told is to fill the gas tank on your car, buy water, fill bathtubs with water etc. Something ever year for the past 74 years. The problem is the number of people who now live along the Florida coast. There is no way gas stations can store the amount of gas needed to fill every tank in The Villages, in one or two days. After the storm there may not be power. No power, no gas! If you have to leave the area because it isn’t safe, how do you get gas? You fill the tank ahead of time. The same thing happens at food stores? People but what they don’t need. What about hotel rooms? Those run out also. Why do you think they tell you to prepare early? We didn’t just learn about this storm today. Plan ahead.
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Jim
USAF Retired
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Senior Firearms Instructor,
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC)
Glynco, GA
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