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Old 11-09-2012, 04:48 PM
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Originally Posted by 2BNTV View Post
Why gas rationing? Is it because of limited gas supplies or lack of power for stations to pump it? One year in S.Florida they had plenty of gas but the stations had no power to pump it. Since then, I believe, laws were passed to make sure stations had emergency power supplies. We are very lucky here in TV that our power lines are underground and we have no worry about storm surge.
I'd hate to imagine what the results would have been if this was a cat 4 or 5 hurricane instead of only a minimal cat 1.
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