I wish people could see the gas lines that formed in S. MS because of a rumor out of Hattiesburg. "FEMA was going to take over the gas supply". I had at least 3 reasonably intelligent people call to tell me to go get gas.
It looked like lines post Katrina about 11 in Poplarville
"Gas Shortage"
"Gas Shortage"
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go to http://www.mdwfp.com click on wildlife go to forums then the Hurricain forum and read the post about this. That is just rediculous the only thing that makes a gas shortage is b/c of idiots who go around spreading these rumors
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I dont know if thier will be a gas shortage but im going to be better prepared for this hurricane. Last night about 11 i got to thinking well its going across the gulf, so any rigs that are running are going to shut down. It probably is not going to hit MS or LA, but if Rita cuts across texas its going to have some affect on the refineries that were taken over the main production for this area. I remembered watching the news about up north and in Atlanta the gas lines were as bad as they were here. So i gased up the truck and filled up about another 20 gallons myself.
JMallard wrote:I really think it went from one person to the next. Some women sitting in line at the gas station is capable of calling at least 75 people on her cell. Not to mention the number of emails that went out.
yeah, your probably right about this. The women at my office are leaving to go gas their cars up.
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Yesterday morning the lady i work with/for informed me that the gas pumps where already filling up in starkvegas. that was at 7 a.m. I haven't looked lately so i really don't know.
Everyone is in a panic. people just have nothing better to do than worry other's about stupid chit. Rumors lies or whatever. they want to be the first to make a point and rumors spread like a wild fire.
Everyone is in a panic. people just have nothing better to do than worry other's about stupid chit. Rumors lies or whatever. they want to be the first to make a point and rumors spread like a wild fire.
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September 21, 2005
Gas lines grow as fuel rumors swirl
From staff and wire reports
Mississippians today began nervously lining up — again — at gas stations as rumors of shortages fueled their fears.
Many said they're afraid the pumps will dry up as Category 4 Hurricane Rita barrels toward Texas and as a number of refineries on the Texas coast shut down their operations as a precaution.
Lines formed at midday at stations on busy High Street in Jackson. In Clinton, yellow tape early today marked off pumps at the Kroger gas station off Springridge Road, which was closed to customers.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency scrambled to quash a fast-spreading rumor today that Rita would trigger a gasoline shortage, but not fast enough to prevent long lines and fears.
At the Kangaroo Express on U.S. 90 and County Road 609 in Ocean Springs, people waited in line because they said they'd heard gas would be rationed soon because of Rita.
They said that they've been told that oil rigs will soon shut down in the Gulf.
Said Karen Thurmon of Ocea Springs: "I think a rumor is going around. I don't know how true it is, but they're going to start rationing gasoline."
She said that she only had a quarter of a tank of gas and waited 15 minutes to fill up. Thurmon was among at least 30 people waiting in line at about 1 p.m.
Almost every gas station in Jackson County, from Ocean Springs east on U.S. 90, had lines of cars waiting to fill up.
At lunchtime, more than two dozen vehicles were lined up at a Chevron station on U.S. 49, waiting for fill-ups. Nina Smith, 33, of Biloxi got a call from a friend who told her — wrongly — the pumps would be shut off at noon.
"I came just in case," she said. "I had to wait in line three hours before, and I've got to get to work."
In Hattiesburg, 90 miles inland, radio talk shows were adding fuel to the rumors.
A spokesman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency told the Hattiesburg American today the nation's disaster recovery organization has no plans to commandeer gasoline supplies in advance of Hurricane Rita.
"FEMA has not put restrictions on the selling of fuel by anyone, because we don't have the authority to do so, plain and simple," FEMA spokesman Ken Higginbotham said.
"I just heard gasoline by the weekend may be $10 a gallon if this hurricane hits gas refineries in Texas," said Jim Faulk, a contract roofer working in Hattiesburg for FEMA.
Faulk was filling up his tank and some portable gasoline containers at Dandy Dan's BP, where a sign on the door read: "Rumors circulating today after gas station takeovers by FEMA are not true."
Deborah Bellew, 32, of Gulfport, heard the FEMA rumor from her mother-in-law in Hattiesburg.
"I just decided it's better to be safe than sorry," she said. "My husband said everyone in Hattiesburg was panicking. I don't know where it started or if it's true, but I'm here because we've been through this already."
In the first two weeks after Hurricane Katrina leveled much of the Gulf Coast, fuel supplies dwindled, tankers couldn't get in, and people waited in line for hours — from before dawn until after dark — for a fill-up.
But the crisis eased, and in recent days, it was rare to wait more than five minutes for a pump.
Then came Rita, which had strengthened to a Category 4 by midday, threatening refineries on the coast of Texas.
At a routine briefing this morning, Harrison County Emergency Management Director Joe Spraggins advised reporters and the public it would be wise to top off fuel tanks.
Though he didn't want to create panic, Spraggins warned that "fuel may become a commodity again."
Even the possibility was enough for Ginger Byrd of Pass Christian, who dropped what she was doing at the office and rushed to the nearest Texaco station.
"I might need gas for the generator," she said.
The few drivers who hadn't heard the rumor were baffled by the sudden lines.
"I was kind of wondering what was going on," said car salesman Les Fillingame, out on his lunch break.
"I really don't think it's true," he said. "If there was a shortage, they would be rationing under the military with Humvees."
Keith Saucier, owner of 19 Keithco gas stations in southeast Mississippi, also said there is no shortage of gasoline even though lines have quickly formed at nearly all his gas stations.
"It's a well-done rumor, but there is no shortage," he said. "The biggest problem we have right now is people have panicked and it's selling so fast it's hard to get trucks everywhere they need to be."
Gas lines grow as fuel rumors swirl
From staff and wire reports
Mississippians today began nervously lining up — again — at gas stations as rumors of shortages fueled their fears.
Many said they're afraid the pumps will dry up as Category 4 Hurricane Rita barrels toward Texas and as a number of refineries on the Texas coast shut down their operations as a precaution.
Lines formed at midday at stations on busy High Street in Jackson. In Clinton, yellow tape early today marked off pumps at the Kroger gas station off Springridge Road, which was closed to customers.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency scrambled to quash a fast-spreading rumor today that Rita would trigger a gasoline shortage, but not fast enough to prevent long lines and fears.
At the Kangaroo Express on U.S. 90 and County Road 609 in Ocean Springs, people waited in line because they said they'd heard gas would be rationed soon because of Rita.
They said that they've been told that oil rigs will soon shut down in the Gulf.
Said Karen Thurmon of Ocea Springs: "I think a rumor is going around. I don't know how true it is, but they're going to start rationing gasoline."
She said that she only had a quarter of a tank of gas and waited 15 minutes to fill up. Thurmon was among at least 30 people waiting in line at about 1 p.m.
Almost every gas station in Jackson County, from Ocean Springs east on U.S. 90, had lines of cars waiting to fill up.
At lunchtime, more than two dozen vehicles were lined up at a Chevron station on U.S. 49, waiting for fill-ups. Nina Smith, 33, of Biloxi got a call from a friend who told her — wrongly — the pumps would be shut off at noon.
"I came just in case," she said. "I had to wait in line three hours before, and I've got to get to work."
In Hattiesburg, 90 miles inland, radio talk shows were adding fuel to the rumors.
A spokesman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency told the Hattiesburg American today the nation's disaster recovery organization has no plans to commandeer gasoline supplies in advance of Hurricane Rita.
"FEMA has not put restrictions on the selling of fuel by anyone, because we don't have the authority to do so, plain and simple," FEMA spokesman Ken Higginbotham said.
"I just heard gasoline by the weekend may be $10 a gallon if this hurricane hits gas refineries in Texas," said Jim Faulk, a contract roofer working in Hattiesburg for FEMA.
Faulk was filling up his tank and some portable gasoline containers at Dandy Dan's BP, where a sign on the door read: "Rumors circulating today after gas station takeovers by FEMA are not true."
Deborah Bellew, 32, of Gulfport, heard the FEMA rumor from her mother-in-law in Hattiesburg.
"I just decided it's better to be safe than sorry," she said. "My husband said everyone in Hattiesburg was panicking. I don't know where it started or if it's true, but I'm here because we've been through this already."
In the first two weeks after Hurricane Katrina leveled much of the Gulf Coast, fuel supplies dwindled, tankers couldn't get in, and people waited in line for hours — from before dawn until after dark — for a fill-up.
But the crisis eased, and in recent days, it was rare to wait more than five minutes for a pump.
Then came Rita, which had strengthened to a Category 4 by midday, threatening refineries on the coast of Texas.
At a routine briefing this morning, Harrison County Emergency Management Director Joe Spraggins advised reporters and the public it would be wise to top off fuel tanks.
Though he didn't want to create panic, Spraggins warned that "fuel may become a commodity again."
Even the possibility was enough for Ginger Byrd of Pass Christian, who dropped what she was doing at the office and rushed to the nearest Texaco station.
"I might need gas for the generator," she said.
The few drivers who hadn't heard the rumor were baffled by the sudden lines.
"I was kind of wondering what was going on," said car salesman Les Fillingame, out on his lunch break.
"I really don't think it's true," he said. "If there was a shortage, they would be rationing under the military with Humvees."
Keith Saucier, owner of 19 Keithco gas stations in southeast Mississippi, also said there is no shortage of gasoline even though lines have quickly formed at nearly all his gas stations.
"It's a well-done rumor, but there is no shortage," he said. "The biggest problem we have right now is people have panicked and it's selling so fast it's hard to get trucks everywhere they need to be."
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