Last Wednesday, things were pretty normal, even though gas prices were creeping up. Your writer made a visit to the gas pump and filled it up whenever the need was there. And it's a good thing I did.

Because Thursday was a different story.

You know the latest news by now, what with half of this nation's gas stations suddenly not having any fuel for the pumps, thanks to Hurricane Harvey's torrential rains at refineries in Houston and Beaumont, Texas....