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I've never seen anything like this. I drove past BJs in Farmingdale last night and the line was all the way onto 110 and more. Never thought I would see that in my life. Hopefully this all goes away ASAP!!
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0 minutes...................I fueled up before hand and filled my two 5 gallon jugs and my generator. too bad everybody else wasnt smart enough to do the same. We were lucky though and only lost power for 8 hous.
I've heard of people waiting 12 hours for gas? Curious, why? To keep generators running? If it was just for driving, I'd have put the effort into some carpooling arrangement and avoid any unimportant driving.
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0 minutes...................I fueled up before hand and filled my two 5 gallon jugs and my generator. too bad everybody else wasnt smart enough to do the same. We were lucky though and only lost power for 8 hous.
It seems logical now, with the power outages and the extra gas used for generators, but I never heard any warnings ahead of time about filling up on gas. The 'annual storm of a lifetime' is a real recent phenomenon ;-p
I've heard of people waiting 12 hours for gas? Curious, why? To keep generators running? If it was just for driving, I'd have put the effort into some carpooling arrangement and avoid any unimportant driving.
It seems logical now, with the power outages and the extra gas used for generators, but I never heard any warnings ahead of time about filling up on gas. The 'annual storm of a lifetime' is a real recent phenomenon ;-p
i guess it just comes down to who prepares and who wants to roll the dice. Its a lot easier to buy gas, fill up and store it ahead of the storm. I mean we did have almost a weeks notice that a hurricane was coming.........A HURRICANE !!!! I guess it depends on what that word means to people. I've lived throug a bunch and i will always prepare more than needed.
I filled up on Sunday before the storm, still have exactly a half a tank left. I usually try to not let my car go under a half a tank (a habit drilled into me by my mother.) No generators. I lost power for three days starting Monday night power came back Thursday night.
I filled up on Sunday before the storm, still have exactly a half a tank left. I usually try to not let my car go under a half a tank (a habit drilled into me by my mother.) No generators. I lost power for three days starting Monday night power came back Thursday night.
Almost the same here. I filled it up Monday morning at BJs (no line at all) and I have about 48% of the tank left. Good for about 150 more miles. My daily commute is about 30-35 miles roundtrip....hopefully the madness ends soon.
My power was lost from Monday night up right up until tonight.
I live in queens and fortunately for me I did not lose power. I filled up on Tuesday and still have 3/4 left. I'm keeping my car parked until Monday when I have to go to work. Hopefully by then this crisis will be over with. By my house there are people actually sleeping in their cars outside the gas stations waiting for a delivery to arrive.
I ended up waiting in line and getting no gas, even after warning people through texts late Wednesday night into Thursday early AM that there was no gas from Massapequa to the Queens border. I finally found a station and topped off at sunoco in Garden City; no line, regular gas only (all this should've been a dead giveaway to stockpile some gas, but I was too tired to make the drive back and forth). Next day Thursday the madness with the lines got really crazy.
I went out real early Sat. morning and waited at Mobil on Merrick rd, but ended up with no gas after waiting more than an hour. I don't think anyone was expecting this kind of gas shortage. Even those who filled up beforehand got squeezed. Those with generators had to really ration its usage. Now that the power's back, I don't expect to be driving as much. So we will probably be good til mid next week. A lot of the gas is being used right now by people with generators, all the emergency crews, tree clearing trucks, etc. combined with the supply issues is a recipe for disaster. Jersey is also in a crunch on the gas front. I think we really need to examine what's going on at LIPA as well. Look at how critical they are to our infrastructure. I agree with other LIPA skeptics that perhaps they are not putting the appropriate funds into ensuring a sound network here. Their emergency response plan looks like the same one from the 70's. Maybe they don't really want a sound infrastructure here?
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Originally Posted by noupf
0 minutes...................I fueled up before hand and filled my two 5 gallon jugs and my generator. too bad everybody else wasnt smart enough to do the same. We were lucky though and only lost power for 8 hous.
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Originally Posted by noupf
i guess it just comes down to who prepares and who wants to roll the dice. Its a lot easier to buy gas, fill up and store it ahead of the storm. I mean we did have almost a weeks notice that a hurricane was coming.........A HURRICANE !!!! I guess it depends on what that word means to people. I've lived throug a bunch and i will always prepare more than needed.
Oh, give me a break with this! The smugness in your posts makes me want to vomit . You were lucky--not smart. 8 hours downtime? No family, in-laws, or relatives to house/transport, or job to drive to?...yeah, if you live by yourself with your cat and have no relatives on LI, then you were good. And very lucky to have power after 8 hours. Go read your generator manual again. You would've burned through your jugs by Thursday. If you had places you needed to drive to and on top of that you were still with no power, then what? You certainly wouldn't be posting on city-data how you outsmarted everyone else. Please .
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. You were lucky--not smart. 8 hours downtime? No family, in-laws, or relatives to house/transport, or job to drive to?...yeah, if you live by yourself with your cat and have no relatives on LI, then you were good. And very lucky to have power after 8 hours. Go read your generator manual again. You would've burned through your jugs by Thursday. If you had places you needed to drive to and on top of that you were still with no power, then what? You certainly wouldn't be posting on city-data how you outsmarted everyone else. Please 
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