Hurrican Ike, still here?
By relundad
@relundad (2310)
United States
September 21, 2008 11:40pm CST
It has been a couple of weeks since Hurrincane Ike, however we are still feeling its presence here in GA.
Most of our gas stations are still running out of gas. Today I left home and needed gas. Within 2 miles of my house are 3 gas stations, all of them were out of gas completely. I drove for another 9 miles before I could find a station with gas. At this particular station, cars were lined up to get in. I waited approxiamately 20 minutes before I could get to the pump. And this was at a station that had 20 pumps.
Where do you live? Are you still feeling Ike's presense?
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10 responses
@littleowl (7157)
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23 Sep 08
Fortunatly I live in the UK so we haven't had Ike over here but my heart goes out to all of you in the US that have as it has done so much damage..take care..littleowl
@littleowl (7157)
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23 Sep 08
Hi relundad I hope that you are all safe there my prayers are with you all blessings littleowl
@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
22 Sep 08
Not in the immediate area, I am in Ohio and on the other side of the city, my brotherinlaw still has no power..
@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
22 Sep 08
Yeah me too, I don't know how I made it 4 days..I had a friend comment that before she moved, they had an ice storm that cut them off from power for 2 weeks and the place where she moved to, the same storm left those people without power for 6 weeks, now that is crazy...
@CherylsPearls (1269)
• United States
22 Sep 08
Here in North Carolina, there have been quite a few stations out of gas. The one I usually use has been out of gas since last week. The owner told me he has no idea when he will be getting more.
I went to another station and paid $4.19 per gallon. I really think it's all a rip-off.
@relundad (2310)
• United States
23 Sep 08
Several stations here that were privelaged to have gas was also raising the prices and many for cited for price gauging. In todays economy I think that is just wrong and if I realize that a place that I patronize is doing that then they can forget my business.
@TessWhite (3146)
• United States
22 Sep 08
Yes, hurricane Ike is still affecting us where I live. You see I live on the southern coast of Texas. Ike was supposed to hit us, but turned north instead. Now we are having difficulties with stores getting their supplies since many came from the Houston area. Also our beach here is being buried under washed up wood, roofing and other things from all the buildings destroyed up north. Just today on the noon news they told us they were searching for a man who had chosen to swim off shore today (silly with so much stuff floating out there) and had gone under and didn't come back up. The coast guard is searching for him and people are searching the shore trying to find him. Our area beaches and buildings were badly damaged by storm surge and erosion also.
@TessWhite (3146)
• United States
23 Sep 08
Unfortunately as of the evening news they hadn't found him yet. I'm afraid its going to become a recovery of a body now. People do the dumbest things sometimes. When the hurricane hit two teens were out on one of the jetty where the waves were so high. They ended up falling in, and one drowned. Two others tried to rescue him and one of the man was critically injured. Its a shame - all he did was try to help and now he is in bad shape. I really wish people would use their common sense sometimes.
@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
22 Sep 08
I live in Ohio and some people here still are without electricity because of that bad boy, Ike. We were having some gas shortages because everyone was filling their tanks for fear there would be shortages
but it's okay now. Mostly lots of trees down and power outages. I've never seen anything like the winds that Ike sent up here. I hope your situation gets better soon!
but it's okay now. Mostly lots of trees down and power outages. I've never seen anything like the winds that Ike sent up here. I hope your situation gets better soon!
@pheonixstar1982 (2307)
• United States
22 Sep 08
I live in tennessee and over half the gas stations in the town i live in are out of gas. If i needed gas i would have to go way out of my way to get it, but luckily i still have half a tank and don't have to go far to work. The stations that still have gas, the prices range from 3.69 to 4.29. Its really a sad state of events.
@momjessie82 (344)
• United States
22 Sep 08
I live in Iowa. We did not have to deal directly with Ike, but we have had some changes caused by Ike. As soon as they were talking about the hurricane hitting and evacuating people, our gas prices jumped WAY up. I knew it would happen though. It is a common occurrence. They are still high now. So, yeah we are still feeling Ike's presence here. I am sorry that it is so much worse for you. I hope that they get the gas situation figured out soon for you and things start getting back to normal.
@relundad (2310)
• United States
23 Sep 08
Well according to the news we are still about a week out for getting back to normal. Hopefully that is the case. I am hoping that the country gets a break before winter, as a lot of places have had it rough all summer with either too much rain, not enough rain, hurricanes etc.
@fatmansmommy (751)
• United States
22 Sep 08
hi there! i am sorry to hear that you guys are still haveing some pretty nasty consequences from that terrible storm. i truly feel for all of you. i live in upstate new york so no, i have no effects from hurricane ike. i hope everything gets better for you all very soon!
@relundad (2310)
• United States
22 Sep 08
Lucky you, its pretty scary running around looking for gas. But it gives you only a small glimpse of what people in the areas that were actually hit. We weren't but get to feel the effects of it. And whenever then is as evacuation we always tend to get a lot of people in GA.
