Traffic Jam - At The Gas Station!

I was going to get my haircut yesterday (didn't) and I was going over topics I could discuss and I thought I bet people are going to freak out over the latest Hurricane. The latest Hurrucane, "Rita" is heading towards Texas which is a major refiner of crude oil into gasoline. If people freaked out over Katrina hitting Louisiana then Rita will certainly cause panic.

Driving around I see a gas station lot with a lot of cars but it didn't really dawn on me it was happening. I figured since I'm out I may as well top-up my tank, it was not even at the half tank level, and besides I use diesel and the diesel pump is on its own section away from the gas pumps.

I arrive to absolute madness! A diesel powered lawn tractor was stuck at the diesel pump (I thought he was just taking a long time to fill up), behind him was a diesel truck and I pulled up behind him. A fifty foot long tractor-trailer rig was trying to exit the lot while car after car arrived. A woman pulled up behind me and I had to tell her I was in line for diesel, she was driving a Honda Civic!

As I waited for the lawn trator to move (I was boxed in anyway) another truck arrived looking for diesel. Even more cars arrived blocking everyone in, plus some of lawn tractor guy's friends to help him try and fix it. Finally he was able to move it away from the diesel pump so we could access it. I was there for about half an hour.

During all that I forgot I had my phone with me, I should have taken a picture. At the peak of the madness the entire lot was full, I estimate anywhere from fifty to one hundred cars were crammed in there (once the tractor trailer left even more ariived).

The picture shown is of another gas station I took driving by, it wasn't close to the level of insanity I was caught in.