Here comes Rita!!
Date: Sep 19th, 2005 8:24:13 pm - Subscribe
Mood: serious
Buy your gasoline NOW, while the prices are back down, because Rita is headed for the Gulf of Mexico, in the path of Katrina. There are approx. 175 drilling rigs in the gulf, along with many many refineries in Texas that Katrina didn't get on her pass through. The refineries in Louisiana are still down. The port of New Orleans, a MAJOR worldwide shipping port, has already been taken down.
What does that mean to YOU, the consumer? well, it means that railways, already expensive to ship by, are already overbooked; trucking is pricey, and now busier than a one armed man in boxing match. The trucking industry (and I speak from experience, wife of a trucker) already supports ALL of the other shipping industries. It carries EVERYTHING you buy, whether out of PORT cities, RAILWAYS, or domestic manufacturing. If you got it, a truck brought it, TRUST ME.
Gas in my hometown (Greenville, Illinois) went back down about 25 cents after Katrina passed, and the "recovery" operations began. But now, we have rita barreling into the Gulf, not crossing much land in Florida, therefore, able to gather steam in the warm Gulf waters, much like her sister Katrina did. The estimated path (courtesy of the National Weather Service) is anywhere from western Mississippi to the Texas shores, just west of Galveston. Hey Galveston, remember YOUR past history with hurricanes? Well, gasoline just went back up $4.00 a barrel (may not mean much to you, but my hubby ALSO worked in the oilfields for years, as did my grandfather, so we KNOW what that means!). You'd better fill up now, before Rita makes landfall. The prices will begin going up, by my estimate, by tomorrow, in anticipation of Rita's landfall, even though she's not expected to get there till Friday. but the rigs are all in the Gulf, so she will affect the oil industry way sooner than one migh expect!
As a weather buff, I find all this fascinating. (I live in Tornado Alley, formerly lived in California with earthquakes and wildfires...equally fascinating). I am glad I don't live in the hurricane range, and I have already given to the Red Cross, and am currently helping to connect separated families; but I have to say, Rita could very well be a repeat of Katrina.
Let me just add this-- I think, in spite of all his "positive attitude", that New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin is an idiot. why is he encouraging people to come back to N.O.?? Especially with yet another possible Category 3 bearing down on the Gulf? REBUILD the city, in the heart of the hurricane season?? What, is this guy FOR REAL??? Geez, I just don't get it. Now is not the time!! Of all the government boobs to be involved in this, I think he's the worst.
Well, that's MY say on the current hurricane situation. Let's just watch and see what pans out in the next few days....
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