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It's above freezing, so I'm... in a skirt! And a blouse! And in my classic piano key tie from my college days!
Gas rationing starts in NYC today, for the first time since the oil shortage on the 1970s. It's run on an odd-even basis, odd days for license plates ending in odd numbers.
We have an odd numbered plate so I could've tried to get gas today, but I didn't want to risk it. So I went out last night/this morning at a little after midnight and found a gas station with a tanker truck filling it up. I quickly got on the line with my car. The station hadn't even opened, but a long line had already formed. I waited two hours, which isn't that bad, and was able to fill up my car.
There are also police officers at every open gas station directing traffic. It's crazy to see and contemplate, but it's necessary because there was no problems and no one tried to cut.
mornin' puglets,
trying to get too many things done
today on top of wordage.
we'll see what happens.
This is insanity to me. I honestly can't imagine what would happen in LA if we had an infrastructure meltdown of that magnitude. Even the Northridge quake wasn't this debilitating!!!!
It's also amazing the way people are getting by. You north easterners are a hearty breed. We'd have riots.