Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Almost stuck in Atlanta on e!

Wow, two weeks since my last blog post here! Well there will be plenty to come as we went on a family vacation to Savannah, GA and Charleston/Folly Beach SC. I am however starting with the last night/day of our vacation.

So many of you who are not local blog readers haven't been plagued with the major gas shortage that we have had here in Nashville. In fact my parents who live only 1.5 hours away have not had any problems finding gas and it has been around $3.40 a gallon there, a steal for some of us. We were a little worried about the gas situation when we left because we didn't know what to expect on our driving trip along the way. We managed to get gas here in the midst of the shortage. Bret went out late one evening and found a station to fill up. Lots of other people were staying put because their tanks were almost empty and most of the stations were out of gas. I emailed someone in Charleston and they said that there were no problems with gas, so on our way we went.

We had no problems finding gas along the way and while were were at our vacation spot. The last night of our trip was going to be a stay in Atlanta and shopping at my two favorite stores The Container Store and IKEA. That night we were in our hotel room watching the debate and baby girl was asleep in the bed between us, then the local news came on. WHAT, no gas!!! Those stations that had it had a several hour wait, and were soon to run out in a matter of an hour or two, but good luck finding a station that had it. Oh no, our gas tank was on E! Our car tells us how many miles that it has left in the tank, until it gets below 30 then it just flashes at us. It was in the flashing stage, and we didn't know how many miles we had left.

Bret decided to go out and try to find a station. He found one with lines 30 cars deep and he had no idea when they might run out. He came back to the hotel because he thought if he were going to run out he rather be with us. We did some major freaking out and praying. I mean we probably didn't have enough gas for him to drop me off at IKEA for the day while he found a station. So we called the station that had gas and asked them when the expected to run out. They said that they did not expect to run out any time real soon. So off he went again, if he ran out while at the station he would just have to push the car to the pump. He managed to fill up and make it back and only had to wait one hour. All this as our daugther slept peacefully in the bed!

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