Yesterday was supposed to be a Dolly Parton/Dom DeLuise/Burt Reynolds movie marathon. It turned into a big shitstorm. Actually it was a windstorm but there was a lot of shit blowing around in the wind. We put in Cannonball Run sometime around 3:15. 45 minutes later the power was out. The DVD was also stuck in the DVD player. So we moved the party to Ryan's house and put in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. 45 minutes later the power was out there too. We decided to drive to our house, and we got to see so many incredible downed trees and things, so we almost didn't care that the power was already out at our house. On the way out of Ryan's place Elliot also realized he had a flat tire from the previous driving through tree debris. That sucked.
Then we decided to drive around town and listen to T.I. and Rihanna on repeat while looking for incredible mishaps and destruction. Ryan volunteered to drive so I was in since he was willing to sacrifice his car's well being for the sake of a good photo-op. Once it got dark we played a board game by candlelight and then went home. Mike and I decided that since Cory still somehow had power we should bring our food to his house and borrow his refrigerator space. Apparently our power may be out for 7 days. One of my professors asked us how many of us didn't have power and it was more than half the class. Then he asked how many of us lived on the 17th floor and couldn't use the elevators and then raised his own hand. That sucks.
I spent a lot of time trying to capture this image of a graph I made and nothing's working so you can just do it yourself. Go to gasbuddy .com and select the options for USA gas prices and include crude oil prices. You'll see something decidedly funny happening over the past few days. The crude oil price drops drastically while gas prices rise. I call shenanigans. The last time crude oil prices were this low, gas prices were 3.00 a gallon. WTF is that about? On top of these gas prices (don't even get me started) the traffic lights are out all over the city and they can't spare one cop to direct traffic at Fishinger and Riverside. It took me 45 minutes to get to campus today. I could have paddled a boat across the Scioto faster than I drove across the bridge.
Being without power is not that big of a deal. Until you leave your house. I think I screamed fuck at least 3 times today in the car. I also yelled at one guy so loud that he heard me through my closed window. I called him an asshole and he looked in his rearview at me. I'm just being Miley.
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yeah, all these people at work were talking about having to get generators and stuff and not having water and i was like, everything is A-OK at my place. I guess good things happen to people like me who listen to the Jehovah's Witnesses....
still no power.
i took a shower by candle light today. at first i was going to take a super-fast shower to conserve hot water, but then decided it would enjoy the hot water while i had it, and took a normal lengthed 20 minuter. i am now going to stay at work until i become tired enough to go home and sleep, since i have absolutely nothing to do in the dark at my place.
done.
pssst, we don't put crude into our car.
i just did a little clicking on the internets to find that 1st and 3rd most productive oil refineries are located in Baytown, TX and Texas City, TX which are located ~10 and ~40 miles respectively from Galveston, TX. #9 is in a Houston suburb and #15 is in Houston itself. i call unresearched blogging.
I called shenanigans in part because the crude price is dropping due to the damage to refineries not being extensive. Some are already back online and others have reported that the damage is "moderate". I don't think there's an actual shortage, just a fictional one. That way they can continue to charge 3.99/gallon as long as possible. If there's an actual shortage, there should be rationing, not just a price hike.
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