People are leaving their cars at gas stations as fuel runs out in Florida ahead of Hurricane Dorian'

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Some Florida residents are leaving their cars at gas stations because fuel is running out before Hurricane Dorian arrives in the state.

Miami resident Marion Wilkinson Scott told CNN on Friday he saw 12 cars that were left Thursday night at a Chevron on 152nd Street, five at a Mobile station in the Hammocks and two at another Chevron across from his house.

He posted on Twitter a picture of one of those cars with a note on the dash: "I live close by. My car is out of gas. Please call me when more arrives!" A phone number was included."My friends have given similar reports from various places in the city. I think a lot of people were in denial about this storm. Now they are a bit panicky," Scott told CNN.

He said he tried to top off his own tank at all those stations Thursday but had no luck.

"There isn't any. We've kept it topped off every night since last week (because Irma was a similar scenario for fuel scarcity two years ago). That ended last night when the stations all ran out of gasoline," he said.

"As a result, we have one unused car with a tank and another with half a tank. I hope it's enough to last til Tuesday next week. The possibilities of landfall are so broad that the entire eastern seaboard of Florida has made a run on gas simultaneously."


https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/30/us/florida-gas-stations-hurricane-dorian-trnd/index.html