Day one of our road trip - grandma, me, niece - we left the morning after the derecho hit the DC area. Luckily we didn't encounter any closed roads, just a few traffic lights out in the Chevy Chase area. But I wasn't thinking about how power outages across southern Ohio would affect us filling up the gas tank. Several towns had no power, and therefore, their gas stations weren't open. We then hit our first mile backup of cars waiting to get into a gas station that did have power. So when we got to the next town with power, we decided to top off just in case. We had to wait about a 1/2 hour in line. I think part of the problem was people like this women, who were filling up multiple gas cans, probably for their backup generator.
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