Ed.'s Note: Ever since the COVID-19 crisis began about a year ago this coming March, we've grown used to lines to get food, fuel and now vaccines. It's getting to the point – such as these scenes yesterday in Brownsville – that people lined up for entire blocks to get a hot drink and food at McDonalds, and fuel at local Stripes and gasoline stations.
But while the shortage of food can be ascribed to rolling electricity blackouts where people without gas appliances and without lights had to buy their hot food from restaurants, the shortage of fuel, authorities say, is purely a man-made scare.
The panic buying quickly spread throughout the Rio Grande Valley, not just in Brownsville. This led some public officials to urge calm for panicking motorists who lined up for blocks and emptied the fuel storage tanks on numerous distributors.
In Donna, lines of cars waiting to get into a gas station stretched for miles. Several gas stations in the Valley have even shut off pumps.
McAllen Mayor Jim Darling asked residents to stay calm.
"It's really unnecessary...tomorrow is going to be 50 degrees and we'll be better," Darling said. "It's going to take a little while to stock up things, just because of traffic and icing all over the state. But it's too bad that we had this panic buying and a lot of people shouldn't be out, dealing with coronavirus."
In Donna, lines of cars waiting to get into a gas station stretched for miles. Several gas stations in the Valley have even shut off pumps.
McAllen Mayor Jim Darling asked residents to stay calm.
"It's really unnecessary...tomorrow is going to be 50 degrees and we'll be better," Darling said. "It's going to take a little while to stock up things, just because of traffic and icing all over the state. But it's too bad that we had this panic buying and a lot of people shouldn't be out, dealing with coronavirus."
6 comments:
Valley people are such pussies. Brave it, raza!
Photos: Ice Wednesday in the Valley
C H E S S E !!!!!
MCALLEN HAS A DARLING AND WE HAVE A BANDEJA!
People in the Valley are brave.
People were cooking with charcoal, going to sleep at 7:00 PM under tons of blankets, not able to communicate with family and loved ones for days (no cellular phones, no internet), feeding the pets....but the cold was hard on the bones, the knees, the feet, the hands,
All the people trying to get gas.... to protect their loved ones.
And no POLICE any where to be found!!!
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