Yeah - I was hearing on the radio that a lot of the gas that comes into FL comes via barges and not the pipeline but I'd imagine if this is not resolved soon that it may affect FL to some extent
It's worse. Some idiot on the local news said all commerce could come to a halt because there would be no fuel for trucks. My local Publix had somewhat empty shelves and long lines. People panic buying because of this. Yes, the toilet paper aisle was empty.
Colonial has a tank farm in Greensboro. Whenever I have done a limo ride at Treasure Club that’s the landmark where the dancer tells me it’s time to start putting clothes back on.
Thousands of gas stations have gone dry due to unwarranted panic buying. This is what man-made disaster looks like. If people would just watch the news, relax, and not react based on fear, then this would have been barely a blip. But there is this "me first" attitude that leads people to hoarding gas, hoarding toilet paper, refusing masks and vaccinations, and so on. I blame social media and reality TV.
The most interesting part, to me, is that this was not an infrastructure attack. It was ransomware. The hackers did nothing that mechanically interrupted the flow through the pipeline. Rather they stole, isolated, and held for ransom the customer files that Colonial would need to properly bill the recipients for their fuel deliveries. Colonial was the one who shut down the pipeline, because no company wants to deliver product without knowing who to bill.
I ate lunch today where I could see the gas station next door. People in line for 45 minutes and when they got to the pump the topped off their car (most pumped for 2 minutes or less. Many of them of them had 1-3 gas cans anywhere from 1 to 5 gallon variety. One lady filled three milk jugs and put them in the back seat with her toddler in the car seat.
I also saw that 75% of the dozen or so stations I passed were out of gas.
The crazy thing was on the news they showed stations in Chicago and Cleveland out of gas. They are nowhere near that pipeline.
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The most interesting part, to me, is that this was not an infrastructure attack. It was ransomware. The hackers did nothing that mechanically interrupted the flow through the pipeline. Rather they stole, isolated, and held for ransom the customer files that Colonial would need to properly bill the recipients for their fuel deliveries. Colonial was the one who shut down the pipeline, because no company wants to deliver product without knowing who to bill.
I also saw that 75% of the dozen or so stations I passed were out of gas.
The crazy thing was on the news they showed stations in Chicago and Cleveland out of gas. They are nowhere near that pipeline.