Recently I’ve been getting that Armageddon feeling again. For the past week, gas stations in Atlanta have been out of gas. Completely out. When a station gets gas, people have to wait in line for about an hour. Fights are breaking out at gas pumps. I honestly don’t believe the world is coming to an end, but with the way gas has been lately, and the financial shitstorm we’re currently experiencing, sometimes it seems like we just can’t go on like this.
I remember writing an entry in my old blog right after Hurricane Katrina (2005) when there was a gas shortage in Atlanta. Here it is:
a cold and broken hallelujah
As I was driving to work tonight everything was bathed in golden light. It was that time of afternoon just before sunset. I felt like I was moving in slow motion. Every gas station I passed had a minor traffic jam surrounding it. My iTunes had Jeff Buckley’s version of Hallelujah on it and it just fit. Definitely download it.
I am freaked out. I know gas prices will normalize eventually, but they were up to $5-6 a gallon in some parts of Atlanta today. My mom filled up my car today at 7 am at Sam’s club for $2.47. Things just seem to keep piling up that make me feel like the end of the world is coming and we are just barely holding it back. The government definitely isn’t telling us everything, and who knows what really is true and what isn’t? It seems like if only so many more chinks appear in the wall, all hell will break loose.
Does anyone else feel this way?
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