Harvey Strikes Us. . .

Yes, we who got about an inch of rain out of Harvey up here in the D/FW area and now under the hammer.  The strike is no repeat no gasoline.  All the stations are closed, bags on the pumps, no gas to pump.  Just around the corner from us is a Magellan Pipeline terminal.  No gas is flow up from the south.  I guess we will be getting gas trucked in from Tyler, there is a refinery there.  There is yet another one a Long View and still another at Mansfield all of them between Dallas and Shreveport.  I am sure there is a refinery at Shreveport too.  There are bunch of refineries in Louisiana but that is once again up stream from us.  And I am sure there is one at Oklahoma City.  But all these facilities are set up to flow one way - up the east coast.

The President has released oil out of the strategic oil reserve to Lake Charles refineries.  And I am sure the problem will not be so bad in Louisiana as in Texas.  Got to get those refineries back on line now, if not tomorrow.  The whole D/FW area will slowly collapse and come to a stand still.

It happened over night.  And I am sure by tomorrow we will see cars on the side of the road that have run out of gas.  These people will not know what to do.  They will panic.

Gouging has already started.  Gas stations still open are only taking cash.  That means no audit trail to deal with and thus the prices will be hiked way beyond the real number.  I hope they get caught and in Texas there is big time fines like up to $250,000 per incident.  It is designed to teach a hard lesson.  There is always some dope who thinks he can get away with it and will get caught.  People will cheer and boycott his business in the future.  A really stupid mistake.

I got 10.62 gallons for $33 dollars.  The idiot let me use a credit card so there will be an audit trail and believe me I will file a complaint.  And I hope the jerk gets fined big time.  Put him out of business.

Harvey has struck us too.

Radio Control Flying . . .

Well things are settling out.  My wife is finally moving around quite easily and is in perhaps the last step regarding her back surgery.  She is going to have a pain stimulator installed in her lower back to help with the residual pain she suffers.  She is able to drive and get around now but will be better after the stimulator installation.  She will not need as much attention as I now spend with her and I can get out a bit more.

That kind of frees me up to get back to Radio Control (R/C) flying again.  Our club lost our lease and had to move out and so we are looking for a new place to fly.  There are a couple of other areas I can fly and I will start up again.   I fly during the week so I would not disturb the other club members that can only get out on the week ends.

I recently completed my Stik plane and it just needs a final control check out.  That is not hard to do and just takes a bit of time to do it.  Once I get that done then I am ready to go again.

I have other planes but they are not interesting to me at the moment.  I will get back to them soon enough.  Still a bit warm here in North Texas so it is not so pleasant to work in the garage.  There have been some rainy days and those are acceptable for work conditions but otherwise the temps get up to a 100 or more degrees.  So I have been keeping my head down inside in the air conditioning.

And then football is coming soon and that will divert my attention too.  I love the fall, cooler and better flying conditions.