Hello Freeport, and all of Nassau,
I'm just one of many outlets barking this out, but hey. It's what I do, right? Or, at least, do for now!
According to a statement by NY Governor Andrew Cuomo, we will be switching to an odds-or-evens system for gasoline refueling in order to regain some control over the fuel shortage. Starting a 5:00 AM on November 9th, gas stations will ONLY sell fuel to certain drivers based on the day it is. It works like this: If your license plate ends in an odd number, you can buy on an odd day. So if it ends with 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, then you can buy on the 9th, 11th, 13th, etc. If it ends with 2, 4, 6, 8, then you buy on even days.
Out of state or vanity plates (NOT ending in a number) count as odd.
Gas cans and other special circumstances like commercial/emergency vehicles are not necessarily under these restrictions. You can read about it in the actual announcement. The duration is for however long it takes for Nassau County to decide we don't need this anymore.
Why are they implementing this? Aside from lingering concerns over Sandy (when I filled up I honestly only ad a 45 minute wait, but I filled up on Tuesday), yesterday's Nor'Easter Athena apparently knocked out a fuel pumping station for some time, revitalizing the shortages we're facing. My general impression, I could be wrong, is that the problem was working itself out until this new storm came and blanketed us with, like, just a nightmare of snow. Then more power outages hit and we found ourselves right back at square one.
Hurricane Sandy Q and A w/Mayor Hardwick and More; Freeport Rec Center, Nov 10, 5:00 PM
Long subtitle, eh?
So here's the deal with this. On a lark, I checked the Village webpage to see if maybe they had said anything about the Nor'Easter we're facing. Nope! Nothing there. It's only a major winter storm a week and a half after a Hurricane, but why bother acknowledging it now when it already hit us without our local government's notice, right?
Anyway, our local government wants to make it up to us by hosting a two hour Q&A session on the situation! Mayor Hardwick, the Police, Fire, Electric, and other departments, will all be on hand to answer questions.
There was also an update about how the Police Department is glad to report that homes are safe and secure. No actual statistics have been provided to answer the rampant allegations of looting. I'm not a believer that a situation is ever as bad as it seems, especially in a politically charged environment, but I know for a fact there have been some incidents of crime. I know of one story where an old lady was using a hand-truck to remove her ruined belongings from her basement; she went inside for a break, and when she came back her hand-truck had been stolen off of her property.
So questions? Take them to the Rec, because they probably aren't getting answered until then.
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