Passing Storm

This past week we had, what I would classify as, a major storm roll through our area. Flooding rains, continual lightning, at least dime (more like quarter) sized hail, blow-a-tree-down winds and the ever popular power outage. My flag pole was sheered off at the base. Don't tell me the winds weren't bad!

The power company estimated 200,000 were without electricity in our area. Some didn't get it restored until 4 days later. The only positive for those people is their power bill will be lower next month. At least that's better than the treatment we all get from the major oil companies. How many times have you rushed to your corner gas station after hearing the news that the price per barrel of crude oil had just gone up, hoping to fill up before the rise at the pump; only to find that it had already jumped 12 to 20 cents.

Now let's turn it around... the price per barrel goes down! Don't bother rushing back to the gas station. The price won't start dropping at the pump for at least a week and only a penny every 3 or 4 days.

Just doesn't seem right!