On a tour of Miami-Dade and Broward counties, you can currently find two situations: gas stations that have fuel but with long lines and others where they have had no fuel. gasoline for several days.
It’s been a tough weekend for drivers in South Florida after gas delivery was affected by bad weather last week. Severe flooding eventually prevented regular fuel delivery to stations in Miami-Dade and Broward counties.
Daniel Herrera is one of many people who had to make a long journey to fetch gasoline, but their trip was not successful. ‘I’m worried because if I can’t find gas how can I get home…I can’t get the car to the man,’ man who says he’s been to four gas stations asks, alarmed, “you have to inform people so that you don’t jump into the street without knowing that you won’t see gasoline”.
The manager of a gas station on West 49th Street in Hialeah says he doesn’t know when the fuel will arrive, at his gas station all gas stations are out of service.
“So far, we don’t know when the deliveries gas, they don’t give us an explanation yet. Only that we turn off the engines because there is no more gasoline, ”explains Daniela Cerda, who works at a Mobil gas station which has been without supplies since Friday and which made the impact felt at the ‘business.
“They come to consume both gasoline and products from the store, so sales have dropped a lot,” said Daniela Cerda, a worker at a Mobil service station.
Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine-Cava addressed the situation saying, in part, “the county is working closely with our state and federal partners to ensure gas is delivered to local stations as quickly as possible.” .
However, affected drivers continue to fear that this shortage will turn into a crisis.
“I’m running out of gas…let’s see if a downpour of gas comes and stops the rain,” joked Daniel Herrera, one of the drivers affected by the fuel shortage.
Many gas stations in Miami do not have a date to receive fuel, which is odd to some.
The authorities -for their part- have encouraged the public to be patient and not to rush to the pumps as they ensure that there is enough fuel in the port and in the ships arriving at sea and arriving in the south of Florida, so very soon will be distributed .