Florida gas stations running low on fuel amid Hurricane Milton evacuations
CBSN
Floridians fleeing Hurricane Milton on Tuesday faced shortages at gas stations in addition to congested roads.
"Every highway is dead-stop traffic it seems," said Chris Cain, a resident of Sanibel Island preparing to evacuate Tuesday with his girlfriend and 8-month-old. "There are fuel outages throughout the area, so there's navigating that to even get to" the hotel 20 miles inland that the couple booked earlier in the week, Cain told CBS MoneyWatch.
As of late morning on Tuesday, nearly 15%, or 1,146, of Florida's 7,912 gas stations were without fuel, Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, told CBS MoneyWatch. Hardest-hit are the Fort Meyers/Naples and Tampa/St. Petersburg areas, where percentages were running far higher. In Cape Coral, as many as 50% of stations were without fuel, De Haan said.
