NW, maybe they did not wait.
About 7;30 pm, on KFI radio, in the Los Angeles area, the url is above about 10 posts.
There was a clip, the speaker I think was a lady from AAA Auto Club.
She said that gas prices were going to go up, of course for the Labor Day travel, but part of the rise was damage to
two refineries in Northern California.
She said one was a fire and the other an accident. I didn't really catch the names, but the fire might have been Soro or sounded about like that, there is a Soccoro gas, I think.
The second refinery, may have been a Shell plant.
Several years ago, in the area of the oil wells, I think, this is from memory, but I did read the article and see the photos in a California newspaper.
As I recall it:
25 Chinese came in on one of the big ships, off the coast of
California, they were put in the water.
Those that could swim, did so, the others used empty gallon milk bottles to stay afloat.
Their clothes were in plastic bags, tied to the neck.
They made it to the pickup point at a Mall, then got caught.
So we do not relaly need scuba divers to come into the coast of California.
I don't know how many electric plants there on the coast of California, but 35 years ago, we would go to one of the nuclear plant areas for sea shells and pretty rocks on the beach.
When you think that a non-swimmer can reach them with empty milk bottles, you have to worry.
I did not know about the fires... thanks.
Check out all the rigs in red (possible hurricane force)
http://hurricane.methaz.org/hurapak/AAL122005_gomex_oil.html
Would certainly be a major problem if the storm is as powerful as forecast. Even as is, most will be evacuated so... prices will be on the rise.