The Governor of NC put out a press release yesterday...it was on FR...that the southeast gets its oil from the Gulf and there will be shortages.
Economic consequences are going to be severe.
This is the last day of "normal" as the rest of the country has known it. This is a sea change day, a watershed day, like 9/11. The "storm surge" from Katrina is going to engulf the country - economic, humanitarian, political - the whole deal. I sense things are about to be different. Like the migration of the middle west during the dustbowl, only faster.