Name: Number of fuel tankers serving NC unknown
Uploaded: 2021-05-12T16:55:00-0400
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Description: Each fuel reservoir can fill about 1,125 cars but the number of tankers on the road is unregulated

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Each fuel reservoir can fill about 1,125 cars but the number of tankers on the road is unregulated 

<p>DEPOT WEST OF FAYETTEVILLE IS SHOWING GAS AVAILABILITY. WE ALL KNOW THIS CAN CHANGE VERY QUICKLY. &gt;&gt;&gt; JOE BIDEN JUST WRAPPED UP SPEAKING LIVE AT AN EVENT . THIS HEADLINE IS COMING OUT OF IT. THIS WAS JUST PUBLISHED AT 4:25, FEW MINUTES AGO. THE PRESIDENT SAYS HE EXPECTS TO HAVE GOOD NEWS IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS ON THE COLONIAL PIPELINE BUT THAT WAS IT, NO SPECIFICS. CERTAINLY, A REFRESHING HEADLINE TO SEE AS MANY PEOPLE OUT THERE NEED FUEL. &gt;&gt;&gt; WRAL'S DATA TRACKERS ARE LOOKING AND HOW MUCH GAS CAN BE TRANSPORTED AND STORED AND WHAT THAT MEANS FOR YOU WHEN YOU GO TO REFUEL. OUR INVESTIGATED EXPLAINS WHY THERE ARE STILL SO MANY UNKNOWNS AT THIS POINT. &gt;&gt; Reporter: FUEL TANKERS ARE AT THE READY WAITING TO REFILL AND GET THE GAS ON THE ROAD TO MUCH NEEDED AREAS, LIKE RALEIGH, WHERE THERE ARE MORE THAN 75% OF LOCAL GAS STATIONS THAT ARE RUNNING ON EMPTY. &gt;&gt; EACH TIME A LITTLE MORE FUEL THAN THEY NORMALLY DO CARRY. &gt;&gt; Reporter: WHAT IS NORMAL AND WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR YOU WHEN YOU GO TO FILL UP? ON AVERAGE, EACH TANKER CARRIES 1000 GALLONS OF GAS. THEY ARE USED TO FILL THESE UP, GAS STORAGE CONTAINERS AT STATIONS, WHICH VARY BY SIZE FROM ABOUT 12,000 GALLONS TO ABOUT 24,000 GALLONS. IT TAKES 1.5 FUEL CARRIERS TO FILL UP THE SMALLER TANKS AND ON THE HIGHER END, CLOSER TO THREE. SINCE TYPICALLY VEHICLES HAVE TANKS BETWEEN 12 AND 20 GALLONS, USING THE AVERAGE OF ALL OF THOSE, IT COULD FILL 1125 CARS. WE KNOW THOSE NUMBERS BUT HOW MANY TRUCKS ARE COMING THROUGH IS UNKNOWN. NO ONE IS TRACKING THAT INFORMATION BECAUSE IT IS UNREGULATED ACCORDING TO GARY HARRIS, THE HEAD OF THE NORTH CAROLINA PETROLEUM AND CONVENIENCE MARKETERS. &gt;&gt; NOBODY REALLY KNOWS THAT TYPE OF INFORMATION. &gt;&gt; Reporter: THE COLONIAL PIPELINE CRISIS IS EXPECTED TO BE OVER IN A FEW DAYS BY PEOPLE ARE CONTINUING TO PANIC AT THE PUMP. &gt;&gt; LIMIT DRIVING OR CONSOLIDATE TRIPS.</p>

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I'm meteorologist, Kat Campbell in the wr a severe weather center. No more thirties in the forecast and we don't have a frost threat tonight so you can leave your plants be, temperatures are falling into the upper forties to lower fifties overnight. We've got a different wind direction and some more clouds that will fill in by daybreak tomorrow at the bus stop, it'll be in the low to mid fifties for most of the kids out there. So a mild start, but you may want to send your kids to school with an umbrella because by the time they head home, some of us are going to be dealing with a chance for rain during the afternoon. It's all due to this cold front. Approaching from the northwest. There's not a lot of moisture for the front to work with, but just enough and enough lift to squeeze out some rain. I think that rain chances would start in our northwestern counties around 11 a.m. through lunchtime. And then that chance is really closer to, to three o'clock here in the triangle. But that might be when the kids are heading home as we get toward 456. It would be south and east of the triangle with the best chance for rain. Rocky Mount, Southern Pines. I'm thinking you'll be in that 3 to 5 p.m. time frame for rain. It's not going to be a very heavy rain. There is a small chance of a thunderstorm embedded, but most of us will just see some pretty light rain. In fact, models are showing less than 5/100 of an inch of rain. So very tiny rainfall amounts from this event. We do have the Durham Bulls in town this week. And luckily the forecast looks good for all of their home games. First pitch is at 6:35 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. We've just got wonderful baseball weather. Temperatures will be near 70 for the first pitches and the rain should be over in Durham, the triangle by the time we get to dinner time for tomorrow evening, which means it's likely to be a dry game for us. Your seven day forecast show, some big changes are on the way though. We've got 74 for the high Wednesday with chance for rain Thursday just 72. So a small dip in our high temperatures more noticeable at night though we fall into the upper forties Thursday night to Friday morning, we're going with 47 as the low Friday morning around the triangle. And then once we get to the weekend temperatures begin to rebound. However, that will come with an increasing cloud cover mostly cloudy Saturday and Sunday. But back in the eighties by Sunday and even warmer next week, highs could climb near 90 a week from today.

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