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Popolopen
Popolopen is the name of several related landmarks mainly within the Hudson Highlands of Orange County, New York. These include a mountain, Popolopen Torne—or simply "The Torne",[1][2] and a short and steep-sided nearby valley officially called Hell Hole, but often Popolopen Gorge. Popolopen Creek runs through this valley. The Popolopen Bridge spans its mouth at the Hudson River and is crossed by Route 9W. Popolopen Lake feeds the headwaters of its namesake creek. Despite local usage, the United States Board on Geographical Names recognizes only the lake, creek and bridge as bearing the name "Popolopen." [1]
Popolopen Torne[edit]
Popolopen Torne (officially called "The Torne") is a small mountain with a relatively sharp and bald peak, part of the Hudson Highlands, with a summit 942 feet (287.12 meters) above sea level.[1] The blue-blazed, horseshoe-shaped Timp Torne trail makes a loop from Mine Torne Road to the summit and back again. Its short and steep ascent offers hikers 360° views of the Hudson River, West Point, Bear Mountain, and Harriman State Park. U.S. Route 6 passes through the valley formed between Popolopen Torne and Bear Mountain just before it reaches the Bear Mountain Bridge.
Lake Popolopen[edit]
Lake Popolopen is a lake northwest of the mountain, on the West Point Military Reservation near New York State Route 293. Camp Buckner and Camp Natural Bridge are located at the lake, which is frequently used for training and recreation. The lake comprises the largest body of water at West Point, and is used for aquatic training such as scuba diving and amphibious assault.[3]
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, cadets from West Point traditionally had a three-day war game dubbed "the Battle of Popolopen" each August.[4] The lake was originally the site of a summer camp. Its waters were drawn to supply nearby mining operations.
During World War II, the Army purchased the land for exclusive military use. It adapted the remains of the summer retreat as Camp Popolopen, a POW camp for German prisoners.[5] After the war, the name was changed to Camp Buckner.
The New York Department of Environmental Conservation began stocking tiger muskies in Lake Popolopen in 2011. 400 fish measuring 10.5" were stocked in 2011, and 800 fish measuring 10.5" were stocked in 2012.[6][7]
Popolopen Creek[edit]
Popolopen Creek—also called Popolopen Brook[3]—is a approximately 10.4-mile-long (16.7 km)[8] stream, fed mainly by Lake Popolopen, Mine Lake, Stillwell Lake, and Weyant's Pond, eventually draining into the Hudson River. It runs mainly through West Point and ends in a gorge between Bear Mountain and Popolopen Torne, officially called Hell Hole and popularly known, somewhat interchangeably, as Popolopen Gorge.
"Hell Hole"[edit]
Local usage applies "Hell Hole" to a series of small plunge pools within this gorge, although the usage contradicts the U.S. Geological Survey maps and other widely used sources.[9][10][11][12][13]
The geologist K.E. Lowe wrote that the gorge known as Hell Hole is the result of a fault within a regional intrusion of crystalline rock called Storm King granite. He said, "Despite painstaking investigation, the writer found only one outcrop revealing direct evidence of faulting. A badly weathered, unhealed zone of crushed Storm King granite is exposed in the south wall of upper Hell Hole. Its continuation is unfortunately lost under debris from the construction of [highway] US 6 which mantles most of the Bear Mountain side of the valley."[14]
For most of its length through the gorge, the creek is narrow and extremely rocky, with fast moving rapids and several waterfalls. It can only be reached on foot and is not generally navigable by boat.
The red-blazed Popolopen Gorge Trail runs along the south side of the creek to a foot bridge just south of Popolopen Torne. Here, it joins the blue-blazed Timp-Torne, 1777 West and 1779 trails. These run along the north side of the creek from Hell Hole to the bridge, with the Timp-Torne detouring over the summit of Popolopen Torne. They cross the footbridge and join the Popolopen Gorge Trail to detour around West Point property, and the combined trails turn southwest and follow the valley of Queensboro Brook.
Popolopen Bridge[edit]
During the American Revolution, the mouth of Popolopen Creek was spanned by a pontoon bridge [2]. Much later, the road north from Hessian Lake to Fort Montgomery once crossed the lower part of the gorge by an iron bridge. The steep descents into the gorge and sharp turns onto this bridge made it dangerous for auto traffic. In 1916 the road (then Route 3, renumberedU.S. Route 9W in 1930) was rerouted over a high steel viaduct further downstream, near the site of Fort Montgomery, in 1916. Another bridge was built immediately adjacent in 1936.[15]
Called Popolopen Bridge, the 1936 structure is of the deck truss design, more than 600 feet long, 48 feet wide. It rises about 150 feet above the mouth of Popolopen Creek. As of 2000, its average daily traffic was about 18,000 vehicles. Although rehabilitation was performed in 1992, additional repairs were completed in 2007. [3][4]. The 1916 bridge was demolished in the 1950s, although its high stone abutments remain.[16]
As noted above a new footbridge (built 2002) has been constructed across the Popolopen Creek's just downstream from this bridge. The concept design of this bridge was proposed by Bruce Ramsay & Jim Hume of Cleveland Bridge Pty. Ltd. of the U.K., Cleveland Bridge were also responsible for its construction. The footbridge was designed as a suspended rope truss, which results in a very stiff bridge due to its diagonal braces. Another special feature is the fiber composite deck in lieu of a traditional timber deck for this type of structure. The fiber composite deck adds lightness, long term durability and reduced maintenance requirements. The bridge is of similar design to the Wheeling Suspension Bridge in West Virginia.
Industry[edit]
Iron mining and smelting once took place along the upper reaches of Popolopen Creek. The Forest of Dean Mine produced iron ore from the Revolutionary era into the twentieth century, and operated a narrow gauge railroad along the creek as far as the eastern slopes of Popolopen Torne. The mine site has been submerged by Stilwell Lake. Queensboro Furnace, located just above the outlet of Queensboro Brook into the creek, smelted iron during the late eighteenth century. The remains of the furnace have been preserved, as part of the grounds of the West Point Military Reservation.
A grist mill was built in 1799 by Eugene Lucet. The Route 9W highway crossing was later constructed downriver from this.[16] A dam was built upstream in 1901, just above the old Hell Hole bridge, to improve the water supply to the mill. The dam is still intact, and water pools behind it when the creek flow exceeds that of the outlet near the bottom. This intermittent body of water is marked "Roe Pond" on some maps; at least one other pond in the area has the same name. Later converted to a hydroelectric plant, the mill building was demolished in the 1950s.[16]
An aqueduct was built on the north side of the gorge in 1906 to bring water from Queensboro Brook and Popolopen Creek to West Point.[17] Another was built on the south side in 1929–30 to supply Bear Mountain State Park with water from Queensboro Lake.[18] Repairs to the latter required the closing of the combined Popolopen Gorge–1777 West–1779–Timp-Torne trails from the fall of 2008 to spring 2009.[19]
Representation in other media[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ ab"The Torne Summit".
- ^"Popolopen Torne (The Torne)".
- ^ abPrezant, Robert & Chapman, Eric (2004). "Freshwater Molluscs of the United States Military Academy Drainages". Northeastern Naturalist.
- ^Rudolph, J.W. (October 18, 1930). "Cadets Devote Mornings in Camp To Tactics, Evenings to Romance". The Harvard Crimson.
- ^Hudson, Andy (July 2008). "Popolopen Now"(PDF). Minisceongo Yacht Club. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2008-12-03.
- ^"Archived copy"(PDF). Archived from the original(PDF) on 2012-08-06. Retrieved 2014-02-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/23241.html
- ^U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map
- ^Walsh, James (July 23, 2008). "Gorge's Hell Hole quiet after teen's fall". The Journal News.
- ^Adams, Arthur G. (1981). The Hudson, a guidebook to the river. SUNY Press. pp. 175–176. ISBN .
- ^Champlain & Hudson River Valleys. Hunter Publishing. 2003. p. 281. ISBN .
- ^Edwards Clyne, Patricia (2006). Hudson Valley faces & places. Overlook Press. p. 215. ISBN .
- ^Harriman Bear Mtn. Trails, Trail Maps 3 & 4 (Map) (10 ed.). The New York-New Jersey Trail Conference. 2005.
- ^K. E. Lowe, "Hell Hole", Google Scholar
- ^Myles, William J. (1999). Daniel D. Chazin (ed.). Harriman Trails, A Guide and History. New York, N.Y.: The New York-New Jersey Trail Conference. p. 410. ISBN .
- ^ abcMyles, William J. (1999). Daniel D. Chazin (ed.). Harriman Trails, A Guide and History. New York, N.Y.: The New York-New Jersey Trail Conference. pp. 154–155. ISBN .
- ^Myles, William J. (1999). Daniel D. Chazin (ed.). Harriman Trails, A Guide and History. New York, N.Y.: The New York-New Jersey Trail Conference. p. 191. ISBN .
- ^Myles, William J. (1999). Daniel D. Chazin (ed.). Harriman Trails, A Guide and History. New York, N.Y.: The New York-New Jersey Trail Conference. p. 100. ISBN .
- ^"Popolopen Gorge Trail Closure". New York-New Jersey Trail Conference. Archived from the original on 2008-08-04. Retrieved 2008-08-19.
- ^Truscott, Lucian K. (1978). Dress Gray. ISBN .
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Price war briefly pushes gas below $3 at Colonie convenience store
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Tom Mailey called the Stewart’s Shop “gas guys” to ask a question. While he was at it, he figured he would let them know the Sunoco station kitty corner to their Vly Road shop was advertising gas at $3.44 a gallon.
“Yup,” he said. “That would be awesome. OK.”
Not long after, the digital sign outside Stewart’s ticked down from $3.48 to $3.43.
“We’ve been staying pretty tight, about a penny underneath them,” said Mailey, Stewart’s spokesman, who showed up to the Colonie shop Thursday after word got out that vehicles had lined up all the way down Vly Road earlier that morning to fill up on cheap gas.
The gas war began shortly after Stewart’s started offering gasoline at its new Vly Road shop. The store opened in October, replacing a small shop that hadn’t offered gasoline in years. The gas pumps went in last week, prompting the Sunoco station across the Colonie-Niskayuna town line at the intersection of Vly and Route 7 to start lowering its prices.
The ensuing struggle to lure more customers than their competitors even caused prices to dip as low as $2.99 at Stewart’s early Thursday morning.
“We’re an unbranded gasoline, so we have the ability to be a little more competitive than the branded stores,” said Mailey.
Stewart’s President Gary Dake tweeted around 9:30 a.m. Thursday that there’s nothing like a price war to help a new shop get attention. He added that the convenience store chain would absorb the cost.
“It’s not a rational price,” said Mailey. “It’s not a price that makes sense businesswise, at least. But then again, it does, because it’s competitive, and we have a big investment here that we want to protect.”
Kerry Bardwell’s husband drove through town on his way home from work around 4 a.m. Thursday, when most fuel prices in the area began at $3.55. He was so astounded by the sub-$3 price that he called his wife at home in Scotia.
“I said, ‘This is a mistake,’ ” recalled Bardwell, 42.
She checked GasBuddy, an application on her smartphone that monitors the lowest gas prices by location, and confirmed the low price.
By the time she drove her car out to the station later that morning, though, the price had gone back up to $3.48.
“I usually don’t go out of my way, but for $2.99, I thought, ‘I’ll go out of my way,’ ” Bardwell said with a laugh as she filled up her car.
Mailey said neighbors will sometimes get competitive with their prices when a new shop opens or offers a big promotion. In that case, store managers keep a close eye on advertising sign and lower prices accordingly.
On Wednesday, the advertised price changed at least 20 times in 24 hours.
The shop was swamped between 9 and 10 a.m., according to the store manager. Cars were backed up onto side streets, and drivers who brought gas cans took extra long at the pumps, he said.
“It was pandemonium,” the manager said.
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Body pulled from Colonie house fire; owner unaccounted for
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Firefighters recovered a body from the burned shell of a Colonie home Friday night that neighbors fear is the elderly homeowner.
The homeowner, described as an elderly woman who used oxygen tanks, remained unaccounted for Friday as police and firefighters combed 9 Sebring Ave.
Flames ripped through the house starting about 1:50 p.m. It took firefighters several hours to put out the blaze. It wasn't until 6 p.m. that officials could get inside to search. An Albany County coroner arrived shortly afterward and left with a body. An identification Friday night would be highly unlikely, Colonie Police Lt. Todd Weiss said.
The house was an inferno when firefighters arrived, said Bob Stevens, operations officer for Colonie emergency services.
"There is always a concern when we weren't able to make sufficient enough entry into the house to do a search," Stevens said.
Neighbor Karen Cardone said she had just retrieved her garbage cans from the curb when she smelled smoke.
"As I turned to call 911, the front window exploded," Cardone said. She and her husband, Anthony, work at the Times Union.
Neighbors said the house is owned by an older woman who uses oxygen. Cardone said she heard what seemed to be the tanks exploding, sounding like bombs, then a series of popping sounds. Fire officials said exploding oxygen tanks were a concern as they fought the blaze.
Glen Boni said he was working in his garage two doors down when he smelled smoke. "I looked out and saw a little bit of smoke in front of the house," he said. "I went to open the door. I called the lady's name. I couldn't get in."
He also heard the blasts. "Once the tanks started going, they rocked the whole street," he said.
Jack Moser, village fire chief, said it was too soon to say what started the fire.
"Cause and origin will be part of the investigation," he said.
Firefighters responded from the Colonie, Fuller Road, Midway, Shaker Road Loudonville, Verdoy and Stanford Heights.
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Popolopen
Popolopen is the name of several related landmarks mainly baptist health fort smith careers the Hudson Highlands of Orange County, New York. These include a mountain, Popolopen Torne—or simply "The Torne",[1][2] and a short and steep-sided nearby valley officially called Hell Hole, but often Popolopen Gorge. Popolopen Creek runs through this valley. The Popolopen Bridge spans its mouth at the Hudson River and is crossed by Route 9W. Popolopen Lake feeds the headwaters of its namesake creek. Despite local usage, the United States Board on Geographical Names recognizes only the lake, creek and bridge as bearing the name "Popolopen." [1]
Popolopen Torne[edit]
Popolopen Torne (officially called "The Torne") is a small mountain with a relatively sharp and bald peak, part of the Hudson Highlands, with a summit 942 feet (287.12 meters) above sea level.[1] The blue-blazed, horseshoe-shaped Timp Torne trail makes a loop from Mine Torne Road to the summit and back again. Its short and kennebunk savings bank portsmouth nh ascent offers hikers 360° views of the Hudson River, West Point, Bear Mountain, and Harriman State Park. U.S. Route 6 passes through the valley formed between Popolopen Torne and Bear Mountain just before it reaches the Bear Mountain Bridge.
Lake Popolopen[edit]
Lake Popolopen is a lake northwest of the mountain, on the West Point Military Reservation near New York State Route 293. Camp Buckner and Camp Natural Bridge are located at the lake, which is frequently used for training and recreation. The lake comprises the largest body of water at West Point, and is used for aquatic training such as scuba diving and amphibious assault.[3]
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, cadets from West Point traditionally had a three-day war game dubbed "the Battle of Popolopen" each August.[4] The lake was originally the site of a summer camp. Its waters were drawn to supply nearby mining operations.
During World War II, the Army purchased the land for exclusive military use. It adapted the remains of the summer retreat as Camp Popolopen, a POW camp for German prisoners.[5] After the war, the name was changed to Camp Buckner.
The New York Department of Environmental Conservation began stocking tiger muskies in Lake Popolopen in 2011. 400 fish measuring 10.5" were stocked in 2011, and 800 fish measuring 10.5" were stocked in 2012.[6][7]
Popolopen Creek[edit]
Popolopen Creek—also called Popolopen Brook[3]—is a approximately 10.4-mile-long (16.7 km)[8] stream, fed mainly by Lake Popolopen, Mine Lake, Stillwell Lake, and Weyant's Pond, eventually draining into the Hudson River. It runs mainly through West Point and ends in a gorge between Bear Mountain and Popolopen Torne, officially vly road colonie Hell Hole and popularly known, somewhat interchangeably, as Popolopen Gorge.
"Hell Hole"[edit]
Local usage applies "Hell Hole" to a series of small plunge pools within this gorge, although the usage contradicts the U.S. Geological Survey maps and other widely used sources.[9][10][11][12][13]
The geologist K.E. Lowe wrote that the gorge known as Hell Hole is the result of a fault within a regional intrusion of crystalline rock called Storm King vly road colonie. He said, "Despite painstaking investigation, the writer found only one outcrop revealing direct evidence of faulting. A badly weathered, unhealed zone of crushed Storm King granite is exposed in the south wall of upper Hell Hole. Its continuation is unfortunately lost under debris from the construction of [highway] US 6 which mantles most of the Bear Mountain side of the valley."[14]
For most of its length through the gorge, the creek is narrow and extremely rocky, with fast moving rapids and several waterfalls. It can only be reached on foot and is not generally navigable by boat.
The red-blazed Popolopen Gorge Trail runs along the south side of the creek to a foot bridge just south of Popolopen Torne. Here, it joins the blue-blazed Timp-Torne, 1777 West and 1779 trails. These run along the north side of the creek from Hell Hole to the bridge, with the Timp-Torne detouring over the summit of Popolopen Torne. They cross the footbridge and join the Popolopen Gorge Trail to detour around West Point property, and the combined trails turn southwest and follow the valley of Queensboro Brook.
Popolopen Bridge[edit]
During the American Revolution, the mouth of Popolopen Creek was spanned by a pontoon bridge [2]. Much later, the road north from Hessian Lake to Fort Montgomery once crossed the lower part of the gorge by an iron bridge. The steep descents into the gorge and sharp turns onto this bridge made it dangerous for auto traffic. In 1916 the road (then Route 3, renumberedU.S. Route 9W in 1930) was rerouted over a high steel viaduct further downstream, near the site of Fort Montgomery, in 1916. Another bridge was built immediately adjacent in 1936.[15]
Called Popolopen Bridge, the 1936 structure is of the deck truss design, more than 600 feet long, 48 feet wide. It rises about 150 feet above the mouth of Popolopen Creek. As of 2000, its average daily traffic was about 18,000 vehicles. Although rehabilitation was performed in 1992, additional repairs were completed in 2007. [3][4]. The 1916 bridge was demolished in the 1950s, although its high stone abutments remain.[16]
As noted above a new footbridge (built 2002) has been constructed across the Popolopen Creek's just downstream from this bridge. The concept design of this bridge was proposed by Bruce Ramsay & Jim Hume of Cleveland Bridge Pty. Ltd. of the U.K., Cleveland Bridge were also responsible for its construction. The footbridge was designed as a suspended rope truss, which results in a very stiff bridge due to its diagonal braces. Another special feature is the fiber composite deck in lieu of a traditional timber deck for this type of structure. The fiber composite deck adds lightness, long term durability and reduced maintenance requirements. The bridge is of similar design to the Wheeling Suspension Bridge in West Virginia.
Industry[edit]
Iron mining and smelting once took place along the upper reaches of Popolopen Creek. The Forest of Dean Mine produced iron ore from the Revolutionary era into the twentieth century, and operated a narrow gauge railroad along the creek as far as the eastern slopes of Popolopen Torne. The mine site has been submerged by Stilwell Lake. Queensboro Furnace, located just above the outlet of Queensboro Brook into the creek, smelted iron during the late eighteenth century. The remains of the furnace have been preserved, as part of the grounds of the West Point Military Reservation.
A grist mill was built in 1799 by Eugene Lucet. The Route 9W highway crossing was later constructed downriver from this.[16] A dam was built upstream in 1901, just above the old Hell Hole bridge, to improve the water supply to the mill. The dam is still intact, and water pools behind it when the creek flow exceeds that of the outlet near the bottom. This intermittent body of water is marked "Roe Pond" on some maps; at least one other pond in the area has the same name. Later converted to a hydroelectric plant, the mill building was demolished in the 1950s.[16]
An aqueduct was built on the north side of the gorge in 1906 to bring water from Queensboro Brook and Popolopen Creek to West Point.[17] Another was built on the south side in 1929–30 to supply Bear Mountain State Park with water from Queensboro Lake.[18] Repairs to the latter required the closing of the combined Popolopen Gorge–1777 West–1779–Timp-Torne trails from the fall of 2008 to spring 2009.[19]
Representation in other media[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ ab"The Torne Summit".
- ^"Popolopen Torne (The Torne)".
- ^ abPrezant, Robert & Chapman, Eric (2004). "Freshwater Molluscs of the United States Military Academy Drainages". Northeastern Naturalist.
- ^Rudolph, J.W. (October 18, 1930). "Cadets Devote Mornings in Camp To Tactics, Evenings to Romance". The Harvard Crimson.
- ^Hudson, Andy (July 2008). "Popolopen Now"(PDF). Minisceongo Yacht Club. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2008-12-03.
- ^"Archived copy"(PDF). Archived from the original(PDF) on 2012-08-06. Retrieved 2014-02-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/23241.html
- ^U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map
- ^Walsh, James (July 23, 2008). "Gorge's Hell Hole quiet after teen's fall". The Journal News.
- ^Adams, Arthur G. (1981). The Hudson, a guidebook to the river. SUNY Press. pp. 175–176. ISBN .
- ^Champlain & Hudson River Valleys. Hunter Publishing. 2003. p. 281. ISBN .
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Price war briefly pushes gas below $3 at Colonie convenience store
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Tom Mailey called the Stewart’s Shop “gas guys” to ask a question. While he was at it, he figured he would let them know the Sunoco station kitty corner to their Vly Road shop was advertising gas at $3.44 a gallon.
“Yup,” he said. “That would be awesome. OK.”
Not long after, the digital sign outside Stewart’s ticked down from $3.48 to $3.43.
“We’ve been staying pretty tight, about a penny underneath them,” said Mailey, Stewart’s spokesman, who showed up to the Colonie shop Thursday after word got out that vehicles had lined up all the way down Vly Road earlier that morning to fill up on cheap gas.
The gas war began shortly after Stewart’s started offering gasoline at its new Vly Road shop. The store opened in October, replacing a small shop that hadn’t offered gasoline in years. The gas pumps went in last week, prompting the Sunoco station across the Colonie-Niskayuna town line at the intersection of Vly and Route 7 to start lowering its prices.
The ensuing struggle to lure more customers than their competitors even caused prices to dip as low as $2.99 at Stewart’s early Thursday morning.
“We’re an unbranded gasoline, so we have the ability to be a little more competitive than the branded stores,” said Mailey.
Stewart’s President Gary Dake tweeted around 9:30 a.m. Thursday that there’s nothing like a price war to help a new shop get attention. He added that the convenience store chain would absorb the cost.
“It’s not a rational price,” said Mailey. “It’s not a price that makes sense businesswise, at least. But then again, it does, because it’s competitive, and we have a big investment here that we want to protect.”
Kerry Bardwell’s husband drove through town on his way home from work around 4 a.m. Thursday, when most fuel prices in the area began at $3.55. Vly road colonie was san jose state ranking astounded by the sub-$3 price that he called his wife at home in Scotia.
“I said, ‘This is a mistake,’ ” recalled Bardwell, 42.
She checked GasBuddy, an application on her smartphone that monitors the lowest gas prices by location, and confirmed the low price.
By the time she drove her car out to the station later that morning, though, the price had gone back up to $3.48.
“I usually don’t go out of alabama a&m admissions way, but for $2.99, I thought, ‘I’ll go out of my way,’ ” Bardwell said with a laugh as she filled up her car.
Mailey said neighbors will sometimes get competitive with their prices when a new shop opens or offers a big promotion. In that case, store managers keep a close eye on advertising sign and lower prices accordingly.
On Wednesday, the advertised price changed at least 20 times in 24 hours.
The shop was swamped between 9 and 10 a.m., according to the store manager. Cars were backed up onto side streets, and drivers who brought gas cans took extra long at the pumps, he said.
“It was pandemonium,” the manager said.
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