Americans who have to fill gas tanks in order to get to work are among the economic victims of Hurricane Katrina.
The storm cut off the majority of Georgia's gas supply and our state's residents experienced sky-rocketing prices and shortages. Drivers waited hours to fill up as many stations' wells emptied.
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