We hardly knew Rita was here

By Teri Horsley | Monday, September 26, 2005, 04:02 PM

I love it when hurricane remnants blow through in the middle of the night and early morning.

As Rita came through the area last night, I felt blessed to not have to drive in what was left of her, as I did when Katrina came to town.

The roads are puddled up and wet around Butler County but I’ve had no traffic problems today. I did encounter what has become the usual roadwork on Ohio 4 at Hensley Avenue, but other than that, everything has been flowing smoothly.

I wonder when we’ll get the gas jump from Rita. I expect it by Wednesday, and if what the oil analysts claim, proves to be right, we can expect to hit the $3- $4-a-gallon mark by week’s end. I did find it interesting on the news this morning, when one expert said that gas prices will bottom out at $2.40.0 a gallon for unleaded regular, by the end of the year. She said there is no way it will go below that until sometime in 2006. We’ll have to wait and see.

I did see several crowded traffic areas over this past weekend. Festival goers are out in force, and there were lines at Lebanon’s Apple Festival, Germantown’s Pretzelfest, and it was slow getting into the Barn-n-Bunk in Trenton to buy pumpkins and mums. For me, that keeps it all in perspective. We can worry all we want (to no avail) about the high prices of gas, but as I saw this weekend, hundreds of people are still out, and they’re still spending money.

I heard many conversations that people had come from all over to these festivals, and in spite of high gas prices, I saw many cars filled with pumpkins and fall flowers, as well as people who were headed further on down the road to continue their search for the perfect corn stalk!

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