Storms

I paid $16 to fill up my gas tank today, which about matches the prices we were paying when I was in college 10 years ago. Because of inflation, this is actually much less expensive, even than it was then.

While it's nice to pay less, I can't help but think that this is something I've never seen before, and it makes me nervous. What I'm used to seeing the price of gas do is go up, sometimes in big increments, sometimes in small ones. Occasionally, it will fall back down, too. But not by well over half its cost.

It reminds me of the tsunami at the end of 2005. As the ocean drew away from the shore, farther and farther, the people rushed out onto the uncovered land, picking up fish and marveling at how far out the ocean had gone. They didn't know that a wave was coming back - huge and ominous and as fast as a train.