Queues form at petrol stations across Honolulu in Hawaii
There are long queues at petrol stations near downtown Honolulu – with standstill traffic even in areas away from the shoreline.
A Texaco gas station in the Nuuanu-Punchbowl neighbourhood has closed early so that workers could go home. The workers set out cones at pumps and turned away motorists.
Jimmy Markowski, on a family holiday from Hot Springs, Arkansas, ended up at the closed Texaco station after fleeing their Waikiki beach resort in a caravan of three cars carrying 15 people.
“All we’re trying to do is just figure out what we’re going to do for the next three or four hours,” he said. “We’ve got water, we got some snacks … we’re going to stay elevated. This is our first tsunami warning ever. So this is all new to us.”
Honolulu resident Kale Aʻi stopped at the station after spending more n an hour on what would normally be a 12-minute drive from his home near the coast. He was trying to get to his grandfather’s house further inland.
“I’ve always tried to be a little bit more cautious because it’s better to be safe than sorry,” he said.
