I had no idea what to think after the third reported attack (we hadn't heard about the 4th in PA yet). All I could do was leave work in Columbus and drive to my Dad's shop in Zanesville.
By the time I got there, people were flipping the fuck out with lines at every pump extended out into the road. We changed the price of the street sign to $4.00/gallon hoping to STOP people from lining up (we did not change the actual price at the pump), but that backfired, with people AND NEWS CREWS calling us every name in the book for gouging them. I had to step in between a guy approaching my Dad.
Scary day for sure. Not sure I slept that night?
Love him or hate him, I was impressed with how President Bush handled things that week and later, despite jokes about him reading to the elementary class, yadda yadda.