Over 1,000 gas stations are out of fuel across the Southeast

More than 1,000 gas stations across America’s Southeast ran dry Tuesday amid a surge of panic buying spurred by the cyberattack that shut down the critical Colonial Pipeline.

The hardest-hit states included North Carolina, with 8.5 percent of about 5,400 stations out of gas, and Virginia, with 7.7 percent of about 3,900 affected, according to Gas Buddy, which compiles data from about 5 million active app users nationwide. In Georgia, desperate motorists drained the tanks at more than 20 percent of stations in the metro Atlanta area, Gas Buddy analyst Patrick De Haan tweeted.