A Durham convenience store manager says the station will pay to fix some customer vehicles after too much water seeped into the station's tanks.

Several drivers' cars stalled Sunday, shortly after they pumped gas at a CITGO station located off of Highway 55.

"It's just been a big inconvenience," Brandon Adams said. "We had to get a hotel room. We're running out of clothes to wear."

Adams, his wife and children were going home after a family reunion. They filled up before heading back to their Atlanta suburb and immediately after, their SUV stalled. He learned Monday it will cost about $500 to get his Ford Expedition fixed.

"[If] we don't get the water out - he's going to have nothing but trouble down the road," said Colonial Tire mechanic George Read.

A clerk at the gas station said three people have contacted them about the repairs and said the station will pay for their bills. She adds that there is a crew working to pump out the old gas from the underground storage tanks and expects to have pumps back up and running by tonight. A bad sealed allowed water to seep into the tanks.

Adams wishes the station would have acted sooner.

"When you're in Atlanta ... every time the service station is out, they will put a yellow cover over the pump where you can't even use it," he said. "There was nothing like that over there pumps. And their sign, which was a hand-written sign, wasn't very clear."

Read said these things happen at gas stations.

"This is not the first one I've worked out," he said. "After heavy rainstorms you see it more often than not. But it's not that often that you see it at all."

Read said the motorists can drive with a little bit of water at the bottom of their gas tanks. But too much: and they'll be sitting on the side of the road. He offered another piece of advice:

"You really shouldn't get gas when a tanker truck is delivering gas to a gas station. It stirs up all the sediment on the bottom of the tank," he said. "You've got that much more probability of getting a bad mixture of gasoline, dirt, water ... or anything else that might be in the bottom of the tank.