The line for the gas station just off Interstate 40 snaked around the block, while just south of downtown Wilmington tanker trucks were lined up bumper to bumper waiting to enter the fuel terminals that line the Cape Fear River near the State Port. The Colonial Pipeline had stopped pumping fuel into North Carolina, and the state was slowly grinding to a halt as gas stations ran dry. But this wasn’t two weeks ago, when a multi-day shutdown of the pipeline caused by a ransom attack left gas stations across the Southeast -- particularly in North Carolina -- with empty tanks.