In 08 (and I think 2014) prices for fuel also rose. While traveling rural roads at the time, I was surprised at how many people were using wood for heat. It seemed that every other porch had a stack of wood, every class A chimney was being used. Some would load a horse trailer with wood and park it next to the front door. A country boy can survive.
Some places around were filling a 500gallon tank, yet going through it in 3 weeks, for just an average sized house (a leaky one at that). Quite an incentive to weatherize and/or find an alternative.
Yes I believe it was the winter of 2013/2014 that there was a shortage of LP and prices went through the roof.
That was also probably the hardest winter in recent times, at least here.
Areas that the snow was removed had frost down 7ft. Lots of frozen underground water mains, and people without water for weeks or months, whenever the city could get the repair scheduled in. And the repair meant melting all that ice to get to it.
Yep that winter we had 138 inches of snow and 22 inches of it fell on May 10th and there was no January thaw or any thaw that winter for that matter, it was a winter to remember, the pain index was off the scale for that season lol And then to add insult to injury the LP prices were in the stratosphere. Luckily for me I started burning scrounge wood a few years earlier.
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