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longship

(40,416 posts)
Mon Apr 2, 2018, 04:04 PM Apr 2018

Oh boy! 8" of Springtime snow forecast for tomorrow!

Rural west Michigan.

Temps are still cold. We got just above an inch Saturday, already melted. But 8" isn't going to melt that quickly.

I have a heating oil delivery scheduled for tomorrow. I hope the truck arrives early. I am very low on heating oil. Went through over 500 gallons so far this past winter. Oh boy! $2.499 per gallon.

Bundle up Michiganders!

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Oh boy! 8" of Springtime snow forecast for tomorrow! (Original Post) longship Apr 2018 OP
Snowing on and off all day today. MontanaMama Apr 2018 #1
Just out of curiosity... MicaelS Apr 2018 #2
500 gallons. longship Apr 2018 #3
in the national forest sounds good onethatcares Apr 2018 #4
We were supposed to get a dusting here today. Atman Apr 2018 #5

longship

(40,416 posts)
3. 500 gallons.
Mon Apr 2, 2018, 05:30 PM
Apr 2018

I usually put it above 450 at the beginning of winter. It never gets me through to summer. Heating here in the national forest ain't cheap. My furnace is pretty damned old, but is easy to service. I do most of that myself. Simple mechanism. The building was old in 1900!


onethatcares

(16,172 posts)
4. in the national forest sounds good
Mon Apr 2, 2018, 06:56 PM
Apr 2018

until the roads are impassible and you are running low on beef jerky.

Here in sunny west central floriduh the shelves in the grocery stores empty on a thunderstorm anymore.

Have you ever metal detected your property? I bet that would be way cool.

Atman

(31,464 posts)
5. We were supposed to get a dusting here today.
Mon Apr 2, 2018, 06:59 PM
Apr 2018

In Connecticut. It was still snowing at 1:00 pm, and we wound up with over 6". But then the temps hit the mid 40s and it melted pretty quickly.

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