It's going to be super cold.

[margaret8]

How big a propane tank do you have?

 

[zazouse]

Darn Frenchy it's bad over your way and no trees to block the wind has to be just awful .
Stay warm my friend

 

[frenchblackcopper]

500 Gallon LP tank size,,we normally use 750 gallons each winter,,when it gets empty this time we will have used about 900 gallons.And we're down to about 45%,,225 gallons and we need heat here thru March many years.Zaz,if you remember all those "Austries" that are planted around the back yard where Pea Palace is constructed,,they are windbreaks and causes huge drifts but they are out of the way back in that part of the yard.Some of the first pics in the Pea Palace thread shows how short they were two years ago,they are now 20' high.

 

[margaret8]

I live some what SW of you. We have a 1000 gal tank, and we don't have a whole lot left each Aug when we fill it up that when the cheapest prices are. I an surprised that you only use that much!

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Our house is 28 by64,,3 bedrooms,,not small but not large for just 3 of us,soon to be just me and wifey when daughter goes to college next fall,then we will have too much room.We try to turn the heat down to 55 during the day when we're at work,so that helps and our furnace is the only thing that uses LP,,

 

[margaret8]

Darn Frenchy it's bad over your way and no trees to block the wind has to be just awful .
Stay warm my friend

I'm up early have to be at the hospital by 5 . I just saw the weather you're in for another round of it! It's just snowing here.

 

[zazouse]

Take care and let us know when ya are out of the woods.
Sending prayers

 

[chicknmania]

I'm not making fun of you personally Minxfox, just that I love how everything shuts down in winter if an inch of snow is found

I lived just SW of Philadelphia for a year. We got snow three times that winter, about 4-6" each time. Roads closed, grocery stores sold out of items like milk, eggs and bread. I just could never understand. I was only 7 hours from the Canadian border, and I couldn't buy milk for breakfast the next day cause everyone was worried they couldn't leave their homes if it snowed. No wonder we pass on the joke of living in igloos and changing over to our dogsleds when we cross back into Canada! Our roads were closed only because you actually wouldn't be able to see the car in front. I was just glad at least one of the roads opened so I could get my wife and newborn home from the hospital. I know that most of the US isn't that warm, just a foreign concept to me, that's all

I agree, we are such wimps here!

I remember worse winters when I was growing up...or so it seems...and we NEVER got out of school. Especiallly not if it was just cold! We were -20 this morning out here away from town, but sun is shining, birds are singing, and no wind! So it doesn't feel that cold. Flock is happy, all things considered. Chooks were piled on top of each other this morning when I went to turn on the heat lights..funny to see.

 

[zazouse]

Our house is 28 by64,,3 bedrooms,,not small but not large for just 3 of us,soon to be just me and wifey when daughter goes to college next fall,then we will have too much room.We try to turn the heat down to 55 during the day when we're at work,so that helps and our furnace is the only thing that uses LP,,

Hadn't used propane sense 2005 but back then 200 gallons would last all year for cooking and heating , we got away from it when prices per gallon got higher than gasoline .
My home is 1500 square foot and now that all the kids are gone we don't even go into half of it. i am all eletrice and have a fireplace my electric averages 200 per month

 

[destinduck]

Well I aint likeing whats happening right now at all. This I have never seen or dealt with here in my whole life. I actually have ice from all the rain forming on my netting on tops of the pen. Can any of my northern neighbors tell me how often to beat on it or what it can take or just any general help at all with this would be helpful. Also I guess my green pea fowl can just shake it off of them and hopefully be okay. Im at a loss here. Any help or thoughts appreciated. Thanks in advance! Shawn P.S. I gotta feeling i aint going to bed tonight and lots of coffee. I wished it would have snowed ...and it may still. But Ice??? Im ignorant.