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night in January.

But thinking ahead can save time and energy, he said. “We begin in the summer” with annual maintanence projects and tank refilling, “but, if someone calls at the last minute, we can usually get there in a day or two,” Mr. Cason said. . He reminded residents of last December’s sudden burst of subfreezing winter weather, weeks before its usual arrival. Waiting until the chill arrives, he said, may be a cold as well as costly mistake. But, ‘many wait until the last minute,” he said, adding prices at this point are high for the season, though they fluctuate daily.

Most residents will remember without joy the bitter cold December of 1989 and the sudden jump oil and gas prices took, affecting many in Rappahannock County.

“With the crisis in the Mid-East now, I just don’t know what prices will do,” Mr. Cason said about prices later in the winter, adding crude oil prices are high now and there is no

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