This winter's bone-chilling temperatures have led to a shortage of home-heating wood pellets, causing long lines and limits on the number of bags customers can buy, and adding a week or more to the time it takes to have them delivered.
"This is the first time in many years we're out of stock," Jeff Alcock, owner of Bark Unlimited in Shrewsbury, said yesterday. "We haven't been able to get them. We're hoping we will Friday or Saturday, but we're going to have to limit customers to 10 bags each."
On Monday, Alcock sold 950 bags — a full shipment — in three hours and 30 minutes. Customers began lining up at about 6 a.m., he said, and one man told him he'd driven 98 miles from Concord, N.H., for his 20-bag limit.
"This has never happened before," he said.
That's because wood-pellet stoves are gaining in popularity, and this winter has been exceptionally cold, not only in New England, but in many other parts of the country, as well, said Glenn Walldroff, president of Associated Harvest Inc., a Lafargeville, N.Y., pellet manufacturer.
"Demand that normally would have been concentrated in the Northeast got diluted," Walldroff said, "and you can't correct a shortage in 30 days."
Last winter, Leah Arteaga of Roslindale went through 2.6 tons of wood pellets at a cost of about $800 to heat her 2,000-square-foot home. So she thought she was playing it safe when she ordered 3 tons from woodpellets.com for this winter, only to find she now has about a week's worth left, and the company is predicting delivery will take at least two weeks.
"I worry about how cold it's going to get," Arteaga, 46, said. "It could be a long two weeks."
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