Posted on 02/10/2014 12:30:55 PM PST by Kartographer
When winter weather starts to get ugly, it’s times like this that your hour-long commute on the interstate can turn into an unexpected adventure, leaving you stuck in a snowy ditch miles from help.
In most cases you can expect to be there for no more than a few hours, says Tony Nester, founder of the Ancient Pathways survival school in Flagstaff, Ariz. and author of the e-book A Vehicle Survival Kit You Can Live With.
“Statistically, you’re more likely to encounter small scale episodes where there’s a blizzard, you spin off the road and you’re there for maybe a day or overnight,” he said. (Nester is also an EMT.)
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About every 2 years using the cheap Walmart brand.
No self respecting St. Bernard would be caught carrying something other than brandy.
Southern Coon Hounds, on the other hand ...
You might want to rethink that if your car is ever parked in the sun. Antibiotics are usually not stable at higher temps than the ones listed on the package. Their effectiveness declines greatly with increased temp.
Maybe keep the tubes in a small plastic bag inside your briefcase or backpack so it’s inside with you during the heat of the day.
Wendy’s Frosty Freeze at 2 AM after a long plane ride sounds like an emergency to me! :)
My little joke, notwithstanding, I fully agree with your advice to keep an emergency kit in the car. At various times, I’ve equipped both cars (and the truck when we had one) with emergency kits. My husband is always taking them out for some reason, however, and they get lost.
For instance, I have 2 nice fleece blankets that roll up that I purchased just for the cars for winter. He took them out last spring, and neither of us can remember what he did with them. First aid kits, jumper cables, etc. They all get misplaced from time to time. Everything should fit into a nice box, or Rubbermaid bucket.
If you get stuck in heavy traffic for hours and can’t get out of your vehicle, you might want something similar to what old-time aviators called a “pilot relief tube.”
I keep quality booze as part of my survival kit. In an overnight emergency I like the idea of being able to show a female passenger that we are completely covered for comfort, water and food and light, and that she is safe.
After pulling out all the comforts of home, I like the idea of being able to offer her a night cap of Grand Marnier as she sits in her sleeping bag with a fleece blanket added, as the ultimate symbol that we are just having a little minor adventure.
I will say after the last discussion I tossed the 5-year-old Clif bars in mine and replaced them with something fresher and more amenable to cycling through the inventory.
Datrex bars have a 5 year lifespan (more likely 7) and are not affected by heat. Perfect for the car.
Laz would se sooooo screwed!!! ;-)
I carry extra food for trips, but I always keep 3 cans of tuna, and 2 cans of Pork and Beans deep in the wheel well, those do fine in temps and every three years I replace them and bring the old ones back into the kitchen.
The tuna especially is small, and even Starkist says that it is fine to keep in the car for many years.
For freepers who are chow hounds or have kids who find and eat their survival food, they can do what I had to do as a young man, I had to give up on keeping candy bars and Pork and Beans in my car, and I started storing good quality cat food in my trunk instead, something that I would not eat casually, but only if I was really hungry.
No one can resist tuna out of the can, Grand Marnier, and a roll of toilet paper on the dashboard.
I want one !
Scattered around in nooks & crannies. That is a problem I have in my wifes car. My truck has most everything in a back pack.
We have tsunami evacuation signs along the coast highway. Some of the routes you can only drive up a little way and have to bail & run up hill. If you make it up the hill safely and all your survival gear was left down in your now submerged & destroyed vehicle you are screwed. There is also no food, water, shelter above you (steep Mt.) or below you.
There is no highway to go back to. You might have to hike along the beach for two to three days to get to an inland leading highway that is probably also blocked by landslides.
Of course there is the old adage, "Lock your wife and your dog in the trunk of your car and come back in three hours. One of them will be happy to see you."
Thanks.
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