Posted on 11/28/2018 12:38:27 PM PST by BenLurkin
CAWKER CITY, Kan. (KAKE) -
A northern Kansas woman who went missing after her car got stuck in a weekend blizzard has been found dead.
Authorities at the Mitchell County command center for the search say the body of 37-year-old Tanya Eshbaugh, of Cawker City, was found in a field near Waconda Lake, about three miles from her car. She was on her way to work Sunday morning when she called in to say she wasn't going to make it due to the weather and was turning around to go home.
"It is believed that after getting her vehicle stuck in the ditch due to blizzard conditions that she exited the vehicle...," a flyer from Kansas Missing & Unsolved says.
(Excerpt) Read more at kake.com ...
Indeed. Yes!
I keep enough stuff to survive 3 days in my car, no exceptions.
Water and the means to purify more.
Food.
A small Coleman stove and extra fuel.
Heavy wool blanket.
Long underwear and heavy wool socks.
Insulated boots.
24 hour candle in a covfefe can with kitty litter.
2 days of maintenance medications.
IFAK.
Cell phone charger
Stainless steel mug, large.
Bug Out Bag
Baby Wipes.
Ruger 10-22 Takedown rifle and 4 25 round magazines, loaded.
100 rounds extra ammunition.
Etc, etc, etc.
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It’s wise to carry extreme cold weather gear including goggles and snow shoes. And something to put down any bad dog attacks, just in case.
You may hate the thought at the moment, but you put that frozen bottle of water inside your clothing for a spell and it will melt. Keep it there so it doesn’t freeze again.
Set the spare tire on fire??
I guess the EPA might send in a drone strike or something.
Thanks-—I suppose if you are thirsty enough that could be tolerated.
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I hope anyone burning their spare tire will first cut off the valve stem or cut through the sidewall. Quite an explosion otherwise.
That is a great way to get hypothermia and die. You cannot get enough heat from your body to melt the water you need. You need external heat source — stove, candles, Sterno, etc
A close friend of my Dad lost his son in a blizzard in the 60s. The teen told Mom and Dad he was walking over to his girlfriend’s house not far away. He took a shortcut through a field, got snagged on a barb wire fence, and froze to death. This was in the upstate NY suburbs of Syracuse!
Good point.
Excellent list. I did field service engineering for a living for a while and always had a compact two burner stove and a couple of propane bottles with me, too.
I didn’t carry a covfefe can with me because covfefe hadn’t been invented in those dark days. Also, in my 20s, the only “maintenance medication” I needed was beer. Not sure if two days supply was adequate, though.
It’s melting ice and snow in your mouth that will reduce your core temp. A bottle of water between your coat and sweater is safe for short term emergencies <3days where you have some shelter from the elements and adequate clothing.
However, if you are trapped in an ice cave wearing a bikini, you have more emergent issues that will kill you long before you die of thirst.
That' why it's imperative to carry out the act of reproducing in such a situation. Like in The Tubes song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90PI_8NyMoQ
I agree this is a strange story. I’m not sure how cold it was in Kansas that day. She possible left the car, got lost in white out conditions, and that’s the reason she was only 3 miles away ? If she was from Kansas, seems like she would have known to stay with the car. 2 bad decisions, to leave the car and go to work during a blizzard. Not sure it adds up.
That is neat. Thanks for posting it even though we hardly ever need such things where we live now.
Years ago I assembled survival packs for our field people when we started working in the Rockies. One of our guys drove off the road in a storm and it took longer than it should have to find him but he stayed with the truck and things turned out well. It took that for someone to pay attention to me, the new kid, who was asking for money to make the survival kits.
Some extra wool blankets, flashlight and batteries, water bottles, extra change of clothes, knife, protein bars, flares, matches, water purifier sip-stick, small canned foods, etc etc... basically a “BOB” (Bug Out Bag). A small-to-medium duffel bag works fine and doesn’t take-up much space.
Living now in PA and growing-up in ILL and IA, I kept a BOB in all my cars, rotating things out every few years. It’s paid-off 2x in 55yrs, saving my and passengers’ lives during blizzards, and that made it worth the minimal effort.
I remember that article after seeing it. Pop Sci and Pop Mech were looked forward to every month for me when I was a kid. When Pop Sci started carrying articles on the environment and other kinds of social justice warrior junk I dropped it. Haven’t looked at either one in years.
I put an emergency bag in the trunk of my car maybe 20 years ago. I sometimes notice it when I open the trunk. I have forgotten what is in it.
I am sure there is a compass and Swiss Army Knife. Matches, a box of .22LR, a Hungarian copy of the Walther PP which is accurate and reliable. A space blanket is loose. I probably took it out of the bag for some reason.
I bet there are dozens of other items all of them non perishable. I need to take a look in it.
Here in eastern Iowa we got 13.8 inches of snow in one day.
I just took mine apart when I bought a new Jeep Grand Cherokee, and updated everything. All items are in plastic bags with plenty of silica gel paks sprinkled throughout.
I didn’t include a firearm/ammo, because I only have a ‘75 6” Colt Trooper MKIII in .357mag, and 2 Kimber 1911 .45cals, for handguns. I might have to look into a .22cal, but if the car or bag were ever stolen, that’d be a problem.
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