Cars are gas-powered heaters. You can survive for quite a while that way, if you use your gas sparingly. That, of course, assumes you are smart enough not to go out in a well publicized blizzard with an almost empty tank.
And if you’re not packed into a snowbank—an 11-year-old boy died of CO poisoning in Boston today while warming up in the car he and his dad were shoveling out.
The danger is, if it's snowing, that the snow covers the exhaust pipe. That's what happened in the Blizzard of '78. A lot of stranded motorists died on Rte. 128.
I'm sure that thought never crossed this lady's mind.
That, of course, assumes you are smart enough not to go out in a well publicized blizzard with an almost empty tank.
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Granted, but just a gut feeling tells me this was never taken into consideration either.
I do realize about the ‘gas powered heater’ aspect, I was just taking it to the worst case scenario as I have no ‘reason’ to believe this particular case would apply here...<: <:
And also not let the exhaust pipe get buried in the blizzard. An old friend of mine lost both her parents that way.