#3-Move out of New York, I did!
Prayers offered up for those in a truly horrendous situation.
If you have to travel winter roads, have lots of warm clothes, blankets, candles, high energy food, water, and a shovel in your trunk. And make sure you keep your tank topped off as often as possible. A full tank can go a long ways if you’re careful about it, only running the engine and the heater when you really, really need to warm up. Once you do warm up, shut it off and stay under the blankets.
As a Vermonter, I make it a practice never to drive anywhere without a warm coat, hat, and boots. If I’m not wearing them, I keep them somewhere handy in the car.
I also usually keep a snow shovel in the back, so I can dig myself out if necessary.
As we were taught in Alaska, Keep two cans of STERNO and matches in the car. Keep hard candy on hand, blankets and flashlight.
My thoughts, add two plumber’s candles to the list.
Lolz. The govt/media have turned into nothing but PSA’s. I just about died, recently, going to the cinema. That’s all it was pre-feature.
If you know you will be stranded for a considerable length of time, you could make an igloo out of snowballs. My brother has done that when mountain climbing.
We were scouting for elk in Colorado the morning before the season opened, and were up on a dirt road pass about 12,000 feet. We got almost to the top and we saw a full size van up ahead, stuck in the snow. We pulled up to them and there was a teenage boy shoveling snow with a hubcap. He was wearing socks for mittens. His dad got out of the van, his head and hands went up in the air, “Praise the Lord” he shouted!
They had gotten directions as the trading post down the valley, took a wrong turn, drove up and got stuck. They and their mom had spent the night up there in the van, at 5 degrees, huddled in blankets. Boy were they glad to see us! We hooked up a chain and pulled them out, and sent them on their way. He told me ther first thing they were going to do was buy some real mittens and a shovel.
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A Winter Car Survival Kit Will Keep You Warm in Emergency Situations
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3) stay in your car.
There was that guy stuck in some Rocky Mountain pass who could have walked down but stayed and starved...
but in general, good advice.
I expect this may become more of an issue this year. I expect a bad winter. I look up at the mountains today and the tops are already iced over and slightly snow capped...and Im in Georgia. The earliest i have ever seen them snow capped.
My advice is to not only plan for survival, but plan for comfort, don’t carry a blanket and a candle knowing that might or might not help you barely survive, instead carry what you need to sleep comfortably through the night and even after expending all of your body heat and energy while working on your car, or digging yourself out of snow or whatever the situation.
Like Cicero posted, have a set of winter clothes and boots so that if you need to walk out, you can, and tennis shoes and blue jeans, and wet socks won’t cut it.
Boy, they know how to take the fun out of a dire situation.
What should you do if you are stranded on an escalator?
As a teenager I drove a Karman Ghia into DC to pick up my mom from work the day the jet crashed into the 14th street bridge during a snowstorm. I was on the bridge at the time, thankfully, on the DC side. The snow was so thick you could only see the loom from the street lights above your head.
Traffic got so snarled it took ten hours to get back home. The Germans made great cars but the VW’s and Karman Ghia’s had no heat to speak of. Ever since I have kept a kit in my car and so do my wife and kids.
As we saw in Atlanta and I learned in DC, you can get into a bad situation even in an urban area.
An obvious one...if you live in an area where getting stranded is a real threat, never let your vehicle get below 1/2 tank. Personally I think this is ALWAYS a good idea, snow or not.
Lake effect snow band: A time-lapse video - Gusto - The Buffalo News
http://buffalo.com/2014/11/18/featured/lake-effect-snow-band-time-lapse-video/
Here Comes the Snow: Wall of Weather Blankets Buffalo - NBC News.com
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/photo/here-comes-snow-wall-weather-blankets-buffalo-n250951
Back in ‘70 (IIRC) in Pennsylvania, my ex and I drove off the highway during a blizzard (as did others, we learned later). Could not see the road at all and wound up in the median down an incline. He walked up to the road as I honked the horn every several seconds to help him keep his bearings.
An angel in an 18-wheeler stopped for us and took us an our cat to a motel in Punxatawney. (No; we did not see Phil.) We stayed two days and slept in the hall with about 50 other stranded people.
Someone took the ex back to the car later and it wouldn’t start because he had refused everyone’s suggestions to gas up before we started the trip. (Part of the reason he’s my ex.)
In ‘71 the Air Force relocated us to Alaska where we never experienced that much snow the 20 years we were there.
I grew up a few miles from Lake Erie in Western NY. During major snow events in the ‘50s and ‘60s, the Thruway would close and travelers would have to exit. We had many impromptu visitors in the parsonage over the years. It was exciting then, but seems weird now.
I very much enjoyed my years living in Hawaii and Florida! Snow is terrifying if you must be out in it. Inside by the fireplace, under a quilt, with hot chocolate is do-able.