Posted on 11/18/2014 8:09:58 PM PST by Kartographer
When traveling in cold weather it is wise keep a winter survival kit in your car. The most obvious place to put this valuable kit is in your trunk, so unlike other survival kits, a car survival kit can be larger and more bulkier. The focus of a car survival kit is to help maintain your core body temperature to as close to 98.6 degrees as possible. There are a variety of ways this can be done but here is a list of items that should be in your car during the winter in cold climates. This winter kit will help you if your car is broke down, disabled, if the weather is unsafe to drive in and your best and safest option is to shelter-in-place.
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LOL.....understand !!
I was in one of those team building exercises and my team was the only one that didn't end up sick from trying to eat the snow for moisture.
All it cost me was two days of listening to them whine. :)
I obtained one of those bags through, shall we say, informal channels. It’s really, really warm bag and very well constructed.
Do not get wet. That leads to hypothermia. Dress in layers. Do not build up a sweat! Remove layers at the first sign of being too warm. My opinion is that mitts are much better than gloves for warmth. Remember that wool insulates even when wet. I don’t like rubber boots for cold. Your feet will sweat (don’t get wet!). Rubber doesn’t breath. Insulation needs to breath. An ideal material that breaths (let’s perspiration droplets out) and is waterproof (doesn’t let water droplets in) is Gortex. Stay warm and dry.
Have the ability to melt snow or ice, that is mostly what my tea candles are for, and a couple of nested containers, you can use your backpacking cup or cookware or a couple of washed out food cans with holes cut into one, or whatever, just put together something at the house that doesn’t take much space in the car, for instance a tuna can with holes cut or drilled allowing air for the tea candle, and a can that will rest nicely on top of that, it would be slow, but good enough for a couple of days running 24 hours a day.
PFL
“People that constantly wear shoes and socks are more susceptible to frostbite because their feet become more sensitive to cold.”
So there’s actually an advantage to my loving to take my shoes off? Neat!
Thanks for the ideas. Hubby is driving cross-country and back next month. I will put a kit together for him, adding to our BOBs especially for the winter weather.
Remind him to keep liquids that could freeze/burst/thaw in the trunk or left in the car overnight, in something that will contain the liquid and keep it off his other items, you can put them in something like freezer bags.
Remember that an ice chest makes a nice box to help prevent freezing and wide temperature swings for liquids, drinking water and electronics and fruit, and batteries, as long as everything is kept safe from the freeze/burst/thaw cycle.
Not wearing shoes increases your metabolism by intensifying your mitochondrial activity in your cells. Go barefoot, wear a loincloth and carry an atlatl. ;-)
Thanks for the ideas.
Thank you for the ping!
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