Very important to carry an axe.
Especially when you need to get winter stuff from other motorists stranded in a snowstorm... 
Posted on 01/05/2022 8:32:28 AM PST by V K Lee
As you travel during the winter months, consider the important survival gear items to keep in your car. Your literal survival may even depend on it
Example: Stranded on the highway, stuck in a major snow storm or ice storm, along with everyone else. The cars are running out of gas. No heat. Now what? Hypothermia sets in…
Here’s a real world example that is occurring as I post this article: “Never Seen Anything Like It” – Drivers Trapped On Virginia Interstate Since Monday
The fact is, we’re not always dressed appropriately for an emergency when we hop in the car to go somewhere during the winter. We assume that everything will be alright. During the winter, it’s especially important to have adequate warm clothing and protection form the elements. Even if you’re not wearing them, it is highly advisable to keep a separate dedicated set of cold-weather gear in the car (e.g. an extra jacket is better there than hanging in your closet at home).
Here are a few ideas to consider: List Of Winter Survival Gear For Your Car
(Excerpt) Read more at modernsurvivalblog.com ...
I’ll be darned. Good to know.
how to make a flower pot heater. Do they really work?
https://www.skilledsurvival.com/clay-pot-candle-heater/
If I keep her in the back, if I am ever stuck on a snowed in highway, she can jump into the mylar bag with me...instant warmth!
Most people don’t even have a real winter coat anymore. Winter coats went out of style quite a while ago, and you won’t see anyone under 40 caught dead in one. Today it’s hoodies.
Some of that has to be attributed to the generally higher reliability of automobiles. My first cars still had carburetors, and winter time was more perilous for reliability, especially for rear-wheel drive vehicles. It was more common to have a breakdown or get stuck in the snow. People now have too much faith in their cars, they confidently go to the store in subfreezing temps in sweat pant bottoms and a hoodie.
Winter coats are what out of style old fools wear, geezers.
Actually, it specifies wool, it doesn’t assume a mylar survival blanket. And it is true that wool is great because it can provide warmth to a degree even if it is wet, but that is completely not the same as a survival blanket. (I actually would get a survival bag, not a blanket...I actually have both)
LOL, I am prepared, I have ALL kinds of things jammed into the back of my vehicle around and above the spare. But putting all of these things into my vehicle would take a LOT of space and require me to store them in open sight, which I avoid.
But these are good things, all of them. I live in a cold climate, so I am used to all these things.
I have a shovel, but as greyfriar states, I might get an entrenching tool. That silly plastic shovel might be okay if I have to dig out a tire, but won’t help me if I need to cut wood or more...
And some of the newer entrenching tools look like they kick butt, too...
Bkmk
Buy onemof,one of, fuzzy hats that northern trappers used to,wear. Sure they loo,,goofy, but wow are they warm, and will,keep,you warm if things go bad. Also keep,a few handwarmer packs,in the vehicle to use in shoes. Toes freeze first. 2
Wool is great to,have as a layer.
Watch out about keeping food in cars,in bear country though.
5hismis where drone delivery would,come in handy if stranded. Lol
Wool is good, as you say. Good to have both, IMO. LOL, it was 15 degrees yesterday when I got up, so we do get some cold up here.
[[you MUST keep your vehicle’s exhaust pipe clear of accumulating snow]]
Good,point.
Exactly - a candle and a blanket will do the job
Ford will be producing thousands of electric F-150s.
Anything to appease the Biden regime.
“..Full Gas Tank
Winter Jacket
Warm Blanket
Gloves
Scarf
Poncho
Walking Shoes/ Boots
Food
Water
Backpack
Shovel
Ice Scraper
Snow Brush
Windshield Washer Fluid
Newly Installed Windshield Wiper Blades
Tow Strap
Tire chains
Sand, Salt
Flashlight
Jumper cables
Cash
Cell Phone Charger
72-Hour Kit...”
^THIS^!!
“..there’s a stretch of road up north in Maine that’s never, ever ever seen a smile. IF they buried all the truckers lost in them woods, there’d be “ A Tombstone Every Mile”...count em off...” Courtesy of Dick Curless, 1965
Electric seats for those that sit in them ;-)
REM: I am an EV advocate. I own one. I therefore also know what cold weather does to your available kWh.
NET: drive prepared for the weather scenarios.
Cary ax or a saw- some saws today are really sharp,and make,quick work,of,getting firewood, carry a little dry kindling in your car, newspapers, and if need be find and chop some dryer dead wood and some green for after the fire gets going, make a nice fire for everyone to gather around so they don’t have to sit in freezing cars waiting wastin gas all day long- save the gas for evening if It gets too cold in car, but with proper gear, you should be fine- good heavy wool socks should be carried too for sleeping.
One survival,show showed Cody make a sleeping camp that was very quick and easy, used a mylar blanket on the back of the shelter to reflect the heat fro mthe fire which was built to reflect heat into the shelter. He used plastic to enclose the whole shelter, and the heat from fire worked its way into,the shelter enoug n so that he and his surivsl,survival, said they were almost too hot, and it was freezing out
It was just a simple enclosed lean-to, but the key was the mylar on the back,wall and top,, reflecting both body heat and fire heat back and down onto the folks. Thus shelter was in deep snow too. But this is really more for a worse case scenario, where the car would just be too cold to sleep in
“Electric seats for those that sit in them ;-)”
Reference OP #1.
“If driving an electric vehicle, just bend over and kiss your posterior goodbye.”
I just live in the South....all I have to worry about are hurricanes.
Our vehicle is fossil fuel, however, those electric seat
warmers are “do die for”. :-) Driver enjoys cooler temps
as passenger (me) finds the ability to enjoy the comfort of
warmth. Never had this pleasure before; now, will fight before it’s given up.
I was stuck in it. While on the freeway it was no big deal. Enjoyed a new Vince Flynn novel on audio.
I was able to get off and take surface roads. Back Roads were passable but DOT didn’t even try. There were abandoned cars in the middle of the street that they didn’t even try to move to the side.
Hotels were all full so I pulled into a dark area of a shopping center lot, put on my boots and Carhart jacket and curled up for a good sleep.
It was 28 degrees. Chilly but survivable.
It almost seemed as if Northam called off the crews.
Below the big crash roads were ice. No salt or anything. Saw more abandoned cars there than anywhere else. A few were crashed.
Very important to carry an axe.
Especially when you need to get winter stuff from other motorists stranded in a snowstorm...
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