5 Most Vital Items to Survive a Winter Storm in your Car or Truck
Add these items to your Mother, Wife, Daughter, and Nieces Car or Truck, Too
We have an ice storm coming into the Panhandle of West Virginia where I live tomorrow. This got me thinking of how when I’ve worked in or vacationed in Northern California, Utah, New Mexico, Montana, Wyoming and other states out West, they take preparing for snow and ice storms more seriously.
So, in the spirit of preparing American families here, and especially the women and new girl drivers we all love and care about and for to prepare for the reality of Winter snow and ice storms, I offer the following items that will substantially increase your chances of survival if you assemble them into a Winter Survival Kit in your car or truck.
You can end up being trapped in a car in a Winter storm, so you want to have water, food, an auto emergency kit, battery and cell phone charger, and an emergency survival blanket at a minimum.
I trust you have already read my prior Substack, purchased a Combat Application Tourniquet (CAT) from North American Rescue, and it is already part of your car or truck survival kit.
Emergency Water
Emergency Food
Auto Emergency Kit
Battery and Phone Charger Energy System, Flashlight
The Zeus by the Unchartered Supply Company
Survival Blanket
North American Rescue Survival Blanket
Bonus Tip: Sadly, in major snowstorms, drivers often run their heat continuously and suffer hyperthermia and death by running out of heat. Do not do that. When stuck or broken down in a Winter storm awaiting rescue, only use your vehicle heater10 minutes, turn it off for 50 minutes, and repeat. This will extend your window of rescue substantially.
The Fiddler’s Song
(for Eamon and Lunasa)
A Fiddler
walked in a field.
God spoke to him and said,
“Fiddler, play for Me!
Play for Me happy!
Play for Me so that those
Who have depression
May feel as you do!”
So the Fiddler played
And he played
‘til he was exhausted
And he pleaded with God:
“Why is it
That you make me
Play these tunes, God?”
And God said:
“For the depressed!
You play for them
And they are happy
And I am happy!
So play, Fiddler, play!
For I am not
Just the Lord of the Dance!
I am the Lord of all Music
And Poetry, and, most importantly,
The Lord of the Lonely!
And you are My instrument
To reach their souls
When they will not listen to me!
So play on!
You must play for them!
For it is the only way
Many of them
Will come to know me.”
“How well must I play, Lord?”
“How will I know they hear You?”
Asked the Fiddler.
“You must play so well
That when they hear you
They lift their hearts, heads,
Spirits and hands high enough
That they see me and know me!”
Said the Lord.
“Play on
That I may know you
And through you know them,
For you are My instrument,
But I am your Spirit’s song.”
Love,
Dad
Happy 16th Birthday, Eamon!!!
Play on!!!
You ain’t been in a snowstorm until you’ve been in a South Dakota whiteout, brother. Keep driving in one and you’re more likely to find yourself stuck in the middle of a field of cornstalks a mile off the road than anywhere you might have wanted to be.
About 10 years ago there was a woman lost in a SD whiteout. She had contacted 911 and the cops were looking for her. Her cell phone died before they found her, and so did she. She was only a couple miles from town.
All you can do is pull off the road as far as is safe without driving into the ditch, pull the blanket out of the back, wrap up and read a book.