Personal Experience With Emergency Preparedness And Winter Driving
Few of us think about Winter survival preparedness when it comes to our cars. For most of us, the short commute to the store or to work doesn’t register as dangerous most days. Even when the road conditions turn from bad to worse, we still don’t give much thought to an emergency situation happening.
But facts don’t lie. Triple A says that most Winter driving emergencies happen within 10 miles of your home and most of those are what the Drivers would consider “routine” trips. These routine trips turned into survival situations in a blink of an eye. Just before Christmas Ever, we had a huge snowstorm. A few days later a pickup was found covered up by snow just outside town. Inside was a local man who had frozen to death. Apparently he had went off the road and then the snow plows didn’t notice his white pickup and covered it up as they cleared the roads. Could you survive if your car ran off an embankment or you were stranded in a non-obvious place along the highway? Read the rest of this entry »