01/05/2025
IMPORTANT WINTER SURVIVAL HINTS.
DON'T GO OUTSIDE UNLESS YOU ABSOLUTELY HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE. THE WIND CHILL WILL FREEZE EXPOSED SKIN IN 6 MINUTES. The more prep you do, the better off you'll be. There is NO JOKING HERE.
Make sure you have enough of your medications.
If you may lose power, use these car-warmers. Get square aluminum pans, lots of wax or paraffin, saw dust and birthday candles. Melt the wax or paraffin and stir in a healthy amount of sawdust, until it's thick. Place it in the aluminum pan. Press the candles in 3 rows of three. In a closet or pantry, it will keep your drinking water from freezing. Use the sawdust heaters in the smallest room to get optimal heat. USED INSIDE, CHECK REGULARLY TO MAKE SURE NOTHING ELSE CATCHES ON FIRE. Huddle and cuddle. DO NOT DRINK ALCOHOL - IT TRASHES YOUR BODY'S ABILITY TO REGULATE ITS OWN WARMTH. (Sorry, but it does.) These heaters will keep the interior of a car at 40 degrees for several hours. HOWEVER, STAY INSIDE.
Get out all your blankets, quilts, and sleeping bags. Get out thick socks and sweaters. LAYERING IS KEY.
PETS CAN FREEZE, TOO. NO animal should be left outside unless it has a shelter it can stay warm in. Otherwise, bring it in. It's part of your family.
I will tell you this, it is true. A young couple left a party in a blizzard to walk home. There was alcohol involved. When they didn't arrive home, search parties went out, Skip went out on a Huey to search. The search was called off after 12 hours, it turned into a recovery mission. They were not found until SPRING, huddled against each other at the base of a tree.
If you DO have a sudden episode of STUPID, and try to go out into this, DON'T 1. Make sure you have a sawdust/wax heater, bottled water, blankets and such in the vehicle. IF YOU GET STUCK, STAY IN THE CAR. A helicopter doing a grid search for you at 500 ft will find your car EASILY. People may as well be invisible out in the open. Even if you can see a house STAY IN THE DAMNED CAR. 6 university students got stuck, decided to head for the house (which was much farther than they thought) and one by one, they went down, and froze. The helicopter, between the deep snow, & the howling snow blowing HORIZONTALLY could not see them. We aren't as big as we think, a Polar Vortex drops the temperatures so cold, just stay inside. There's nothing worth going out there for. The ONLY vehicles on the roads should be responding to 911 calls.
I am not sh****ng you, I survived this for SIXTEEN YEARS, and I want all of you to survive as well. PLEASE copy and paste this to your neighbors and friends, call them and tell them what this says, so we can all survive this together. God Bless us all.