Emergency Supplies for Winter Driving

If you live where winter weather can strand you in your car, the right supplies can save your life.  You winter emergency kit should include blankets and extra clothes, including scarves, hats, gloves, and socks.  These are particularly important as your extremities, face and ears are some of the body parts most vulnerable to frostbite.  You should also have a flashlight/radio/emergency beacon combination that operates without batteries so you can listen to weather reports and possibly signal searchers.

You need a small snow shovel, an ice scraper and a bag of kitty litter.  You should keep high-energy food in your car along with candles, matches in a waterproof package, and coffee cans.  If you are stuck in your car you can run the engine occasionally for warmth, but you need to keep the exhaust pipe free of snowdrifts. The coffee cans can be used to hold the candles and generate a little warmth and light and also to melt and warm snow to drink.  When you are traveling in dangerous winter weather always have these supplies on hand and never let your gas tank go below half a tank.  With these winter emergency supplies and adequate gas you can survive until help arrives.