Stick with me as we talk about how to stay safe during freezing weather.
There's a couple different places you have to worry about frostbite in the
extreme cold weather, mainly is your fingers and toes your ears and your nose.
We're going to concentrate on protecting those. I grew up in
Northern Virginia, so I know something about snow. The Potomac used to get kind of hammered.
But it wasn't until I moved to New Hampshire that I had to deal with
extreme cold and it's kind of a different animal.
Some of these things I'm going to talk about if you're from like a border
state you probably already know this. If you're from Canada "our friends from
the great white north" probably do a lot of this stuff. If your like me where
your transplanted from the south to the north,
you don't really know this stuff. So I'm going to go over some basics and we're
going to talk about a couple tricks I learned over the years. One of the first
things were going to do is talk about socks now I've got cotton socks on and
cotton is pretty good because it's very warm but once it gets wet it really
changes temperature and the cotton soaks up the water. You have the other end
of the spectrum which are wool socks and wool socks aren't as warm but they're
pretty good at repelling water they can get damp and stay warm still. What you
want to do is combine them you put the wool sock over the cotton sock. Since
it's on the outer layer the wool is more likely to get damp, and can resist that
wetness where you're trying to protect the cotton and keep it dry to put it on
the inside. It's a smart idea to double sock up but i'm going to take a
step further and i'm gonna show you an old rugby trick that we used to use. You
see rugby's played in the middle of the winter too
there's no such thing as bad weather a rugby game so you have to practice and
play in the snow. Now cleats are really thin and they're not made for that kind
of cold weather, so you can really damage your toes and get frostbite if you don't
protect them.
One of the tricks we used is the double bag trick and i'll show you it now. What
you want to do is start with a grocery bag. You know, you've been keeping these
and recycling them, well now you get to use them.
This little bag will actually keep your feet waterproof and really warm. Take
these bags and put it over your sock. What you want to do is you want to tie
the ends along the outside of the foot. You don't want them on the inside you'll
trip over the knots. The knots run into each other and you'll fall down which
happened all the time and rugby. So you time on the outside and you want to do
it kind of above the malleolus if you can do it
that's that big bump on bone. So tie that, and we're good to go. If you really
need to you can take a second bag and double-bag it. That extra little layer
will really help you tie that on. Believe it or not you can put a shoe
right over this and this, and it slides on really easy. See it just slide right on.
One thing I forgot to mention was you also need to protect your ears and
your nose and these things are great these little neck things you can just
put them and you can put it over your eyes if you need to protect your face. I
keep one of these as well with my emergency jacket so I can protect.
Your nose can go frostbite really quick, as well as your ears. Especially if
you're going out to look at your car work on it need to cover up. One last
thing I forgot to mention is you can spray your boots if they're not proper
winter boots. They sell this protective coating you can spray directly on any
kind of shoe creates one more water barrier. Every year bodies are found in
the spring thaw. In other words people wreck their cars on these little roads
and people don't know where they went off the road and they freeze to death
and die.
It is very real up here and there is no joke.
You have to prepare your car for the emergency that if you run off a small
road that you can at least survive a little while
hopefully some help finds you. Now you got to remember when you're talking about negative
degree weather here, that if your car slides off a road even if it's you know
a decently traveled road if you lose your heat within about 10 to 20 minutes
your car is freezing. In an hour it's ice cold. It doesn't take long to be in
real trouble real fast. You need to prepare your car. So in the winter my
girlfriend who lived in Minnesota convinced me to start prepping my car. and
I listened to her and as I talk to other locals is no joke, they all prep their
cars. Let me show you what I have my trunks a little messy right now but I
have all the stuff I need in here and I kind of pulled it up so you can see it.
The number one thing you need is a good weather rate is sleeping bag. You want
something that if you lose heat in your car you can throw over your entire body
and still be ok. I actually keep this bag right behind the driver's seat and
i'm sorry the passenger seat on the floor so if I were to wreck i could
still reach over and grab the bag
hopefully and even if i could get out of my seat I could reach it.
I also keep my heavy-duty jacket in the same place this jacket sweater rated and
of course I keep a hat and gloves inside it so that really helps out a lot.
Some other things that get you out of a pinch. My girlfriend's mother gave me
this what it is is it is a strip of plastic that you can throw under your
tires when you can't get traction and this thing grips the ground grips your
tires and can get you out of some real bad jams. The other thing I found out you
had to have was a shovel and it's horribly useful when you get your tire
surrounded by snow to dig it out so you keep a shovel in here as well. I also
have some heat pads.
so these things are like hand warmers and foot warmers and I've got a large
pack of them so I did have to spend the night or two in a car because it wrecked,
off the side of a road you can throw those heat packs inside your sleeping
bag and they keep you really warm. Also have some rope and some tarps if you
break your windshield
you could at least rig something up to maybe duct tape some tarp over it so the
freezing wind doesn't just cut right into your car. You also should have
some jumper cables just in case that's pretty standard stuff. A couple other
things I forgot is I've got some bags just put over your hands and feet. If you
get cold very useful. I've got some peanuts,
this is if you were to spend multiple days stuck somewhere at least have some
food and the cans kind of useful if you want to collect snow. This is kind of
really you know a little overkill but I feel more comfortable having some food
in the car and that's a really good for calories. They are very dense. Remember if
you're freezing the and you're shivering like crazy you burn massive calories so
you want some very dense food.
Lastly I have an emergency flashlight and a charger now this thing is a radio,
flashlight, all kinds of little gadgets on here and it also you can plug devices
in and use the hand crank on the side right here to charge it. So you spin it
around and charge it up. You can really count on batteries the cold
weather your flashlight batteries will probably be dead.
This is why put a hand crank in here at least I can crank if I need some light
and I need to look under the hood or something.
Also it has a weather radio, pretty useful. I can try to link this or similar one in
the description. iI you've never seen these before they're pretty good.
Remember that living and icy weather is no joke you really gotta be prepared
it's serious stuff. Take a little time today and prep your car. Hopefully
I taught you a little bit about how to keep your toes from getting frostbitten too.
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