Winter Driving: Are YOU Prepared?

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I’m always dressed for the weather and from home to anywhere I’m going is less than 4 miles on a highly travelled road, so food and water aren’t necessary. Standard winter equipment include a shovel, booster cables, brush/scraper, all of which I’ve had to use to get out of the parking lot at work.

That said, the trip to the nearest community involves driving 175+ miles over a dirt road and no cell phone connection. We usually pick up a satellite phone at the local hotel before we leave and drop it off at the depot in the next community. For that trip we have spare clothes, sleeping bags, food and water, a ham radio, 2-way radios as well as the standard equipment.

The one thing no one here has mentioned is winter tires rather than all-season radials. My car is equipped with studded winter tires and I wouldn’t drive anywhere without them. For me that meant buying a second set of wheels so that I could go from all-season to winter and back again without having to take my car to the garage.
 
Here, we do not get snow (once, in 10 years, we have had an actual freak snow storm). In Jan we will get ice sometimes, and some cold temps.

We keep a blanket/sleeping bag or two in each vehicle. Keeping warm if there is a breakdown is the biggest worry here.

If there is an ice storm, we stay off the roads.

For now, winter is pretty much over - the forsythia bushes are yellow with blooms 🙂
 
kage_ar said:
Will package up some sunshine and send it your way 😃
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Add me to the list! I need some sunshine badly! I’m so so sick of winter and we’ve still got 2.5 to 3 more months of snow :’(
 
ChristinaM said:
Yep - I have learned this lesson. This is my first Indiana winter and it’s been quite an adjustment.
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LOL try northern Ontario. I was there for exactly ONE winter and I’m glad that was all! But I was commuting a fair distance to work and at night so my hubby made me up a spectacular emergency kit - lock de-icer, booster cables, non-battery flashlight, portable shovel, kitty litter, etc. And though I was only working part time I shelled out $700 for snow tires. I frankly think people who drive on all-seasons are nuts. :cool: You can’t be too careful- goodness knows most of the other drivers are NOT! We had a serious close call being cut off on a snowy highway last night. Thanking my guardian angel! :angel1:
 
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