Now that the weather has turned cold, make sure you have the essentials in your car:
- water and snacks
- flashlight
- warm clothing, including boots, mittens and a hat
- jumper cables
- tire chains or snow tires
- emergency flares
- bag of sand or cat litter
- shovel, ice scraper and snow melt
- tow rope
- blanket
- and, keep your gas tank full!
Here are some other ideas for emergency-prep related Christmas gifts:
1. First Aid Kit- for home or car
2. Fire blanket. These blankets hang on the wall in a small pouch ready to pull and use in an instant. Extinguish small fires quickly and easily with no mess (unlike fire extinguishers). Perfect for smothering stovetop fires, campfires and even to wrap someone whose clothing has caught fire.
3. Plug-in-flashlights. Plug into a wall socket and when power goes out the flashlight comes on. Some models come with a motion detector making them perfect for use as a night light. Another feature to look for is the ability turn off the flashlight if your outage is during the day saving the charge for use at night.
4. Portable phone charger or solar powered phone charger.
5. Manual can opener.
6. Emergency radio. More info about radios here: https://onesteptoprep.blogspot.com/2022/05/recommended-frs-and-gmrs-radios.html
