{"id":17567,"date":"2016-02-09T13:18:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T18:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17567"},"modified":"2016-02-09T13:18:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T18:18:10","slug":"prepping-for-a-blizzard-a-practical-survival-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17567","title":{"rendered":"Prepping for a Blizzard: A Practical Survival Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prepping for a Blizzard: A Practical Survival Guide<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Few can deny the common sense behind preparing for something that is definitely going to happen, yet every year, an impending winter storm sends people rushing out to the store at the last minute, prepping for a blizzard that is due to hit in mere hours. Every winter, if you live in certain climates, blizzards are going to occur. Usually, at least one storm will hit that will cause you to be snowed in. Often, those storms mean you will also lose power. There is the inevitable rush to the store for milk and bread, during which people battle it out for the last supplies left on the shelves.<\/p>\n

But you can avoid all that. You don\u2019t have to be\u00a0a bunker-dwelling, MRE-chomping, camo-clad prepper to see the logic behind\u00a0keeping some extra food<\/a>\u00a0and other supplies on hand for\u00a0something that happens every single year.<\/p>\n

This year, avoid the last minute panic and the discomfort of being unprepared. This article is full of links to previous articles that will help you in prepping for a blizzard. Put together a at least the bare minimum kit for riding out the storm. \u00a0(Camo is optional.)<\/p>\n

Water<\/strong><\/p>\n

Everyone knows that clean drinking water is something you can\u2019t live without. In the event of a blizzard and power outage, the water may not run from the taps. \u00a0The pipes could freeze, or, in the event of grid failure, an electrically driven pump will not work.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll just eat snow.\u201d No, this is a horrible idea. First of all, snow is mostly air, and you\u2019d have to eat 20 quarts of it to equal 2 quarts of water. Secondly, if you eat that much snow you will lower your core temperature and put yourself at risk for hypothermia. If you already don\u2019t have water, you have enough problems.<\/p>\n

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Prepping for a Blizzard: A Practical Survival Guide Few can deny the common sense behind preparing for something that is definitely going to happen, yet every year, an impending winter storm sends people rushing out to the store at the last minute, prepping for a blizzard that is due to hit in mere hours. Every […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2922,6156,4019,288,5837,648,650,885],"class_list":["post-17567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-blizzard","tag-daisy-luther","tag-emergency-planning","tag-extreme-weather","tag-organic-prepper","tag-preparations","tag-prepping","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17568,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17567\/revisions\/17568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}