#Winter
15 articles tagged with this topic (Including both blog posts and archived content)
Alerts Family Preparedness
How to survive a night without power
How to survive a night without power
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How To Tools
Homemade ice-claws
When I moved to college in Idaho as a teenager, I had a really quick introduction into a new world of snow and ice. While the snow I grew up with was wet and heavy, and usually melted away pretty quick in the moderate temperature. Idaho however introduced me to the bitter hard-freeze that left our campus with an amazing array of forms of ice that were completely new to me. I, as with many of my fellow students, became intimately familiar with this ice while performing the splits, or landing on my back when trying to hurry between classes.
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Family Preparedness Seasonal Preparedness
Wrapping Up, With Blankets
As snowflakes begin to frequently drift down, my wife began her odd seasonal transformation from warm, to cold-blooded being. I'm not sure how many of you are familiar with this process, but it is the true mark of seasonal change around my home. Appendages seem to have ice permanently on them, and thus have an odd habit of always finding their way to me, which is cause to no small amount of distress.
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Seasonal Preparedness Winter/Snow Preparedness
Reminder: Driving in Snow
With the recent storms, and onset of Winter conditions here in Utah, I felt it appropriate to send out a little reminder of things people should do to prepare for winter driving. Please prepare before the storms come, so that you can be ready for they enjoyable experience that is Utah roads in the Winter.<!--more-->
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Lessons Learned Links
Prepping example on 18 Kids and Counting 4/7 on TLC
Tomorrow night, April 7th <a href="http://www.tlc.com">TLC</a> will be showing a new episode of <a href="http://tlc.discovery.com/tv/18-kids-and-counting/duggar-family.html">18 Kids and Counting</a>.
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Lessons Learned
TV Worth Watching
I'm not a big TV fan myself, as I expect many of the readers of this blog. But last year I did stumble on a show I really liked, called "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alaska_Experiment">The Alaska Experiment</a>". The show took a couple small groups (2-4 people) of "regular people", and dropped them in backcountry Alaska, to survive into the winter. Now, not only was this TV, but it was reality-tv, which by nature I detest. And yet it drew me in like no other. Why? Because it showed just how little people knew, and just how difficult it was to survive, even with the large amount of help these people received. They had minimal food supplies given, they had shelter, and constant checkups to make sure they weren't in real harm. And yet it was still *very* difficult. Sure, at many points I would scream at people for what I saw as dumb decisions, but I have a better camping background than they. I was also sitting in my nice chair at home, instead of in the middle of Winter in Alaska.
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Personal Preparedness Reviews
Emergency home heat
My next preparation project was obtaining an emergency heat source. This is a purchase that I have been researching and planning for a quite a while now, wanting to make sure that I had adequately weighed options and made the best choice. There are a lot of factors to consider including the size and shape of the ares you want to heat, portability, direct verse ambient heat, ease of use, safety, ventilation, and fuel source.
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Seasonal Preparedness
Winter/Snow Driving Preps, Part 3 of 3, Driving Tips
<img class="alignright" src="http://www.freefoto.com/images/16/16/16_16_37---Car-in-the-snow_web.jpg" alt="" width="261" height="174" />This is the final post in our 3 part series, Winter and Snow Driving Preps. The first post, Prepping your Vehicle, can be found here followed by our second post, Supplementing your Gear.
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