Here are some things to do to summon help and keep
yourself and your passengers safe:
Turn on your hazard flashers.
Tie a red cloth to your vehicle to alert police that
you’ve been stopped by the snow.
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Put on extra clothing or wrap a blanket around you.
If
you have no blankets or extra clothing, make
body insulators from newspapers, burlap bags, rags,
floor mats
-
anything you can wrap around
yourself or tuck under your clothing to keep warm.
You can run the engine to keep warm, but be ca---%I.
Snow
can trap exhaust gases under your
vehicle. This can cause deadly CO (carbon
monoxide) gas to get inside. CO could
overcome
you
and
kill
you. You can’t see
it
or
smell
it,
so you might not know
it
is
in
your
vehicle. Clear away snow from around the base
of your vehicle, especially any that
is blocking
your exhaust pipe. And check around again
from time to time to be sure snow doesn’t
collect there.
Open a window just
a
little on the side of the
vehicle that’s away from the wind. This will help
keep CO out.
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