Here are some things to do to summon help and keep
yourself and your passengers safe:
e
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
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anything you can wrap around
yourself or tuck under your clothing to keep warm.
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You can run the engine to keep warm, but be careful.
Snow can trap exhaust gases un,,r 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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