Winter is Coming: Here’s Your Vehicle Emergency Kit Checklist

[ProgSpear]

Is Your Vehicle Emergency Kit Ready? The Organic Prepper

Vehicle Emergency Kit Checklist
Not every person needs every item on this list. Pick and choose the items that are important given your family situation, your environment, and your most-likely disaster scenarios. No list can be comprehensive for every person, but this one has served us well.

• Backpacks -if space is an issue, these fold down very small but expand to hold a lot
  
• Escape tool
  
• Sleeping bag specific to your climate
  
• Small tent selected for your climate
  
• Lightweight emergency tent
  
• Lighter, magnesium fire starter
  
  , waterproof matches
  
• Lighter fluid (this can help start a fire even in damp conditions)
• Candles – long-burning tea lights
  
  don’t require holders and still hold their form if they melted in the summer heat
• Survival knife
  
• Compass
• Pocket survival handbook
  
• Signal flares
  
• Space blankets
  
  – don’t go cheapo on this. The better quality could save your life.
• Up-to-date road atlas
  
• Flashlight
• Police flashlight/taser combo
  
• Extra batteries
• Lantern
• Mirrors for signalling
• Signal whistles
  
  for making noise to help rescuers find you
• Crackers
• Peanut butter
• Canned stew or chili (Be sure to either stock pop-top cans or pack a can-opener)
• Canned baked beans (Be sure to either stock pop-top cans or pack a can-opener)
• Canned fruit (Be sure to either stock pop-top cans or pack a can-opener
• Can-opener
• Cookies
• Granola Bars
• A few gallons of water
• Berkey-to-go for each family member (or other portable filtration device – I also like the Sawyer Mini)
• Collapsible pet dish
  
• Pet food
• Bandages
• Gauze
• Pain relief pills
• Antibiotic cream
• Allergy medication (Benadryl
  
  ) and an Epi-pen (My daughter has a food allergy)
• Motion sickness medication
  
• Alcohol wipes
• Anti-diarrheal medication
• Rubbing alcohol
• Hydrogen peroxide
• Basic automotive repair tools
• Heavy-duty booster cables
• Tow straps
• Hammer
• Staple gun
• Prybar
• Assorted screwdrivers
• Pliers
• Hacksaw
• Rope
• Paracord
• Bungee cords
• Duct tape
• Lubricant like WD-40
• Seasonally appropriate clothing
• Snow pants
• Coats
• Long underwear
• Socks
• Gloves
• Hats
• Sturdy, comfortable walking boots
• Weapons and ammo of choice

 

[E the massive]

Hahahaaaa.

 

[togmaster]

I need to buy a trailer to tow all of that shit.

 

[E the massive]

I need to buy a trailer to tow all of that shit.

I would need a trailer just for my weapon of choice.

 

[Curmudgeon]

A staple gun?

 

[C3D]

stupid list. Doesn't say to make sure your car battery is still OK. That eliminates 99% of the need for the other items.

 

[Robin]

Six pack, sleeping bag.
Robin

 

[Bananabandit]

I see people, all the time, literally going to their car in t shirts and shorts when its 25 degrees out..

If their car breaks down and on the highway..they better hope help is a coming.

But I got AAA. dont need all those self reliant things.

 

[Doc8404]

Where the fuck are you traveling to need all that shit?

 

[Nevar]

Duct Tape, WD 40 and a Big fukin hammer. OH ammo

 

[Uzi]

Winter started two months ago. If it's snowing it's winter time. That's not an emergency bag either, that would be more like a survival bag. An emergency bag consists of about 1/4 to MAYBE half of those items. You don't need grandma's baked cookies and two different sizes of tents for an emergency vehicle bag.

 

[Blimey]

Hammer, staple gun, hacksaw.

He forgot battery powered miter saw, a must-have of any winter emergency kit.

 

[JaguarJaguarGolf]

Children all live away now, and don't come home as much. When they were younger, at Thanksgiving I would make sure that all the cars had their snow tires on. Oil Changed,batterry and coolant checked; extra wiper washer fluid (-20 F).
Every car had some water,an MRE, a wool blanket, a XXL -40 sleeping bag and a steel trash/coal shovel. When driving to Montreal or Watertown I would also keep one of those Artic work coats with the big fur trimmed hood in my truck. One daughter regularly drove between Jamestown and Rochester which, as every one knows, can dump 2 feet of snow on US 90 very quickly. She was the one I worried about the most, but the little one would sometimes cut through Snowshoe West Virginia.

 

[99cummins]

stupid list. Doesn't say to make sure your car battery is still OK. That eliminates 99% of the need for the other items.

And keeping your fuel tank at 1/2 or better.

 

[Acer-m14]

WTF Really ,.. no FKin Road Flares on the list .. damn you can start a fire with anything with them .. they even burn under water .. ..

 

[Phazer]

Is Your Vehicle Emergency Kit Ready? The Organic Prepper

Vehicle Emergency Kit Checklist
Not every person needs every item on this list. Pick and choose the items that are important given your family situation, your environment, and your most-likely disaster scenarios. No list can be comprehensive for every person, but this one has served us well.

• Backpacks -if space is an issue, these fold down very small but expand to hold a lot
  
• Escape tool
  
• Sleeping bag specific to your climate
  
• Small tent selected for your climate
  
• Lightweight emergency tent
  
• Lighter, magnesium fire starter
  
  , waterproof matches
  
• Lighter fluid (this can help start a fire even in damp conditions)
• Candles – long-burning tea lights
  
  don’t require holders and still hold their form if they melted in the summer heat
• Survival knife
  
• Compass
• Pocket survival handbook
  
• Signal flares
  
• Space blankets
  
  – don’t go cheapo on this. The better quality could save your life.
• Up-to-date road atlas
  
• Flashlight
• Police flashlight/taser combo
  
• Extra batteries
• Lantern
• Mirrors for signalling
• Signal whistles
  
  for making noise to help rescuers find you
• Crackers
• Peanut butter
• Canned stew or chili (Be sure to either stock pop-top cans or pack a can-opener)
• Canned baked beans (Be sure to either stock pop-top cans or pack a can-opener)
• Canned fruit (Be sure to either stock pop-top cans or pack a can-opener
• Can-opener
• Cookies
• Granola Bars
• A few gallons of water
• Berkey-to-go for each family member (or other portable filtration device – I also like the Sawyer Mini)
• Collapsible pet dish
  
• Pet food
• Bandages
• Gauze
• Pain relief pills
• Antibiotic cream
• Allergy medication (Benadryl
  
  ) and an Epi-pen (My daughter has a food allergy)
• Motion sickness medication
  
• Alcohol wipes
• Anti-diarrheal medication
• Rubbing alcohol
• Hydrogen peroxide
• Basic automotive repair tools
• Heavy-duty booster cables
• Tow straps
• Hammer
• Staple gun
• Prybar
• Assorted screwdrivers
• Pliers
• Hacksaw
• Rope
• Paracord
• Bungee cords
• Duct tape
• Lubricant like WD-40
• Seasonally appropriate clothing
• Snow pants
• Coats
• Long underwear
• Socks
• Gloves
• Hats
• Sturdy, comfortable walking boots
• Weapons and ammo of choice

I don't have room in my garage, let alone my car, for all of that.

 

[BDSKJCHRIS]

or instead of buying all that shit, use the money for a down payment on a vehicle that is less likely to leave you stranded.

 

[99cummins]

or instead of buying all that shit, use the money for a down payment on a vehicle that is less likely to leave you stranded.

Or use the money to keep your current vehicle in good shape mechanically.

 

[Twogunwilly]

Got the knife and weapons, 'cept chucks but I'll make some, I think I'll just forage off those more prepared.

 

[BDinPutnam]

Hell, throw in a big old bag of fritos. Not only do they make excellent tinder but they're also delcious, they'd go well with the 40 some odd other pounds of food described here.

 

[NY Chamorro]

Six pack, sleeping bag.
Robin

I would need a six pack just to get over from the hangover from the previous night

 

[meketrefe]

What, no charbroil grill?
Not even condoms?

 

[masterswimmer]

Not even condoms?

How do you propose to repopulate the planet after TEOTWAWKI if you use condoms? I wanna be like Genghis Khan!!!

 

[E the massive]

Hell, throw in a big old bag of fritos. Not only do they make excellent tinder but they're also delcious, they'd go well with the 40 some odd other pounds of food described here.

Don't forget the salsa. It will pair well with the frozen peanut butter.

 

[Robin]

Whoa, I read that and had an instant case of associative heartburn, urrrrrrp.
Robin

 

[repete]

• "Canned stew or chili (Be sure to either stock pop-top cans or pack a can-opener)
• Canned baked beans (Be sure to either stock pop-top cans or pack a can-opener)
• Canned fruit (Be sure to either stock pop-top cans or pack a can-opener"

Geeze that would make one hell've stinky mess when they freeze and burst and then thaw out!
I do have a bag in my truck and car with dry socks old boots, cheap ski pants, hat gloves, hand warmers,flashlight and chem lights,and a few hard candies and energy bars.