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Winter Survival Guide: Make Your Car Winter Storm Proof | Facts Matter

Facts Matter

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🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In some areas, the snowstorm dumped several feet of snow in a matter of a couple of hours.

This happened during the height of that year’s holiday travel season. The snowstorm knocked out power for more than 100,000 people, it paralyzed most emergency services, it effectively stopped travel in general, and when all was said and done, it left at least 47 people dead.

Some of those people died as a result of heart complications, because they over-exerted themselves shoveling snow.
However, a significant portion of the deaths were a result of motorists who were trapped in their vehicles for an extended period of time, in freezing temperatures, beyond the reach of any emergency service personnel.

These people sadly, literally, froze to death in their cars and trucks.
And we’ve seen this sad scenario play out many times before when a natural disaster strikes.

People assume, sometimes fatally, that first responders will be able to make it to them and save them from a desperate situation.
But unfortunately, that’s not always the case. Sometimes, you really have to be your own first responder.

And so in that vein, since we’re heading into the winter season, here are some recommendations on things that you can do to protect yourself and your family. Join host Roman Balmakov on this week’s episode of “Facts Matter.”

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and guests and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
 


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0:00.0

In December of 2022, the Northeastern U.S. was hit by a devastating four-day blizzard.

0:07.0

In some areas, the snowstorm dumped several feet of snow in a matter of just a couple of hours.

0:13.0

This happened during the height of that year's holiday travel season, and that snowstorm, it knocked out power for about 100,000 people.

0:21.8

It paralyzed most all emergency services.

0:25.2

It effectively stopped all travel in general, including holiday travel, and when all was

0:30.0

said and done, it left at least 47 people dead.

0:34.4

Now, Buffalo New York and the surrounding Buffalo area was hit particularly hard.

0:38.3

The death toll in just that one area was over 30 people.

0:41.3

Now, some of those people, they died as a result of heart complications because they over-exerted

0:46.3

themselves shoveling snow all of a sudden.

0:48.3

However, a non-insignificant portion of the deaths, about 10% were a result of motorists who were trapped in their

0:55.2

vehicles for an extended period of time in freezing temperatures beyond the reach of any emergency

1:00.9

service personnel.

1:02.3

These people sadly literally froze to death in their cars and in their trucks.

1:07.1

For example, a 22-year-old young woman named Ann Del Taylor, she got stuck on the road,

1:11.6

and even though she was literally only about six minutes from her home, the weather conditions

1:16.3

outside were so bad that she was not able to venture away from her car at all.

1:21.1

And because the roads were blocked by a severe snowstorm and there weren't enough snow plows

1:26.2

to deal with it all,

1:28.4

help never arrived.

1:30.7

And sadly, the young woman died.

1:35.6

And before she died, she shot a short video that her family later released to the media.

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