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I was watching the Weather Channel last night. They were doing things that one could do to survive in an emergency situation. I thought I would add the 'falling thru the ice" part.
Guy conveniently had a pair of screw drivers around his neck and used them to pull himself out of the water and onto the hard ice like a pair of ice picks. Showed him deliberately falling back in and then getting out again without the ice picks/screwdrivers. He pulled himself up on the ice sheet as far as he could, then he continued to lay flat and pull himself along the thinner ice until he got to stable ice and then walked off the ice.
By then he was hypothermic, as evidenced by the slow movements and mumbling. Once he was out of the wet clothes into dry. He used plastic bags, grocery sacks over the socks and stuck around his feet in his shoes and a big garbage bag over he head and around his body over his clothes and under his down coat. Commentator said it would help keep body heat in. They had him do jumping jacks to help create body heat. He also drank hot cocoa, not to warm him up but for the sugar that would rapidly get into his body and, again, create body heat.
Amazing how such simple things can save your life.. plastic grocery sacks, a black plastic garbage bag, a couple of screwdrivers and some sugar. I think you could put all of that in a gallon ziploc bag and stuff behind a truck/car seat.
Added to the usual sleeping bag, gallon of water and tools behind the truck seat.
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