Stayed with the car (eventually) and lived. And staying with the car is a lot more attractive if you have the gear you need with you. It doesn’t take up a lot of room and it’s cheaper than a prosthesis to replace your frostbitten feet, or a casket to bury your hypothermia’d body.
Seriously, man….who wants to live on taco sauce packets for five days? Especially when you probably don’t have toilet paper in the vehicle.
You could use those empty packs in lieu I suppose…
Not optimal though…
Regards
Yeah. I don’t count 7 ancient hot sauce packets forgotten in the car’s ashtray as ‘prepared’. We can do better, people.
Throw a friggin’ MRE in there, buddy.
Another dumba$$, from the city that has no clue!! He’s lucky, could have been a worse outcome for him.
I don’t see how people who live in areas where snow can stop you in place don’t have an emergency sleep-in package in their cars 100% of the time. Its really not that hard, literally a suitcase of food, extra clothing, vital toiletries plus a sleeping bag and a few 2 -3 liter soda bottles of water can save your butt for at least a day. A weather radio and a deck of cards to pass the time.
First of all, the guy is likely to score a lifetime of free Taco Bell from their social media manager. Not too bad.
Second, I’d worry less about the fact that he didn’t have access to a toilet, and more about the fact that he also fed the hot sauce packets to his dog for the duration of the ordeal. Can you imagine living in a confined space with a large dog that’s eating nothing but hot sauce?
That was kinda my point..eating taco hot sauce for five days leads to some very interesting gastrointestinal excitement that wold probably be exacerbated without toilet paper.
Oh I followed you. My only point was that, as bad it must have rotted out his guts, just imagine what it did to his German Shepard. Nasty dog taco farts may be enough to drive most men out of the car and into the certain death of the unforgiving cold.
Yeah, the down side is a lifetime supply of Taco Bell….
fat murikan gluttons always afraid of starving, lol.
try going without food for a few days.
it’s called fasting and won’t kill ya.
happy lent, btw.
Right,water and hypothermia are the concerns but a guy and a big dog should of kept that car pretty warm and fragrant.
“Should have”
I knew you’d be commenting on this! Saw it in the news & was perplexed as to why he would drive off the the main road in an ordinary SUV during in the middle of winter – without supplies.
I’ve been on unimproved roads in that area & they’re bad even in the middle of summer. Even where we live now, where houses are closer together, we keep at least a sleeping bag in the car. Tho my preference is to hole up at home for the winter.
Driving in the snow with no equipment or supplies makes for a good story line but I bet he won’t do it again.
I owe you a letter, will try to get it out today. Sorry I’m behind.
I bet he will most people never learn.
Calorically speaking I don’t think hot sauce packets really mattered. People can go for awhile without eating.
Did you see the story about the two young sisters in Northern California that survived a couple of nights in the wilderness? Think one was 8 and the other was 5. Seems the lesson is stay put and you will be found. https://fox8.com/2019/03/03/search-for-missing-girls-in-humboldt-california-stretches-into-third-day/amp/
This guy was beyond “lucky”, he should buy a lottery ticket right away, as evidently it’s his year. Anyone who travels with a dog, and doesn’t carry water and food for their animal(s) is an idiot. It’s like traveling with a baby and not packing diapers, formula, and a change of clothes. I never leave home without water, food, a change of clothes, and extra socks. I don’t care if I’m just going to the library: the car is always loaded.
Well if he had the taco sauce packets pretty sure he had extra napkins from the same place. Even some water and a couple boxes of protein bars would have been better then what he ate. Maybe I am a minority but I carry water, food, blankets, and a first aid kit. Plus two cell phones. One from a carrier and a flip phone from Trackfone. CB and GMRS/FRS radios as well. Why take a chance?
A cheap Tracfone or similar handset is an excellent idea. We keep an unactivated one in each vehicle here — $5 at Target — for calling 911. Make sure to keep it charged — the vehicle’s power supply may not be available when the phone is needed — the $5 phones only include an AC charger so a vehicle charger or a DC-AC inverter will be needed.
The key to the vehicle phone is to pick one that uses a different network/mode than your personal phone. Tracphone is a “virtual carrier” running on other companies’ networks (ATT and Verizon) with non-compatible technologies (GSM and CDMA, respectively), so select a handset that uses the other mode than your primary carrier. This will increase your chances of establishing a connection with a carrier in remote areas.
Of course, if it’s really remote there may be no coverage by any carrier. A radio transceiver would be an option. FRS/GMRS would be useless — it’s low-powered and uses UHF frequencies that are line-of-sight exclusively. CB has higher power and uses HF frequencies that are capable of over-the-horizon performance under the right conditions, with a suitable antenna. CB is much less popular today than in the past, but is still monitored by many public safety agencies and used by truck drivers.