Also when getting stuck with a car: dont hit on the gas but try to get out slowly for more tire grip

Learn where the water shutoff is to your house.

If the worst happens and you lose power for any significant amount of time with no way to heat your home, and you face leaving your house find someplace warm, shut the water off. Some might suggest leaving taps trickling, and that might work for sinks, but won’t for toilets and other pipes.

Open the lowest spigot in the house to drain as much water as possible. Flush the toilets enough times to empty the tanks. Pour cheap vodka in the toilet “S” traps and sink “U” traps as a cheap antifreeze.

I’ve had to winterize a house on several occasions, learned the hard way on a couple occasions when I came back to a busted toilet or cracked drain.

E: oh, and clean your damn car roof off. I’m tired of chunks of snow flying off cars into mine, or almost as bad, the clowns that hit the brakes and the snowpack slides forward completely blocking their windshield. Now they can’t see and are blocking the road.

if you have a car, lift up the windshield wipers before it starts snowing/freezing rain

I’d say spend the $10-$20 and get a windshield cover. It will change your life, never having to scrape again.

Speed up before going up an incline, getting stuck and sliding back down is not fun

Do not stop on an incline either. If there’s a red light, run it. (safely of course.)

https://youtu.be/AMU1yu5QnNI

This one’s full of the most solid advice, along with his other video on what to put in an emergency preparedness bag/box in your car

https://youtu.be/GXYdQJsJ2JE

I actually turn off all traction control the second I get in my car. Abs is good, but that shitty traction control has almost caused more accidents than its helped. It also causes you to get stuck in deep snow by cuttng engine power. I know how to actually control my car in a slide, the nannies make it understeer which causes going right off into a ditch or another car.

Turn off your nannies and go drive around in an empty parking lot to practice car control! So many people have no idea what to do in a slide and they panic.

If you’re in a location that will get a significant amount of snow, 8” or more, find the fire hydrant closest to your house and clear an area around it to at least a couple feet.

When walking with a lot of ice, always walk on the snowy, cloudy, and/or crunchy looking areas. You’ll get more grip with the crunch of the ice and snow than on just ice. If it looks clear, didn’t go near. (Or something like that)

If you’re just going to pop out to the store, don’t neglect your wardrobe! Dress for the ditch, not your destination. If you slide off the road you don’t want to be freezing to death in your sneakers and hoody trying to dig your car out. Bonus points for bringing a shovel, trying to dig your car out with an ice scraper sucks.

If you’re stuck in a parking spot, and you can’t seem to rock your car out, turn OFF your traction control! (It should be a button with a car and wavy lines that you probably have never pressed before). The traction control takes power away from slipping wheels so if they’re both/all slipping, you get wheels that barely move as you’re stepping in the gas.

Just remember to turn it back on once you’re free

Nothing upsets me more than people driving with a pothole carved into their windshield and 6 inches of mobile smoke bomb/death shelf on their roof.

Mesh shirt against your skin is the shit. It keeps an air layer between your skin and base layer which helps you stay warm and feel dry while wicking the moisture away.

Swede here, when driving, drive as if there is a raw egg between your foot and the pedals.

Also, winter tires makes a huge difference, here they are mandatory, but you should get/use them as well even if they are not.

Do brake tests! Make sure you have a clear road ahead and no one behind you, break hardish, and remember how far you slid.

If you know you need to stop just after a hidden bend in the road, make sure to start braking before the curve, this is to light up your brake lights, giving other, less attentive drivers the chance to stop earlier.

Remember that you don’t HAVE to drive the speed limit, you should adjust your speed to suit the conditions.

Unless in an emergency, never ever make a quick, sharp turn when driving in snow

And for the love of all things good in the world, do NOT throw hot water on your car to melt the ice/snow. The glass -will- crack from thermal expansion. Use the defrost and sit there until it’s melted enough for your ice scraper to slide it off. If you have plain water in your wiper fluid compartment, drain it or it’ll rupture the lines when it freezes. If you can get low-temp wiper fluid you can use that, otherwise it’s probably best to leave it empty or maybe throw some isopropyl alcohol in it. Not super sure, I’ve always used low-temp fluid.

I watched my ex from Texas throw hot water on their windshield after they followed me to my very northern-tundra state. They had never really seen snow before, outside of occasional falls that melted by noon. Not even close to the same thing as a sustained hard freeze. I did tell them not to do it but they knew better. They were an abusive asshole so meh. Lessons learned the hard way are valuable. For me as an onlooker. That popping sound as it shattered was just 👨‍🍳💋.

Bonus SLPT: make sure to clean out your local store of milk, eggs, and bread ahead of the storm. It’s very important to have French toast available during a storm.

A helpful list! I think an additional point worth mentioning is that a heated blanket can keep you warm while consuming much less electricity than a space heater can.