lucky to be alive

[Obi-Wan]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/n...ed-subzero-temperatures/ar-BBHwe4B?li=BBnb7Kz

 

[BrokenBackJack]

The will to survive!

 

[2400]

He's one lucky guy.

This could have been way worse or it could have been much, much better.

One more reason to ALWAYS have emergency stuff in your vehicle ALL the time.

 

[Obi-Wan]

Being prepared and letting others know where you will be can save one a lot of misery

 

[SDMF]

A pair of tire chains would likely have saved him a lot of misery.

 

[Sum1]

Tire chains or some hot chocolate...

 

[KDM]

Yikes!! Glad he made it!! Losing some digits really sucks, but he's alive. WOW!! I don't play around with cold. I make sure I have enough crap on me and in the truck to make it should something go wrong and I always tell mama where I'm going to be. Even when I'm just running the snare line a couple miles from home. Fell through the ice once while deer hunting. Went in up to my arm pits. Did the rusty tin man walk for 3/4's of a mile once I got out. Took a full 24 hours to get the chill out. I have a deep respect for the killing power of frigid temps.

 

[LBrandt]

The rusty tin man walk sucks. Thought my nuts were never going to come back.

 

[BrokenBackJack]

Tire chains and the ability to put them on. Through the years i have had many good laughs and also many opportunities to shake my head watching some people try to put chains on their vehicle. We used to use them a lot back in the day and way before we had a 4x4. Also used them after having a 4x4. If only having one set (on a 4x4) we usually put them on the front as that is where the weight is and your vehicle went the way you were steering it.

 

[Allen]

Lucky fella, good for him.

I don't go hunting or fishing unless I am dressed well enough to walk back home. Tires go flat, vehicles break down, diesel fuel gels, the hazards are damn near infinite.

 

[savage270]

I'm glad he made it and the story turned out well for his family. However after surviving 72 years on this earth and being a former sheriff deputy I would have expected him to have much more common sense.

 

[SDMF]

This is the kind of cold snap that makes me start the crazy talk of, "This is my last diesel".

 

[Allen]

After watching the video again, I gotta say that I'm not convinced that truck is stuck enough for me to walk. A shovel goes a long ways to unsticking a truck in snow. I guess I don't know what is on the far side of the pickup, but I've shoveled a metric crap-ton of snow in my day to unstick trucks that were in much more obviously shitty situations.