Emergency Supplies
I grew up in SW Iowa, in Council Bluffs (across the Missouri River from Omaha) and when the weather started to get cold in winter I took the time to stock the trunk of the car. Always start with a blanket or two, several candles, flashlight, candy bars, an aluminum grain scoop (a snow shovel wouldn't cut it in heavy snow drifts). Tire chains and jumper cables. A lot of times they would predict snow flurries and it would turn out to become a blizzard. One time they predicted flurries and we got 18" of flurries.
But I now live on the West side of Atlanta and don't own chains or a scoop.
People in Iowa ask "when are you moving back", my answer "never". Love the people but not the winters.
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