Emergency Blankets-How many do I need?
Emergency blankets may not seem like a big deal, but they can be really important, as I discovered recently. Yes, you may have a couple lying around at home and one in the car, but is that enough? No…you should have an emergency blanket for each member of your family and they’re inexpensive enough to have them in different places too!
We’ve always kept an emergency blanket or two in our car, thinking someday we may need them. But, as we discovered during our unusually cold and long winter this year, only 2 in the car was not enough!
On our way home one night from visiting some family friends in the country, our tire went flat and it was too cold (5 degrees below 0) and too dark for my husband to change it safely. Fortunately we were able to get some roadside assistance, but we didn’t have much gas left in the car so we decided to wait with the ignition off; hence no heat. We were so glad we had our emergency blankets on hand, but with a family of 4…2 wasn’t enough!
Luckily, we only had to wait for about an hour for a tow truck to show up, but my husband and I gave the only 2 emergency blankets we had to our children while we waited, and only wished we would have had enough for all 4 of us! Now we stock 4 emergency blankets every place we frequent because we now know the importance of each family member having their own!
