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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWARNING: Dig out your car's exhaust pipe!
To those who got appreciable or heavy snow, dig out your car's exhaust pipe before getting into the car with the engine running to get warm or letting your kids do the same. Make sure it's clear. Otherwise carbon monoxide inside the car can be very dangerous, perhaps fatal.
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WARNING: Dig out your car's exhaust pipe! (Original Post)
merrily
Jan 2015
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Sienna86
(2,150 posts)1. K and R
merrily
(45,251 posts)2. kick for safety
aikoaiko
(34,185 posts)3. And if you'er home clear your vents.
Saw this on facebook.
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VERY IMPORTANT: With snowfall expected at a rate of 2" - 4" an hour overnight, you should devise a plan to remove all snow and ice from your exterior vents and utilities. Additionally the expected high winds will create drifts, which will also need to be monitored and cleared. Why? Because if your furnace cannot breathe, it's not safe!
VERY IMPORTANT: With snowfall expected at a rate of 2" - 4" an hour overnight, you should devise a plan to remove all snow and ice from your exterior vents and utilities. Additionally the expected high winds will create drifts, which will also need to be monitored and cleared. Why? Because if your furnace cannot breathe, it's not safe!
merrily
(45,251 posts)4. We had tragedies because of this during a big snowstorm in Massachusetts a year or two ago.
kick.
VScott
(774 posts)5. If there's a fire hydrant in front of your residence, dig and clear the snow from around it.
In this kind of storm, most of the hydrants will be completely buried by snow banks.
Some FD's will send out their guys to dig them out, but it could be days before they get to all of them
Also... if you have oil heat, clear a path to the oil fill for the delivery guy.