Winter Weather Safety

"As Temperatures Decline, Keep Safety on Your Mind"

 

 Severe winter weather conditions in North Dakota include:

 

These conditions can cause severe injury and death due to hypothermia, frost bite, heart attacks, strokes, and traffic accidents. During a blizzard, it is not uncommon to suffer power and telephone outages and experience a shortage of food because of inaccessible transportation routes. Families preparing for winter should have safe alternative heating sources and enough fuel and food, and water for at least 72 hours. Now is also the time to prepare an emergency kit for your car.