Not every emergency waits until you’re at home. Snow closes a motorway, trains stop, a storm brings trees down across the road home. Most of us spend hours a week away from the house, in the car or at work, and that’s exactly when we have least with us.
This part of the Resilience Hub covers being ready on the road: keeping your car winter-ready, carrying enough to get home on foot if you have to, and having a backup when fuel or transport runs short.
Your Car in Winter
Getting stuck in a car for hours in the cold is miserable, and it can be dangerous. A few basics in the boot and a car that is serviced before winter go a long way.
Complete Guide
Winter Driving Tips
Everything you need to do before winter hits the roads: tyres, battery, visibility kit, and what to keep in the boot in case you don’t make it home.
Read the Full Guide: Winter Driving Tips →
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I’ve Made A Checklist
Here’s my checklist for the car, so the boot is sorted before the first snow. Tick it off once in the autumn and you’re done.
Download: Winter Car Checklist →Getting Home When You Are Stuck
A get home bag is a small bag kept at work or in the car, with what you’d need to walk home or sit tight for a night. It is the travel version of the grab bag.
Complete Guide
The Get Home Bag
The Get Home Bag is built for a single journey home — on foot if necessary — from wherever you happen to be. It’s leaner, lighter, and focused entirely on the specific challenge of self-propelled movement across urban or suburban terrain in UK conditions. Once you’re home, its job is done.
Read the Full Guide: The Get Home Bag →
Backup Transport
When fuel is short or the roads are gridlocked, a bike can be the most reliable way to get around.
Complete Guide
The Two Wheeled Contingency
This guide makes the case for adding a bike to your resilience planning, covers what to look for if you’re buying one specifically for this purpose, and explains how to set up a bike you already own for emergency use.
Read the Full Guide: The Two Wheeled Contingency →
More From the Resilience Hub
- Protect Your Home: planning, flood, storm, fire and security
- Power, Heat and Light: power cuts, backup power and keeping warm
- Stay Informed: emergency radio and off-grid communications
- Water and Food: water storage, emergency pantry and cooking without power
- Health, Hygiene and Pets: first aid, medication, sanitation and pets
- Back to the Resilience Hub: every topic in one place
