With temperatures once again dipping below freezing, Alaskan travelers should always be prepared even if the planned trip is short.
Megan Peters with the Alaska State Troopers reminded people how quickly situations can escalate.
Peters: “You should always have emergency provision in your vehicle, food, water, extra winter gear, I keep extra winter gear for my and my kids in my car even if we’re staying around the Anchorage area, if we go on longer trips I’ll put more food in the vehicle, I mean in the winter time when the temperatures plummet getting stuck on the side of the road is a potential life or death situation.”
