Is you home a lifeboat or a boat anchor around your neck?

If there was a virulent, and fatal pandemic, and a quarantine was imposed how long would you be able to feed your family and be comfortable?

If you were in an accident and were stuck in a wheelchair for a couple of months, would you have to live in your living room?

If you lost your job, how long before you would need to sell your home or lose it to foreclosure?

What If? Winter gets really bad.

Making Ripples: post-corporate adventures in Floyd County Virginia: Is this a preview of the climate change to come?: "We have been very fortunate this year, but I am beginning to wonder what will happen when the winters are significantly longer and colder. Are we going to be able to handle months and months of deep snow drifts and 10 degree weather?"

He is wondering about a possible global cooling. Whether it is happening or not is not the important part. It has happened and can happen again, just look at the Little Ice Age.

For some parts of the country this is a really bad winter. What happens if spring is a little late and we have another July 4th snow storm?

What about your heating bills?

What about the farmers how are they going to grow food if it is still snowing?

What would happen to food prices?

How would life in your city change?

What do you think the government would do?

What would you do?

What would you do if your gas pedal got stuck to the floor?

How To Stop A Runaway Car || WXYZ.com | WXYZ-TV / Detroit | Detroit News, Weather, Sports and More: "Toyota now admits the gas pedals have led to more than 100 cases of Toyota cars running out of control with their accelerators stuck wide open.

California Highway Patrolman/ from 911 tape:

'Our accelerator is stuck, we're in trouble, no brakes.'

The driver of this car made this frantic 911 call seconds before he, his wife, his daughter and his brother-in-law lost control of their car on a California highway and were killed in San Diego.

From 911 tape: 'We're approaching an intersection, hold on pray.'"

What would you do if your gas pedal got stuck to the floor?

The most important thing to do is to not panic and the best way not to panic is to think about this problem when you aren't hurtling down the street. The driver above was a highway patrol officer, trained in high speed driving, yet somehow he didn't do something that seems very obvious:

Put the car in Neutral and coast to a stop. The engine will race and overheat but once you stop you can just turn it off.

Just thinking about a solution to the problem before it happens radically increases your chances of survival.

What else could you do to slow down and stop your speeding car? At this point saving the lives of you and your passengers is more important then saving the car. Sacrificing the car for your life is a good deal.

You can just turn the car off. You'll lose power steering and brakes but you can still steer and brake it will just be harder.  Don't turn the key so far that you lock the steering wheel, that would be bad.

We were driving over the Rocky Mountains and I put the car in neutral to coast down a mountain and I accidently put it in reverse, that didn't lock everything up or break the transmission though it did stall the car. After restarting it was fine.

Many mountain highways have escape ramps, these are filled with loose gravel and go uphill to slow down and stop runaway trucks. If there is one handy use it.

Is there is a concrete barrier or rock face next to you? You can scrape the side of the car on it and that will slow you down. Don't hit it head on that could be bad.

Can you think of any other was to slow and stop and out of control car?