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Headed out for a weekend in the wild or gearing up for a long-haul road trip? A good emergency kit is the difference between "ugh, this sucks" and "no big deal, I got this." Flat tires, dead batteries ...

This is a plea from your writer, whose 19-year-and-counting career of testing vehicles in the frozen north has put him in no shortage of tricky and dangerous wintertime situations, some of which were ...