ICE SAFETY• Outdoors, wear lug or rubber-soled shoes or boots, or buy a device with prongs/spikes to wear over the soles.• If you slip, try not to break your fall with your arms. Instead, begin to roll to avoid injuring wrists and arms.• Bend knees to keep your center of gravity low so there is less distance to fall.• In case of a fall, it’s not usually necessary to call an ambulance unless bone has come through the skin.• Keep blankets, a cell phone, flashlight and water in the car in preparation for trouble on the road.Source: David Wharton, Erlanger emergency room
On her ice-slicked driveway in Rossville, 24-year-old Carrie Fitzsimmons felt like she was acting out a scene in a slapstick comedy.
Early Wednesday morning, she slipped on her driveway as she tried to dig her Nissan Sentra out of solid ice. After she got up, her mother walked out and immediately slipped on the same spot. Minutes later, her father took a spill on the same patch of ice, even after witnessing both earlier wipe-outs.
Luckily, only their pride was hurt, Fitzsimmons joked.
“We just got bruised,” she said. “We’re glad none of the neighbors were outside to see.”