May 102013
Emergency Sleeping Bag, Survival Bag, Emergency Zone Brand, Reflective Blanket
- Don’t be fooled by cheap imitations. Cheaper means thinner material and less durability. See the image above comparing an Emergency Zone Brand Sleeping Bag with a competitor.
- 36″ x 84″
- Retains 80% of your radiant body heat
- Wind and waterproof
- Emergency Zone? Brand
Emergency Zone Brand. The Emergency Sleeping Bag is made of the same Mylar material as our emergency blanket but is formed into a sleeping bag to prevent heat loss even more efficiently. The bag retains 80 percent of body heat and is wind and waterproof. The bag measures 36 x 84 inches.
List Price: $ 4.49
Price: $ 4.75
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Good survival backup and great gifts,
Bought several of these to hand out to friends. While they look flimsy they are quite difficult to puncture. The conductive metalized surface is on the inside. In bright light you can see through one. These are so much warmer than a blanket made of the same material (I have both). The bag is about the size of a ‘big hand’ and can easily fit in the car, tackle box, even a coat pocket. They are very reflective and would be easy to spot from the air, just ‘crunch them up’ so there are many different reflecting angles. When they arrived, I unpacked one and tried it at 70 degrees F and became too warm in about 2 min… Once you unfold this thing, you will never get it back in the bag so I use a ‘vacuum seal’ food bag for used ones. Highly recommend everyone have one for each person. Keep a couple in the car, boat, camper, house, etc.
2010 FOLLOW UP:My lightweight sleeping bag was getting cold so I put my ‘normal sleeping bag’ INSIDE one of these, it made quite a difference…
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|Properly using emergency blankets,
Reflective emergency blankets of all sorts have been around for quite some time. Their advantage over a conventional blanket is that they are small and lightweight, easily tossed into a glovebox or a grab-and-go bag. Emergency blankets will only keep you warm if they are large enough to fully wrap yourself up in them, preventing cold air from getting in and heat from escaping. The bag types (like this one) are definitely better than conventional tarp-like emergency blankets.
Here are a few suggestions regarding their use:
First, don’t lay directly on the cold ground. Believe me when I say that the mylar bag won’t be enough to keep you warm. It is much better to lay on top of an insulative material or structure – anything can help, from old clothes to a bed of pine needles. Second, if you’re clothing is damp, take it off before getting in the bag. Some people prefer to lay in these bags nude (or in their underwear), but I find that a light layer of clothing is preferrable since it acts to insulate you from the cold surface of the bag. Third, if possible, use this bag in conjunction with regular blankets or a sleeping bag. This will make a huge difference, because once again, they insulate you from the outside world. Fourth, you need to figure out a way to secure the bag up around your head. Many people tape them up to leave a small face hole to peek through. Any hole is a leak path for your heat, so you ideally want it quite small. If you leave the top of the bag open, you will lose a great deal of heat. There are products similar to these that are designed with a drawstring to close up the top except for a small face hole. They are more expensive, but also easier to use.
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Written by Arthur Bradley, author of the “Handbook to Practical Disaster Preparedness for the Family.”
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|Can’t go wrong here.,
If you’re not familiar with these things, you’re missing out. They are great at keeping you warm, fold up into a very compact size(about the size of a wallet) and can be used in many situations, mostly of an emergency/survival nature. In addition to being used as a blanket, it’s intended use, it can also be used as a way of signaling for help.
All in all, with as cheap as these things are and as much help they can provide to you in an emergency(not to mention how little room they take to store), everyone should have a handful of them in storage “just in case” they ever need them for anything.
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