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Sometimes having a few cold ones handy isn’t just good practice — it’s essential for survival. At least that’s what Nome, Alaska man Clifton Vial found out when he became stranded in his truck in a snowstorm. Vial spent three days alone in the truck with nothing to eat except a few frozen cans of Coors Light.
For Vial, the cold was worse than the hunger, he said. Still he scoured the pickup in vain for food. His only provisions: Snow, and a few cans of Coors Light that had frozen solid in the cab. Vial ate the beers like cans of beans. “I cut the lids off and dug it out with a knife,” he said.”
Read the whole story at the Anchorage Daily News.