Here are some of Kwon’s tips for surviving the storm:
* Find the biggest-boned person you can and snuggle.
* Try to stock up on edible items that won’t spoil, like peanut butter, energy bars or bugs.
* Seen people on TV make fire by rubbing sticks? Yeah … doesn’t work. Get some matches.
* Buy lots and lots of toilet paper. But if you run out, you can make do by sliding bottomless down a snowbank.
* Write a letter petitioning the International Olympics Committee to hold the next Winter Olympics in Washington, D.C.
* If you get buried under a mountain of snow, don’t panic. Panicking will only make it harder to use your iPhone to Tweet bitterly about how all those pointyheads got it wrong on global warming before you lose consciousness.
Here’s one Washingtonian you wouldn’t mind getting trapped with during Snowpocalypse 2010, part two: Yul Kwon, winner of “Survivor: Cook Islands,” the 13th season of the franchise.
Kwon, who moved to the District from California this fall for a position at the Federal Communication Commission said he isn’t so much shocked by the snow conditions this winter, but by the aggression in the supermarkets.
“The shelves are actually pretty empty and people are fighting for food, I’ve never seen anything like that before, ” Kwon told Yeas & Nays. “Except on an island.”
From his coldest moments on “Survivor” he learned that sharing body heat is the way to stay warm. And as a slender guy who made the mistake of slimming down for the competition, Kwon gravitated to the larger contestants for snuggling.
D.C.’s resident reality star said he learned from freezing conditions that certain body parts are warmer than others, particularly the armpits and the groin. He recalled one night on the island when an overweight friend offered him a body part.
“He said, ‘Hey, Yuli you know the warmest parts of the human body are your armpits, do you want to do stick your arms in my pits?’ I’m like ‘Thank you,'” Kwon said. “It was like a little slice of heaven.”
Kwon isn’t the only “Survivor” in D.C.: Becky Lee of Becky’s Fund also an alumna of “Survivor: Cook Islands.” Her advice: Cover your head, buy salt and shower in advance, in case the area loses electricity.
