Area Intelligence – Mapping Your World Before Disaster Strikes

Welcome back to the Changing Earth Podcast with author Sarah F. Hathaway and co host Chen Gibson, blending survival fiction and fact to bring you entertaining education that will help you dream, survive, and thrive. And now here's your host, Sarah F. Hathaway and Chen Gibson. What is up? Welcome to the Changing Earth Podcast. Hey Chan, what's up? Hey Chin? So up? Nothing much, man, We're just sitting back. Chilling. You know. Well, guys, we got back on there. We missed. We missed February and then we missed week one of March. So but we're Week one was like we they want well day two. It was it literally was. You flip the calendar page over. I know, I was at work, same same I'm like, well where did that go? And one of my buddies was over and he's like, don't you have like a podcast to do? I'm like, oh my gosh, where did February go? What? What even happened? Here? So this is episode four hundred and ninety. We're here touching base today on area intelligence. But I'm gonna give you the heads up right now, we're going to be squirreling a lot. So if you are really really serious about your area intelligence because this is a super important show. Mike Shelby is the guy who has. The best to go to Amazon, look up the Area Intelligence Handbook by Mike Shelby and buy a copy for you. I actually got a copy from me. He got a copy and I gave it to my sheriff. Yeah, so nice. I mean he's good. He's a good sheriff. He's not a bad chair. So I mean that's how much. It's a great book. Yeah, and Mike's a great guy as well. I mean, he's a phenomenal gentleman. So definitely don't mind promoting him. His work really good stuff. He's a Ford Observer group. Yeah. Yeah, they have YouTube channel, news, you know, members, emails and whatnot. I don't know if he'll be back out of Prepper Camp this year. That's sure, but he hasn't been because there's been conflicts in schedule. I'm not sure about this year. Yeah, I'm liking this year's schedule, guys. It's changed up. August thirteenth, fourteenth fifteenth is this year's schedule. I like it because it works with the school schedule. I was worried with Christian going into high school. You know what that would look like. But I just I was over I was over to the event location twice this past week. But that's another reason why I'm so busy. Yeah, exactly, I. Was over there a couple of times. It's it's just so cool. We have this secluded part for Prepper Kim and then the facility also has a little bit for their way, but has has like restaurants and shops and all. How nice is that. I feel like we're getting spoiled this year. It's just crazy. There's a general store, like a real general store. Yeah, the hotels and tons of places to stay, but you can still camp if you want to. Are tons of spots. Awesome. They're going to have an awesome tense city. I saw real Yeah, a bunch of RB spots, cabins I know. The last time the last went to didn't have a lot of cabins. Here. We got a good selection of cabins. We have a hotel on side two right, yeah, yeah, to the one has rooms like open to the outside and ones have room that open to the inside. You know, restaurants making making rations for shuttle buses. A bar like. I was gonna just take my van and like, have people pay me for that figure coin. Yeah, that's right, that's right. I've been looking into one of those robots, you. Know, the robot speakers to be playing the your your audio drama on the louds. Oh I will be and the Change in Earth music if you haven't checked out the music I'm making so much fun. Yeah, so that's over at the Change in Earth series. Look up the soundtrack and uh I've just been like I say, Kidney Candy Store. So yeah, all all the music that I'm designed as well, So that'll be going. I'm just really looking forward to It's gonna be a ton of fun. Yeah, a ton of fun. I'm trying to talk Bracken to get one of those like robo carts so it's easy to take the books around there. It's like a it's like a. Cart that like is self propelled kind of because he's always carrying books around for me now and I feel bad. So he's like, I probably got to bring down one more thing of books. I'm like, we're out of this one, you know, so a little bit figgure haul this year, but we could drive the van down in I'm super excited. It's gonna be so much fun and we can expand capacity because. Of it, right yeah, yeah, So guys, this is the year. If you haven't been, it's gonna. Call and make your again, make your lodging reservations, whatever way you want to go, call in and make your reservation. Right, get your tickets, get a place to stay, and then you're all set. Everyone's like, oh, I got my tickets. The lodgings that's spread across the county like it was before, right, you know, between Ben and Breakfast, the Airbnb and everything. Yeah, now we have pretty a pretty good amount of lodging right there. Site. I think Saturday night's gonna be better because, uh, you know, Brad's gonna be playing, which is always awesome. Five times August, and uh, you're so much closer, right, you don't have the people that are staying off site. There's no off site mm hmmm. So I think that's gonna be much better as well. So proper can again. So we still have a lake, so we still have that going. Oh the discounted tickets, No. We still the event is not a lake. Yeah, so we still can do our fishing and everything. I love it. We're getting totally spoiled this year. I'm gonna be telling stories of like you're one that I was there. We got flooded out. We had to walk to uphill both ways to get our books down here. You know, Oh Amber alert. Oh my, I don't think she's had enough time with me. So now she's like underfoot all the time. So she was in the other room and I got the door closed. Yeah, you got to let her in. She's like, Sarah's in there. I know it. She're talking to her. So down in Texas, spring is actually we've been blessed. It's like it's coming already. My peach trees already blooming. I'm gonna have peaches soon and all that. So that's what's on my agenda. Eggs like crazy. My babies are finally laying. That coop worked out slick. It is the best design ever for a chicken coop. I did concrete on the bottom so we can just be hosed out. But they have this huge dirt yard, you know, because it was like, oh, having your birds on concrete whatever. But here there's so many mice and the red ants that I had to do something to combat give them a piece. Space that I could control. You know, and. Usually you're walking in all this muck and everything. It's great. I'm just sold. So if anybody wants to hit me up about that chicken coop, feel free. It was very inexpensive. It's just a dog kennel and then PBC and chicken wire. So the Texas chicken kennel. Oh, I'm telling you it was a challenge to everything in Texas is a challenge. You know, you grew a garden. I grew gardens of Michigan. I grew gardens you know in Cali, like we had huge gardens. I'll here you grow sand like yeah, you get it all like together, it's just looking great. Boom, sand just explodes. It's really crazy. So maybe it's that Sahara. You know, we get the Sahara that blows in the sand from the Sahara desert. You know, it blows that much stand in. I'm telling you, it's crazy. It's like living on a beach or something, but the beach is hours away. It's it's insane. So other than that too, I've been training, uh, crave mega, Crave Mega. I don't like the word. I'm really bad with it. So but it is phenomenal. I've been training with a gentleman who is a phenomenal instructor, so found another great mentor here in Texas. I've been blessed my life to have incredible mentors. And you want to talk about taking you know, just your personal safety, your ability to have find yourself next level. That's where you need to go. You need to find a good instructor. There's always good instructors and bad instructors. But I'm having a ball on training craft. So that's been four days a week there training and then trying to get the gardens ready and doing all the videos. If you guys haven't checked it out, Changing Earth Audio Drama, the videos are turning out really really cool. It's kind of like a storyboard through the show to give a little matter to the audio drama instead of just watching nothing on YouTube. And now I'm just really time consumed with it. The pilot script was picked up by a production company, so it's a good first step in the right direction. There's a lot of steps we still need to take before Changing Earth series comes to your TV screen, but it's great to have had that step and any support you guys can give me liking sharing content, get on over there like and share videos that kind of stuff, just lets people know that you guys want to see change in earth on the TV screen. So appreciate everything that you guys can do for me on that level. Because we're moving forward. I'm pretty excited about all that. So, all right, area assessment. So you have been busy doing other stuff, let's kind of talk about what you're what you're into right now because that's a good catch up talpic topic. Anyway, I kind I mean, like you, I moved to a new area right not recently, but we're finally starting to get our feats like in a in a pattern going. So I've been trying to build a network of people and not really influenced like you know, bow down to me, but influence where like people know of me, or if I walk in to talk to somebody, I can actually like have a conversation with him that they'll pay attention. You know that it's not just the blowoff. So I've been doing things like we you know, we started the cert team here in our county and that's through the Sheriff's department. Yes, so that gives us, you know, I I can call the sheriff on his phone, and he knows me when I call, and we you know, you know, I mean, I'm not high up on this list, but I'm that he knows me by name, right, and he would a call from me, and you know, I don't abuse it, but that's a good thing to have, right And like I said, I you know this book. I'm sure he gets all kinds of threat PTE, you know, and everything else, but this book. I gave him Mike's book because I figured it would be a way for him to look at it from a different angle. You know, the more you can learn, the better off you are, right, right, So you. Know better and I've been just assured you are because you've thought through different angles. That's what we're all about, right. So, like I joined the local Ham club and getting in with all the radio guys, and I talked to everybody no matter where I am. I talked to them about radios because it's a way to get in front of them, had a conversation and be get my community better prepared. We all know what it's like to be without a cell phone, especially if you go through one. Of the moons. Yeah, after everybody kind of got that lesson. I play off of that. And then I've also you know, I've done some a lot of stuff with the local elections, right, So I got in with my county Board of Elections, and I've got in with the party that you know I'm affiliated with. So again you're meeting more like you meet a lot of business people at the monthly meetings for the political party, right, So you can get to know people and get to share information back and forth with it. So all that has been my way of trying to build out a spider web of information. And I can also get if I need something done, I can eat, I can they can help me find somebody to execute whatever I need done right here, Like with Prepper Camp. You know, I've been working so hard to do meshtastic in my county. So I was talking to the people at the facility about putting the repeater up there. You know, it would be great for Prepper Camp to have a repeater. But well, if it works well, I might I might entertain just leaving it. It doesn't work, well, well then we'll just use it for Prepper Camp and and move on. But if it worked well, I mean I already told them I give them a couple of meshtastic notes, so they can play with them. But that's called a nice the solar repeater like we had at camp last year. I'm toying with that, but they already said that they have some locations I can go put it up at, so that's cool. And for anybody who doesn't know, the SERT team as your community emergency response team and yeah, yeah, and a lot of communities, like I know in my area, there's already one established. It's like, you don't got to do what Chin did and go and create the wheel. You can go and just become a part of it. You're also doing a lot of stuff for your elections, uh, in your area, so don't don't sell that short. I think that I've done stuff like pole observer. So like you can your political part, whichever one you're in, whatever, but your political party can have people sit at a polling place and watch to make sure things are being done correctly and watch for inconsistencies. And then you you can't you can't stop. You can't get involved physically involved, but you can. They typically give you like a phone number to call, yeah, and then you can and it's either with your county or the state and then you can say this, you can make a report. You can say I saw this, I witnessed this, this, this, this, And you can also tell the the in North Carolina, it's a chief judge. So the poll the polling location has a chief judge, which is like the head manager for that location, and then two judges and those are like assistant managers. And then they have like the people that work at the computers and checking in and you know, check. You out right, right, Yeah, even doing that kind of thing will be cool as well. So you can tell if you see, like if you say that person walked out with a piece of paper that they're not supposed to leave this premises with, or that person came in with a piece of paper in that you can't stop the person, but you can go to the chief judge and hope, so gotcha. You can be involved in trying to make sure your elections go smoothly. And involved with your party. There's like a lot of elections that didn't have anybody running against them and stuff like that, So. Just sitting there like type it away on Facebook is not getting there. Right right, Yeah, I know. It was very discouraging that we only had like twenty four percent of the registered voters votes. We had a really big turnout lost. That's we had a. Really big turnout in Texas. I don't know if it's because of. You can't you can't say I don't like the candidates. Either helped get a candidate in that you like. Or you have to hold your nose and pick the best of what's available, right, you know what I mean. I mean not voting just gives anybody. It's just throwing your your one vote into the wind and letting somebody great. You got to pick the best of what's available. And if you're really proactive, either you or you find somebody in your community that would be a good person for that position, right, and and encourage them and support them and help them pass out literature and put yard signs out and all that stuff. Game. Well, that's the thing. There's some areas like I say that don't they go They run unopposed, and so that's you know, those are actually sought after a lot of times because that's an easy end, right, And once you're in, then you can climb. You were like, oh I already did this pick this part of it? Yeah, we we had some we had some people cross parties. They voted one way for years, years and years and years, and it also did this this right season, they change parties and they are very George Washington would not approve, right, the basic lifestyles. That's true, that's true, and it's easy unopposed. I cannot believe that the county, the county party chair and the state party chair did not get involved and at least run more candidates. Fine candidates run against against somebody, Yeah. Because they ran unopposed. How can that happen? Yeah, that's insane, I know. So that's why. So it's important. That's all part of area assessment, right to know what's going on and don't just go like research, you know, actually like understand who you're running. A lot of times I don't research. I vote for them, you know. Yeah. A lot of times each party has like leading like a month two out leading up to the event, they'll have like meet the candidates, right, they'll have you. They'll do their little speech and you know, they're they have some banquet hall or something and you can go watch them and talk to them and questions and the answers, so you can meet them. I know what like growing up in like in a bigger city, they have like news stations that do it. Here in rural rural America. You have to go see. Them, right right. Yeah, I get calls from my one guy I'm running in this area. I'm like, that's cool. One thing I do have to actually give to California, if you can believe it, is we used to get an actual like booklet on that Yeah, what you were voting on, the candidates, pros cons, all that kind of stuff, and then where you could go to get more information. And it was actually pretty thick and I that's. How everyone it was or it wasn't like it wasn't like. One side or the other pushed, you know, which was really really cool. That's why I say, I mean, I hate to like give, but I got to give credit where credit's due. The other thing, California is where started. Yeah, that's where it started. Yeah, well there's a lot that happens there. We're actually preparing for for a catastrophe season right now. You know, I'm in the insurance world, so it's time to start making sure we have everything on point and whatnot because we're coming into the the catastrophe season. Yay, we're actually hitting it right about now is the time in Texas when the big storms are rolling through, you know, so we've been hitting that pretty much as well. But yeah, it's really important to know your area. A lot of times when I think area assessment, I go like personal self defense. Right, so my bubble is like super small. Like when you're doing area studies, you got to take off all those glasses, right, all those things that kind of you float your tunnel vision, and you got to look big. You can't. A lot of a lot of preppers will look at this like you know the three bes, right, you know, so that's how that's what they're prefering for. But what look at your The big thing that Mike is Mike talks about in these classes are look at your area, really look at your area. What's there you have? Right? Do you have do you have like correctional facilities or like do you have a border international board or close or you know what what crime? What you know? Syndicates do you have? You know, is it a gang or is it a tartel or. Even on like a secondary level there, like they did a lot of big crackdown in the cities here like Houston and Dallas and that pushed them the crime out of the smaller cities. Yeah, I know, we're seeing that my rural area. So then they have to crack down on those ones too. So that's something I wouldn't really think about, like. The homeless and stuff. So the cities don't to deal with it or don't want to see it, right, So the easiest thing is come on and get on the bus, will take you out somewhere. You end up in rural America. You'll be so happy. But yeah, but I mean you've talked about dams, right, look for you know, yeah, they're damn you know, do you live and you know there's hurricanes every chemical fault line. Chemical production, that's a big one. Did it happen in the past too, because there's some areas where like they started building on top of you know, areas where they were mining something or you know, underneath the ground they were harvesting some kind of chemical out and then later it becomes an issue with the neighborhood that was put there. Right, And you can also look at what do you have for industry around in your community or your county or whatever your region, and then try to do especially now that would like groc and all these. Internet searches you can do similar. Yeah, look for similar industries and what emergency events catastrophes do they have in that industry. And then you can look back to you and kind of say, Okay, it hasn't happened here, but it did happen five states over, and this is what happened. And then you can study what happened, how they reacted to it, how do how do they respond to it? Emergency response, and then do you know, after action report to kind of like say, if we did this, it would have been better than their reactions, you know what I mean? From that experience, Yeah, we need to say, Okay, the wind is blowing this way, you've got to be these these rod these roadways, are you know, congestion or you know, is this a bottleneck here? How do people with. That You might be far away from the incident, Well, what's the wind going to do with it? That's a big deal. Mm hmmm. So look at what really is in your neighborhood. Not the romantic Yeah, you know, we're just gonna hunk it down and. We're gonna be able to stay here forever. One of the things that I look around at is like, okay, if if something happened and people are bugging in, where's all the water coming from? If the taps turn off? Right, whose property has the water? Because they're going to be stuck in a defensive position, you know, to try and everybody's gonna need water. So you can only store so much water and then you're gonna need it. So how long term is your bug in power? How do you get the walk? Like, I live on property, real property with a well. So as long as I have power, whether it's something I get off site, like electrical power, or do I have power that I create on site? Right, I can get water out of my well. Yeah, And we talked about like. Right, well that a kid. That's you know, we had a well and a well went drying winter and my neighbor, you know, every couple of days they would run a garden host from their house to our house. We shill up all the towns. Oh my goodness, what a nightmare. Yeah, yeah, it's a good thought. We always thought about it when we're on a wells. I'm also we had a generator, but that's not going to be any kind of long term you know running. It's funny how I think about water conservation now way more. Back when I lived in in the townhouse, it was consider yeah, you know how much money I want to pay. Now it's like I don't want to overtax my will because you just there's not like a fuel gage on my well where I could see, well it's starting to run low or. Right in the rough fair just something pump too. Like our pump would hot when it was under a lot of pressure. So the least that we could get it to hot, because then it would rub on its electrical cord and then we're fixing and replacing, you know, all that stuff. I did think about it a lot more back there, for sure. For sure we had the joyful experience of having our all our septic tanks were full mm hmm. And yeah that was fun get that pumped once. Yeah, so that's like, I mean, yeah, that was years, years and years of us living here. But think about that thick and well, when I was a kid, we had those, and and then you know, when I became an adult, I always had cities, municipalities for the for the infrastructure, and and now I'm back out to you know, living with then they have those. They have those emergency toilets. They're just like the buckets. You know that you have a little toilet seat on it, you put the little chemical in there. Ladi da hey Man, I wish I had had one. We have one in the trailer, right, so I was like, if worst comes the worse, we can just start going in the trailer. We got a guy out here pretty quick. But again, when something like that happens in the life of somebody who thinks about preparedness, you're like, oh, how long. But that's something that you have to be if you're not prepared. If you're prepared, it's it's an annoyance, but it's not like life threatening or a major event. Like we were two weeks without power here at my house after this. My wife didn't miss one day of work and she works right because we had that someplace to take care of business. And that gives you the ability to have the correct mental too, like you have to expect the unexpected and take things in stride. And I say that as somebody who's pretty like I was a control freak big time, and when little things went wrong it used to really dishovel my world and emotionally disrupt me and just understanding that you know you're ready, you're going to be able to make it through anything. You know, you're good. Jesus got your back right, allows you to take that pressure off, take your foot off that gas pedal a little bit. You know, it's cool. We're going to make you make better decisions when you're not freaking out because of pressure. That's that's it. I mean, that's what you know, like finances, you know, if you're not like underwater and you could make good decisions if right, you know, if you if you have some kind of backup power or whatever, then you're not freaking out because the power company isn't right. You know, we've got a fireplace in the house, so like if power goes out in the middle of winter, were like, it's you know, we're not going to freeze. My pipes aren't going to free my plumbing's not you know. Yeah, there's there's a lot. I learned that important Texas. This is all a place. Well what we're saying is actual events. Right. So during this class that we took, they did the likelihood matrix, right, So the impact matrix where you draw a big box, you divide the box up into four corners, right four rods. And then to help you understand what you have to prepare for, you do like in the in the bottom left, you'll do low impact and low likelihood. So if it happens, if it did happen, no big deal, right, and the likelihood of it happening again is no big deal. So then if you go to the top right quadrant, you would put high impact and high likelihood. So that's like in my mind, that's like storms. You know storms these are going through. Yeah, you know you're going to have flooding. You know that you're going to you could have a major storm every couple of years they have them, right, Yeah, And so that might be something you might want to prepare for a hurricane. And and either you know, how do you evacuate? How do you secure your house? That kind of stuff if you live in a hurricane zone, tornado, how do you prepare for a tornado? Right, that's the stuff you got to You know, you might want to put money into what are those tornado shelters? But you go into the ground and so i it than you do in five a rs in the closet, right, you might have to design on where you spend your money. So doing a grid like that will show you if you're honest about it, like take the time. And how effective is your police force? What's the yeah, and you can you can you can put it. Put what's in each quadrant, you know, so you'll have like the other two quadrants the top left would be low impact, but uh, high likelihood. So it's like summer summer, Like you know, thunderstorms happen all the time, so there's a high likelihood that you're going to have a thunderstorm. But the impact, you know, you're without power for an or two out, you know, because the power company can come. It's not a regional event. They can come. They'll fix you know, get ready to clear. The tree a couple hours, that kind of thing. Yeaheah. So so you know, fill the thing, fill the four quadrants out, and then you can actually start making good decisions on how and what you need to do to get prepared. You're not just saying, oh, I read this prepper manual and it told me that I'm supposed to have you know, ten weeks of food. Mrs. I'm supposed to have this this count of ammunition. I'm supposed to have these three weapons firearms and you know all this other Okay, everything. Has no yeah there's and there's no one size fits all. Like look at us we were we were at we were at prepper camp throwing the storm paline. So all my preparations were not with me. What I had with me that I was prepared for travel, right, So. And I'm always like we need our goal bags and go back to my. As I drove home from that, I am looking at flooded out houses and everything else, and I'm like I could get home and there could be nothing left of everything. That, right, So you just you have to look. At what the you know what what the actual emergencies are, what the actual threats are for your local area. And that's what the whole thing with the area study is. Don't just go and say, you know, Sarah down to Texas so they had to do this, and you live in New Hampshire, right, Sarah probably might have every ten years might have an ice storm, but you're gonna have one five times six times the winter. Right, Yes, there's things that you need to do. I know my grandfather growing up, he had two snowmobiles because they weren't toys. They were if they had to get out in the winter. That's how they went out to get groceries or went out to get gasoline or whatever they need to do, you know. Right, and I have a snowmobile. Grab I had him because he needed them. Right, Yeah. And that's how that's the smart play instead of just like you say, finding a list and being like, well, this was what it's what. I'm going on. There's plenty of lists online. Yeah, yeah, funny videos that will tell you exactly. What you need. Okay. So I really like the defining the spaces as well, because I do that on more of a local level, for like assessing the risk to your immediate residence. Right, you have your area where it's like yours only, and then the area where like public could enter if they're allowed, right, So I like that he kind of broke that down as well. The operational environment is like everything, and then the area of operations your life right now, So how far are your kids going to school? How far are you going to work? That kind of thing. And you can actually have multiple area operate. You can have your home and you're off for you school, but your. School, yeah, where. Three or four different. So you're gonna want to know exactly around. These locations where's the hobby going. Yeah, the area operation is not like the whole state, right, that's different. Yeah, this is exactly you need to plan for what's going. To the local geographical areas that you frequent the. Most, yep, and what could affect that and what you could have to deal with in that. Yeah, Brock's got like all kinds of trains that he has to pass on the way home, you know, so that kind of thing, and you could look. To see do some digging to see what's on those trains they transport, right, you know, say, well, we might need a chemical, a mask, a gas mask for this. Chemical and the vehicle. Yeah, fair in the vehicle because he might be able to drive home and you'll scrub down when he gets home and you know, decontaminate. But if he can't breathe and he holds his breath up. Right, you only got three minutes without air. That's one of those three stuff like that. I mean you might not think about, but. Yeah, no, it's true. In Vegas they're taking all kinds of nuclear through there and whatnot, and it's like right by the strip with like right, you never think that. So that's a little crazy, okay. And then the area of interest is the ring just outside. Yeah, so that's what we're talking about with like, Okay, you might have this nuclear facility nearby, or a military base or major highway, even we do you know, the areas I know. They're interest might be the alert zone for you. You might see activity start that facility had a jail break, right, so you could say, well, if that jail break, and the easiest way of getting away from the jail would be to come the power lines that go behind my house. You might want to be on you know, be on a work if you're not home, call home, tell them to make sure the lockdown, or tell them to you know, go to mom's house or something, you know, go to grandma's house and hang out there until we get the all clear, until we know everybody's captured, either you know, hunker down or evacuate. But knowing what's in your area of interest could give you advance warning so that you have the time to prepare as opposed to you know, just watching inside that one mile radius or five mile radius whatever you choose for your area of operation, and just watching inside that and then all of a sudden something blows into your area where you had no advanced warning. Yeah, it's nicer to have a little little bit. That's one of the reasons why I like, wasn't too hippity hop I'm moving into Tennessee, because if something happened to the east coast, there'd be so many people coming through there. And I was like, I don't know. That's a really major thoroughfare, right that that comes off those mountains and goes into that area. So I was like, I don't know. I wasn't very hippity happen with beautiful state too, so and close to you guys, that'd be better. Yeah, But like you're saying, you got to know terrain, great physical train, the weather. We've already touched on most two human train. What are the people on human tree? You know, with election seasons is a really good time to look at who's got what yards? Sign up fair You'll start you start seeing who's who you know, Am I surrounded by people that are voting alike? Or do I have an odd ball? You know three houses down that has a sign that's not similar to how I vote, and start marking that writing that that have have a notebook or whatever you need, how you want to do it. The spy operation, it gives you. It gives you advanced notice, right, It's true, God forbid, Like you're in some big red flag where they have red flag laws, right, and you're going to want to know who's friendly and who's not friendly because somebody could be you know, call what's your sheriff? Like governance. They also talked about know your governance, So what are your your you know, your county, your city council, your county, town council. What are all those people? Like? Yeah, what are they? What's your sheriff? Like, what's your your chief of police? Like? You know, I can tell you that it's a lot different down in Texas than it is up in Minnesota. So that's definitely something that's going to be, you know, different on your area assessment. But have you not how much it's it's changing. You all. It's like this is there's a lot of country music bars here. We've never changed and Ronald Reagan from the ballot, holy. Were two generations away from losing our freedom. So it takes vigilance and. That's that's a constant. That's not it. That's not like, oh we needed. Recent example, recent example that everyone will know at this point as I ran, I mean when I was born, it was a much different country than what it is now. That's too generations. Yeah, you see some of these videos about the seventies and it's like they had short chorts and everything else. Right, yeah, and everything. They were super advanced. They were a first world nation doing just fine. And then two generations later their oppressed and uh, you know, living under the boot. So don't don't think it can't happen here. It's our vigilance as American citizens. Look at some of the streets they're trying to set up in Texas. Yeah, in Texas, yeah, exactly, because freedom rains here, so there it takes advantage of it. Right. They play on the edge of the rules right where they can you know, there's a gray zone right there where they they. Play it hard. Yeah. Yeah, they're all for the minorities till they become the majority. Then there is no minority. All right, But that's neither here nor there. We can we could have a whole other kamvo on that one. Talking about what's your political and you. Should know, you should know what communities are around you. It's a lot different if it's an Amish community or a Muslim community. Yeah, just no, I'm not saying you could. You could like or hate one of those two sides, right, you just but it doesn't matter. But as long as you know for your household how you're going to deal with it if the one that you don't like how they live starts to get more influence in. Your town, in your area, and you're. Also going to and you're also going to want to do what you can do to keep that other influence from gaining in your. Town, right, and that takes us being active, being aware, getting out there and making a difference. Haha, Amverscot competition. Yeah, Ragnar was like, something's going down out there, Mom, what are you doing? That's my area assessment. He's always assessing the area. Good for him. Yeah, he's like one hundred and fifteen pounds now. He is the size of anse he's nineteen or yeah, exactly the same size as my aunt's miniature horse, as my German shepherd's. He's a moose. Yeah, so. Okay, So we talked about all that kind of stuff and then we're going to get together with James and talk about you know, getting together a challenge or something that we can start doing a little bit more of the area. So the other thing we've been talking a lot about threats, you also want to do your assessment to know what you have for positive assets? Right What do you have for people that you can work with and like strong community add to your community? What do you have for resources in your community that you can work with the help you do you have a good fire department or a good volunteer fire department, or a good cert team or a good you know, volunteer police. I know the Sheriff's here is starting starting up like a volunteer share. Yeah, so there's a. Lot of stuff like that that you can look for that are positive. What do you have for good off goode comms in your community? Do you have a good GMRS repeater system or a good hand repeater or a good mettastic What can you do to help improve it? Improve it? Yeah? Yeah, it's not just a negative. Also look at the positive assets. Yeah, absolutely, we got to day party. That's all part of your areas centers. So my area is getting ready to grow like huge right now, So I know that's definitely on my radar. We have uh the city of Tyler is basically just outpouring right now, and so new shopping complexes and housing and tons of stuff going down. So it's like, well, okay, where where does that take us on the future? You know? So I was there from thirty years in Charleston, and I watched this like two lane road that used to go down to the dump turned into that's where on that road it gained into four lanes and then it was over congested and there was housing and developments and parva developments. And by the time I left them like yeah, that's just crazy. And the other thing too that I would think about, like this is really hard to judge, but they found like lithium north of where I'm at, and so what does that mean? What does that look like on a future skateboard? A look at existing lithium mining facilities and look how that grows, because I'm sure you can research over time, right how long it took to get to what stage, and then look at what infrastructure was developed and everything else. Yeah, and water usage with lithium mining as a base. That's something. You know, the lithium could be something that you could say this is something and then what what do you have for dangers? You know, what threats? Does the lithium mind create what? You know, what exposures, what kind of you know, health threats? You know, does it carry stuff in the in the wind, you know, is that something you could be breathing? You know? Water us a lot. Yeah, yeah, And that's the same with data centers too, right, data centers with water uses and with energy using. That's another thing they're doing here, except Elon's getting ready to like launch just thousands of satellites to be able to hear store all the data up there, which I think is a phenomenal idea. But I don't have to worry about right, yeah, right, yeah, because. He's got he started a phone like a cell phone service. Really it's yeah, so it's going to satellites instead of to towers. Instead of the towers, I mean, why not. So the amount of I guess he proof with the internet he could he can have contact right corrections, and now that as they build out the infrastructure in space, they can add initial usage demands with cell phones. But yeah, he's doing a cell phone service now like AT and T Verizon. Now it's going to be like a starlink or whatever. He calls them. The other thing is the only thing that bothers me about that, as if he's got like the whole thing, Yeah. Then yeah me too. Right, Yeah, so that's a little concerning. I mean, because I have Starlink at the house and they ran this stupid deal where they gave me a free Starlink mobile. Anten of thing. It's free for usage as long as I have the account, and I pay five bucks a month added on to my original bill. So of course I got that. So now like if I travel, I'm not dependent on eighteen and T or Horizon. I can Yeah, I can do my phone and then I've got I've got my walkie talking. My cam radios are digital DMRs and those passion to the Internet, so I can talk through my radios for my cell phone through if I had my Starlink mobile with me. She says, as she's been experiencing Internet problems. All I was talking through the lithium battery thing and I saw you fell. Off, yeah twice. Now, yeah, I appreciate that. I would say, that's like the perfect example of what's in your area, right, you know that's coming so research how that's affected other areas and neighborhoods where because you could watch the timeline and see how it what progressed them, what did it do positive and negative? What did it dude to those areas, and then pull it back to see how it can affect you and what you need to do to plan for it. Yeah, you might need to say, there's a bubble right there, and in five years of them opening that mind is like real estate is hot, right, and then but if fifteen years of them open to mind, it is dirty. It's true, and you know they're starting to whatever. So you might not have the hot so you might want to sell at a certain time. You might want to We were going to say, let's just say we were going to sell the house in five years whatever. That was our game plan. Yeah, but you might say, well, it looks like if I hold off for eight years, it could be the sweet spot and we could like double our money. So there's stuff like that that you can You can watch what's happened to other communities and pull that back to your community to make plans. Yeah, that's true. I like that. Okay, we all have homework to do. You got to research it, you gotta Uh, it's not enough to just learn. It's the same as self defense. You know, you got to know what's in the area. So Amber's like I'm getting in Dad. Where's now? Alrighty, let's go ahead and get on with some changing Earth news. We got tons of talk about and catch up. On Dream Survive, Thrive is changing Earth. News, all right, Changing Earth news. It's been a while, so I've only been looking for like the really big things that had had a really big impact, and we've had them, so that's what I'm looking for. I didn't want to bore everyone with and down everything that's been going on. We'll get to the volcano numbers later, but it looks pretty much like we are still above one hundred. I think we're at one oh four last time we're on, So we're still sitting at the same type of area today, which is you know, that activity doesn't seem to be slowing, and we have some interesting things going on as well, earthquake wise, so let's jump into it. In January, we had big old floods in the Asian region fifty four plus disaster events and with volcanoes going on alerts there that's over at Asia, so that was some big activity that was happening had a big impact, displaced multiple families. January sixteenth to the twenty third Storm Hairy hit western Europe. There was about three hundred and ninety plus deaths from that event. Damage was greater than one billion dollars in damage. So that was a huge storm that came crashing in, Mister Harry. There on January eighteenth, there was an X one point nine class solar flare. But honestly, the. Last January hit a little bit as you can see, but we've been really. Quiet on the Sun. It's been. Really just kind of chill with not even really a lot of big coronal holes going by, so very interesting. The Sun said us humans are doing enough chaos. A bit, right, Yeah, it's it's chilling that always accompanies human beings going a little mental crazy, so it's a good that it can just chill out for a little bit. There was a big event in Southern Africa, probably flooding down there. It doesn't tell me what it actually was. One hundred plus deaths, one point three million effected, but they're in their storm seasons down there, so I know there was an event. They came across Madic gas car in there. Oh, that's in next month. So yeah, they're definitely down in storm season right now, and they always get a lot of rain. North American Winter Storm FERN. I love that they always give all these storms names, really, like everything. Needs a name. Now. There was one hundred and seventy four deaths involved in that one, though, over a million power outages. That was the big storm we had in January where it even got really cold down here in Texas. I'm going to February. We had, first to the seventh, a couple of X class solar flares. They were not directly earth facing. We did have some intense radio and satellite disruption from one of those, but again not something that was going to be like, hey, everybody, this is the last episode of the changing Earth you're ever going to see. February first, we had twenty four inches of rain in Sal Paulo and one day. Thirty five deaths from that event, hundreds displaced. And again, what we're really looking for as the Earth keeps evolving from where it's at now is we're looking for more extremes because of the weakening of our magnetic shielding, it just kind of lets our weather do a little bit more crazy stuff. So that's what we're looking for when I say like, I'm looking for unusual events. In Japan, Coach they had a serious snowfall, thirty plus deaths from that snowfall, three hundred plus injured. Tropical Cyclone Jazani hit on February tenth. That's the one that hit Madagascar, fifty nine deaths plus seven and twenty three affected. Madagascar is like one of those coastal islands that is literally just taking the brunt of the storms coming in from Indonesia before they hit the coast Africa, and so they can bounce in between Africa and Madagascars sometimes. So there's some brave people over there. That's again the type of situation where you know you're gonna be hit with those storms, so you better be prepared for that coming on and not be like, oh, who knew we were gonna get hit with another storm this year? What do we got? California storm came in the twenty first to the twenty fourth. They had a large avalanche up in Lake Tahoe. Nine people unfortunately lost their life in that event, and then they had the extreme whiplash those saying stream weather ninety degree fahrenheit record heat right after that. So I always tease that California's like land of extremes, Like it's a light switch. It's just on and off and on and off, and it's. Got to be cold, drain, and it's last time it's hot. So they're dealing with a little bit of that right now. This is their season. It's just hot and cold. But again, the extremes is what we're looking for. February twenty six, there was a big glacier collapse, which is pretty interesting. The glaciers, some of them are collapsing, some of them are growing. So you guys really got to do your research there before you just talk about like, oh, global warmings taking out our glaciers. It's actually just the movement of the planet and this happens. The one earthquake that I found really really interesting was there was a four point nine earthquake in Louise on the Louisiana Texas border. And it's not because I'm near that area that I'm interested. It just hasn't happened. There in a lot of years. That one did happen where they were doing a lot of fracking, but with the amount of activity that's happening on the Ring of Fire, and to see the West coast just kind of stalled, nothing really happening there. Is just eerie. Either it's being released enough through these little drill points and stuff, this constant activity is releasing enough, or it's building. And if it's building, that's a problem. So you can see the stress fracture coming down. Where it hit in Louisiana is at the very bottom of the North American Craton that sits in the on the eastern side kind of the United States. It's like kind of from Yellowstone down to Texas and then back up to Maine. And the New Madrid fault line is on the North American Craton edge, so obviously that's why we keep a watch on that one. The earthquakes that happened on the New Madrid were we're just seriously insane to read about, like a month of these people just thinking the end was coming because. Dirt's just blasting out of it on the ground. The Mississippi ran back wheres, lakes were formed out of nowhere. Some areas went up like two stories in just a minute. It was It's really crazy stuff to read about, as far as erupting volcanoes. We have forty two volcanoes currently erupting, which is still mind blowing to me after watching these for so many years and being like, wow, twenty nine is so many and that was just like two years ago, and now we've been riding that forty two for like a long time. So I'm interested to see it like move again because that was pretty cool. Thirty three volcanoes showing minor activity, twenty seven showing unrest, for a total of one hundred and two. So we're still up over one hundred volcanoes on our planet showing activity. One of the signs that I always look for is from an Edgar Casey prophecy that you know, if Vesuvius and Pelee are going, then Nevada and the West coast of the United States better watch out. Pele is still on the list, but Vesuvius is nowhere near It can't be Flay Gray, the super volcano in Italy is still on it and I can't remember the town. It's on. One of the islands, oh man, the South No, I want to say, like Sicily. It's definitely in the Mediterranean, but they have just been losing like a ton of land. Their whole one side of their city is just like falling. Oh yeah, I saw pictures of that, right, like hey town just falling off the cliffs. Yes, it's just going and then it falls like their major road is down there at the bottom. So everything's falling down on the major road. You see like a cutaway of this apartment complex there's a car still in the garage because. Of right, it's just boom. It's insane. And we're talking like a mile long you know area that's just being so you know, the Earth is on the move. When you're seeing stuff like that happen, that's because that's been. There for hundreds of years, you know. Okay, as far as earthquakes, December there was two twenty thousand, three hundred and sixty three total that were two point zero or bigger. We went up in January we had that solar activity we went up to twenty one thousand, one hundred and thirty. But in February we're down big time where we went down to seventeen thousand, two hundred and eleven. So and I haven't really seen the solar activity uptick to push those numbers. We'll see what March does. Like I say, there's been some biggies already and we're definitely eyes wide open. But if that solar energy stays pretty chill, I don't think we'll have too many problems. Alrighty, well, we made it through the show. 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