NPM 19: Interactive Prepping Maps with GetReady.Team

Ladies and gentlemen, it is day 19 and there is a reason you don't see me because today we're going to explore the incredible interactive prepping maps from GetReady.team. These maps are maps slash tools are really fun. I've got RB, the creator of getready.team. You're going to hear me say getready.team a lot today, and that's because I want you to go over there and play. It's Saturday. You've got all day, hopefully. It is fall, so if you're a man, you probably have a woman who's looking at you thinking pumpkins or leaf decorations or Halloween decorations, something along those lines, pumpkin spice of one order or another. Manage that, and then when you get your free time, you know, can dig into one of these awesome maps of sweep what you're looking at here and we're going to go over a bunch of these uh but i wanted to just show you this one real quick what you're looking at here is the evacuation map as you can see you get to choose a bunch of different things i want to light this map up for you so you can see what it can do um so i'm going to click this economic collapse here and what you see and i'll explain it briefly and i'll let uh the creator explain it much more in detail but what you're seeing is sort of the uh the major highways out and the major evacuation routes out of town. And as a prepper, I hope you look at that and you go, well, that could help me plan routes to a bug-out location. That could help me plan routes for my own evacuation so I don't wind up trapped and all that kind of thing. And it occurred to me looking at these maps that so many guys and even gals that I know that are preppers They're hands-on visual learners. And, you know, for the majority, like, oh, there's just a lot of books and a lot of reading and a lot of those kind of things out there that discuss things like what we're going to discuss today, but not a whole lot of visual stimuli. And I'm one of those visual learners. So to me, this is a real interesting thing. Let's bring on RB from getready.team. Good morning, sir. How are you? Thanks for joining me on your Saturday. Hey, James. I'm doing well. Appreciate you having me on. Yeah, no problem. So you developed this suite of awesome maps and tools that are all sort of highly visually appealing. And we're looking at the evacuation map here. I think that one's I mean, nothing here is completely straightforward because you got all this data on the left side. Right. And that explains different things. Maybe tell us a little bit more than what we can just see about this map. Yeah, so for this map, when I got into prepping like 10 years ago, I was influenced by the James Wesley Rawls of the world with Patriots and the concept of a golden horde leaving the cities and going into the country was very formulative in my preparedness planning. So I wanted to see what that looked like. If certain scenarios occurred, what routes would the people coming out of the city take and how close would they get to me? So that's what the evacuation map is. We also call it the Golden Horde map, where you can see if your location on a map is far enough from the main exit routes of a city or a town. And so it's got a lot of population data. It looks at the census data, models hurricane evacuations and other natural disasters and what places get jammed up. One of the big things to keep in mind is that Usually once people realize that they need to evacuate, most of the evacuation routes are already very difficult to trespass. Gridlock, no traffic lights, lots of accidents out of gasoline. So what we try to do is we try to say, all right, different scenarios, different timeframes, and we assume that everyone's got half a tank of gas, which is kind of the average of what most people have. How far could they get and where would they go? And would they come to your location? That's the idea behind the evacuation map. Yeah, so being in a rural location, you might– listening to this, you might think to yourself, are they going in my direction? But me being in a less rural, more urban location, I look at a map like this and go, okay, what are the alternate routes away from all of that? All of that nasty stuff. What– What is the one hour out, two hours out, four hours out? What is that breakdown on the left there? Oh, so that is taking a look at the drive distance. So how many people, the people who are leaving the cities, right, would they be able to travel one hour, two hours, four hours? Oh, okay, I see. I got you. So it's the distance from the city center that the people are trying to go. not people are going to be able to drive more than four hours on a half a tank of gas. Makes sense. Yeah. Okay. What I'm going to do now is I'm going to relinquish my screen share here because I think we'd rather have you take control of sort of the, the tour, if you will, of get ready dot team, because you made this stuff and you know this stuff and you know, you're going to show me some things that I don't know because I've just kind of been playing around on it and, having a blast over there, but I'd rather you show us what you think is pertinent and break it down the way you know how. Right. Well, we have over a dozen tools, so I'm not going to have time to get to all of them, but I'll pick a couple of cool, interesting ones. The first one is the Scout Map. The Scout Map is for people who are looking for maybe a bug out location or buying a piece of land or want to know where the best place to live or homestead would be. So at the top of this map, we have a couple of filters so we can click on homestead and we could automatically see what counties rank well homesteading because they're going to be green. And if we click on a County, I'll pick Taylor County just for fun. You can see what criteria we're ranking this County and the climate stability. So that has to do with weather growing season, natural disasters, hazards on the right water, the rainfall, how, uh, drought prone a particular areas social security what the crime looks like oh social system stability has crime information infrastructure information hospital information solar potential is obviously how much sunlight and solar exposure that this part of the country gets. And you're talking about solar power here yes yes. If you want to run off grid or have some solar power Homesteading capacity has the different soil types and land availability, things that homesteaders would look for. Do you have the ability to put a well in a septic, catch rainwater, all of these things. Affordability is the land price. Privacy is surveillance, which we'll talk about in a little bit. And then also just freedom to do things without having to be overly regulated or Livability and strategic distance. So livability is just your cost of living scores and infrastructure, job availability. And strategic distance is how close you are to military targets, data centers, missile silos, military bases. And so we take all of these factors and we roll it all up into a composite score out of 100. And then we compare it to all the other counties in the country as well as in Canada, and we can come up with a ranking for the best place to homestead. And then we slightly tweak the ratings to figure out, okay, would this be a good bug out location? Is this a great place climate-wise for the long term? Is this a good place for me to live? And then if I have to fall back. So maybe I have a retreat and I'm looking for a secondary location with slightly different values. If it's a good place to grow food or if it just has low natural hazards. So all of these filters at the top, let me quickly sort by the things I value most. And then on the left, there's more specific areas like privacy. We'll look at flock cameras and surveillance and And solar will show you the parts of the country that get the most solar exposure. So just playing around with these filters will give you a good sense directionally for where in the country you might want to live according to what you like the most. Oh, that's very cool. I like the sort of zoom out various overlay capability because it kind of gives you a If you're starting from nothing, you know, you're sitting in Chicago, downtown Chicago, and you're saying, if we don't get out of here, this is going to end very poorly. You can zoom out and sort of take a look at the country on a, you know, with a grand scale viewpoint of kind of cutting off big swaths of the country that don't interest you. You know what I mean? Yeah, that's exactly right. That helps whittle down a giant landmass like the U S and then dig in and see where else you might want to go. Yeah. These relocation tools are really cool. Two important paths that this tool is a good starting place for. The first one is generally, if you're looking to buy a piece of land or maybe make a move and This will give you directionally a good spot and you can pick a couple counties and then you could click run an area study. And that goes into our paid tool, which is $ 24 for an in-depth area study, covers all of the specifics that I mentioned with all of the data to back it up, links to sources, incredible tools. So that is your very in-depth at a county and address level. So that's one path where you could, okay, great, I understand relatively easily. what this county means, let me dive deep and really dig into that specific part of the country. And then the second area where this is useful is let's say I click on privacy and I say, all right, I understand that Florida, the shore, the coasts, those are really areas that don't have a lot of privacy. I can then jump into some more specific maps. Like I could bring up the flock camera map, knowing that Georgia is a heavily surveilled area of the country. And then I could zoom into Georgia. So this is going to start me in Atlanta. And I could search for any part of the country. And it's going to show me all of the cameras. And it's going to tell me if it's a flock camera or if it's a license plate reader or if it's a gunshot sensor. And I could navigate through the city and see what areas of the city are more heavily surveilled than other parts of the city. Yeah, that's sweet. That's sweet. And 24 bucks for an area study, especially if it's a place you're about to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in to move. That's a gold mine right there because things you can find out before you wind up there make a world of difference for you. Yeah, I know the purpose of this show is to talk about the tools and not so much the area study, but just a word on the area study is Area studies were very difficult to do. So not many people would do it until you were pretty experienced in your preparedness journey. We've been able to make it very quick and easy. So everyone should be able to do a basic area study, takes a couple minutes, gives them some directional information on prioritizing what to prepare. And then you could dive into the specifics like privacy, like climate, like storm tracking and evacuating a city, solar. And really focus on what area is most important to you. I like it. I like it, man. So this is the area scout map. And what next? What else should we take a peek at? Yep. We start at scout. We move to flock camera surveillance. The next one we'll look at is the Superfund map. So what a Superfund site is, is an area of the country that the EPA, the government, has established. Designated is a toxic area of land that could potentially endanger people and the environment around it. Not a good name. So New Jersey? No. No, New Jersey and California, Pennsylvania, incredibly high in the number of fund websites. So you could, again, put in your address. You could see a list of locations that are active or inactive. You can click on a particular location. You could zoom down, see what the human exposure is, see if it's migrating to the groundwater and potentially damaging your wells. Because what a lot of people don't realize is their wells will often pull from regional aquifers. And these Superfund sites will sit on these regional aquifers. Like in teal on the map are aquifers. And when a Superfund website sits in these aquifers, it can leach these toxins and chemicals into the ground and create what's called a plume. And that plume can travel miles under the ground contaminating these aquifers. And then those who are connected to the aquifer will be drinking that potentially contaminated water. Now, I have to make a disclaimer and say, just because a Superfund site sits on an aquifer does not mean that the aquifer is contaminated. But it is something that everyone should look into and just investigate do some tests of their water and see what these sites are what the condition is and whether they're a risk to your family. Yeah i'm looking at my town that i grew up in which was an oil refining town and i had a super fun site right right on where i grew up i figured it wasn't a big stretch because i know where i grew up but Um, yeah, it's just funny. That's why I was laughing when you were zooming in on Philly. I was like, Oh, okay. I know there's a dot right by the markets of Pennsylvania. I'm sure of that. But, uh, yeah, this is very cool, man. The things that you might not even know about your own area, you know, that's, what's interesting to me. Well, when you buy a piece of land, your real estate agent isn't necessarily going to show you the local super fund websites or if a data center, is being put up or is a high power transmission mission line is going right next to your place. So yeah, there's a lot of surrounding data that you need to know as a landowner that nobody's going to tell you unless you do the research yourself. Yeah, no doubt about it. No doubt about it. These are all free guys. You go to get ready dot team, just check them out. Just put information in there, see what's going on. Yeah. Now a very similar, Matt, to the Superfund site is your fault line map. A lot of places, especially on the East Coast, don't deal with a lot of earthquakes, but certainly on the West Coast and in Salt Lake City, for example, you can visually see where the fault lines are, as well as a history of previous earthquakes relative to the size of the earthquakes. So if you are concerned about potentially having an earthquake in your area, I would check out this fault line map, put in your address, and see how far you are from a major fault line. Yeah, I like that. Yeah, we had an earthquake here in Virginia of all places. I never would have guessed it back in 2011. I mean, like legitimate, like crazy. Richmond, Virginia, shaking, window shaking. I had no idea there was some kind of fault line here. Small, but, you know, it can get mad. Yeah, absolutely. The next map, which I love, is our fallout map. So the fallout map is, as it sounds, it's going to show you where the nuclear bases are in the country, where the military bases are, what the major cities are, where the nuclear reactors are. And it will simulate what would happen if one of those places was attacked with a nuclear weapon from an opposing enemy like Russia, for example. And then if that location, that target, was hit, the fallout would move along with the wind. So we're going to take a look at our current wind direction as well as the adjustable wind speed, and it'll give you a sense of how susceptible your area is to fallout if one of those targets was hit with a nuclear weapon. Yeah. Quite a distance. Yeah. Yeah, so what's interesting about this is there are other nuclear fallout maps and other maps where you can play around with the bomb size, etc. But not a lot of other maps pull in the current weather conditions, as well as letting you simulate what it would look like if the wind was going in the opposite direction and how strong the winds are for that day. And then if you really wanted to get crazy, you could put in all targets and And frankly, there's not a lot of places in the country where you could survive fallout or at least not have to deal with fallout with all targets with an uncertain wind speed and wind direction. Right. I'm kind of surprised at Richmond's location. It's pretty good in terms of fallout. Yeah, it's not bad. Obviously, Washington, D.C. is going to have a lot of military targets. Most of the time, your wind is going from the west to the east. Yeah. And you could also adjust the yield of that explosion. So if you really wanted to get crazy, I mean, there's pretty much nothing that's going to have to do with fallout. Judgment day. Yeah, judgment day. But for most of the time, not all targets are going to be hit. That's incredibly rare. But if you were to take, let's say, military bases and you were to do just a regular yield and regular wind speed, yeah, fallout is not going to hit us in Virginia too heavily. And if it does, then there's a thing we can do on fallout. There's a very, very in-depth guide on nuclear, surviving a nuclear attack in our guides section. So you can go to this nuclear fallout guide. You can take a look at what type of shelter you're going to need, how thick the shelter needs, where in the building that you should stay to avoid the shelter. all sorts of information about what to do with your clothing and how to get rid of the ash that's falling, how deeply you're going to be affected by the radiation, how much iodine you should take over time, all sorts of interactive things that really help you simulate and play through what it would be like in a nuclear fallout and how best to deal with it. Yeah, that's cool, man. That is a really cool tool. I asked the chat to see who's going to die in fallout right now as it sits. So hopefully they go over there and let me know. But you also mentioned that you have something new that no one has seen. No one has seen. This is the first time being exposed to the world. So this tool is called a property planer. And what I really wanted to do with the property planner is visualize what it would look like changing elements of my property homesteading. So I could go into this. It starts out with a Google satellite images, Google map image. You zoom down and then there's a 3D aspect of this. So this is a 3D environment. Oh, nice. You've added the fence there and some outbuildings and stuff. Yep. Like I could put a well head. I could put a hand pump on the well. I could connect it with water pipes to my greenhouse. Oh, wow. And then I can grow food in my greenhouse. It's Homestead Simulator. It is like Homestead Sims. That's a great analogy. That's sweet, man. So I could go here. I can say, all right, I'm going to do a garden row and I could put this garden row in here. And I can click on this garden row and I say, well, I want this garden row to be like potatoes. And it'll show potatoes. But then if I click on the row, it'll actually show me how many calories this row of potatoes will produce for me. Based on the distance that you've drawn or something like that? Yeah, based on the distance of the row and the spacing of the potato plants and the width of the row and how many cycles I'm going to do for the year. Just the gardening tool alone is sweet. Right, right. And I can just duplicate these rows, have many of them. And then if I want to, I also want to do a sheep. And I could put a sheep in there and it'll show me how many calories this sheep will produce. And I could have a whole flock of sheep. And then on my top left, I've got a resource display. It will show me my homestead, how many total calories my homestead is producing, how many total kilowatts. So for example, I could say, all right, I want a solar. I want a ground-mounted solar unit. And I can pick this unit. I can rotate it around. And it's how many watts, or is it standard watts, or you can affect the watts of the panel itself? Yeah, you choose the tilt of the panel, the watts of the panel, how many rows the panel is. Yep. And then it'll tell you how many kilowatt hours these panels will produce. Oh, my goodness, man. And here's what's really amazing. I think you're going to love this. So hopefully people can watch this. This is already really amazing. So if you click Rain, you can simulate– a rainstorm happening on the property. Oh, and you can control. And see where the low-lying areas are? You can see where the low-lying areas are. You can see the direction that the water is flowing around your property. You can see how it's coming down the mountains and filling up these creeks here. You can control how long this rainstorm lasts. And then you could see the water seeping like the duration, the amount of water. And then after the rainstorm simulation ends, you'll still have these spots that absorb water. So you can pick areas of your land that have better gardening potential. For example, if I know my water is moving along my garden area, I might take my swale and I might rotate it to do a different direction because I know that water is going to move against that swale. I might put a pond in a certain area. I might choose to build a different shed or something in a place that's not going to be wet. Underwater, yeah. Underwater, yeah. So I love the rain simulation. You can click on a gravel road, fencing, and it'll tell you the distance of the fencing so you know how many materials you need to buy. It's an incredible amount of possibilities. Fruit trees, forest area, timber, fire stacks, how much firewood you need. It is built on a very detailed, heavy data layer for planning, but it's also just kind of fun to simulate what your world's going to be like if there's an SHTF event and then what sort of setup on either your dream homestead or just adjusting your current homestead and planning out your garden or some fencing. Yeah, that, you know, this tool, you have it put out here in a very rural area, but I think urban homesteaders can gain a lot from this too because they have such limited space so they can kind of see what's the maximum output I can achieve on my little piece of land. You know what I mean? Yes, huge if you're into permaculture. This is a game changer for permaculture. And then even if you're just– I want to simulate solar. Where am I going to put the panels? How much panels do I need? What can it power? Things of that nature. It's got a lot of different uses. Yeah. It's an amazing tool, man. Guys, this is why I want you to get to know GetReady.Team because I have a feeling, all right? I've talked to RB here several times, and I have a feeling that what you're looking at and what is kind of blowing you away right now is probably just the beginning. So keep that in mind. Go check out the website. Guys got a newsletter or updates or stuff like that? Yeah, if you create an account on the website, you'll get a free basic area study. You can play around with the property planner. And then we send you important updates. So we'll say, hey, there's a new Superfund website nearby your location. Three new flock cameras have popped up within 25 miles of you. Things that keep you updated, how your area is changing. Whether you buy our premium area study product or you just sign up for a basic account, And you don't have to put your address, right? You could put your county, your area, your zip code, any of that information. And we will proactively try to keep you updated on important things local to your area. It's a beautiful thing, man. All right, folks, we're about out of time. Go to get ready dot team and check all this cool stuff out. I'm sure this tool will be available in the near future. But man, yeah. If you're a visual learner, if you want to really see what things are going to look like in a lot of these situations. There's a bunch of maps we didn't check out, too, so go over and check them out. I want to thank you so much, sir, for coming on this morning. Appreciate it. Thanks for having me. All the hard work you're doing to create these tools, man, it's unbelievable. Thank you. All right, folks, don't dilly-dally. I'll see you tomorrow for another great guest on National Preparedness Month. It's been a good time. Keep going. When you're off the grid or working in real winter conditions, the basics matter more than anything. Heat Force Pro was designed around a simple idea. 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