Surviving a Mega Storm, Virgis Ch 53

[00:00:00] 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. Chapter 53.

[00:00:31] Thunder rolled in the distance as Cole sat flipping through paperwork at his desk. He needed to replenish crews down south and ship some more refugees back for training. Trucks were going up to Empire, and another rotation of mechanics coming down.

[00:00:47] However, all he could think about was getting Cassidy and Erica out of that camp. A welcome knock came at the door, and Jessup walked in. Sir, all the crews are in and the trucks are ready to send to Empire.

[00:01:02] A loud thunder clap hit outside the window drawing the men's attention. We'll send them out in the morning. I want all the forces in for the evening. The storm coming is a concern. I'll let them know, Jessup assured him. Where's Johnny?

[00:01:17] Sir, I believe Private McClintock is at Dolores's place with Sergeant Chappie. Cole chuckled. Not a bad idea for a restless night. Back up here, I'm calling it an early night. Cole stood up, putting his papers away. Are you sure, sir? Jessup asked.

[00:01:34] We'll see how it goes, Cole declared with a sly smile. The Private returned his smile, replying, Excellent, sir. Cole stood from his chair and walked towards the door. The sound of the rain increased as he crossed through the lobby and exited into the open air.

[00:01:51] He inhaled deeply, picking up the smell of moisture in the breeze. Good evening, Major Virgis Sir. One of the groundskeepers greeted him as he walked by. You got those buildings closed up for the storm, Cole questioned? We're ready, sir. Hopefully it will pass quickly, the man assured him.

[00:02:09] Only time will tell. Have a nice night, Cole declared, turning to leave. You too, sir, the man declared, leaving to tie down a loose strap. The thunder crashed as he entered the town and the streets were barren.

[00:02:23] The rain intensified as Cole greeted the guard outside and entered Dolores's place. Inside the music beat loudly, and the conversation was lively. The smiling faces were a welcome sight compared to the sad reality in Las Vegas. Spying him at the door, Jennifer approached with a sly smile.

[00:02:42] Major Virgis, what a pleasure to see you tonight, sir. He returned her flirtatious grin telling her, you're looking lovely as usual. Even her fingers down his chest, she countered. And you're just as charming as usual. Come with me. Your boys are over at the private table.

[00:03:02] Taking Cole's hand in hers, she led him to the back where the mercenary soldiers drank. When she turned to leave, Cole wouldn't let her hand go. She spun back around looking at him. Won't you please stay with us, he requested?

[00:03:16] Major Virgis, you know my responsibilities are many, she told him playing coy. He pulled her in tighter to himself. I'm sure Dolores won't mind. Since you called all your forces in, I'm sure my time will be limited, she teased. Do what you need to do.

[00:03:34] I'll wait, he assured her. She looked at him with an inviting smile. A patient man, I like that. I'll be back Major Virgis. Jennifer leaned in and kissed him on the cheek before leaving to check on the operations. Major, come have a seat.

[00:03:51] Chappy declared jovially, pulling out a chair for him. As Cole sat down, Chappy poured him a drink. What's the word fellas? Cole asked, assessing the attendees at the table. Chappy pointed over at a group of beautiful women sitting with some young mercenary

[00:04:06] soldiers explaining these girls just came in from a free town up north looking for work. Good Lord Almighty, they are fine. Johnny shook his head positively and smiled with satisfaction. He's not kidding Virgis. I'll have to check it out, Cole answered uninterested. Where's Ginger and Monroe?

[00:04:27] I think Ginger went to bed early and Monroe's in the back talking with Dolores Chappy answered. What about? I don't know, Chappy said drinking his beer. Cole looked at him curiously knowing there was more to the story. Cole looked at Johnny swaying with drunkenness.

[00:04:44] I think they're planning a baby shower. Johnny told him Cole was perplexed now. A baby shower for who? Chappy shot Johnny a sharp look and cursed the young man. For who, Chappy? Cole demanded. Uh, Chappy stumbled looking uncomfortable. What Cole insisted frustrated with his hesitance.

[00:05:07] Johnny tell me what is going on Cole insisted looking expectantly at the young man. Ginger is pregnant. Monroe didn't want you to know yet Johnny admitted. Why not? Cole wondered kicking himself for not seeing it earlier.

[00:05:21] Monroe had been acting strange for a while and he hadn't seen Ginger have a drink in months. You should talk to him about that Chappy said protecting his friends' wishes as Cole stood up to go find Monroe. Jennifer approached him.

[00:05:35] Her voice was as smooth as silk as she inquired major. I have some free time available. You want to go upstairs? He looked at Chappy. Nothing is going to change tonight, sir, Chappy told him. Knowing the truth of his statement, Cole's soul needed a break and escape

[00:05:53] from reality. He returned to Jennifer and assured her if we go up there, we're not coming down tonight. I'm sure the ladies can handle the floor. She took his hand to pull him away from his men. This conversation is not over gentlemen.

[00:06:09] You tell Monroe he needs to talk to me, Cole ordered. Yes, sir, I'll pass a message along, Chappy replied. Come on, Cole, leave your business for tonight, Jennifer insisted, kissing him passionately. Sounds like a good idea. Come on, he directed leading her to the stairs.

[00:06:26] As the storm raged through the evening, so did Cole's passionate experience with Jennifer. He was lost in the moment enjoying every curve of her body as a knocking came at the door. Major Virgis, sir, Monroe called to him. I'll be right back, Cole assured Jennifer,

[00:06:43] as he rose from the bed and donned his uniform. I'll be here, she assured him. I can get Alexis to bring us up some food. That would be perfect, Cole replied, kissing her before heading to the door. This better be important, Cole told Monroe as he opened it.

[00:06:59] Sergeant Bennett is radioing for you, sir, Monroe informed him. Cole closed the door and headed towards the stairs with Monroe. You can take it into Loris' radio room, Monroe suggested. Do you have something you want to tell me about Monroe? Cole asked.

[00:07:14] Curious why the man was not telling him his good news. Monroe stopped walking and asked, how do you mean? Cole looked at him accusingly. Please don't. Chappy told you, Monroe asked curiously. Johnny let it slip. Why didn't you want to tell me? That's great news, Tim.

[00:07:32] Yeah, it is, Monroe agreed, continuing to walk towards the radio room. We'll talk about it later, Cole told him as they reached the room. Everybody out, Cole instructed. The handful of people in the room hustled to leave as Cole entered. Going to one of the radio stations,

[00:07:50] he picked up a mic. This is Major Virgis. Bennett's crackling voice answered him. Major Virgis, sir, when was the last time you saw Erica and her family? At the camp after the battle, why, Cole wondered. The refugee squads never returned, Bennett said, concerned.

[00:08:09] You don't think she would have run? Without her youngest son, not a chance. That woman is all about her family, Bennett assured him. I noticed. I'm afraid she's in trouble. The rain up north has been relentless. We're buckled down for the night,

[00:08:26] but I can send crews in the morning, Cole suggested, knowing no one was going anywhere in this rain. I'll start looking from my direction. Have you talked to the general lately? Not really, why? I'm still curious about her past, Bennett explained.

[00:08:41] A big chunk of her file is missing. Is it confidential, Cole asked? Thinking maybe it was just sealed to a higher rank. No, it's literally missing and I'm curious why Bennett explained. I'll contact him first thing in the morning as well. We'll be in touch.

[00:08:58] Hey, Bennett, Cole asked. Yeah, Bennett responded. Have you ever thought about leaving the feds and joining the mercs? I could get you ranked here. Bennett laughed, amused by Cole's suggestion. Nicolton tried to get me to go private and normally I would say no without a thought,

[00:09:16] but Cole wondered about Bennett's hesitation, but Erica meeting her and experiencing her passion for restoring our country, I don't know, but what I do know is I have to find her. The best way to do that is with the federal resources I have at my fingertips.

[00:09:35] Why is this a jam, my friend? We'll be in touch, Cole told him. He put the mic down and opened the door. Everything okay major? Monroe asked as he exited the room. Get Chappie and meet me upstairs, Cole commanded sharply. Yes sir, Monroe answered turning towards the tables.

[00:09:52] Cole went back upstairs to the hallway and waited for the men. They arrived with curious looks on their faces. Monroe, Chappie, I want you to put teams in place to organize storm cleanup without either of you here. Yes sir, Chappie agreed,

[00:10:06] but Monroe asked where are we going, sir? Erica's rescue team never returned to the camp. You don't think they jumped ship, do you? Monroe wondered. Bennett doesn't think so and I don't either, Cole assured him. I thought you weren't sure about this woman

[00:10:21] and how is Cassidy going to feel about it? Monroe wondered. I know how difficult this will be, but Erica swayed Bennett's opinion, Cole informed him. Chappie's face crinkled in confusion. Mr. By the Book? That's a dang miracle in itself, Cole nodded at him.

[00:10:39] Exactly beyond the fact that I think she can be the voice we need. If she can do that to Bennett, she's the one. Okay then, we'll mobilize the teams in the morning when Monroe agreed. Where are you going, Virgis? Chappie wondered. I need to meet with General McClintock.

[00:10:57] If Erica is the voice we need, we'll have to organize this without the help of the militia. That will be a trick, Monroe commented. I haven't given up on them yet, but Eli pulled out. Sounds like he got your work cut out for you.

[00:11:10] Don't worry about Erica, we'll find her. Monroe assured him. I don't doubt that for a minute. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to enjoy this night before the games begin. Major Virgis, sir, Jess up called as he approached trying to catch his breath. Yes, Private Cole responded,

[00:11:26] irritated by the young soldier's approach. Sir, you have to come now. There's a helicopter waiting for you. General McClintock wants to see you now. What happened, Cole asked? The Ogallala collapsed, sir, Private Jessup explained. The Ogallal what, Cole asked? It's a large reservoir that stretches

[00:11:45] from the Panhandle of Texas in a Nebraska Jessup relayed. The earth collapsed. It's a mess, sir. Holy shit, Chappy said listening in on the conversation. Jessup, go get Johnny and meet me at the chopper, Cole commanded. Looks like things just got more complicated guys.

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[00:13:24] A lot of chapters in this book. And we're not even done yet. We got like 10 more, I think, something like that, seven more. So hey guys, how was my audio sounding if you're out there in radio listening land? I would really appreciate any kind of feedback.

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[00:14:50] check out Swenson videos we've made, all that kind of stuff. Give it a like and a subscribe over there. All right, so it's been a couple weeks. It's been like three weeks since you were on. I was. I don't know, you've been on sabbatical.

[00:15:06] What, Rick and then family feud? Yup. Man, that was fun. I listened to that laughing the whole time. That was awesome show. I mean, clearly you can see how cheated we were by. I'm just saying. You're up against Swenson. What do you expect? Yeah, yeah.

[00:15:23] The villains are going to play fair and square. Come on. Totally rigged against me. So we're going to work on the host avenue, no drinking for the host. Very good. She used to be behind the eight ball. Yeah, you know, I know. I know the uphill battle.

[00:15:40] It's good. It's good. So we will be doing more family feuds. We're going to collect points all year long as we're going through season four. And then at the end, we'll do whatever two teams has the most points will go up against each other in the grand championship.

[00:15:58] And we're gonna try and do a fundraiser, get some prizes out to people and make that one a big event. So stay tuned in. Those are fun shows. Obviously we're just having a blast and letting our hair down. So that was a lot of fun.

[00:16:15] You're gonna get into the era of like color TV or you're gonna stay in the 70s? We are going to be upgrading. So I had told Dave that I was gonna send him a game because we have a really cool version.

[00:16:29] He's like, no, no, no, you know, you don't gotta do that. I got a game. It failed to mention that it's from like 78. I'm like, dude, nobody like we were all like, I wasn't even born yet. My husband was like three, you know,

[00:16:44] Dave's the only one who knows the answers. The attitude for some funny comments like the Chihuahua. Oh, I know the Chihuahua. The hair plugs. That was my dad. I was like, yeah, hair plugs. Oh, I'm the 70s, you know, hair club for men. It was a great picture.

[00:17:04] It was I had a lot of fun. Yeah, yeah, I got some great. And Teresa with all the spaghetti comments dropped in there. I was rolling. She was right in character, you know, she did so good. And I just loved it. And then come down to fast money.

[00:17:24] TJ gets absolutely nothing. And Teresa almost took it. It was a great picture. Yeah, she almost won it all on her own. I was like, that's just yeah, no wonder you got her around. You would be dead without her. So yeah. It was us.

[00:17:38] So you know, I'm just saying like a little insider info his life does get rather interesting after she's not like the sounding board anymore. I'm just saying so gotta stay tuned for the audio drama. I am just finishing up episode while I say just finishing up.

[00:17:57] I'm about three quarters of the way through with episode eight. So that next block will definitely be listening to that next block before we go to prepper camp. So that'll be fun. We'll be halfway through season four by the time we go to prepper camp.

[00:18:13] So, whoo, speaking of prepper camp. Like less than two months. Right around the corner. Are there still tickets for sale? Do you know? I don't know. I don't know. Okay. Yeah, I was thinking about maybe bringing my mom out there

[00:18:29] but she, I don't know if she's gonna go for it. But yeah, it's a lot of walking for her, you know. Unless I can get somebody with a golf cart to like totter around for me. Oh my goodness, take your life and your own hands

[00:18:49] with that, with the driver of that golf cart. Yeah, yeah, I'll get Ken to do it. Ken is crazy. She would love it. Oh my gosh, those two would have a blast. I'm surprised we haven't been swimming in the lake yet being with that golf cart.

[00:19:03] Ooh, challenge issued. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'll be like Doug. Want a mastermind of plan? Those break lines, they look like somebody touched them. Cut them. Nah, nah. It would tamper with them. It would just be a little push from behind, you know. Oh, oh, fell over.

[00:19:27] You guys are in the lake. Uh-oh, sorry. All right, what else do we got? We got prepper camp with some great shows. Yeah, Rick, the cert training information, bomb episode. If you guys didn't listen to that one, please go back and listen to that one.

[00:19:45] It is exactly what we've been looking for as far as what you can do for your community to really start a healthy network that's not weird. It can be awkward, like hey, do you guys ever think about tomorrow the world might end and you need to be prepared?

[00:20:05] Yeah, you're a fruit loop. So I thought it was a spectacular way of just using the neighborhood watch to extend that and help each other out really fostering some space. Starting conversations. Yeah. Yeah, good. It sounds like you're a freak. Yeah, yeah.

[00:20:24] Oh gee, I want to be prepared. Oh yeah, got a spare tire in my car. Got insurance on my house, prepared. But anyway, I've been seeing a lot of good things about that as well. Did you see that picture that Ryan posted

[00:20:39] that was in a store and it's like prepper? Yeah, for the inner prepper in you? The design at the end of an aisle. Yeah, it was like a whatever. It was like Hobby Lobby or something. Yeah, it was like a pretty holistic look in place.

[00:20:51] Yeah, I don't either. But yeah, so it's mainstreaming out. We're welcoming you guys. If you're new here, don't ever feel that you're not welcome because this community is really, really welcoming. And we're all just here to work together.

[00:21:07] And what we like to see is new people getting involved because more people we have involved than we have prepared communities. James, the interpretive community is always about getting the community involved. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But the community garden can be kind of weird.

[00:21:25] Where do you have it and who's working in and this and that? And there's a lot of aspects as far as my time versus your time and who gets the benefits of it, right? But the way that the CERT teams are set up,

[00:21:36] I mean, it's just community emergency response team. So everybody knows what they're getting on board for. They know they're volunteering off the bat. And I think it's a great way to go about it. Yep. I was into it before as well.

[00:21:50] All right, if only I had two of me then I would have more time. Two. To be able to do. Me about 10 of you. Yeah, I do. I do. It's not a joke, but that's all right. Onward and upward. Okay, so on the Virgis story,

[00:22:07] if you guys didn't remember from before because it's been a little while, almost a month, almost since we listened to the Virgis show, Paul was still hiding, you know, ginger's pregnancy and everything from Virgis and that kind of came out on the table this week. What?

[00:22:25] That's for a little bit. Get the kid drunk and then ask him questions. Always the way to go. So, yeah, so he's dealing with that. It has his little night of fun, but the Ogallala collapses. Erica's missing.

[00:22:40] So we are getting ready to come into the end of the book and it's gonna be an exciting run through. I'm looking at the schedule right now. I'm like, are we gonna be able to finish it before prepper camp? Maybe. We got eight left. So counting this one.

[00:23:02] So we'll see, we're gonna be tight. I don't think so. I don't think so. I think it'll have to be after prepper camp. Alrighty. So in the book, they are surviving the storm that's coming in. Thought it was a great time to talk about surviving a mega storm.

[00:23:18] I've actually had this prepared for like weeks. You need to stop rating all this craziness because the real world just falls in suit. Come on now. It is kind of eerie how that happens sometimes. That's no joke. So I'm gonna turn, I think I'm up a little loud.

[00:23:37] Do we got, who's out there in the chat room? Come on, how are we sounding? Nobody's out there. Where's garden girl at? Get your butt over here. Give me some chatting going on. Oh well, we'll find out afterwards. All right, so mega storm.

[00:23:55] We've talked a lot about different aspects of preparedness. Flooding, what to do when there's a hurricane inbound, wildfire preparation, tornado preparation. It's loaded up on my website if you go to Survival Learning to that link. You are gonna have a plethora of information on surviving any storm,

[00:24:18] what to do during the flooding and that. So this'll kind of just be an overview of like thoughts and more stuff that I'm learning as I'm down in a different region with different things to prep for and think about, right? Depending on where you are.

[00:24:32] Yeah, weather coming off the Gulf is a little different than the Pacific, huh? Right, and like California's on fire right now. So, you know it's just different. Not like a good thing. Yeah, no, no, they're literally like. Woo, go sports team. They're literally like burning to the ground,

[00:24:49] both socially, politically. Oh, shoot. For real geographically, I mean it's not good. So anyway, much happier here. So before any kind of event, obviously preparation is key. That's why we're here every week talking about it, encouraging people to get on the ball.

[00:25:18] One of the things that I thought was important as we were just talking about this, how is your community prepared for such an event? So like down in Galveston, they have seawalls and whatnot that protect from storms, levees over in Louisiana.

[00:25:35] They've got wildfire plans that go into action in different communities in California. They've got tornado plans, evac plans for tsunami activity, this kind of thing. So I bet your community actually has a plan if you just take the time to look it up and see what that is.

[00:25:56] There's usually some kind of like, anything. Go to your town or your county or your state. All the websites usually have stuff in there. Right, and they usually give alerts too. So like in the wildfire areas, that was a big deal. You can sign up for the alerts.

[00:26:14] A lot of the local TV shows, TV stations have it too. All right. I know like in Charleston, the local TV stations all had like hurricane handouts with all the routes and stuff, you know, explanations of what the different categories and stuff is.

[00:26:32] Yeah, so that's, I mean, you gotta know how like your community is prepared to react so you know what's gonna happen. Where like assistance centers and things like that might be, what if something happened? You couldn't get to a hospital.

[00:26:45] You gotta know where like a backup assistance center, those kind of things are. So that's all great info. Personal preparation. So obviously don't wait for the storm. Right? To start think about a plan? Yeah, yeah. Think about like, wow, I really should have like

[00:27:05] covered up my windows, you know, or we should have known where to go when this tornado was ripping through, that kind of thing. Cleared the brush around the house or? Right, for the wild. For the wild, yes. Yeah, it's too late once it's on your doorstep.

[00:27:22] So you need to do your personal preparation as well. Of course that involves like what special needs does your family have? Do you have somebody who's elderly? Do you have somebody who needs medical attention? Do you need to have somebody who needs assistance,

[00:27:35] you know, from day to day life? That's gonna make a big difference in your plan versus mine. Mm-hmm. Well, of course, you know, your food, water, extra clothes, blankets, all that should be in the safest location. If you're looking at flooding coming in,

[00:27:52] you probably don't want that on the ground floor. Do you want the axe in the attic? You want the axe in the attic, that's right. You know, if it's a windstorm that's coming on then you probably don't want your supplies in the attic.

[00:28:08] You know, the roof gets ripped off, that kind of thing. So it is the safest location per the threat that you are facing. I thought a lot about in California, digging, you know, like pits for supplies because if the house burned down,

[00:28:26] I mean, it could burn over the top of a pit and you can still have your supplies right there. But if your house burns down and you just lost $1,500 worth of food. Yeah, right? Then you're in trouble. So again, what are you facing?

[00:28:44] Be ready for that kind of thing. The home fortification, sandbags, that kind of stuff. These are things you don't want to be like running out and getting, but when everybody else does. For a lot of reasons. Because if you have it all staged,

[00:29:00] like you probably get it for a better price if you're buying, you know, ahead of time. And you're not standing in line and all the tempers and all that stuff that's, you know, time wasted, tempers you have to deal with. It's just so much better.

[00:29:14] Sharks that are out there looking to take people, you know, advantage of people that are in a obscured mind state, right? You're not as attentive to your situational awareness because you have so much on your mind. So then of course, can you survive multiple days without power?

[00:29:37] You know, every time the hurricane comes through Texas and that is like, you know, they're out of power for a while. Tornadoes come through. You're out of power for a while. Do you have a plan for like how I'm gonna survive without power? What's your temperature?

[00:29:54] Right now without power in Texas, let's go real worst. You go suck sandwich. Yeah. I think I'd rather like be up north where I could build a fire to stay warm rather than yeah, the air conditioner go down and we're just freaking hot potatoes, you know?

[00:30:13] So hard to sleep when it's hot. Yeah. The hardest time. No, you literally have to like drape your sheets like like dampen the sheets so that it's cool over the top of you. I have an article on that as well. If anybody is facing that one,

[00:30:27] like how to keep cool in the heat. So many preparedness people are like, yeah I've got three freezers full of meat. I'm gonna be so set up cause I got these three freezers full of meat. Well, when the power goes down in a place like Texas especially.

[00:30:49] Yeah, I'm at a barbecue. Yeah. What do you intend on doing with all the stuff in your freezers? You know, this isn't a situation where you can just throw everything in a cooler. Like in Michigan when the power goes down it was winter time,

[00:31:07] you can put stuff outside. Put it outside, yeah. Right. So as you keep the animals out, you're good. Yeah, but here, you know, everything is gone in the freezers. I've watched a lot of freezers go down in just the little storms, just a couple days of storms.

[00:31:23] And like one of my buddies, I'd give him tons of frozen peaches and he's like, yeah, I lost everything cause the freezer went down. Dude, you know, you gotta think about that ahead of time. What are you gonna do with your freezer stuff?

[00:31:39] Insurance note, if you're filing an insurance claim anyway because of damage, typically that food is covered on your insurance policy if it was like an unforeseen outage. Like there's a trigger for your insurance policy to go to a defect anyway. Then that food is usually covered

[00:31:58] as long as it's above your deductible amount. So if you're already filing a claim for something anyway and you lost a whole bunch of stuff in your freezer, you might as well tack that on as loss. So it does work. How do you like take pictures of it

[00:32:11] or how do you give what's like proof of? Yeah, you can. Usually at that point when we're, you know, it usually goes into a catastrophic loss. So once you're in cat loss, they have already paid out over $24 million.

[00:32:26] They know a lot of people lost a lot of stuff. So they're a lot less likely to kind of, you know, nitpick what was in there. If you were like, yeah, I had a whole freezer full of prime rib and, you know, T-bones,

[00:32:40] then, you know, maybe they're gonna question that a little bit more. What if he did? I mean, if he just bought like half a cow or something. Honestly, I had a client who is a chef and he's got a lot of money.

[00:32:52] And so what was in his freezer? It was lobster and like all kinds of really expensive meat and whatnot. So yeah, his was like upwards of, you know, $7,000 in that freezer. But you could easily like open the freezer,

[00:33:06] take a picture and then lay some of the stuff out and take another, you know, some more pictures. Just it's just proof. It's safer to have the proof than to try to, you know, after you've already thrown it out or however we got rid of it.

[00:33:20] And it's so easy these days, right? Like you just have to save receipts or whatever. Now what I tell everybody, yeah, I'm like, you got a cell phone, just go around your house and video, you know, what you have. Yeah, or take pictures, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

[00:33:34] Store them in a cloud somewhere. And if anything were to ever happen, you have the evidence right there of what it was. So yeah, really important to take pictures when stuff happens, of course always. But like I say, they're a lot less likely

[00:33:48] to kind of nitpick through that claim when it is a catastrophic loss situation. And usually these mega storms, yeah, we're there. We're there like every time. That's why insurance is getting so crazy. And why everybody's prices are going up so much. Right. Mm-hmm. Okay, so during the storm,

[00:34:10] what's your safest shelter location? Probably wherever you stored that food. The wine cellar. Right, that's your, well it depends right? Is it, well yeah, the wine cellar. That's only where Iroca survives every time. That's my favorite. I don't even like wine. She gets stuck there all the time.

[00:34:32] Yeah, it's like, oh my goodness, I'd have such a hangover. Right, like, she did, she did like the first time. She's like, well what do I do? Let's drink. Yeah, so probably wherever you stored your food is the safest location for you to be as well.

[00:34:57] Have a route plan for your family. You can have the family map that we always talk about with your grid on it that only your family knows. If you have a group and you have other people that are supposed to meet you, they better have that same map.

[00:35:12] And also if you have secondary locations planned, then you have to have a way of telling them which route you took because they could take a totally different route. You never make it there, you know. And maybe they could've saved you along the way or something right?

[00:35:31] So that, we're actually going through that with some of the people in our group right now is like, okay if we were to move from location to location there's a few ways to get that done. How would we give them the heads up

[00:35:45] which route we took to get there? So that's a... Just write some simple, like A, B, C or one, two, three on whatever, a mirror or refrigerator or something that they would go, everybody knows to go check to point towards which route you took.

[00:36:06] Everybody knows route A is this way out of town. Right and you could do like, we're going to location say G4 hyphen with the A or whatever and then everybody would go, okay, that's route A is what they took.

[00:36:21] So it's just a little addition that we've recently made because it was like, oh, that's important as well. I mean, when we don't have vehicles you can't travel as quickly. God forbid if you were on foot or anything you might never make it.

[00:36:33] That's a long way to walk places, you know. Yeah, I mean Google maps something and then put it on the walking and see how long it takes to get places. Yeah, I mean we think of it like, oh no big deal

[00:36:46] I'll be over in North Carolina a couple days. Boop, I'm there, right? But like if I was walking there God knows if I'd ever make it, you know especially in that type of situation. We're holding thinner for her. Yeah, right? So that's definitely food for thought there

[00:37:06] and that's just something that came up in our strategizing and was like, oh yeah, that makes perfect sense. Don't put yourself at risk to save material things. How many people have died because they were trying to save their car when it was getting washed away by floodwaters?

[00:37:27] You know, it's just ridiculous. Don't put your own life at risk. If you're covered properly on your vehicle that's gonna be covered anyway and sorry to keep jumping into insurance land but like your comprehensive coverage is what covers the vehicle from acts of God basically.

[00:37:50] That's your flooding, your fire, any trees falling out at you know, rodents getting into it that kind of thing. It's usually a cheaper of the two physical damage coverages for your vehicle. So I know that auto insurance is getting really expensive everywhere.

[00:38:05] So you can opt to just have that comprehensive coverage on it and not the collision. And at least if there was a flood or like your car got injured in the storm or whatever and really at the end of the day, it's a car, not your life.

[00:38:20] So let the thing go. You know, I don't understand that. Really was James Yeager, God bless his soul that hit that home. It was like somebody's coming for your house. You're gonna suit up and you're gonna stand outside and defend it, screw it. You know, that's your life.

[00:38:42] That's your family's life for what? For stuff. Like stuff can be replaced, but those people can't. And now because you were trying to stand up and be all tough and whatnot, you know, people got hurt and you'll never be able to, you know, that's a tough one.

[00:39:01] So let the stuff go. It's just stuff, material stuff. We don't need it. Jesus didn't, we don't. All right, after the storm, do you have any more pointers for during the storm? We talk a lot about evacuees. Have a good novel to read.

[00:39:18] One of the changing earth series is probably. Yes, yes. Don't take your mind off. Definitely have a good novel to read. And you can buy those at Amazon. You can also head on over to changing earth series. The Leave of Five Star Review.

[00:39:34] Yes, the Leave of Five Star Review. You got it, you got it. And I'd really appreciate it. So after the storm, water and electricity never mix. So if there's like any risk that that water is lit up with electricity, do not go near it.

[00:39:56] Like figure something else out. There's so many, a lot of the deaths that I read about when I'm doing the changing earth news for you guys is all because of electrocution in the flood. Not like that people were drowned in the flood waters or whatever.

[00:40:14] A lot of deaths due to landslides as well. So be aware of like how saturated is your ground? What's going on with that? Because as we get more and more of these mega storms that are coming through, vast amounts of water that we're not used to,

[00:40:31] it's gonna create new thought patterns as far as like what does that look like if you're living in the mountains? I was always worried about my little manufacturer at home just right off the hill, bloop down to the bottom. We go.

[00:40:47] Man, I have never looked at trees the same. Uh-huh. It's amazing how these trees just like topple over because of heavy, like the root system gets compromised or heavy winds and they'll just crack and just quickly it will fall. Yeah, and like the root balls,

[00:41:07] you know that those roots go out as far as the tree, the canopy above it does, but you get that combination of the super saturated ground with that wind on top and just boom, takes them right out. There's been something else to watch down here in Texas too

[00:41:23] with all the 90 mile an hour winds. I had a tree fall what, 10 yards from my house. It's like just fell. Yeah. I was like, we heard a big crash. I looked outside the whole roof wall came out of the ground.

[00:41:38] We had a huge one out in front of our house when we lived in Cali. It cracked in half. Like the roots didn't even come up. It cracked in the trunk and went down. We never even heard it. We just walked outside. It's crazy. It was like, whoa.

[00:41:55] And that was a big tree. I never thought about down in suburbia, but up here in the mountains, holy smokes. Yeah, started thinking about it. And you should think about it in suburbia just as much. They come down a lot. They do a lot of damage.

[00:42:10] I take a lot of claims on it. Well, yeah. A lot of the suburbia where I was, it was pre-planned so like they clear cut everything and then they planted these little trees. Yeah, the fancy trees. Yeah, it was the old growth stuff.

[00:42:25] That's how they do it more here in Texas as well. Yeah, which is sad but anyway. So beware of any damage that hasn't fallen yet. So exactly what you're saying, the trees. Is there something that's like, oh hey, that limb is actually busted

[00:42:42] and it's about ready to come down. It's just being held up because it's wedged against this other part. Electrical lines can be the same way. Your home can be the same way. So my neighbor had roof damage, we had roof damage

[00:42:57] but the shingles are coming off of his house, right? And some were like just barely there and they've fallen down and stuff. So look up, yeah, look up. You could always have a hard helmet or whatever people do. So I mean, your head is your most precious.

[00:43:17] And be proactive too. Like I sent you picture. I was rented a cherry picker and we were doing work on my house. And then I went over to my neighbor's house, we pruned some of the trees that had branches, dead branches around his house.

[00:43:31] So they were like, you know, that's a storm risk. So we got up there and cut them down. I already had the equipment so we just went over and did it. Bingo, yep. Very neighborly thing to do as well. You're building camaraderie. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:43:46] You're the man, Chan. Such a big heart. Look up, man. Yeah, okay. Does something need to be tarped or secured better? So if you're- And do you have tarps? Yeah, yeah. That's a plan before the storm, right? Plan before the storm. We always have a ton of them

[00:44:07] because you just never know. That could be your tank, you know? So you got to, in the insurance world and stuff, even with FEMA, they're gonna want you to take precautions so that you mitigate future damage. Yeah. So if a hole just opened in a roof,

[00:44:25] you can't just like, all of my roof, you know, you have to actually like take steps to mitigate that damage. People are gonna be very, very busy. So like, roofers not gonna be there instantly. They're gonna start triaging basically the order of priority, you know?

[00:44:45] Depending on how bad it is. So definitely, no, you know, what have that stuff, the tarp all of that so that you can take them to mitigate it. Yep. Okay. All right. So one thing too, so we moved to a new location obviously

[00:45:10] and it really gives us a chance to see like, how did the water flow during the storm? There's areas of our property that became like river-esque, you know? You were like, oh, okay. I see what's happening there now. The golfers have completely filled the cauldron,

[00:45:29] the thing that goes under the driveway. There's just no, it's completely full of dirt now. So we put gardens. The golfers, the critters? Yeah, they completely like, the sand grows here. It just like grows. It does. I'm telling you, we have like a pilot.

[00:45:52] That's like a horror movie, The Growing Sand. Yeah. Oh, okay. Garden girl's finally here. She says we're still choppy. So I'm gonna try, I'm gonna just, I'm gonna play with something real quick and see if this makes it better. Since we have somebody out there. Okay.

[00:46:09] How does that sound? Garden girl, does that sound any better? Pardon me, well, we do a little sound check here. I just needed to know. So let me know how that sounds. Tell me if that sounds any better. Looks like I'm still doing well. So let me know.

[00:46:26] So that's something we put in gardens in the backyard and like how does the water flow around where we put the gardens in and whatnot, right? Cause we didn't- Oh yeah, it could take you out. Right? Exactly. Did we change the flow? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Right? And just,

[00:46:46] did we change the flow of the water in the backyard so it's not weeping off as well? It's now building up at X, Y or Z behind our house, right? So those are things that when we were putting them in, we didn't really think about that.

[00:46:59] It's all sunny, nice, everything. You know, luckily we did put them in good areas and we do have the nice drainage but we got that taken care of. Okay, so the sounds like my audio is better now. Thank you so much GardenGrow. That's what I was wondering.

[00:47:16] There's a couple of different settings for this new computer has many options for me. So I appreciate that. Thank you for giving me that feedback. So yeah, just something you don't think about. You're just like out in your yard, you're doing landscaping. You want this, there, that here

[00:47:36] and you know, you didn't really realize how it was gonna affect things. Okay, after the flood, mold prevention. Where did the water get? Did it get in your house? Did it come in your garage? Did it get a rug? You know, be aware of this stuff

[00:47:55] and make sure that you are on top of mold prevention. You do not want mold to start in your house. It requires hazmat stuff and whatnot to clean it up. It gets expensive fast. So if you can stop it at the onset, you're gonna be way better off

[00:48:12] and that might involve cutting out drywall and cutting out insulation and whatnot. But trust me, it's way worth it to take care of it when the problem occurs rather than, oh my gosh, now we have walls full of mold. One thing that you really made me think about

[00:48:32] was the roadways. Right? How's the roads now? What does that look like? One of our roads, like, because there's two ways, well, there's four ways, but like two of the main ways into our house. One of the roads, half of it was washed away

[00:48:48] and the last flooding that we had. Yeah. And it's still that way. I mean, it's still pretty bad. So that's something to know about that when you're in that situation, that is not an exit route for us. And did you see the pictures of the flooding at Dollywood?

[00:49:06] I had like this flash rain, like heavy rainstorm. And there was like rivers through the amusement park and it washed away one of the roads to get to the parking so that everybody had to like eat back through this other route. It was amazing. Crazy.

[00:49:25] I mean, it's water's a powerful force. It is. It really is. So that's important to respect it. I always respect water, river, ocean, flooding, you know, whatever water deserves respect. Okay. And then communities assisting communities. So you did great. You made it. You were fine.

[00:49:48] Everything's good for you. What about everybody else? You know, is your community in need of you? That's your community, the assistance teams, the cert teams. So if you haven't listened to that show, go back and listen to it. But where can you get help? How can you help?

[00:50:08] So, Phil and the chainsaw store he, right? You might need a chainsaw. Do you know how to safely get on a roof? Do you know how to shut off power? Do you know how to shut off gas?

[00:50:25] Is your husband the only one who knows how to do that? Then he better be teaching everybody else in the house how to do that. Cause what if he's not there? Yep. So those are all really, really important aspects as well.

[00:50:37] So again, your insurance company should be able to help you out. They're gonna provide some financial help as long as that loss is covered by your insurance policy. If it's flooding, unless you have a flood insurance policy, it is not going to be covered.

[00:50:55] That's just how it is. A lot of companies are going to like double deductibles for wind damage on roofs and things like that. So it's really important that you know your policy language ahead of time. And I mean, there's agents all over the place.

[00:51:11] So I guarantee you, if you keep calling around to different agents that are actually working with clients that you can find somebody to actually look through it even if you're not their client cause they might be helpful of getting one or they're just nice people like me

[00:51:26] who are gonna help you out anyway and walk you through your policy a little bit as best they can. FEMA provides additional help for flooding in particular because what your insurance company just denies now FEMA is gonna take a look at for you.

[00:51:47] So it is an option to use FEMA but remember they're gonna be super busy. There are tons of natural disasters happening all over our country right now, all over the world. And it's gonna be a longer process. So you better know how to survive on your own

[00:52:02] without thinking that FEMA is gonna be cutting you a check like in a week cause that is never gonna happen. It'll probably be more like a year. Government help, gotta love it. But it's something, it's some kind of a safety net

[00:52:18] which is cool to have a safety net there. All right, we gotta get into, oh changing earth news. Oh my gosh, look at how time's up. You got any? You got any good stuff for us this week? Ha.

[00:52:29] Please, it is so exciting of a time to be on our planet. It is wigging out, it's awesome. So well, I mean if you're like an earth junkie like me it's awesome. But I think it's really, really exciting cause it's been really stable for a long time

[00:52:49] and now we're gonna get to witness the rock and roll. So okay, here we go, weather news. All right, so changing earth news. So we were not here last week and something very exciting happened last week. The hot spring at Yellowstone exploded like a geyser

[00:53:15] and they're like, oh this is the hot spring and it's like a geyser. And they're like, oh this is the hot spring and it's like a geyser. And they're like, oh this happens like once a decade. No it doesn't, okay?

[00:53:31] It doesn't, it's never happened in my lifetime before. Like maybe once a century, maybe, but media was just trying to like pass it off like, oh yeah, it's toys, it happens all the time. No, normal thing, nothing to see here, you know? No, it doesn't, okay?

[00:53:50] It's crazy, it was really cool to see so if you haven't seen it yet, just look up like the Yellowstone hot spring geyser and you're gonna see it. It wasn't like a geyser like old faithful, like purr, one little string.

[00:54:03] It was like the whole hot spring into the air boulders the size of your head coming out of it. So really neat stuff. So check it out, of course, you know, I don't think anybody was injured in the making of that video.

[00:54:22] So, you know, but it was really dangerous because there was people like right there when it happened, nobody was expecting that because it doesn't happen, it's not normal. So, but at that same time, there was actually a ring of earthquakes because like earthquakes travel along fault lines

[00:54:40] and like waves and they went all the way around the whole planet in a straight line and Yellowstone was the last spot to hit, bam, it went. Oh, serious. Dutch Sense, if you watch Dutch Sense, you had like the whole video on it.

[00:54:55] Dude, it was crazy to see just how perfectly lined up it all is. He's really smart when it comes to earthquakes. He has some really good theories on their movement and when certain quakes are gonna hit where. So Dutch Sense, like S-E-N-S-E, Dutch Sense.

[00:55:15] Okay, so the other really crazy thing that happened was there was two cyclones out in the Pacific Ocean. Basically hurricanes, they just call them cyclones, we call them hurricanes and you might call it a cyclone depending on where you are in the world,

[00:55:32] but nonetheless, the one goes and like bounced off the Taiwanese mountains over there in Thailand and like spun, it swirls back up, joins in with, it's gamia, G-A-E-M-A was the cyclone name. They joined together in a mega cyclone and just smack Western China

[00:56:00] and so much flooding and damage and they were already like super flooded. That's like where they're growing all their rice and stuff. That's another huge bread basket of the world. That happened and Kali, those people had just been getting hit after hit.

[00:56:18] So saying a lot of prayers for the people over there because that was just like the mega convergence that doesn't happen. So that was the other thing that I was like, oh gosh, I'm gonna miss this on Changed Earth News. But guys, food-wise you better be prepared.

[00:56:37] We have had so much weird weather in the United States and gosh knows what they're doing with the politicalness. You know, Idaho is out, the farmers are out protesting and whatnot, Ukraine's not producing Brazil. Southern Brazil has gotten hit by massive amounts of flooding,

[00:56:53] devastated wetlands over there by fire. Southwest China has gotten hit and so like food-wise, I've raised the alarm before but man with inflation and everything going on if you're prepared and it doesn't come great, no harm, no foul, you invested in food.

[00:57:12] But if you're not prepared, I'm sorry for, like you better get there right now. Beans, rice, basics, vinegar, salt, honey, you know, get it done now because you might regret if you don't. Okay, so sun today, the sun. So we've been having all these minor geo storms

[00:57:34] from the sun, not really a big deal and class flares kind of consistently causing low level geo magnetic storms, not really like the hugest deal besides it excites our planet a little bit which you're gonna be able to see when we get into our volcanic activity.

[00:57:51] But sorry, I'm getting all excited now, I'm getting choked up. It doesn't just excite the planet, it excites Sarah. Right, I know. Like, boom, it actually does. It does, like people react definitely to the CME energy that comes off of there and some people get really angry.

[00:58:11] That's why I pay attention because then I know if my clients are gonna be like weirder than they're no longer. But we have this huge, huge sunspot turning in towards Earth. So for something you don't usually watch, probably a good idea to go check it out

[00:58:28] just to see this huge sunspot because it's really big. So check out Suspicious Observers, it'll be Earth facing, probably by tomorrow we should be able to see it on the sun feed. So check out Suspicious Observers in the morning and check that out.

[00:58:47] Okay, so we have that going on, let's jump into our week, we're gonna try and blast through it, I'm way behind. So 29th, we had a 5.1 in Vietnam Lous, we had lots of activity going on, 373 earthquakes or six point, that were 2.0 or bigger,

[00:59:06] biggest of which there was a 6.9 in the South Pacific Ocean near Fiji. On the 30th, there was that second eruption of the hot spring there at Yellowstone. We had 357 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger, biggest of which was a 5.1 in Greenland which you don't normally see

[00:59:29] but you know Iceland has been getting so active with their volcanic activity in their earthquakes and so I'm not really surprised to see it in Greenland but it's just not typical when I look at the maps and stuff, see especially the biggest one up there.

[00:59:48] There was a, we're going into the 31st, so on the 31st there was 382 earthquakes or 2.0 or bigger, biggest of which was a 5.7 in the South Pacific Ocean right near Fiji again, some deep quakes hitting down there. There was a 4.7 earthquake in Utah

[01:00:08] and so if you look up on a map, Google in the North American Cretan and you'll see exactly the plate of the United States that sits, that dominates the United States of America and I've been watching earthquakes just ignite all around that thing.

[01:00:29] We had the one weird one a couple of weeks ago in the top of Maine, we had that Yellowstone activity, Texas got hit by 5.1, that one's coming up, Utah, they're all on the North American Cretan so it's actually starting to move a little bit more

[01:00:45] and that can be really devastational for things like San Andreas Fault, lines, the volcanoes that are all along the West Coast and then also places like St. Louis and Memphis where the New Madrid line comes through there. So guys be ready, this is just,

[01:01:09] it's crazy stuff as far as it goes. So in Vermont and United States they had some flash flooding that's leaving homes and businesses damaged. Again, that's your dig out after those floodwaters comes through. In Canada's Western provinces, thousands were under evacuation orders

[01:01:26] due to wildfires, it's just breaking loose up there. In Mears Freeboro, Tennessee, there was an EF-0 tornado, it's a zero but still there was a tornado touchdown for the first time ever in the month of July. So that is notable, like the tornadoes are like,

[01:01:44] nah, we're not done. Like we're not going away this year. The California Park Fire created this huge fire tornado. This is a fire that's up in Northern California. We're gonna talk about it in a minute but it has already grown to their fourth largest fire.

[01:02:02] It is not good. There's a big Habub, the Arizona Habub's just fun to say it's basically a dust storm and there was an explosive eruption at Fuego volcano. On August 1st, there was 360 earthquakes or 2.0 or bigger, the biggest of which was a 5.6

[01:02:23] in the North Pacific Ocean near the Aleutian Islands. So this is, we're talking Alaska, we're talking our islands up there, lots of volcanoes up there. They're showing minor activity but nothing of no eruption activity at this time. There was a 4.9 earthquake near Barstow, South Carolina.

[01:02:43] So again, that's the Cretan moving. Surrey County, Texas, 85 earthquakes in the past week they had a 5.1 on the 1st of August and they are starting to do a lot of investigation now into what is going on over there. They do a lot of fracking

[01:03:04] where they're putting the water back into the earth but with that Cretan sliding, it's gonna look for areas of release. And so if you put a hole in a balloon, where is the air gonna come out? Right, it's gonna come out that hole.

[01:03:21] So when we do fracking and we do oil and that we're drilling into the earth, into the rock, we're actually providing it with a release point. So it makes sense that that type of activity would be happening more around where we're fracking, where we're doing oil drilling.

[01:03:41] Where are we at? 4.9 earthquake in SoCal. BC had a massive landslide on the Chilcotin River causing flooding concerns. They're worried that it was gonna bind that river up and they're gonna have a flooding after that. China, the tofu bridge collapsed.

[01:03:57] I don't know why they built it out of tofu but China had the best idea. No, I'm kidding. It was bad, it's not a joking matter and prayers for everybody that's involved there. I just found it a little funny. Nebraska 90 mile an hour winds uprooted trees.

[01:04:16] There are 80,000 people without power in Kansas City when that storm came across our plains. On the 2nd of August, there was 365 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger. Biggest of which was a 6.8 in the Philippines Sea near the Philippines, go figure. Thousands of earthquakes hit Mount St. Helens.

[01:04:36] These are little swarms so no big ones but when you get a lot of activity like that it really makes you concerned with what's going on. North Korea, another one. North Korea is flooded and Kim Jong-un was out in his boat surveying the damage

[01:04:54] and they ran into a tree. So that was pretty funny. Russia is sending assistance to North Korea because of the flooding there. Is he still stuck on the tree? Russia trying to get them out. Yeah, they're sending assistance, Russia's. China, unfortunately there was dozens of people

[01:05:16] who died after Gamy came through. That was that cyclone that converged with the other one. Dozens of people died from that event and there was people literally like in my books trapped in areas under floodwaters and things like that and I don't wish that upon anybody

[01:05:35] so prayers for the families of everybody involved there and I hope that situation improves soon for them. Oregon is experiencing massive wildfires. They're actually number one on our list this week. The Turkey fire on the second had already reached 300,000 acres. They had it 52% contained on Thursday.

[01:06:04] Idaho having some really bad wildfires as well and Nevada, Nevada, Dalrues volcano in Columbia erupted and there was, oh no we did the earthquake information. Okay August 3rd, 320 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger, biggest of which was a 6.3 in the Philippines.

[01:06:25] See two really big earthquakes there over by the Philippines. This is all ring of fire activity in Bengal and India. They all of Northern India actually is a very big humanitarian concern right now. They have been having massive flooding up there,

[01:06:42] mega landslides going on, they are losing lives up there and it's a really big problem so they're having a lot of flooding issues there as well. Sudan also flooding and they are just more and more people are going into these rescue shelters that are already famine-ridden

[01:07:04] so a big humanitarian crisis there as well. California, that park fire that I was talking about has reached 400,000 acres plus, 560 structures have already been destroyed so you can take like say some of those are sheds right? Some of those are just like little outbuildings

[01:07:26] or things like that but just think it was 500 homes at $500,000 pot. You can do the math on what that cost is. It's just insane and then people are like, why are my prices going up? Well, there you go. Alberta, Canada, the Jasper fire is up to 7,500 hectares

[01:07:53] so that hectares is like 2.4 I think of an acre so that's 14,000 acres over there. Three major wildfires still burning in Colorado. One person has died in that, that was in the National Guard and then Cuba was hit by the tropical disturbance Debbie yesterday.

[01:08:16] Debbie is inbound Florida right now probably hitting pretty much as we speak and then she's gonna be moving north so guys this was a great day to hear about the mega storms please be prepared, please be ready. They're expecting a lot of tornadoes activity

[01:08:31] and things like that out ahead of the storm. So these storms have been nothing to play with and it's better to just be ready for it and have it not be a huge deal than not be ready obviously. Okay, so today 382 earthquakes are 2.0 or bigger

[01:08:48] biggest of which was a 5.5 in the Central Mid Atlantic Ridge, Pakistan, the Glacial Lake burst its river banks again it's wrapped up in that same type of flooding situation as Northern India. At least three people dead there. New violent eruption of Mount Etna happened this morning

[01:09:10] and if you go to Zoom Earth, it's called Zoom Earth you can look at what tropical disturbances are kind of manifesting out in the ocean and there's two more cyclones that look like they're gonna rev up to take aim at Western China again. Hopefully that won't happen

[01:09:31] but they are poised kind of sitting out there in the ocean right now, getting ready to move. As far as volcanoes it's been two weeks since we had our last volcano update. So we have 34 volcanoes, 34 volcanoes actively erupting. That's the most ever that I've ever seen

[01:09:54] in years of recording. Typically a 28 is like a lot but we have 34, we have 28 showing minor activity and we have 27 showing unrest. We have just been adding to our list as the weeks go. So this time we added one to erupting we lost one in minor activity

[01:10:15] but we also added one in unrest. So you're looking at another volcano added to the total count. I didn't add them up this week. Also, national wildfire news is not good. We are at a preparedness level of five and just two weeks the amount

[01:10:37] of actively burning acreage has gone up 1,420,000 acres. That is insane. Currently in the United States there is 2,166 plus 1,000 acres on fire. We have two new fires, 85 total and only six of those fires are contained. The number one state on the list is Oregon with 998,000 plus acres on fire.

[01:11:06] This is from 25 new fires today and none of those are contained. So that is really bad news for Oregon right now. They do not have as much mass as California to be having 998,000 acres on fire. California is ranking number two on the list.

[01:11:29] They got a big fire going up North they got a big fire going down South, 528,000 acres currently on fire. Most of those are from the Park Fire up North. They have no new fires. They have 11 fires currently burning and two of those fires are contained.

[01:11:46] Washington is number three on the list. See the West Coast has just been getting the high pressure ridge sitting in there. They have not been getting any of the rain. They have not been getting any of the cool down. It's just been hot and dry.

[01:11:59] So Washington number three on the list, 151,000 acres plus no new fires, seven fires currently burning. None of those fires are contained. The number four on the list Idaho, 62,000 plus acres on fire, one new fire, 10 fires currently burning and two of those fires are contained.

[01:12:21] So if you are on the West Coast, be wildfire ready man. I think it's a perfect little storm out there. If you're in Florida on the South, brace for impact cause she's coming. At least it's not like Hurricane. It's only tropical storm but it's supposed to be cranking

[01:12:38] some wind through there. So be careful and lots of rain as well coming with this event. So everybody stay safe and be prepared. That's what it's all about. Alrighty, I told you I had a big, I was way late. I should have stopped us earlier on our discussion.

[01:12:57] I was sorry everybody who had plans at 630 or whatever time it is in your end of the world but tons of stuff going on. I mean it's crazy. And then the Olympics of course is a whole nother can of worms but it's been hot over there as well.

[01:13:20] We'll just look at it from a weather point of view. So, alrighty. Well thanks everybody for coming and listening. We're gonna get out of here. We've already been on too long. Head on over to Amazon. Leave me a review for my books,

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