Surviving Volcanic Eruptions, Virgis Ch 47

[00:00:09] 47. They raced across the desert, hoping to arrive in time to help the residents of

[00:01:09] this parking lot. Let's see if we can find a detour, Cole told him. Looks like it ends

[00:01:14] over there. We may have to do some four-wheeling, but we can make it, Monroe suggested, pointing

[00:01:20] out the direction. Here we go, Chappie cheered as the truck bounced across the dirt. Johnny

[00:01:27] smiled widely jazzed from the adventure. Woohoo! I'm glad I came out here. This

[00:01:34] Wait till you see a lava flow. You may think twice, Chappie warned. Speaking of, we need

[00:01:40] to move. These people are counting on us. We need to get there before the Feds, Cole

[00:01:45] insisted. Wouldn't the Feds help, sir? Johnny inquired. They'll save the supplies, but

[00:01:51] they could care less about the people, Monroe explained. Johnny's brow furrowed

[00:01:56] curiously. How can they do that? Welcome to the Badlands, Chappie told the young

[00:02:02] man. There's no one out here to stop them, Monroe interjected. Except us, Cole added

[00:02:09] confidently. There's the smoke, Chappie pointed out at the horizon. Where? Johnny

[00:02:15] asked, poking his head between the two front seats to get a better view. See it

[00:02:20] out on the horizon? I see it, Johnny said excitedly. They watched it grow closer

[00:02:26] and closer. Someone is already here helping, Jessup declared as they approached.

[00:02:31] Who? Johnny wondered, craning his head to see. I don't know, but you can see

[00:02:36] their trucks lined up over there, Jessup explained, pointing at the vehicles.

[00:02:41] Maybe the Feds are already here, Chappie suggested. Look at those vehicles.

[00:02:47] They're not Federal transports, Monroe corrected, noticing their piecemeal

[00:02:51] construction. Oh crap, Cole mumbled, recognizing a figure he knew well in the

[00:02:57] distance. What, Major? Johnny wondered, hearing his reaction. It's the Western

[00:03:03] militia, Cole answered. Should I get the rifles ready, sir? Jessup inquired.

[00:03:08] No, we aren't doing any more killing today. If they're here to help, let

[00:03:13] them do it, Cole instructed. But sir, the Feds are hunting them. They're on our

[00:03:19] bounty list, Jessup countered. You heard my order, Private, Cole snapped back.

[00:03:24] Yes, sir, the young soldier acquiesced. Our first priority is getting those

[00:03:29] people to safety, no matter what it takes to achieve that goal, Cole

[00:03:34] informed him. Yes, sir, Jessup agreed as they pulled up. The heat from

[00:03:39] the lava was oppressive, and the buildings ignited one by one as it oozed

[00:03:44] down the street. The Mercs are here, weapons ready, one of the militia

[00:03:48] members called, but Cassidy's voice quickly canceled that order. Stow

[00:03:53] that weapon, Soldier, Cassidy insisted, watching Cole approach. We came to

[00:03:58] help. We'll save our fight for another day, Cole told her. We've got people

[00:04:03] sheltering in that building to the north. The lava is at the bottom. We need a

[00:04:08] bridge up high to get them out, Cassidy informed him. Monroe, take your team

[00:04:13] and get it done, Cole directed. Yes, sir, Monroe responded, taking his men

[00:04:18] to follow Cole's order. Chappie, get your supplies and lend medical

[00:04:23] assistance, Cole commanded. Yes, sir, Chappie agreed, taking his men

[00:04:28] away. Johnny, you're with me, Cole directed. Jessup, shut our trucks

[00:04:33] down and cover them. Move those extra vehicles in a line over there. At

[00:04:37] this point, it will slow down the lava. I can help him, Johnny suggested.

[00:04:42] Tired of his men questioning his orders, Vergeous snapped, no, you stay

[00:04:47] with me. But Johnny began. Cole cut him off, looking directly at

[00:04:52] him for a moment. Do we have a problem, Private?

[00:04:57] Remembering his place, Johnny replied humbly, No, sir, good, Cole

[00:05:02] told him, watching Cassidy approach. She was full of purpose and her

[00:05:07] passion always aroused him. Major Vergeous, a moment of your time, she

[00:05:12] requested. Walking behind a vehicle with her, Cole asked quietly,

[00:05:17] What are you doing out here? The feds are en route, Cassidy. They'll

[00:05:22] kill you or take you in for the reward. She whispered back, We need

[00:05:27] your people and the supplies. We didn't have a choice. You need to get

[00:05:32] your people and go, now. Before he could convince her, his radio sounded

[00:05:37] requesting, Major Vergeous, status update. We have arrived at the

[00:05:42] target location. Self-ad operation underway, Cole replied. We're in

[00:05:47] route, ETA 30 minutes, standby for evacuation orders, the radio

[00:05:52] radio. We'll see you soon, he replied, Re-clipping the radio to his

[00:05:57] belt. He looked around, but Cassidy had left. He returned to the other

[00:06:02] side of the vehicle, where Johnny stood waiting for him. Where did

[00:06:07] she go? She's over at the lead truck, sir, Johnny replied.

[00:06:12] Approaching her, Cole told her flatly, That's it, Cassidy, they're

[00:06:17] leaving. We don't have enough to answer for as it is. Cassidy told her

[00:06:22] crew, That's it, guys, we're leaving now. She paused for a moment,

[00:06:27] looking coyly at Cole. Thank you, Vergeous, I'll make it up to you.

[00:06:32] Making a mental note to hold her to that promise, Cole said coolly,

[00:06:37] Yeah, yeah, just get the hell out of here. We're gone, she told

[00:06:42] her. Cole stood watching them leave, wondering how he would spin this

[00:06:47] story. Sir, the vehicles are in place, but I'm not sure how long they'll

[00:06:52] hold, Jessup reported. Monroe status update, Cole inquired on his

[00:06:57] radio. We're getting the last of them out now, sir, Monroe's voice

[00:07:02] answered. Chappie, get those injured loaded, Cole directed. I'll

[00:07:07] get them out of here. Yes, sir, Johnny answered. While loading

[00:07:12] whatever food, clothing and seed stock they could find, Johnny looked

[00:07:17] puzzled. What? Cole asked. What did Chappie mean by they're not leaving

[00:07:22] anyone behind? Johnny asked. If a refugee is hurt too badly,

[00:07:27] the feds won't transport them. They're not going to be able to

[00:07:32] transport them, Cole explained. What do they do? They shoot them,

[00:07:37] Cole responded coldly. What? Johnny asked, frozen in place and

[00:07:42] looking at Cole in disbelief. We don't have time for this

[00:07:47] discussion now. Go get as much as you can. Trust me, we're going

[00:07:52] to need it. Look for tires and oil. Yes, sir, Johnny agreed,

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[00:08:58] Hello and welcome back to the Changing Earth Podcast. This is

[00:09:26] episode number four hundred and forty seven, season fifteen,

[00:09:31] episode forty seven. Hey, Chin, what is up?

[00:09:36] Hey, Chin's up, y'all. Chin's back in the house. I had to break out

[00:09:41] the map to find my way back to the studio. I know. I was like, it's been like three weeks

[00:09:46] I think. It's almost like a month. Shoot. So, yeah, we're doing lots

[00:09:51] of catching up in the green room. Love to see everybody in chat. Hello, guys. How you doing?

[00:09:56] Hope everybody is doing well tonight being that

[00:10:01] the United States got its butt kicked by some storms over the last week.

[00:10:06] So we'll be talking about that later in the Changing Earth News. Yeah, we had

[00:10:11] tornado warnings. Right? Yeah. Where I live. Yeah, I know. In the Carolinas.

[00:10:16] I was like, what? I woke up in the middle of the night. We're like running for shelter.

[00:10:21] Yeah, Pennsylvania got hit by like a bomb. You could hear the sirens outside.

[00:10:26] I'm like, where the hell are those sirens coming from? Right? Yeah.

[00:10:31] We had one go east of us, one go west of us, but we were

[00:10:36] like in the center good spot. I don't know what happened there. I think there's a dam

[00:10:41] within hearing distance. The siren was probably originally put there for the

[00:10:46] dam, but I think they used it. Yeah, just in case. Yeah.

[00:10:51] That was crazy because that's the only one that I could think of that would be anywhere

[00:10:56] close enough to even hear anything. Right? I've never heard the actual alarm go off.

[00:11:01] I don't know. I guess we have either. That's the first time. Yeah.

[00:11:06] I mean, when I grew up Michigan that we had one right across the street, they

[00:11:11] tested it every Saturday at one o'clock. It was the worst. Oh, really?

[00:11:16] Yeah. He'd be out doing something. So.

[00:11:21] All right. Well, yeah, we had the blooper show, which was awesome. Good time.

[00:11:26] The blooper shows are always hilarious. And then we had a Girls of Prepper Camp show.

[00:11:31] Everybody good feedback from that show. Everybody enjoyed that one.

[00:11:36] And I enjoyed that one. I like I said, I've been trying to get that show to go for like four years.

[00:11:41] Finally, like it wasn't hard to do. You know, everybody's there and willing.

[00:11:46] It was just me actually setting it up and doing it. So that was really, really fun.

[00:11:51] This was true Girls of Prepper Camp, not non-binary.

[00:11:56] Oh, gosh. Yeah, I had I had to bow out and I listened like everybody else as a participant in the background.

[00:12:05] Yeah. I didn't put a dress on and make mascara and join them.

[00:12:10] No, I told him, get out of here.

[00:12:13] I asked. I did ask her if she needed me to put a dress on for the show that night.

[00:12:19] Now you got a Willie that doesn't count.

[00:12:25] Yeah, I appreciate everybody who listened to that show and took the time to reach out.

[00:12:32] That's really awesome. And I always appreciate it.

[00:12:36] All right. So Virgis last week we had the battle to take back Oregon when you weren't here.

[00:12:43] And then this week they got rerouted to the volcano in Idaho and everybody's probably going volcano in Idaho.

[00:12:50] No, the bridge. Right.

[00:12:53] Well, it's it's my story. I can put volcanoes wherever I want to.

[00:12:57] So it's my story.

[00:13:03] No, they've showed that Yellowstone has moved a whole bunch and everything.

[00:13:06] So I was like, yeah, we're putting it there.

[00:13:08] But in the process, he runs into Cassidy and Virgis and Cassidy, the ongoing love saga.

[00:13:15] You know, got to have the love saga in there.

[00:13:18] So and then Johnny kind of gets his first taste of welcome to the Badlands as far as like what happens with people out there.

[00:13:27] So when I tell you reason some of the news that I have been reading today to catch up on the change in Earth news.

[00:13:35] Wow. I, you know, Brazil in particular, they're in big troubles.

[00:13:43] It's starting to look a lot like my story down there.

[00:13:46] So, you know, I can go into like background history on this.

[00:13:51] They they did a horrific festival where basically Satan won over Jesus and they were like, oh, my God.

[00:14:02] And then the floods have been coming ever since.

[00:14:06] Basically, the guy who played the Satan character, he died like unexpectedly.

[00:14:12] And then the floods have been coming ever since.

[00:14:16] So it's like, wow.

[00:14:18] OK, I think that you guys probably shouldn't have done that.

[00:14:22] In my opinion. But still prayers for everybody down there.

[00:14:28] That is just so horrific.

[00:14:30] We're going to really jump into it in the change in Earth news, but it's it's not good.

[00:14:34] We're going to put it that way.

[00:14:36] It just it doesn't like it doesn't stop there.

[00:14:39] The flooding is not stopping down there.

[00:14:41] So and it seems like a year we've been reporting on Brazil for like a year, you know, and it's just getting worse.

[00:14:50] So definitely something the mainstream media is not talking about, but we should be aware of.

[00:14:57] My mom even mentioned because she's like the mainstream media guru, you know, and she's like, you don't hear about that at all on Fox News.

[00:15:05] I wonder where they're getting their relief aid from.

[00:15:09] And I was like, wow, that's a darn good question right there.

[00:15:13] You know, where are they getting relief from if the United States isn't not really focused on it?

[00:15:18] You know, so it's not like we have big coffers left to.

[00:15:23] Yeah, fair enough.

[00:15:25] They're just kind of tapped out like we're elephant ears over here.

[00:15:30] But right, like the package is blown out, pulling out the box.

[00:15:35] That's uh huh. Yeah, elephant ears.

[00:15:37] So yeah, so that's where Verges says that and we're going to continue on with his story next week.

[00:15:44] There's some fun stuff coming up.

[00:15:46] We're coming in the end of the book.

[00:15:47] And you know, when you get to the end of a book like you don't want to put that thing down.

[00:15:53] Speaking of also coming to fruition, I should say,

[00:15:58] we are going to get ready to launch season four of the Change in Earth audio drama.

[00:16:04] Guys, hang on your seats because we're going to hit the ground running with this story.

[00:16:08] And it is just not going to stop this season.

[00:16:11] I was like looking at my scripts. I'm like, wow, I've had a lot of content in.

[00:16:17] So we're covering two novels, Battle for the South and Dark Days in Denver during this season.

[00:16:24] And anybody who knows my stories knows where it's going to end this season.

[00:16:28] So happy, happy, happy, happy.

[00:16:32] We're just going to rainbow unicorns.

[00:16:34] Yeah. Well, you started it out.

[00:16:36] We had to go into unicorns and fluffy land.

[00:16:41] So yeah, it's going to be action packed.

[00:16:44] I'm just debating now whether I'm going to do the launch.

[00:16:49] I think I'm going to do the second week of June or the last week of May.

[00:16:54] I will definitely keep you guys posted, though.

[00:16:56] But yeah, I'm supposed to be headed out of town during the first week of June to do some deep sea fishing.

[00:17:03] But if you heard what happened in Houston.

[00:17:07] Yeah, it's not good down there right now.

[00:17:11] So we'll see what that looks like.

[00:17:13] We also had another barge hit the bridge, the bridge that goes to Pelican Island and Galveston.

[00:17:19] Yeah. And yeah.

[00:17:21] So somehow my dad was able to talk me into staying on an island and going out of the ocean.

[00:17:30] Yeah.

[00:17:32] Yeah.

[00:17:33] You know, just another day.

[00:17:35] So if anybody knows me really well, you know, ocean is not something I do.

[00:17:41] You love that open water.

[00:17:42] I love that open water.

[00:17:44] Definitely.

[00:17:46] I grew up in Michigan.

[00:17:47] It's all freshwater, huge, big, you know, no sea creatures.

[00:17:54] I hope better and salt water.

[00:18:00] Fair enough.

[00:18:01] Can't argue with you there.

[00:18:03] All right.

[00:18:04] So let's talk a little bit about surviving a volcano.

[00:18:08] I've never really lived by a volcano.

[00:18:12] I would say NorCal would be, you know, the closest I've been to living by an actual volcano.

[00:18:20] I'm sure there are some that people don't know about up in there.

[00:18:24] But preparation is the best way to survive because I'm like, OK, how do you get out of lava?

[00:18:31] Like, how is there any way to undo this?

[00:18:35] Right.

[00:18:36] Being prepared is the way to survive a volcano.

[00:18:42] There's just no way about it.

[00:18:44] The people that survived when Mount St. Helens went, they had evac plans in place.

[00:18:50] They were ready to go, knew their stuff and left.

[00:18:54] You know, none of this like hanging out.

[00:18:58] You know, people stay with hurricanes or wildfires have done it, you know, that kind of thing.

[00:19:04] But with a volcano, that would be one instance where I would say like better to err on the leaving side.

[00:19:11] Mm hmm.

[00:19:12] Right.

[00:19:13] So so they have tons of websites, especially like if you're living up by Mount Rainier, obviously the West Coast can be dabbled.

[00:19:23] But there's also sites down south in the desert.

[00:19:27] There's also an ancient super volcano that's under like Maryland.

[00:19:33] Yeah.

[00:19:35] Yeah.

[00:19:37] So just because you're not by one doesn't mean that you might not want to like have knowledge on it.

[00:19:44] Also, once the earth starts really rattling and stuff, I mean, they can appear anywhere.

[00:19:51] It's not like I mean, by the fault lines, you know, but they can appear like new volcanoes are made.

[00:19:58] Old ones die kind of thing.

[00:20:00] So just still good.

[00:20:03] I would worry about fault lines in your area, like be aware of like where certain fault lines is or because that would be your biggest.

[00:20:12] That's where your earthquakes are going to happen.

[00:20:15] That's where any kind of that activity is going to happen.

[00:20:18] So that's another good thing to know about if you're like, well, I'm not anywhere near a volcano and I don't have to worry about it.

[00:20:25] Yeah.

[00:20:26] But where are you compared to the fault lines in your area?

[00:20:29] I think about that American sciences dot org.

[00:20:35] Good website for learning about, you know, just how to be prepared.

[00:20:42] That kind of thing.

[00:20:44] Know where the fault lines are and where volcanoes are in the United States.

[00:20:49] I every week I look at volcano discovery dot com.

[00:20:56] That's where I go and count up my volcano numbers.

[00:20:59] So I love that place, except they always want money.

[00:21:05] But who is it?

[00:21:06] We all need to do our business.

[00:21:08] I'll put that in the chat for you guys.

[00:21:11] Did you ever go to like someplace exotic where there would be a volcano there?

[00:21:19] Chin, you still there?

[00:21:25] Did I lose you?

[00:21:28] Am I talking to myself?

[00:21:31] I don't know.

[00:21:34] Well, we'll hear from chin as soon as I hear from him.

[00:21:37] Can you hear me now?

[00:21:38] I can hear you now.

[00:21:39] Yeah.

[00:21:40] How the heck did my mute just get out?

[00:21:42] I don't know.

[00:21:43] Skype.

[00:21:44] Do do do do do.

[00:21:47] Yeah, sky plane.

[00:21:48] Electronics have just been crazy really since the the CMEs we had last year or last week.

[00:21:55] I had everything in trash kids.

[00:21:58] Faraday bags.

[00:21:59] Oh, yeah.

[00:22:00] Well, seriously, you were not going to do so.

[00:22:04] Yeah.

[00:22:05] So I had all my toys wrapped up.

[00:22:07] Yeah.

[00:22:08] No joke.

[00:22:09] I was like, well, if it happens, like I this is as prepared as I'm going to get right here.

[00:22:18] All right.

[00:22:19] That's it.

[00:22:20] Honestly, that's kind of how I felt.

[00:22:22] Yeah.

[00:22:23] Right.

[00:22:24] I mean, we had the head the heads up that we do something might be coming.

[00:22:29] So I did the best I could to protect what I had and just going to have to roll with the punches after that.

[00:22:36] Dave just kept echo in my head as far as like when are you going to wake up?

[00:22:40] And it was your last day of repair.

[00:22:42] Yeah.

[00:22:43] I'm like, is today the day?

[00:22:44] Oh, I really hope not because I had some plans.

[00:22:48] So yeah, you ever been to any place exotic with walking?

[00:22:59] That's what I was trying to think of.

[00:23:01] I bet.

[00:23:02] No.

[00:23:03] Well, like the Bahamas and coast of Mexico.

[00:23:05] So that's about it.

[00:23:06] OK, Mexico.

[00:23:07] Probably not.

[00:23:08] I was in Costa Rica and we're going to go up to one of the volcanoes.

[00:23:14] No, I never I never like saw a volcano that I know of.

[00:23:18] So I'm glad I didn't because after reading and there was the hikers over in Indonesia, like when that volcano went, they all died out hiking.

[00:23:30] So even if you're on vacation, think about like, oh, we're just tourists.

[00:23:35] We're going to see the volcano.

[00:23:36] Well, you might want to have your preparedness gear with you then.

[00:23:41] Right.

[00:23:42] It'd be classic me to be like, oh, I'm just going to wear cutoffs and do nothing.

[00:23:47] Right.

[00:23:48] Oh, you don't know.

[00:23:49] You don't know the house.

[00:23:50] I've got.

[00:23:56] It's like, can you not wear proper clothing for like being in the woods or around just sticky, pointy hard stuff?

[00:24:04] Yeah.

[00:24:05] Right.

[00:24:06] Flip flops, you know, shorts don't really cut it.

[00:24:10] Basketball shorts.

[00:24:12] Right.

[00:24:13] I did that.

[00:24:14] Honestly, I did that last year.

[00:24:16] I never wear like shorts and stuff when I'm out hiking, I will go out hiking with Ragnar.

[00:24:20] I'm like, oh, no, where my cutoffs?

[00:24:22] When I'm getting lost and it was raining by the time we're done, I was like, oh, man.

[00:24:29] Yeah.

[00:24:30] So even when you're going out on these types of hikes, you're on vacation, that kind of thing.

[00:24:34] You want to go see the volcano.

[00:24:36] Cool.

[00:24:37] You should usually have a mask with you and have goggles with you just in case.

[00:24:44] Those are like, you know, the.

[00:24:46] We talked about that for protests.

[00:24:48] Yeah.

[00:24:49] Same protest show pretty much.

[00:24:52] Yeah.

[00:24:53] Swing goggles.

[00:24:54] I was kind of lemon or something.

[00:24:56] Yes.

[00:24:57] Yeah.

[00:24:58] Lemon on your handkerchief.

[00:24:59] I think same thing.

[00:25:01] I was like, well, now the goggles, those swimming goggles are dual purpose.

[00:25:05] Now.

[00:25:06] Yes.

[00:25:07] Yes.

[00:25:08] I totally was.

[00:25:10] The other thing that I actually found out because I wrote it in my book that so there's a volcanic eruption.

[00:25:18] They use gas masks.

[00:25:21] And in talking with Dave about it, a regular like that and ninety fives or a painter's mask are actually preferred to a gas mask in those situations.

[00:25:33] Because yes, and the filters on a gas mask can just clog up costly.

[00:25:39] Now you've got to change those things out and go through all that.

[00:25:42] Right.

[00:25:43] Where you go.

[00:25:44] So I was looking for today's show notes.

[00:25:48] They were talking about your cars, too.

[00:25:50] I thought about your show.

[00:25:51] Yeah.

[00:25:52] I mean, your books.

[00:25:53] Yes.

[00:25:54] They were there.

[00:25:55] The filtration.

[00:25:56] They had special super duper stuff.

[00:25:58] And they rework it so that the air filters in the camp.

[00:26:01] Yeah.

[00:26:02] Yeah.

[00:26:03] Sneak peek, sneak peek.

[00:26:04] So with vehicles and stuff like that, they say immediately tarp everything because if the ash comes down on it, that's that's your worst nightmare.

[00:26:18] Don't you get the acid rain from that, too?

[00:26:23] Yes, you can.

[00:26:24] You can for sure.

[00:26:26] But even worse than acid rain is like when the when the ash accumulates and then you get rain on top of it, it turns it into concrete.

[00:26:36] And so yeah, so that's a problem with inhaling it.

[00:26:40] Yes.

[00:26:41] Because you get the ashes dry, particularly that your voice lungs.

[00:26:44] Exactly.

[00:26:46] So and yeah, if it's on your roof piling up, it might be OK.

[00:26:50] But then it rains and it gets too heavy and it just will collapse all the roofs and stuff like that.

[00:26:55] So that's a big, big issue with ash.

[00:26:58] So basically, if you're in the danger zone, you better know that you are in the danger zone.

[00:27:03] Yeah.

[00:27:04] Top Gun movie.

[00:27:06] Yes.

[00:27:07] Click him head.

[00:27:08] The danger zone.

[00:27:09] Yeah.

[00:27:13] Schools ask your schools what their plans are.

[00:27:16] Ask your place of employment what their plans are.

[00:27:19] Right.

[00:27:20] And then know, like when you guys separate for the day, this is normal stuff.

[00:27:23] You know, know where you're going to meet up if something like that happens.

[00:27:27] So stay on top of it.

[00:27:29] Don't you know, these are normal preparedness plans that you should have already been thinking about.

[00:27:34] But if you have it and you're in a volcano zone, you better start thinking about it.

[00:27:41] Especially now, I was kind of excited to see our volcano numbers for this week and then I was like, oh, oh.

[00:27:49] So yeah.

[00:27:51] So normal prep kit, your normal EDC, you know, what just what we are all preparing for every day or normal kits to handle whatever that might come our way.

[00:28:02] But you also want to have that respiratory mask in there like the painter's mask or the N95.

[00:28:08] The importance of people with respiratory problems having oxygen, like if you have somebody who already has a respiratory issue, that's just going to make it really worse.

[00:28:19] So, you know, being able to supply them with oxygen and an event like that might save their life.

[00:28:26] So you don't have to keep an oxygen tank in your house.

[00:28:29] They have like those little cool things that like make oxygen now.

[00:28:33] So they also have you can buy it like in the can if you go to like a sporting goods store.

[00:28:40] Yeah, yeah.

[00:28:42] They have like oxygen like for athletes, right?

[00:28:45] Yes.

[00:28:46] Mm hmm.

[00:28:47] Hits oxygen.

[00:28:48] Exactly. Yeah.

[00:28:49] To be able to take oxygen hits.

[00:28:51] Yeah.

[00:28:52] So, you know, that that's a great idea to have on hand just in case.

[00:28:59] Goggles contact lenses.

[00:29:02] You're not going to want to have your contact lenses in for sure.

[00:29:07] You want to make.

[00:29:08] Right.

[00:29:09] Yeah.

[00:29:10] Same thing.

[00:29:11] It gets in there.

[00:29:12] Turn them to concrete.

[00:29:13] You'll have concrete on your contact lenses.

[00:29:15] So eyeglasses are the best bet.

[00:29:19] And make sure you have lots of if you do have contact lens, you have lots of cleaning solution, that kind of thing.

[00:29:26] Plastic and tape to seal up your home.

[00:29:30] It's a good idea.

[00:29:32] Works during dust storms as well.

[00:29:34] I mean, but I hadn't thought about that.

[00:29:37] So that is a quality idea as well.

[00:29:41] Dr. Bones talks about that a lot.

[00:29:43] Yeah.

[00:29:44] I mean, you know, I think it's a good idea to have a lot of plastic.

[00:29:47] You know, you're not going to be able to have that plastic to be able to quarantine off stuff.

[00:29:52] So never a bad idea.

[00:29:56] I wonder where you can buy like big roles that would accomplish that type of job other than like Lowe's.

[00:30:04] Look online.

[00:30:06] Yeah.

[00:30:07] Right.

[00:30:08] OK.

[00:30:09] I was just looking online for the oxygen.

[00:30:11] Yeah.

[00:30:12] Boost oxygen.

[00:30:14] Those little kitchen size fire extinguishers like you keep under the sink.

[00:30:18] Yeah.

[00:30:19] And they have like the mask hooked right to it.

[00:30:20] So you just put that thing up to and.

[00:30:23] Yeah.

[00:30:24] What a great thing to have around, you know, for smoke inhalation, all kinds of stuff.

[00:30:28] They just make these products.

[00:30:31] The preppers are like, yep, I got to have those now.

[00:30:36] Like this one.

[00:30:37] Swag oxygen.

[00:30:39] Swag.

[00:30:41] Because, you know, you got to have your hit, man.

[00:30:44] Yeah.

[00:30:45] Your oxygen hit.

[00:30:48] OK, so during the disaster, you might be asked to evacuate due to lahars.

[00:30:55] Lahars are like the mud, mud ash flows.

[00:30:59] It's like it's not just a flood anymore.

[00:31:01] Yeah.

[00:31:02] Now it is the ash water coming down at you.

[00:31:07] And when that fills your house, it's like excavator time to get it out of there.

[00:31:14] They probably just rip a lot of them down because the thick ash or incoming lava, of course.

[00:31:20] You know, we all watch what was happening over in Spain with the one volcano.

[00:31:28] So when it starts coming, there's nothing you can do.

[00:31:31] You got to get out of there.

[00:31:33] You might be able to shelter in place if you're just, you know, in an ash scenario.

[00:31:37] There are a lot of people live around volcanoes and a lot of countries, you know, then they do just fine.

[00:31:43] But you do have to shelter in place sometimes because of that ash in the air and then keep others informed.

[00:31:50] You know, be a chin where you're a chin where you're given information.

[00:31:57] You're able to develop networks where you can pass that information along.

[00:32:00] And, you know, I think about in and out of the network, out of the area.

[00:32:07] Because a lot of times I'm like, oh, I got a friend that lives there and I try to quick send them a text or, you know, whatever kind of message.

[00:32:17] Just get them just in case they didn't know.

[00:32:20] You get them looking.

[00:32:22] Fair enough. Yeah.

[00:32:23] Like, hey, this is going on in your area.

[00:32:26] You know, if they know, great.

[00:32:28] If they didn't know, well, they do now.

[00:32:30] Yeah.

[00:32:31] And you just have information reach.

[00:32:34] Seems like we have a ton of information, but like we get over overloaded.

[00:32:38] Too much. Yeah.

[00:32:39] Overload. Exactly.

[00:32:41] So you might not just pay attention to it where if you reach out to a friend, you're going to pay attention.

[00:32:46] Oh, my friend told me this.

[00:32:48] I got to pay attention, you know?

[00:32:50] So if ash is forecasted in your area, ash is coming down.

[00:32:54] I mean, if there was a Yellowstone eruption, then the whole country would have to be worried about this.

[00:32:59] There's another super volcano that's underneath Mammoth.

[00:33:03] Oh, I've been talking about so many volcanoes today.

[00:33:07] Just it just slipped my mind.

[00:33:09] But it's right below Mammoth in California on the California Nevada border there.

[00:33:14] Big super volcano like that goes.

[00:33:17] We all need to be aware of what to do when ash is going on.

[00:33:20] So if ash is forecasted, try to be home.

[00:33:26] Don't worry about traveling or going out.

[00:33:28] Your vehicle is going to get toasted from that ash.

[00:33:32] Just like in the book, you know, it really will happen.

[00:33:35] They can't fly planes in the ash and that's because it clogs the engines.

[00:33:39] Respiratory or heart problems.

[00:33:42] Make sure you have your pain relievers handy.

[00:33:45] Your pets, your livestock, right?

[00:33:48] You can't put a mask on them.

[00:33:50] So if you have like a barn area someplace, you can bring your livestock in.

[00:33:55] That's going to be the best place for them.

[00:33:57] Also, you know, your pets keep them in the house so they're not getting exposed to it

[00:34:01] because it is a killer that ash is really bad.

[00:34:05] Your tractors.

[00:34:09] Stuff like that. Get them covered with tarps.

[00:34:11] You should have a ton of tarps.

[00:34:13] So I mean, they're never a bad investment.

[00:34:16] And don't start them up.

[00:34:17] Don't run them at all.

[00:34:19] Yeah. Yeah.

[00:34:21] If those air filters have to filter out that ash, they're going to be told.

[00:34:24] I mean, if they're not running, you could probably after the whole thing is over, clean it off.

[00:34:29] But if you're running it's sucking out.

[00:34:32] Yep. And then it can seize your whole engine.

[00:34:36] Water collection systems.

[00:34:39] There's a whole bunch of us who collect rainwater, you know, for gardens, things like that.

[00:34:44] Make sure your rainwater collection systems are covered or disconnected from the bins where the water runs to

[00:34:52] so that you don't end up with a bunch of ash in your water.

[00:34:55] Roof pipes.

[00:34:57] We all have like the exhaust pipes, you know, for your plumbing on your roof.

[00:35:02] Not a bad idea to cover those up.

[00:35:05] Go up there and like put a little baggie over them or whatever, you know, so the ash can't get in there

[00:35:11] because that can screw up all the plumbing in your house.

[00:35:14] I learned a lot today.

[00:35:18] Like that's not a bad idea.

[00:35:22] That vent stack, who would have thought? Right.

[00:35:25] Yeah, I wasn't even thinking about it and I was like, no, that's totally true.

[00:35:28] It could just mess up the whole plumbing your house.

[00:35:32] Turn off your heat pump and your AC.

[00:35:37] Sucks for in the south, you know, in hot climates.

[00:35:40] But man, those it'll do the same thing to those filters that it does to a car.

[00:35:46] So turn that off.

[00:35:48] If you're outside, try to seek shelter.

[00:35:52] Try to seek shelter in a good area that, you know, won't just collapse under the weight of the ash.

[00:35:59] Using your mask or cloth.

[00:36:02] Don't overload the phone network.

[00:36:05] So again, if you have you got that alternate communication method,

[00:36:09] you might be more successful with getting news than an overloaded phone network system.

[00:36:16] Seek info from official channels.

[00:36:21] So I'm sure like Noah, those kind of things would be broadcasting what to do in your area under such an emergency,

[00:36:27] even though I mean it's not really weather related, but I'm sure Noah still would.

[00:36:33] And then they said if there's ash in your water, let it settle and you can use the clear water.

[00:36:39] It's OK to use that water most of the time when water is contaminated with ash to a level where it's bad for you.

[00:36:47] It's going to be completely unpalatable first.

[00:36:50] Like you're gonna be like, oh, never drink that right.

[00:36:54] So they said, you know, it's safe and it's usually really,

[00:36:58] really unpalatable before your water is contaminated to the point where it wouldn't be safe to drink.

[00:37:04] And then you can also still eat your garden stuff that was under ash,

[00:37:08] but you have to make sure you wash it off first.

[00:37:11] Yeah, but it'd be OK.

[00:37:14] And you know, like Indonesia, I mean, this is like volcano place.

[00:37:19] And one of the reasons it's so great to grow there is because all that good soil, you know,

[00:37:24] so you'd figure they're used to kind of dealing with that kind of stuff.

[00:37:28] So. So, yeah, the volcanic rundown.

[00:37:32] Now we know what to do if one pops up in Oklahoma, I'm ready.

[00:37:39] We'll see.

[00:37:41] I heard so a couple two other things.

[00:37:44] When I was looking up was pay mine to wind direction.

[00:37:49] Oh, and pay mine to like geography for like valleys,

[00:37:59] like riverbed stream beds, valleys because you don't want to be downstream.

[00:38:05] Like you talk about the lava flow, the mud flow.

[00:38:09] If if you're in that, you know, you don't want to be in that zone

[00:38:14] where the lahars come down and wipe you out because you're.

[00:38:17] Yeah, fair enough. Like flash floods down like that.

[00:38:20] Like that's where most of the lives were lost during Mount St. Helens was because of the lahars.

[00:38:29] Those. Yeah, it was crazy.

[00:38:32] Like the trees coming down like a mad quantity and stuff.

[00:38:36] It was like a river of this mud and ash and trees and debris.

[00:38:40] And just it was crazy. Yeah.

[00:38:42] And that's what ended up killing the most amount of people in that catastrophe.

[00:38:46] So, I mean, it's a serious threat even more so.

[00:38:49] I mean, lava is lava is actually kind of slow a lot of the times, you know, it crawls.

[00:38:56] But those lahars don't crawl. They move.

[00:38:59] And if you're in the way, you're done for.

[00:39:02] That's a great point. And also the wind direction.

[00:39:04] Another great point. You know, you got to watch those wind currents.

[00:39:07] How is that wind going to be blowing that smoke around?

[00:39:09] Am I going to be in a danger zone or not? That's another great.

[00:39:12] Yeah, a lot of these like weather apps, you could choose what you want to want.

[00:39:20] Like you can choose satellite or direction and speed or, you know, participate.

[00:39:26] Participation awards.

[00:39:31] You get one. You get one.

[00:39:33] I got a precipitation award today.

[00:39:36] I got one of those too. Great.

[00:39:38] So, but you could you could you could choose the wind direction.

[00:39:43] Yes. I used to do that the coast a lot so I could watch the storms because you could see the wind.

[00:39:50] Right. And even without radar, you could see the wind and you could see the cyclones and stuff.

[00:39:56] So I used to put it on the wind a lot.

[00:39:58] That's my favorite. I just put up in chat.

[00:40:00] The Zoom Earth. I love that one. That one is so cool.

[00:40:04] You can go back in time. They give you a little bit of a forecast, but like you want to watch what's happening with global weather patterns.

[00:40:11] Windy, Windy, Windley. One second. Where is it? Windy dot com.

[00:40:17] I think it's a weather app that I that I really like for you can play with all the different what it's showing.

[00:40:24] Watch the storms coming in. I do that radar one, but I'm not overly.

[00:40:28] Windy, Windy dot com. OK. Yeah, I like that Zoom Earth.

[00:40:34] I'm hooked. I could watch that thing for days.

[00:40:36] I like go back a week. Oh, let's see what happened in Indonesia.

[00:40:41] I have a weather problem.

[00:40:44] Yeah. Yeah. I like to stare at the weather.

[00:40:50] I like to stare at the weather. It's cool.

[00:40:54] No, that was cool, though, because they show you like the tropical storms that we don't get to hear about

[00:40:59] because they just don't tell us what's going on globally.

[00:41:04] And it just makes the Earth into such a small place when you look at it on the Zoom Earth.

[00:41:10] OK, let's go ahead and jump into some change in Earth news.

[00:41:15] I got some good. Well, we got some interesting stuff to lay down today.

[00:41:19] I love the news, the news intro. Oh, you like that?

[00:41:23] That was James. That was our intrepid commander. He hooked us.

[00:41:26] He hooked us up. Yeah, I'm well now that I've listened a couple of times to the show

[00:41:33] and not just participate alive, I get to hear all the cool stuff.

[00:41:36] Right. Yeah, because you don't hear it. We just get to wait.

[00:41:39] Yeah. OK, here we go.

[00:41:43] Dream, survive, thrive.

[00:41:51] This is changing Earth news.

[00:41:56] All right. Change in Earth news.

[00:42:01] So weekly kind of wrap up the northern lights from those solar flares

[00:42:10] went all the way down to New Caledonia.

[00:42:15] New Caledonia, first time in history that they've ever been reported down there.

[00:42:22] It's crazy. And people are like, oh, look at the pretty colors.

[00:42:29] Well, if you know what all this means, it is a clear example of just how weak the Earth shield is.

[00:42:38] We dodged a major, major bullet last week.

[00:42:42] There's a reason that chin had all his stuff in the garbage cans because, yeah, that was a major bullet.

[00:42:51] We haven't had solar activity like that since the Carrington event.

[00:42:58] And I mean, on the good side, we did really well with it.

[00:43:05] There are places that lost power. There are places that had explosions.

[00:43:10] So do your research on it.

[00:43:13] I'm not going to go through it all today, but it was a major, major bullet dodge.

[00:43:19] Even the company that I work for, half of our systems were all disrupted on Monday and just issues.

[00:43:27] I don't know anybody that I've talked to lately who hasn't been like my phone acted funny or I'm you know, this has been acting weird or that's acting weird.

[00:43:35] There's a reason for that.

[00:43:37] And then the storms we had this week were crazy sauce across countries.

[00:43:44] So I'm literally that's my technical term, crazy sauce, because it was something else to watch when you're like, wow, and then come to find out it was across the globe.

[00:43:58] You know exactly why? It's because of this intense energy that we just got juiced with last week.

[00:44:04] So the sun was a lot quieter this week.

[00:44:09] We are still having some M class flares.

[00:44:12] That big guy that was lighting off all those X class flares has gone around to the other side of the sun.

[00:44:19] He will be back around if it's still together.

[00:44:22] We'll just have to see what it looks like when it comes back around.

[00:44:26] But we do have some good ones.

[00:44:28] We had a big old filament release.

[00:44:31] There's other things to watch for besides just the sunspots.

[00:44:34] And there's a pretty big filament release today as well.

[00:44:37] There's also a large corona hole incoming.

[00:44:40] So that's going to be more earthquake watch for next week.

[00:44:44] And we've already had a major uptick at the end of this week.

[00:44:47] So, yeah, it's crazy, crazy to watch when you're putting all the pieces together and you go, oh, that was big.

[00:44:59] One of the biggest systems that was hit during this solar storm was GPS of farming equipment.

[00:45:09] Yeah, I heard that.

[00:45:11] Uh huh.

[00:45:12] And the way they have those machines built now, only a John Deere certified shop worker person can fix those machines.

[00:45:25] Farmer John can't go out and do it himself anymore.

[00:45:28] Right?

[00:45:30] So there's now a one to four month backlog on getting those tractors fixed in the prime planting season.

[00:45:37] So that's going to be interesting to see how that plays out, especially with everything that Brazil is going through.

[00:45:46] Our country, of course, huge growing country.

[00:45:49] Brazil, huge agricultural producer.

[00:45:53] We have the war going on in Europe with all of the Ukraine stuff.

[00:45:57] They're a huge agricultural producer that was already stunted last year.

[00:46:02] Prices of fertilizers are going crazy and pretty much inflation is just crazy anyway.

[00:46:08] So it'll be interesting to see how all of this plays out.

[00:46:12] I really suggest, as I've been doing, investing, making sure you guys have food back in your pantry.

[00:46:21] Any investment you do in food now is going to be worth it in the long run because the price is only going to go up.

[00:46:26] So I'd make sure your preps are kind of short up at this point.

[00:46:32] It's going to be interesting.

[00:46:34] We're along for a wild ride.

[00:46:37] With the blessing of the Lord, we will be all good.

[00:46:41] All righty.

[00:46:42] So May 13th, 2024, we have three hundred and three hundred and eighty three earthquakes that were two point or bigger.

[00:46:50] Biggest of which was a five point three on the eastern Pacific rise.

[00:46:54] The South Caribbean had a five point oh earthquake and Fenley, Pennsylvania was hit by a huge tornado.

[00:47:01] Lots of property damage.

[00:47:03] The Canadian fires have started back up and Manitoba was under threat on the 13th.

[00:47:09] More wildfires.

[00:47:13] April 14th, 2024, there was three hundred and forty earthquakes or two point or bigger.

[00:47:18] The biggest of which was a five point six and Papua New Guinea.

[00:47:21] A series of earthquakes hit Mexico, San Diego area, Guatemala.

[00:47:26] It was that one happened overnight.

[00:47:30] A six point four earthquake, a four point five earthquake.

[00:47:33] So there was some big activity going down at the border there in between the United States and Mexico.

[00:47:40] And it's pretty much been continuing the shaking to in those areas.

[00:47:46] So that can be good thing or bad thing.

[00:47:49] It can be a precursor for an earthquake, but it also can be a stress reliever.

[00:47:54] And that's best case scenario.

[00:47:56] So we had all this energy coming around the earth and better for it to be released in a series of little earthquakes rather than get locked for one big earthquake.

[00:48:07] Box Elder County, Utah had seventy five earthquakes in just three days.

[00:48:13] One of those was a four point five in there.

[00:48:16] We always keep our eye on Utah because that is that is Yellowstone territory.

[00:48:24] I was just thinking I said that they were in Idaho earlier when we're talking about Veritas, not Idaho.

[00:48:29] They were in Utah. Sorry.

[00:48:32] I read that statement. You could say whatever you want to say.

[00:48:36] You wrote the story. That's right. That's right.

[00:48:40] A four point eight hit New York on the 14th.

[00:48:46] So just odd places.

[00:48:48] Taney County, Missouri was hit by a tornado.

[00:48:52] Thirty one were killed in floods and landslides in Indonesia.

[00:48:57] Kind of low Hawaii experienced a massive flooding after some really, really intense rains there.

[00:49:04] And in Canada, there's one hundred and forty wildfires already burning.

[00:49:10] Mumbai, India, they were hit with a major dust storm.

[00:49:15] A huge billboard collapsed and killed 14 people.

[00:49:19] And I'm not just talking like a little billboard that's on the side of the highway.

[00:49:23] This thing was massive.

[00:49:25] These people were like in their vehicles when this thing came down on top of them and killed 14 people.

[00:49:31] So that was some major wind going on there.

[00:49:37] And then in Ardahan, Turkey, they got hit with a freak snow storm.

[00:49:43] Twelve inches of snow coming down turns spring into a blizzard.

[00:49:49] And yes, Turkey has mountain ranges.

[00:49:53] So, OK, snow in the mountains, you know, but just kind of like eerie time of year with everything that's going on.

[00:50:04] So take it for what it is. I'm trying to think of the latitude of it.

[00:50:08] Like if you put it to the United States, what what state would it be in line with?

[00:50:15] And I think. I want to say it's like Tennessee type longitude.

[00:50:24] But I'm not sure on that. It'd be interesting.

[00:50:26] Got to go go to Zoom Earth and check it out for me.

[00:50:32] On the 15th of May, there was four hundred and two earthquakes that were two point or bigger,

[00:50:37] biggest of which was a five point six in the North Atlantic Ocean.

[00:50:41] There was two thousand earthquakes off the coast of Vancouver Island in Canada.

[00:50:48] This is why I'm talking about the stress relief.

[00:50:51] You'd rather see these little earthquakes than giant ones.

[00:50:54] So but two thousand is a lot to see.

[00:50:58] And then Louisiana was hit with a tornado.

[00:51:01] Carolinas, that's the day that you guys had that huge storm that came in.

[00:51:08] One possible tornado touchdown there in the Carolinas.

[00:51:11] I think it was South Carolina.

[00:51:15] Kenya, 40,000 people are now displaced by flooding there

[00:51:20] and they have a tropical cyclone that's getting ready to bear down on them.

[00:51:27] The name is like Iali. Iali.

[00:51:32] It's a cyclone that's headed their way should hit them about Tuesday.

[00:51:36] So prayers for everybody over there.

[00:51:38] They don't need any more rain and I think they're about to get a lot more of it.

[00:51:43] Canada, thousands were evacuated in Alberta and B.C.

[00:51:49] with the threat of wildfire on their door.

[00:51:52] Fort Murray is an area that was under evacuation.

[00:51:55] Fort Nelson were under threat.

[00:51:58] So still lots of fires going on.

[00:52:00] Well, lots of fires have reignited up there.

[00:52:02] It doesn't look like this year is going to take a break from the fires up north.

[00:52:07] On the 16th, there was 343 earthquakes or a 2.0 or bigger,

[00:52:11] biggest of which was a 5.4 in the Bismarck Sea.

[00:52:14] This is when Germany got absolutely hit with flooding.

[00:52:20] Massive storm comes in.

[00:52:22] Germany got hit. France got hit.

[00:52:26] Belgium got hit by that flooding.

[00:52:30] Jakarta, Indonesia.

[00:52:31] So they've been having all this flooding

[00:52:34] and now they don't have any good water to drink.

[00:52:37] It's becoming a major problem over there to have potable water.

[00:52:41] So it's something to think about in flooding events.

[00:52:44] When all your water supply gets contaminated, then what do you drink?

[00:52:49] So Alexa Piers.

[00:52:53] You got to have your Alexa Piers. I stand behind that thing.

[00:52:56] I don't get paid to advertise for them.

[00:52:58] It's just a good system for filtering water.

[00:53:03] What did you put up there?

[00:53:05] An overlay of the United States over Europe.

[00:53:08] So you can kind of see where Turkey is.

[00:53:11] OK, I'm curious. We're going to take a minute from the 17th.

[00:53:16] Where does Turkey line up?

[00:53:18] Turkey's over there.

[00:53:22] OK. Yeah. See, I told you, be like the Carolinas getting hit with a snowstorm right now.

[00:53:29] Yeah. So that's pretty incredible.

[00:53:32] That's pretty crazy that.

[00:53:36] Now, maybe a little higher.

[00:53:39] True. Maybe like Ohio Valley, Pennsylvania.

[00:53:42] Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I think that would work because that little pointy part that sticks out into the ocean.

[00:53:49] Isn't that part of Jersey?

[00:53:52] Yes. Yeah. Yeah. OK.

[00:53:55] So that's part of Jersey.

[00:53:56] So yeah, Pennsylvania, maybe a little bit of wash of Virginia.

[00:54:02] Yeah. Then it going across Ohio.

[00:54:04] But it's not like we're up in Maine, you know.

[00:54:07] Oh, no. Michigan. Yeah.

[00:54:10] It's south of New York. It's south of state of New York.

[00:54:14] Maybe touch a little bit of Pennsylvania.

[00:54:18] I mean, I guess it's kind of on track with where the coastal ranges are over in California and they got a winter storm.

[00:54:29] Yeah. Last week.

[00:54:31] So, OK, I guess I can see that.

[00:54:34] That's an interesting map.

[00:54:36] See where it's a map.

[00:54:38] Look at how far north France is.

[00:54:40] Right. And I always think Spain's like small and it's not.

[00:54:44] It's huge, like way bigger than California.

[00:54:48] Yeah, that's interesting.

[00:54:50] It is an interesting map.

[00:54:51] I'm going to save that one.

[00:54:53] Thank you, Chad.

[00:54:54] Look at Israel's way down.

[00:54:57] Yeah, like Florida.

[00:54:59] Well, probably South Carolina, Georgia, Georgia, South Carolina, straight through Georgia.

[00:55:05] Kind of neighborhood.

[00:55:08] It is. And then like northern Africa is like Texas.

[00:55:12] Imagine that.

[00:55:14] I can imagine that.

[00:55:17] I live here.

[00:55:19] Yeah, that is really cool.

[00:55:23] Thank you. Good.

[00:55:24] Thank you. Good. Fine. Good. Fine.

[00:55:26] All righty. So on May 17th, there was three hundred and fifty four earthquakes that were two point or bigger, biggest of which was a five point six in the Tasman Sea.

[00:55:37] Hawaii had a five point eight in the Kermadec trench.

[00:55:41] It was downgraded to a four point eight.

[00:55:44] Good old USGS always downgrading everything.

[00:55:48] So there was a three point eight earthquake in Dyersburg, Tennessee, which is interesting.

[00:55:54] Houston, Texas got annihilated.

[00:55:58] I mean, they had winds go through downtown and the power lines look like a giant cat came in and it was a yarn ball.

[00:56:10] I'm serious.

[00:56:12] Not visual. Yeah.

[00:56:13] Not just like the little lines.

[00:56:16] These are like the giant ones, you know, they have like the multi tiers.

[00:56:22] It's like you can't be the on the Ghostbusters.

[00:56:25] Remember he thought of the the state puff.

[00:56:28] Yeah, yeah.

[00:56:30] Yeah. Don't ever put me there.

[00:56:34] Have you read my stories?

[00:56:38] Yeah, that's true.

[00:56:42] It does. It does.

[00:56:43] It looks it's a mess.

[00:56:45] So lots of people were without power and the city officials, you know, were like, hey, we can clean up the road debris.

[00:56:53] That's going to be like tomorrow afternoon.

[00:56:56] But these power lines are going to take a minute to get repaired.

[00:57:00] Right.

[00:57:01] And there's like 100 plus degree weather coming in this week.

[00:57:09] So nobody's going to have air conditioning.

[00:57:13] Four to nine people already died in that event that happened there.

[00:57:20] So we're just keeping eyes on they're going to try to bring in like some cooling centers and stuff like that for people that are in Houston.

[00:57:29] Because it's not good.

[00:57:31] It's not with the heat wave that we're supposed to get this week.

[00:57:35] It's not going to be pretty.

[00:57:38] And then I was more reading about Brazil and they are actually building tent cities in Brazil for displaced people.

[00:57:47] Five hundred and thirty eight thousand people displaced by the flooding there.

[00:57:56] That is a serious amount of people that lost their homes that don't know what tomorrow is going to bring.

[00:58:04] So they definitely need some prayers down there.

[00:58:07] Hundred and forty three people dead so far on the 18th of May, there was four hundred and sixty three earthquakes are two point or bigger.

[00:58:19] Big uptick in activity there.

[00:58:21] That's like 110 more earthquakes on the day before.

[00:58:24] Five point seven in Bismarck see Papua New Guinea in that area.

[00:58:29] There is a large earthquake swarm that took place on the San Andreas fault about two hundred earthquakes by the time Saturday night hit.

[00:58:38] So again, like I was saying, you know, if it's going to relieve pressure that way, we'd rather have that than a major event.

[00:58:46] There's also a two point to the hit northern Georgia, kind of an odd little spot to be hitting again.

[00:58:52] All these little odd odd places and then more tornadoes touching down in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

[00:58:59] They've just been getting wallop this season and Europe has flooding in the north heat waves in the south.

[00:59:08] They're really in a mess with their weather as well.

[00:59:11] And then Afghanistan had a massive flooding event last week, about three hundred eighteen people died in that event.

[00:59:19] And they had another flooding event this week.

[00:59:22] About 50 more people died in that incident.

[00:59:27] So far, when I was looking at the reports today, four hundred and nineteen earthquakes were already marked on the map.

[00:59:36] Biggest of which was a six point oh in the North Pacific Ocean by Alaska.

[00:59:40] So, you know, that's movement.

[00:59:42] It's just movement that's going around the ring of the fire, the ring of fire, because it's been super agitated by all this electromagnetic energy.

[00:59:51] So we'll just keep an eye on that.

[00:59:53] And then, like I said, tropical storm Ily is headed for Kenya.

[00:59:58] Our volcano numbers are rather.

[01:00:00] Oh, and the fog.

[01:00:02] The fog takes down the president of Iran and his helicopter.

[01:00:08] And I was like, I was just thinking nefarious right off the bat.

[01:00:12] Right. Like this nefarious activity.

[01:00:15] But when you see the pictures of that fog, you're like, wow, OK, that is a thick fog.

[01:00:21] Like, that's legit there.

[01:00:23] So, um, as far as volcanoes, we had been rolling with thirty three erupting volcanoes for so long.

[01:00:32] It really was starting to concern me a little bit because that is a very high number.

[01:00:37] I've been watching volcanoes for years now and to see thirty three actively erupting is odd.

[01:00:44] But then to see it week after week after week was like, wow, OK, that's definitely different.

[01:00:50] So it did go back down to thirty one.

[01:00:52] However, those two were just reduced to minor activities.

[01:00:56] So technically they're still like erupting.

[01:00:59] And we actually added one more to our overall list because the number in unrest went up one.

[01:01:07] So overall, we actually just ticked up another volcano onto our list.

[01:01:12] And yeah, those two might not be like actively erupting, but they're still showing minor activity.

[01:01:17] So I wasn't as I thought it was going to be a little bit more relieved than I was when I looked at volcano numbers today.

[01:01:25] OK, as far as wildfires in the United States, honestly, the fires up in Canada are just taking precedence.

[01:01:34] So if you're anywhere in the world and you there's like wildfires happening, I'd love to hear about it.

[01:01:39] It's just the algorithm is just flooded with Canadian wildfires.

[01:01:43] So that is what's going on as far as that goes, as far as the world report goes.

[01:01:50] Well, in the United States, there were seven new fires in the United States.

[01:01:55] There's only seven burning.

[01:01:56] So those new ones, six of them are contained.

[01:01:59] It's nineteen thousand seven hundred and ninety five acres, which isn't very much when you look compared to hectares in Arizona.

[01:02:07] There's five fires burning total of thirteen thousand two hundred and forty six acres.

[01:02:12] So they're obviously our number one number three new fires.

[01:02:15] Only one of those is contained at this time in Oregon.

[01:02:19] There's one fire burning.

[01:02:20] This is a new one.

[01:02:21] It is contained and it's at six thousand three hundred and forty acres.

[01:02:26] And then coming in at number three, Minnesota, one new fire, two hundred and nine acres not contained at this time.

[01:02:33] I also have on on the ground report from one of our PBN chat members, and he put up some great pictures of a meteor that flew over Portugal and Spain today.

[01:02:47] And so, yeah, that was funny because I was talking to him about it and like the the blue Hopi star prophecy.

[01:02:56] If you guys don't know what that is, look it up.

[01:02:58] What you've talked about before.

[01:03:00] Yep. Yeah.

[01:03:01] When we talk earthquakes and stuff.

[01:03:03] But yeah, so it looks so blue.

[01:03:06] And I was like, was it blue?

[01:03:08] And he's like, yeah, it ruptured into like totally blue.

[01:03:13] Oh, boy.

[01:03:15] Got to keep my eye out for that blue star.

[01:03:18] You know, so very interesting.

[01:03:21] That that happened today.

[01:03:22] And then I saw it come across on the real news or not the real news, but I'm like, you know, my my YouTube algorithm and I'm like, haha, yeah, I already got the inside information on that one.

[01:03:34] You know, so I appreciate you guys sharing stuff like that both in our in our online chat and in our chat.

[01:03:43] So I appreciate you guys sharing stuff like that, both in our in our online chat and feel free to reach out any time you have something like that.

[01:03:54] That should be part of the changing Earth news for the night.

[01:03:57] Crazy going on, right?

[01:04:02] Yes, I know.

[01:04:04] And I just think it's going to keep up taking.

[01:04:07] It's a super exciting time to be alive, guys.

[01:04:10] It's scary on one hand, but like if your faith is strong, it is.

[01:04:15] What if your faith is strong?

[01:04:17] There's nothing.

[01:04:18] What?

[01:04:20] We need to get you a new hobby.

[01:04:22] Oh, no way.

[01:04:25] I like would have if I could go back in time, I would have definitely minored in geology.

[01:04:31] That's like so into it.

[01:04:34] My mom probably wishes I would get a new hobby, though.

[01:04:37] I'm like, did you see that?

[01:04:40] Because of the flooding, she's like, oh, no.

[01:04:45] Yeah.

[01:04:47] All righty, guys.

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