TACTICAL TUESDAY - Training Situational Awareness on The Changing Earth

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. Hello, welcome back to the Changing Earth Podcast. This is episode number four hundred and forty eight, Season fifteen, Episode forty eight. Hey Chim, what's up? Hey Jins? Y'all? Yeah, Chim, kame sliding in road, trippin'. My orange ditch charge. You're going full tilt. Yeah, good sliding like bo Duke. A little bit of news before we start it up. Second week of June, Season four is beginning, so woot, head on over to YouTube. Check out the new video. It's really cool meet TJ. Swinson video. So you know, I gotta tell you that video is much darker. Right, got like as many clicks in one night as I have on like one of Erica's videos. I was like, what come on DJ. Yeah, second week of June, June ninth, We're not gonna have a show. It'll be we'll do a rerun show or something like that. But we'll not have a live show that night. I'm gonna be getting in from doing some little fishing Vaca. And since there's actually going on a boat. I'm going out a boat in the oh shit, well in the golf but it's salt water, which is and I'm staying on an island. So yeah, I'm stepping outside of my comfort zone. Good for you. Yeah, I just know that's when like the poll shift's gonna happen, and I'll just be like whoa righting the way? Maybe? Yeah, is there a three hour tour? It's three hours out to go fishing for five hours to come back for three hours, so it kind of is a three hour tour. Like, yeah, guild again, I said hi. And then we got prep camp coming up in September. It's kind of the halfway mark. So right, No, we're past the halfway mark. So if you guys don't have your tickets yet, get them, get them. Well, I'd like to see you there. It's always a good time. It never disappoints never. I mean, you're there, I'm there, what could go wrong? Heck that's right, that's right. So ye, Prepper Camp. So second week of June we got season four beginning special treat for my members who are subscribers. You guys will get to have the first uh episode of season four before I leave on vacation. So that's gonna happen next week or this coming week. I'll have that up for you guys, so you get the special two week sneak peek on the first episode of season four. Then, like I said, June ninth, no live show, and then we got Prepper Camp coming up. All right, So in Vergis, this is classic, This is classic situational whirred would this week they walk into the restaurant. What does Johnny say, there's a table in the back verges for two You remember, Oh yeah, you like to sit in the back so you can watch the whole restaurant. If you're not in the habit of doing that by this point, get in the habit of doing that. Once you are in the habit of really being aware of what's going on around you, you will not want to sit anywhere else, and it'll drive you absolutely bonkers when you have. To do you ever, like run like you have a bunch of people and they all want that one seat with their back against the wall looking out. Yes, yeah, yeah, because I've taught my boys now, right, So yeah, Fletcher always wants to sit the same way. And a couple there and there and and they get there first, and damn. Yeah. I had that happen with like a work party and everybody was there before me. I had to sit with my back to like an aisle of like people walking up and down this like row in between the tables. Like right, I was just my boss was like, are you okay? Like not really actually at this moment, I cannot see. I know there's a ton of activity going on behind me, and I do not like that, right, So other big happenings that happen. You know, this is basically when Johnny has you know, the heart to heart with Virgis and Virgis tells him Cassidy, Johnny tells him about that his dad's hooked up with the militias. So interesting stuff in this conversation are really big turning point for these two when they kind of, you know, solidify that they're back together. The crew, the crew, the crew. So we have done a ton of episodes on situational awareness, and you're be like, Sarah, what more can we say? You can really never say enough, because situational awareness is the most important part of survival. It is the most important part. It is the most important part of surviving any self defense situation. If you were just so focused on that one person that walked up to you that you never saw that there was five more coming around you, you're in big trouble, you know. So you just can't you can't say enough, you can't sharpen your skills enough. We're all in those moments when we get in like our own head and we're like, WHOA, how did I ever drive this far? Or you know, how did all of these people come around me? And I didn't realize what was going on. It's one of the most important things, and it's just something that can slip in everybody just when you get in your own head with your own thoughts or anything like that. So you really can't say enough about it. I found a killer article. I'm gonna throw it up in the chat for everybody who's found along in the chat, I would highly suggest going and reading that article. We're gonna go over it a little bit today. But because they have some great exercises that I had never seen before for sharpening those situational awareness skills. So that's what we're gonna focus on. Really. You know, if you're in a typical self defense situation, it's going to really take you like two to five seconds to realize like, oh my goodness, I'm in danger. And your perpetrator is absolutely relying on that factor that it takes you that time to realize it because in that time, that's when they gained the upper hand over you. So we don't want to have that happen. That would be. Scary. Right, loop is always important. We got to remember ooda loop always So DA loop is observe orient, decide act. Observe Orient, decide act. While we're speaking of UDA, remember James has his e book on stale this weekend. I got the papers, I mean the paperbacks like eleven bucks. I know, well you should have and then you go on and give him a good review. Yeah that's true, big character. Yep. I know my kids were like wow, but they liked it overall, they really liked it. So yeah, it's a good book. Yeah, so go check that out. I can't remember the exact name of it. I'm so bad. World of Rue yep, yep, thank you, sir, appreciate that I just remember. Uda when he said it. Now, all I think about is this little character. Right yeah, observe orient decide act. Observe orient, decide act. So that's pretty. Sure from this paralysis, right. Yes, exactly, because you're constantly going back through that cycle. Yeah, and nothing. You know, observing and orienting are really important pieces of that. Like, don't just focus on the decide act part because you. See just one person and there could be three or four or crowd guys, exactly people. Yeah, and if you're just focused in, I mean, it doesn't or like somebody's approaching your car. Maybe there's somebody else too. Yeah. Yeah, So observing and orientating is the best idea because you need to get yourself in a position where you are at the back of that restaurant. You can see everything that's going on around you, especially in a self defense situation. It's one of the reasons why I'm not like overly is crazy about just training jiu jitsu, because you go to the ground with somebody, there could be three other people standing above you and you're done. Okay. So one of the other things that I picked out of this article that I really liked was developing that baseline. It seems really basic, uh, that you need to develop a baseline, But I've never like just really thought about it, right, like what is normal here? Right, It's just kind of assumed, but I've never really focused on the details of what's normal, like noise level, smells, lighting, those kinds of things, you know, what's right. Yeah, I really liked that as well. How we're moving and how they're acting. Just the overall energy of the place, Like did that energy just change? There could be a problem. Also, the what warrants second look? So uncomfortable behavior was like number one. If somebody is like acting uncomfortable, they are uncomfortable about something, there's some reason why, because that's not our natural state to be in. Well for most people, some people, you know, but most people you're not. Like, being uncomfortable is not your natural state. So if that's happening, that warrants a second look. Unusual action observing their hands, right, any kind of nefarious activity or if they have a weapon or something like that, they're going to be reaching, like to guard over that object. You know, pretty constantly I wear my knife at my side and I play with it a lot, right, Oh, I know, because it clicks click in and out of the It's like a pen right click clickie clickie. It's got a heart. Yeah, the heart takes. It's a hard fix played with a hard. Sheet, right, yeah, fixed blade with the hard sheet. And I was walking through prepper camp one time. Keep popping it open and close. Yeah, exactly, click click click click click. So I'm walking through prepper camp and natives like hand off the weapon. Mayn. I'm like, he was looking right, he knew exactly right where my hands were, And so I tend to do that as well, because when I'm wearing my knife and a crowd, I don't want somebody to be able to just walk up and take it from me. I know. But you're it's like another would like concealed firearm. You're, especially a new carrier, is always like adjusting, right, Oh huh right. It's like, oh I've got something, We've got something. Yeah, aggressive erratic behavior of course. But then, like you said in the clothing, you know, so out here in Texas, like I seen a dude riding on a motorcycle and his shirt was blowing his pistols just like right there tucked in the back of his pants. I'm like amen, God bless Texas. So how do we improve I'm always looking for ways to improve situational awareness. I snuck up on Brock the other day. I was like standing behind him for like three minutes before I scared the grunt out of him, and he's like, dude, I'm slacking. I'm like, yeah, you are. You know, just because you're in your own house doesn't mean you should be comfortable. Gosh, silly guy. So lots of things, like when we're driving around, we tend to like pick a color car. Then we're always looking for those cars that will definitely stop you from ever getting someplace and going how did I get here? Right, that's the worst. I'm so mad at myself whenever that happens. Oh, so, have you ever played the game, Well, they call it Kim's Kim's Game, Kim's Kim's Exercise or something like that in the military, and it's where you have like ten to fifteen items that you look at it for a minute and then they take it away or cover it up, and then you have to remember what was there. It's like there's that card game like that too, Right. Yeah, I played a ton of memory when I was a kid. I love that. Yeah. Oh yeah, garden Girl just was chatting up on the chat that the tornado touchdown just a few miles from the in laws, Texas, Scott destroyed. It got really hit last night. We'll talk about that later, but yeah. Wow. So anyway, this is an easy one ten to fifteen items play with the kids. The kids love these kind of games, like Marie, Yeah, and then you know, you and your spouse can practice these things. Make sure it's random items. You get it, you have to do random items. I like this one too. I witnessed description. So this could be fun at like a party type scenario or even even at prepper camp. You know, we could take up around a picture of like a random person and just show it to everybody and like this is the subject, and then like come back later and be like, write down what that person looks like. Yeah, let him look at it for a fixed amount of time. Yeah, get fifteen seconds or thirty seconds and then. Right, But then they can't write it down till later. See I'd be like cheating. I'd be like, as soon as you walk away, I'd start writing it down, you know, but no, you gotta wait till later. If you have a pad and a writing utensil with you. I typically do you know, no writer? You write? I'm a writer. I write. I have lots of pens. Not everybody does, so it's amazing. Well don't have a writing implement. But everybody's got their cell phone and they have the notepad in there. I know, but it's not the same. No, it's not. Nobody uses it either, like it's cumbersome. So on the stylist, I don't know. They didn't really take off very well. I prefer I actually like style, Like I bought a tablet that has a stylist. I just like writing instead of using my thumb and my first thing. Yeah, I've been doing so much audio building. I have like a twitch in my arm right now. I was like doing my mouse work the other night from all the fine stuff that I do, right like twitch, I'm like, no, no, I don't want it over there. So that is that you did that at the dojo with in my mousework? Yeah, yeah, that definitely happens at the gym. No, but I have gotten my butt back into class, so I am training with all them twenty year olds again. Feeling pretty good. Expand your peripheral vision this is great. Eye exercises are always awesome. Literally, you can like do eye exercises for your eyes like they're in a little gym, and it helps you keep your vision better longer, keeps your eyes stronger. Glasses are great. I wear them every day, but they also help weaken your eyes more so, anything you can do to help strengthen your eye muscles is really good. And if it can be part of situational awareness, boom. So what he was saying to do is, you know, develop a habit of scanning everything. I mean, whenever we're outside of a vehicle. First thing I'm gonna tell my kids is head on a swivel. Yep, but you're hat on a swim We'll put your hat on a swivel. So this is actually scanning your environment without moving your head and you do the area directly in front of you first, and then you keep going looking further and further and further out. And so once you get good at it, then you try to describe things that are in your peripheral vision without turning your head to look at them. Are you doing it right now? You're doing it right now, aren't you? Oh I'm swiveling. I got I got on, Oh. Yeah, you're looking. You're Maverick coping there. Yeah, that's up. So that's a good one and it's good for your eyes and it's good for your situation awareness. So that's something I'll definitely do. When you see me looking all bug eyed and weird, you'll know why. The observation scavenger hunt. So this was kind of cool. Jordan the other day was talking on our host group. You know, I got my kids coming out for a trip. What what's like a cheap way to have fun? Right? And I used to always take my kids the museums and like the little local zoo zoo that's cheaper and stuff like that. Just you know, take them to the to the nature preserve and things like that, just because it's an inexpensive way to have fun and right enjoy each other, enjoy each other's company. So what you can do is, if you've been there especially, you know, you can come up with a list of items and so when they come in, you can have them, you know, look at the list, find the items, and then when you're all done, they have to go and write out as many of the items as they can remember from the list. So again it's like a memory exercise, but I thought it would be fun, Like that'd be cool to do with the kids in a museum. Same thing with the exit interview. So if you leave someplace, you can do this with your spouse, your kids, or whatever. Quiz each other. How many employees did you see? My characters actually do this a lot in the books? You know, how many guards do you see? Eric's doing it with the kids all the time? Go figure? Right, So how many employees did you see? What did the people at the table next to you eat? Like? Typically I can't answer that question, so I had to ding myself on that one. Oh did I lose your chin? Did not? Okay? Just they can me be hunky talking about watching people eat? Oh yeah, it's dinner time. You haven't got your dinner yet. How many exits? That should be something that's not just part of the game. You should be doing that all the time. Yeah, where are the exits? You know, that's that's got to be the second nature for you. What kind of decorations were there? How many tables were there? So did you see that I sent you? Uh? Yeah, I did watch. Talk What this one guy did with his kids? What direction when you get out of the emergency exit to get back to your car. That's a good one for the kids to see if they're paying attention to, like when they get turned around in a building, the orient is actually, yeah, I thought. That, Yeah, if we go out this way. Where's our car right right? That is a good idea. That guy was cool to you. I liked him. I was like, I do that same thing. I do that same thing. That's cool. That's new. Yeah, yep, on a swivel. I'm like, oh, I don't even know where I got that from, but I've been saying it to the kids forever because, like you know, when they're literal running through a parking lot or whatever, it's like, Jude, you gotta look find the difference exercises. This is literally like when we were younger and they had those highlight magazines. Do you remember those? They had like find the hidden things or find the differences between the two pictures. Yeah, me too. Yeah, there's some cool like game apps that still do it. So you can definitely do brain training this way. And then how many can you find? So this is again, how many blue cars, how many beetles, how many stop signs did we pass? How many people were wearing this color, how many people were wearing that color? Right, So you just got to pick one objective when you walk out the door, and then you start counting those items, and you'll be so surprised at what you just start noticing because you're looking for one thing, whereas before probably all just a blur like, oh, there were some people there. You know, I noticed a bit, like I say, because it was really ticking me off when I just space out when I'm driving, because I know that's not good, right, So I start I count blue cars. Typically it's like you. Got into it's like, oh, what am I gonna do when I get home? Or oh that was a good song, right it did, And all of a sudden. Yeah mm hmm. And then I'm like, oh my gosh, I got home. And I don't even remember driving through this part and that part in this part, but when I'm counting blue cars, I always remember like, oh, yeah, I saw a blue car there. So really good stuff for a situational awareness and taking it down to people. Then once you get out of the car, oh he's wearing blue. They're wearing blue, and you know what else is not happening? You're not looking at your cell phone. That's the worst. Yep. That Like anybody in the audience who's looking at your cell phone in a parking lot, shame on you stop, please for your own sake, and then teach your kids not to do that too. Like we used to have answering machines. So even if even if it rings, guess what, they can leave a message. You can call back m hm. But you're gonna be safe, you know, not not a prey. They don't want you to look them in the eyes. They don't want you to know who they are. They don't want you to be able to do a description of who they were after the fact. So if your head's up and doing that now, you're no longer the prey. This one was weird. I don't really go to the mall or like, I don't know, if I'm in a store, I'm usually like after certain things. It's like people in those stores are usually after but the who's really shopping game at the mall to like, yeah, who's really shopping? Like who's actually they're buying stuff? Are they just walking around? But I did like the one before that, like if you're at a park, you one minute to try and what are they doing? You have one minute to get your best guess of what this person is doing at the park, right, So like, obviously it's obvious if they're playing football or something like that, But if they're just standing by the post, then that's a little bit different, Like what are they doing? So basic? People watching it With a fiction author, though, you you would make up anything. Oh brand story going on? And I'm like, the guy's just leaning against a uh like posts. They're the next Savior of the universe. He is working on mentally developing his super powers. Yep, he knows the secret code to the safe that is located underneath the pole that he's leaning against. No, you're right, but I come out. You gotta be practic. Two. And even if you are making up a story, you're there and noticing the people and what they're doing. So could be a game to play with the kids, you know, see how many items they can pick out of the scene to make a story. Oh yeah, so like the lady has an umbrella, the guy has whatever's wearing sneakers and short whatever. You know. Yeah, that's true. Now she's turned into Mary Poppins and he's actually the chimney guy. Right, you know, list twenty items or ten items and then make a story out of it. Uh huh. That'd be like a fun summer thing to keep the kids busy during the summer. Yeah, garden girl's probably over there taking notes. Oh yeah, that's a granity. Then will whipper snappers be situationally aware? Just this goes right along those lines, describe the area you've just been through. So it's got to be unexpected and random, because you can't just let them like start memorizing as they go in. But I mean with little kids cool. With adults though, like spring it at them and just be like, hey, we just walked through there. Well, what's like four things you noticed in there? Right? Yep? With kids, you can prime them, they can, you know, and then just pick out a few things that you'd expect them to see, or you can have them describe like one thing that was in there in detail, and that way people start paying attention to. Oh, when I'm coming through this area, I need to pay attention to, you know, whateverthing was. I don't do public commuting. I don't do commuting at all actually right now. So public transportation, yeah, public transportation or even when you're driving like the same route every day, you start to notice certain cars that are always like on the road with you. I used to notice that when I was leaving Cool heading for Auburn. You know, there's certain cars that are leaving at the same time as you, and so like pay attention to who those people are, When do they join you, when do they leave? This is just keep your brain sharp. It's not that you're like monitoring them, but then you can really start to see like, oh, wow, there's a heavy traffic today of like different drivers that aren't usually here or different passengers that aren't usually here. What is what's the difference today? You know, So that's kind of cool. If you're in a like more of an urban urban area, or you're communing or whatever. Where can the gun men hide? I love this one. I do it all the time when I'm out walking or whatever. I'm like, oh, sniper point, sniper pont oh hidden in the third layer, you can be third layer has to do with like camouflage and you're in the woods. There's the first layer, the second layer, third layer. It's really difficult to see people in the third layer. So this is always a fun exercise. I'm always thinking of like where people could jump out to like ambush you and stuff like that. Probably that's that fictional writer thing going on, but good practice for everyone. And then you can add different limitations like where could you hide to get cover and not just concealment, get them start thinking about that. And then the last one was was kind of creepy, what's different on your street? Take pictures of your neighborhood and store them. I'm thinking it would be a little creepy just walking down the street, Like I'm taking my normal walk and I'm just taking pictures all my neighbor's houses. Sure easily enough done. Well, yeah, the phone or something. Yeah, that's true. I could just like be talking on the phone and like video it all the way down. But anyway, so he's like, take pictures in the neighborhood and then study them careful, study the neighborhood carefully, put the pictures away, store them away, and then study the neighborhood carefully. I do this especially because I loved a garden, and when we moved to Texas, we're in a different zone, right, So in order for me to know how to garden down here, my biggest learning tool was watching the people who garden down here, right, When are they tilling their soil, when are they planting? When are you know? And that's what really got me on track for my garden. And so I really did study them carefully, and I was looking at Oh my gosh, that dirt's been disrupted. I know they've planted, So I've got to get mine planted right. This year, I was actually early and it's the best yet. So I was in earlier than the the one local that I look at, one of the locals was already in, one wasn't, so I decided it was good time split the difference. Yeah. Yeah. So then once you have the pictures and you've been watching your neighborhood and stuff like that, try to list out the things that you think are different than before. Like my neighbor had some roof damage, you know, that was a change that I noticed. One of my neighbors, like their lawnmower wasn't working, so now their grass is super long, right, And so I've been noticing just changes like that. But then you could take out the pictures and compare it to your list and see like what differences are actually there? So cool exercise well, I was like, ah, that's kind of creeper to just. Like, yeah, you have to be careful, right, I don't want. My neighbors to think of like a wacked doodle because I'm taking pictures of their house. So but. I got pretty nice neighbors. We want to keep it that way. Yep. One nice thing about Texas. But practicing situational awareness, Guys can't over emphasize the importance of you know, doing this daily whenever you're out in some place public, whenever whenever somebody pulls up at your house. You know, if you have a dog and it's barking, like, you can't just ignore the dog. You have to actually go look like, oh, what's the dog barking at? You know, if you got a little yapper that barks at everything, still, you've got to go look because missus Amber Pooh might have actually spotted something. You know. No, she really is a good alert dog. Right, yeah, I mean usually the yappers, that's what they're best at, is really alerting, you know, two onces going on. So my you know, Shadow, my black lab, she'll just be like sleeping right through it. She wouldn't care. But so, yeah, every day, every day, situationally aware, it's gonna be the best for you. Because if you aren't aware that somebody just pulled up in your driveway, now they're at the door before you were aware of it. Now they're through the door before you were aware of it. And we all slack, we all get in our own brains, we all get complacent, and it's just something we have to stay vigilant on. So there you go, like a new list of some cool things to do. I'm going to do them as well. We'll have to do like a report back on how things went because I needed some new exercises myself. I've been counting blue cars for a long time. You do you ena you guys got anything like that that you guys do for to stay sharp up in your travels. Mhm, Like, no, no blue cars, head on a swivel, all the cars that drive by. Yeah, that's just the biggest thing. Well, we're out traveling, you know, I've really got to watch the people because it's just sketchy. Situations can happen a lot faster than you would imagine. And with Christian, you know, still being little, we both. Pay attention when we're out like at malls and Yeah, it's we've literally like walked out of a Walmart because we've heard an argument starting the bubble over right, Yeah, we can come back later. Any fight you're not in is one you're going to survive. It's the one you're gonna win. Yep, exactly, because honestly, like once uh a situation begins, it doesn't matter if you technically win or lose, you're still gonna lose. There's still an element of you can be injured even though you won. So all right, hopefully that gave you guys some new tools. I wanted them, so I thought it'd be fun to share them tonight. All right, let's go ahead and get into some changing Earth news. It's been wild on our planet, guys, wild, so woo. The insurance market's going to be so interesting. But here we go Changing Earth. Thieves, Dream, Survive, thrive. Yes, is changing Earth news. So I said that the insurance marketplace is gonna be wild because as a cog in that engine, I really have no idea how our insurance as we currently know it is going to survive the amount of disasters that are just unfolding. It just honestly, a lot of the conversations around my extended family have been our policy. One happened, yeah, you know, yeah, the rates are going to the rates have you Like, we're all everybody's like, who are you with? What are you? You know, trying to find a better rate. Yeah, it's not gonna happen. They're gonna go. Like, you know, two billion dollars worth of hail damage to Austin last year. I mean there's all your auto you know how many like used car parking lots and everything. We're just splattered with hail, and then all of these storms are coming through, all these tornadoes are coming through. It is just I don't know how. I don't know how it survives. You can't. If you look at the numbers. Somebody's been paying like fifteen hundred a year for thirty years, it was like forty five thousand dollars, right their house goes down and we're rebuilding at you know, three hundred thousand to five hundred thousand or upwards. Those numbers don't jive, Like, they just don't work for the companies to keep expending that premium over and over and over and over and over again. So yeah, like I say, as somebody who's a cog in the engine. I don't know. It's gonna be real interesting, is all I could say. Okay, so changing Earth news. May twenty six, twenty twenty four. The solar our sun is quiet for a moment. It's like the calm before the storm on the Sun. The sun spot that gave us all the problems in the beginning of May is coming back around and she's about to show her ugly little head again. And so it's been little bit calmer right now. There's a lot of movement happening within the sun spot, and if it keeps that up, we're gonna be looking at the same type of situation we were dealing with the beginning of May. So we have to keep our eyes on this because it could be a big problem really fast. And then other than that, there was some like big filaments on the south in eruption. Would not be good for Planet Earth if those went off. But all in all, a general quiet kind of going on. Like I say, a calm, a calm before the storm, and hopefully it doesn't happen while I'm out on a boat in the ocean. Oh, I'm gonna need prayers, guys, lots of prayers. I know it should be like awesome fun trip. Man. I know I'm growing more grave right now as I speak. Okay, May twentieth, three hundred and sixty nine earthquakes are two point zero big or biggest of which was a five point one in Peru. There's a four point one in San Diego. There was actually tons and tons and tons of earthquakes over there, and like I said last week, sometimes good to see the little ones because that can be pressure release without a big one. So we just don't know. Historic flooding in Brazil continues. Areas have been just absolutely decimated. The water is now getting up so high that even like some of the high ground is becoming just non you just can't be there anymore. So really crazy situation going on there. And they're definitely not going to get those fields planted in time for a harvest. This year, a freak storm left Poland blanketed inhale oh and boots on the ground. Yeah, I gotta say, what was in our chat room here from our buddy over there in uh Portugal? Normally Portugal thirty five to forty degrees celsius snowed again in two parts in the big mountains, so of course up in the mountains, but still this time of year, crazy sauce. So the Sierra Nevadas haven't been doing anything. They're kind of When we looked at it, I think it was like the same longitudal of over there. So Arizona Tanto National Forest five thousand acres burning, Kenya was bracing four more rain. As Cyclone Iola hit Kansas, they had a huge dust storm, just huge haboob. They're called haboobs. I know everybody who's immature, like, yeah, Kansas in Central Kansas canal laugh, but yeah, huge dust storm. Residents Saracen, they've never seen anything like it. Just went straight to black black skies. May three and eighty seven earthquakes that were two point zero bigger, biggest of which was a five point seven in Papua New Guinea, Oklahoma was hit by multiple tornadoes. Omaha, Nebraska was getting flooded, Eastern Colorado hit by golf ball size hail event. The Netherlands hit by extreme flooding event. Also other areas of Europe flooding. Also Russia, Southern China record rainfalls and a lot of those areas over there. So this is not just the United States going crazy. This is the whole world going crazy. Southern China is also experiencing record heat, so I feel them like, that's what we've got going on in Texas right now. It's May and it feels like it's dang near middle of August. It's just the worst because we just had so much rain and the storms. Well, the hot runs into the cold. That's what's creating all this craziness. So Oklahoma was also hit by a dust storm. Uh now I know I lost you. No, nope, Okay, it did a beep beep, beep, beep beep. May twenty second, three hundred and forty eight earthquakes that were two point zero bigger, biggest of which was a five point six in the Maluku Sea in Indonesia. Naples, Italy. So this is right near Campy camp Flaggery, the Campy Flaggery, the volcano there, the super volcano. They were literally evacuating. On May twenty second, they had a four point four biggest earthquake in forty years. The inmates of the nearby prison were being evacuated. So Campy Flaggray has not calm down at all. It is still making a lot of noise. Iowa was hit by tornadoes. Lots of tornadoes just ripping through the middle of our country. Arizona wildfires are up to fourteen thousand acres. Central Illinois I fifty five closed due to a dust storm. So we have these dust storms on top of the other storms. It's gonna be like this, guys. It's just the atmosphere becoming supercharged, super high, super low. So that's why we're gonna have just more insane weather. And that's why I'm worried about, like how the insurance industry is gonna actually handle all this. May twenty third, there was three hundred and sixty three earthquakes that were two point zero or bigger, the biggest of which was a five point six in the southwest. Indian Ridge, Oklahoma was hit by a series of tornadoes. I've been lucky enough where we're at. They've skirted to the east or to the west and pretty much Star area completely. So it's kind of crazy to wake up some mornings and find out that just down the road somebody else got screwed over that night. May twenty fourth, there was three hundred and seventy seven earthquakes that were two point or bigger. I guess of which was a five point four in Peru. In New Jersey, there was another two point nine earthquake. Parts of Iowa and Illinois destroyed by tornadoes that night, just relentless activity. Multiple people died in those events, and the wind turbines got destroyed. I bet you that also happened up where it was hitting in northern Texas, because I know that area is all wind turbines up in there as well. Prayers out to everybody that's been affected by these tornadoes. We were talking about a lot of devastation, and really that's what the change in our series is all about, is infrastructure being destroyed, but not so much like a ask casualty of people. And so how do you handle that when your infrastructure is being ripped out from underneath you and you still have all these people that relied on that infrastructure. So that's what's gonna give you more climate refugees and things like that. May twenty fifth, there's three hundred and eighty three earthquakes or two point zero or bigger, the biggest of which was a six point three in Vanatu, northern Texas that was this morning or yesterday. Five people died up there in the tornadoes. I came through. I've heard five to eleven many more people were injured. It really hit Colin, Denton and Cook Counties, so big, big disaster in those areas. Again, just if you know, say say your prayers for those people. If you weren't involved, thank the Lord first and then pray for the people that were. In the Philippines, molebon Quezon was hit by typhoon it's Agho n Achnan and caused the major flooding event over there. There was also a huge landslide that happened over there, So those people are definitely gonna need our prayers. The island folks are just getting hit. Montana declared a disaster due to flooding. New Mexico wildfire they have started was up to fifteen hundred acres that is the Blue two fire, and a lightning strike started a fire near the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida, so we had eyes on that. One May, there was three hundred and ninety four earthquakes that were two point zero were bigger I guess of which was a six point three and not to another one, so not the same one that hit the day before. And when energy comes in there it kind of like it's like the punch point for our planet, and that feeds out around the Ring of Fire. So we always have to keep our eye on that because that could be bad things in the coming week for the Ring of Fire, especially two of them back to back like that. Rogers, Arkansas was hit by a tornado Ohio. When I was doing my research, they were on a tornado watch right now for a potential tornado outbreak with the storm that's moving through there right now. Cyclone Ramol is making landfall in Bangladesh right now today. That was live action. And then the extreme heat in Texas is the big story. A lot of people are still out of power in Houston now they're getting this extreme heat, so not a good situation there. As far as erupting volcanoes, we have thirty one volcanoes erupting. That's the same as last week. We have twenty five showing minor activity that's up to from last week. And we have twenty six showing up unrest that's down two from last week. So we have the same number of tornado or of volcanoes. I've been talking too much about tornadoes day right, same number of volcanoes on the list, but two more moved up into minor unrest as opposed to just being in the unrest category eight. For wildfires, we are at a preparedness level of two, so everybody got to start perking up about those wildfire wrists. There are seven large active wildfires in the United States right now, for a total of thirty two thousand, six hundred and seventy one acres on fire. Two of those fires are contained. Arizona's number one on the list with one huge fire fourteen thy four hundred and two acres no new fires, two of the or other big ones are contained at this time. Oregon's number two on the list with one large active fire six three hundred and forty acres that is not contained at this time. Colorado is number three on the list with one large active fire five six hundred and ninety nine acres that is not contained at this time, and Alaska is number four on the list one large fire three nine and fifty four acres and that one is also not contained. Well, a lot of cana does burning up on that side, so I wasn't really surprised to see Alaska up on the list. So yeah, I mean, I guess we need some I was gonna make like a Wizard of Oz joke, like you know, with all the tornadoes going on, but I don't know if that's really appropriate today. It's uh, it was a really rough night for a lot of people last night, So just send more prayers out to them. There's been like fifteen to twenty tornadoes or something that's hit Pennsylvania this year. It's just whack, right, that does it. That's weird, weird weather everywhere. Yeah, and with that big sun spot turning back, I don't know, they were comparing numbers to like this last big CME that we had compared to like big ones we've had in the past, and where the Aurora traveled to as far as like way more intense flares than that one we had, and the Aurora didn't go that far. So, you know, the Earth's shielding is not doing well, even though that's something that nobody in the mainstream media wants to talk about. And we just don't know what kind of effects that's going to have as this transition happens on our planet. I mean, we don't have records from twelve thousand years ago. Besides what we can find in the dirt and the trees and whatnot. So yeah, they all all want to use that tag word climate change, but they don't want to go too far beyond SUVs. Right exactly. There's another like huge piece of ice breaking off of the ice sheet, and so of course they're gonna blame that on climate change, but that's actually like Mother Nature's natural way of cooling the planet. So that happening would actually like trigger in the next ice age because that would bring less salinity to the water and it shuts down that the flow and the Arctic the current, just like the movie Day After Tomorrow. Literally, just like that movie. It was like a movie to. Its New York froze over, uh huh yeah. Yeah, because you know, we have mammoths that were froze while eating. I mean that's a quick freeze. We've never really seen anything like that happen on our planet. So how does that happen? Right, there's like a big harvest, right, a big harvest, right fair enough? Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, you can still eat it and everything. Yeah, people do. Yeah, it's crazy all right, guys. Well, until next time, Stay safe. I hate, really I hate to stay to say stay safe. I'd rather stay say stay free right, but right now with the crazy weather, like, make sure you got that situational awareness going in more ways than one. Those people that just got hit in Texas, one of the biggest things they were saying was we just never saw it comming like it happened that fast. There's a lot of times that I'm like, yeah, yeah, warning, whatever, you know, So just don't be that person. Alrighty, guys, check out the video over on YouTube, Give it a like, give it a share. It is in a short, it is in a long video. Whichever way you prefer. Go check that out, subscribe to the channel, appreciate that, and until next time, remember dream SERVI Thrive. Thank you for joining Sarah and Chen for this episode of the Changing Earth podcast. Don't forget to pick up your copy of Day After Disaster, Without Land, The Walls of Freedom, Battle for the South, Dark Days in Denver, and The Endless Night at www dot offer Sarah Fathaway dot com. 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