The Changing Earth - Area Assessment

Welcome back to the Changing Earth Podcast with author Sarah F. Hathaway and co host Chen Gibson, blending survival fiction and fact to bring you entertaining education that will help you dream, survive, and thrive. And now here's your host, Sarah F. Hathaway and Chen Gibson. What is up? Welcome to the Change in Earth Podcast. Hi, Chian, what's up? Hey? Chins up? Nothing much, man, We're just sitting back. Yes, chilling, get out. Well, guys, we got back on the air. We missed. We missed February and then we. Missed week one of March, so we're here. Week one was like weekday, want well stay tube? It was I mean, flip the calendar page over? I know I was at work, same, well where did that go? And now one of my buddies was over and he's like, don't you have like a podcast to do? I'm like, oh my gosh, where did February go? What? What even happened here? So this is episode four hundred and ninety. We're here touching base today on area intelligence. But I'm gonna give you the heads up right now. We're going to be squirreling a lot. So if you are really really serious about your area intelligence because this is a super important show. Mike Shelby is the guy who had. To go to Amazon look up the Area Intelligence Handbook by Mike Shelby and buy a copy for you. I actually got a copy for me, got a copy and I gave it to my ship. Yes, yes, I mean he's a good he's a good shaff. He's not a bad chair. So I mean that's how much. It's a great book. Yeah. And Mike's a great guy as well. I mean he's a final gentleman, so definitely don't mind promoting him. His work, really good stuff. He's an a Ford Observer group. Yeah. Yeah, and they have YouTube channel, news, you know, members, emails and whatnot. I don't know if he'll be back out of Propper Camp this year. Not sure. I'm not sure. He hasn't been because there's been conflicts in schedule. I'm not sure about this year. Yeah, I'm this year's schedule, guys, it's changed up. August thirteen, fourteen fifteenth is this year's schedule. I like it because it works with the school schedule. I was going into high school. You know what that would look like. But I just I was over. I was over to the event location twice this past week. But that's another reason why I'm so busy, so exactly, so I was over there a couple of times. It's it's just so cool we have that we have this secluded part for prepper camp, and then the facility also has a little bit fur their way but has has like restaurants and shops and all on the same property. But you know, I feel like spoiled. It's just crazy. There's a general store, like a real general. Store, yeah, else, and tons of places to stay, but you can still camp if you want to. Awesome, They're going to have an awesome, tense city. I saw real Yeah, a bunch of r V spots, cabins I know the last time, the last place we went to didn't have a lot of cabins. Here, we got a good selection of cabins. We have a hotel on site. Curact yeah, yeah to the one has rooms like open to the outside, and one is have room that open the inside. You know, making making rations for shuttle buses like. I was gonna just take my van and like have people think, yeah, that's right, that's right. I've been looking into one of those. I know what you're going to be playing over the loudspeakers. You'll be playing the your your audio drama on the loudspeakers. I will be and the Changing Earth music. If you haven't checked out the music I'm making so much fun. Yeah, so that's over at the Changing Earth series. Look up the soundtrack and I've just been like I say, kid in the candy store. So yeah, all all the music that I'm designing as well, So that'll be going. I'm just really looking forward to. It's gonna be a ton of fun. Yeah, ton of fun. I'm trying to Chalk Brocken to get in one of those like robo carts so it's easy to take. The book around there. It's like a it's like a cart that like is self propelled kind of because he's always carrying books around for me, you know, and I feel bad. So he's like, if I got to bring down one more thing of books, I'm like, we're out of this one, you know. So a little bit figure haul this year, but we could drive the van down in. I'm super excited and we can. Expand capacity because of it. Right Yeah, yeah, So guys, this is the year. If you haven't been yeah, call and make your again, make your lodging reservations, whatever way you want to go, call in and make your reservations. Right, get your tickets, get a place to stay, and then you're all set. And he's like, oh my go the lodging's not spread across the county like it was before. It's right, you know, between Better Breakfast, Airbnb and everything. Now we have pretty a pretty good amount of lodging right there on site. I think Saturday Night's gonna be better because you know, Brad's gonna be playing, which is always awesome. Five times August, and uh, you're so much closer, right, you don't have the people that are staying off site. Yeah mm hm, so I think that's gonna be much better as well. We're on a lake again, so we still have a lake, so we still have that going. Oh the discounted tickets. No, we're still the event. Yeah. Yeah. So we stuck a New York vision and everything. I love it. We're getting totally. Spoiled this year. I'm gonna be telling stories of like You're. One that I was there and we got flooded out. We had to walk too uphill both ways to get our books down here, you know. Oh Amber alert, Oh my goodness. I don't think she's had enough time with me. So now she's like underfoot all the time. She's in the other room and I got the door closed. Yeah, you've got to let her in. She's like, Sarah's in there. I know it. You're talking to her. So down in Texas, spring is actually we've been blessed. It's like it's coming already. My peach tree is already blooming. I'm gonna have peaches soon and all that. So that's what's on my agenda. Eggs like crazy babies are finally laying. That coop worked out slick. It is the best design ever for a chicken coop. I did concrete on the bottom so it can just be closed out. But they have this huge dirt yard, you know, because it was like, oh, having your burns on kind whatever. But here there's so many mice and the red ants that I had to do something to combat, give them a piece of space that I could control, you. Know, and usually you're walking in all this muff and everything. It's great. I'm just sold. So if anybody wants to hit me up about that chicken coop, feel free it was very inexpensive. It's just a dog kennel and then PBC and chicken wire so. And it write a book on the Texas chicken Kennel. Oh, I'm telling you it was a challenge to Everything in Texas is a challenge. Yeah, you grew a garden. I grew gardens of Michigan. I grew gardens you know in Cali, like we had huge gardens. I'll here you grow sand. Yeah, you get it all like together, it's just looking great. Boom, sand just explodes. It's really crazy. So maybe it's that Sahara. You know, we get the Sahara that blows in the sand from the Sahara Desert. You know, it blows that much sand in. I'm telling you it's crazy. It's like living on a beach or something, but the beach is hours away. It's it's insane. So other than that too, I've been training uh craf mega crab mega. I don't like the word. I'm really bad with it. So but it is phenomenal. I've been training with a gentleman who is a phenomenal instructor. So found another great mentor here in Texas. I've been blessed my life to have incredible mentors and you want to talk about taking you know, just your personal safety, your ability to defend yourself next level. That's where you need to go. You need to find a good instructor. There's always good instructors and bad instructors. But I'm having a ball on training craft. So that's been four days a week. They're training and then trying to get the gardens ready and doing all the videos. If you guys haven't checked it out, Changing Her Audio Drama, the videos are turning out really really cool. It's kind of like a storyboard through the show to give a little matter to the audio drama instead of just watching nothing on YouTube. And now I'm just really time consume with it. The pilot script was picked up by a production company, so it's a good first step in the right direction. There's a lot of steps we still need to take before Changing Her series comes to your TV screen, but it's great to have had that step and any support you guys can give me liking, sharing content, get on over there like and share videos. That kind of stuff just lets people know that you guys want to see Changing Earth on the TV screen. So appreciate everything that you guys can do for me on that level because we're moving forward. I'm pretty excited about all that. So, all right, area assessment. So you have been doing other stuff, Let's kind of talk about what you're what you're into right now, because that's a good catch up anyway. I kin't I mean, like you, I moved to a new area right not recently, but we're finally starting to get our scenes like in a in a pattern going. So I've been trying to build a network of people and not really influence like you know, bow down to me, but if it's where like people know of me, or if I walk into top to somebody, I can actually like have a conversation with him that they'll pay attention. You know that it's not just the blow off. So I've been doing things like we you know, we started the cert team here in our county and that's through the Sheriff's department, so that gives us, you know, I I can call the sheriff on his phone and he knows me when I call, and we you know, you know, I mean, I'm not high up on this list, but I'm enough that he knows me by name and could call from me and you know, I don't abuse it, but that's a good thing to have, right And like I said, I you know this book. I'm sure he gets all kinds of threat paid you know, reports and everything else, but this book. I gave him Mike's book because I figured it would be a way for him to look at it from a different angle. You know, the more you can learn, the better off you are, right right, So you know, and I've been assured. You are because you've got through different angles. That's what we're all about, right. So, like I joined the local ham club and getting in with all the radio guys, and I talked to everybody no matter where I am. I talked to him about radios because it's a way to a get in front of them, had a conversation and be get my community better prepared. We all know what it's like to be without a cell phone, especially if you go through one of the major events. Yeah. Yeah, I play off of that. So that and then I've also you know, I've done some a lot of stuff with the local elections, right, So i got in with my county Board of Elections and I've got in with the party that you know I'm affiliated with. So again, you're meeting more like you meet a lot of business people at the monthly meetings for the political party, right, so you can get to know people and get to share information back and forth with them. So all that has been my way of trying to build out a spider web of information. And I can also get if I need something done, I can eat, I can they can help me find somebody to execute whatever I need done. Right, So even with here, like with Prepper Camp, you know, I've been working so hard to do Meshtastic in my county. So I was talking to the people at the facility about putting the repeater up there. You know, it would be great for Prepper Camp to have a repeater. If it works well, I might I might entertain just leaving it there. If it doesn't work well, well then we'll just use it for Prepper Camp and and move on. But if it works well, I mean I already told them I get him a Pomeshtastic notes so they can play with them. But to get a nice the solar repeater like we had at camp last year, I'm toying with that, but they already said that they have some locations I can go put it up at So that's cool. And for anybody who doesn't know, the SERT team as your community emergency response team. Yeah yeah, and a lot of communities, like I know in my area, there's already one established it. Like you don't got to do what Chin did and go and create the wheel. You can go and just become a part of it. You're also doing a lot of stuff for your elections, uh in your area, so don't sell that short. Yeah. So, I mean I've done stuff like pole observer. So like you can your political part whichever one you're in, whatever, but your political party can have people sit at a polling place and watched to make sure things are being done correctly right and watch for inconsistencies. And then you you can't you can't stop. You can't get involved physically involved, but you can. They typically give you like a phone number to call, and then you can call and it's either with your county or the state, and then you could say this, you can make a report. You could say I saw this, I witnessed this, this, this, this, and you can also tell the the In North Carolina it's a chief judge, So the poll the polling location has a chief judge which is like the head manager for that location, and then two judges and those are like assistant managers. And then they have like the people that work at the computers and checking in and you know, check your addresses right, so that ding so you can tell if you see, like if you say that person walked out with a piece of paper that they're not supposed to leave the premises with, or that person can in with a piece of paper and that's you can't stop the person, but you can go to the chief judge in total, so you can be involved in trying to make sure your elections go smoothly and being. Marked with your party. There's like a lot of elections that didn't have anybody running against them and stuff like that. Just sitting there like type it away on Facebook is not getting it done right. Yeah, I know. It was very discouraging that we only had like twenty four percent of the registered voters vote. We had a reeling for this loss. That's that's we had a really big turnout in Texas. I don't know if it's beca. I mean, you can't you can't say I don't like the candidates. You either help get a candidate in that you like, or you have to hold your nose and pick the best of what's available, right, you know what I mean. I mean not voting just gives anybody. It's just throwing your your one vote into the winds and letting somebody. Right, you got to pick the best of what's available. And if you're really proactive, either you or you find somebody in your community that would be a good person for that position, right, and and encourage them and support them and help them pass out literature and put yard signs out and all that stuff. Well, that's the thing. There's some areas like I say that, don't they go They run unopposed, and so you know those are actually sought after a lot of times because that's an easy end, right, And once you're in, then you can climb. You're like, oh I did this party? Yeah, we we we had some We had some people cross parties. They voted one way for years, years and years and years, and it also did this this election season. They change parties and they are very George Washington would not approve their basic lifestyles. And it's true, and there they ran unopposed. I cannot believe that the county the county party chair and the state party chair did not get involved and at least run more candidates, fine candidates to run against that person somebody because they ran unopposed. How can that happen? Yeah, that's insane, I know. So that's why. So it's important. That's all part of area assessment, right. To know what's going on. Yeah, yeah, so. Like research, you know, actually like understand a lot. Of times each party will happen. Yeah, a lot of times each party has like leading like a month or two out leading up to the event, they'll have have like meet the candidates, right, they'll have like you can they'll do their little speech and you know, they're they have some banquet hall or something and you can go watch them and talk to them questions and the answers, so you can meet them. I know when like growing up in like in a bigger city, they have like news stations that do it. Here in rural rural America, you have to go see them in person whatever back room. But yeah, yeah, barbecue joint. I'm running in this area. I'm like, that's cool. One thing I do have to actually give to California, if you can believe it, is we used to get an actual like booklet. That's yeah, yeah, what you were voting on the candidates, pros cons, all that kind of stuff, and then where you could go to get more information. And it was actually pretty thick, it clean. It was stata or it wasn't like it wasn't like one. Side or the other push, you know, which was really really cool. Think. I mean, I hate to like give, but I got to give credit where credit well. Do the other thing. California is where started. So that's where it started. Yeah, well there's a lot that happens there. We're actually preparing for for a catastrophe season right now. You know. I'm in the insurance world. So it's time to start making sure we have everything on point and whatnot because we're coming into the the catastrophe season. Yay, we're actually hitting it. Right about now is the time in Texas when the big storms are rolling through, you know, so we've been. Hitting that pretty much as well. But yeah, it's really important to know your area. A lot of times when I think area assessment, I go like personal self defense. Right, so my bubble is like super small. When you do in area studies, you gotta take off all those glasses, right, all those things that kind of you folk your tunnel vision and you got to look big. You can't. A lot of a lot of preppers will look at this like you know the three bes right, you know, So that's how that's what they're prefering for. But what look at your The big thing that Mike is Mike talks about in these classes are look at your area, really look at your area. You know, do you have right do you have do you have like correctional facilities or like do you have a border international boarder close? Or you know what what crime? What you know, syndicates do you have? You know, is it a gang or is it a cartel? Or look at a secondary level there, Like they did a lot of big crackdown in the cities here like Houston and Dallas, and that pushed some of the crime out to the smaller Yeah, I. Know, we're seeing that my little rural area. So then we have to crack down on those ones too. So that's and even you know with like the homeless and stuff there. So the cities don't want to deal with it or don't want to see it, right, So the easiest thing is come on and get on the bus. Will take you out for you. End up in rural America, you'll be so happy. But yeah, but I mean you've talked about dams, right, look for you know, if they're a damn you know, you know, do you live in coastal area and you know there's hurricanes every year? Or is there a fault line railroads? Because there's some areas where like they started building on top of you know, areas where they were mining something or you know, underneath the ground they were harvesting some kind of chemical out and then later it becomes an issue with the neighborhood. That was put there. Right, And you can also look at what do you have for industry around in your community or your county or whatever your region, and then try to do especially now that with like groc and all these internet searches, we can do more similar. Yeah, look for similar industries and what emergency events catastrophes do they have in that industry. And then you can go back to you and kind of say, Okay, it hasn't happened here, but it did happen five states over and this is what happened, and then you can study what happened, how they reacted to it, how did how do they respond to it emergency response and then do you know, after action report to kind of like say, if we did this, it would have been better than their reaction, you know what I mean? Or they did this really good. We need yeah, we need to say, Okay, the wind is blowing this way, you've got to be on you know these these road these roads ways, or you know a congestion or you know, is this a bottleneck here? How do people evacuate? You might be far away from the incident, but what's the wind going to do with it? Yeah, that's a big deal. So look at what really is in your neighborhood, not the romantic. Yeah, you know, we're just gonna hunk it down and. We're gonna be able to stay here forever. One of the things that I look around at is like, Okay, if if something happened and people are bugging in, where's all the water coming from? If the taps turn off? Right, whose property has the water? Because they're going to be stuck in a defensive position, you know, to try and everybody's gonna need water. So you can only store so much water and then you're gonna need it. So how long term is your bug and power. How do you get the walk? Like, I live on property, real property with a well. So as long as I have power, whether it's something I get off site, you know, like electrical power, or do I have power that I create on site? Right, I can get water out of my well. Yeah, we talked about so well does dry? Where's my well go dry? Right? I know when I was a kid, you know, growing up, we had a well at a well went dry in the middle win. So my neighbor, you know, every couple of days they would run a garden host from their house to our house and we'd fill up all the tubs and stuff. Oh my goodness. Yeah, yeah, it's a good thought. We always thought about it when we're on the wells. Also we had a generator, but that's long term. It's funny how I think about water conservation now way more back when I lived in in the townhouse, it was conserving dollars, right, you know how much money I want to pay Now It's like I don't want to overtax my will because you just there's not like a fuel gauge on my well where I could see, well it's starting to run low, or you know, wearing the drought or it's just something it'll start pump too. Like our pump would hop when it was under a lot of pressure. Yeah, the least that we could get it to hop, because then it would rub on its electrical cord and fix and replacing, you know all that stuff. I did think about it a lot more back there. For sure. For sure we had the joyful experience of having our all our septic tanks were full. M m mm hmm. We had we had get that pumped once fut. I mean I grew up like I. Mean, yeah that was years, years and years was living here. But I grew up with skeptic and and well when I was a kid, we had those, and and then you know, when I became an adult, I always had city you know, municipalities for the for the infrastructure, and and now I'm back out to you know, living with then well. And they have those, they have those emergency toilets. They're just like the buckets you know that you had a little toilet seed I you put the little chemical in there. I hey, man, I wish I'd have one. We have one in the trailer, right, I was like, and first comes the worse. We can just start going on the trailer. We got a guy out here pretty quick. But again, when something like that happens in the life of so many things about preparedness, you're like, oh. But that's something that you have to be if you're not prepared. If you're prepared, it's it's an annoyance, but it's not like life threatening or a major event. Like we were two weeks without power here at my house after the after Helen. My wife didn't miss one day work and she teleworks right because we had things in place to take care of business right. And that gives you the ability to have the correct mental yeah too, Like you have to expect the unexpected and take things and strive. And I say that as somebody who's pretty like I was a control freak big time, and when little things went wrong it used to really dishovel my world and emotionally disrupt me. And just understanding that you know you're ready, you're going to be able to make it through anything. You know you're good. Jesus got your back right, allows you to take that pressure off, take your foot off that gas pedal a little bit. You know it's cool. You make better decisions when you're not freaking out because of pressure. That's I mean, that's I mean, that's what you know, like finances, you know, if you're not like underwater and you could make good decisions if if you you know, if you if you have some kind of backup power or whatever, then you're not freaking out because the power company isn't telling you when the power Yeah, I mean, we've got a fireplace in the house, so like if power goes out in the middle of winter, I know, I can you know, we're not going to freeze. My pipe's not going to free and my plumbing's not you know. Yeah, there's a lot. Yeah, that's Texas. This is all place. Well, what we're saying is actual events. Right. So during this class that we took, they did the likelihood matrix, right, So the impact matrix where you draw a big box, you divide the box up into four corners, right, four quadrants, and then to help you understand what you have to prepare for, you do like in the in the bottom left, you'll do low impact and low likelihood. So if it happens, if it did happen, no big deal, right, And the likelihood of it happening again is no big deal. So then if you go to the top right quadrant, you would put high impact and high likelihood. So that's like in my mind, that's like storms. You know, like storms the coast. You know you're going to have flooding. You know that you're gonna you could have a major storm every couple of years, they have them, right, And so that might be something you might want to prepare for a hurricane and and either you know, how do you evacuate? How do you secure your house? That kind of stuff if you live in a hurricane zone or tornado, how do you prepare for a tornado? Right, that's the stuff you got to you know, you might want to put money into what are those tornado shelters? But you go into the ground and survive it, then you do in five a ours in the closet, right, you might have to design on where you spend your money. So doing a grid like that will show you if you're honest about it, like take the time. And honestly yeah, yeah, and you can you can you can put it. Put what's in each quadrant, you know, so you'll have like the other two quadrants the top left would be low impact but uh, high likelihood, So it's like summer, summer, like you know, thunderstorms happen all the time, right, so there's a high likelihood that you're going to have a thunderstorm, but the impact, you know, you're without power for an hour or two hours, you know, because the power company can come. It's not a regional event. They can come. They'll fix, you know, get ready to clear the tree and fix. Yeah. Yeah, So so you know, fill that thing, fill the four quadrants out, and then you can actually start making good decisions on how and what you need to do to get prepared. You're not just saying, oh, I read this prefer manual and it told me that I'm supposed to have, you know, ten weeks of food of em and I supposed to have this discount of ammunition. I'm supposed to have these three weapons, firearms, and you know all this other. Okay, everything has its place, yeah. And there's no one size fits all. Look at us we were we were at we were at prepper camp drawing the storm haleene. So all my preparations were not with me except for what I had with me that I was prepared for travel, right, So I had my travel and as I drove home from that, I am looking at flooded out houses and everything else, and I'm like, I could get home and there could be nothing left of everything that I did. So you just you have to. Look at what the you know, what, what the actual emergencies are, what the actual threats are for your local area. And that's what the whole thing with the area study is. Don't just go and say, you know, Sarah down to Texas so they had to do this and you live in New Hampshire, Well, Sarah, probably you might have every ten years, might have an ice storm, but you're gonna have one five times six times the winter, right, So there's things that you need to do. I know my grandfather growing up, he had two snowmobiles because they weren't toys. They were if they had to get out in the winter. That's how they went out to get groceries or went out to get gasoline or whatever they need to do. You know. So I have medical emergencies, they so, but Grandpa had him because he needed them. Right, Yeah, And that's how that's the smart plans that I've just, like you said, finding a list and they're like. Whoa, this was what going online? There's plenty of lists online. Yeah, there's plenty YouTube video is it will tell you from the experts actually. What you need. Okay, So I really like the defining the spaces as well, because I do that on more of a local level, for like assessing the risk to your immediate residence. Right, you have the area where it's like yours only, and then the area would enter if they're allowed, right, So I like that he kind of broke that down as well. The operational environment is like everything and then the area of operations your life right now, So how far are your kids going to school? How far are you going to work? That kind of thing. And you can actually have multiple area operate. You could have your home and you're often for you, it's the same way yeah, your school. Yeah, so you can have three or four different so you're going to know exactly around these locations. Yeah. Yeah. The area operation is not like the whole state, right, that's the different. This is exactly you need to plan for what's going to your. Local geographical areas that you frequent the. Most, yep, and what could affect that and what you could have to deal with in that. Yeah, Brock's got like all kinds of trains that he has to pass on the way home, you know, so that kind of thing, and. You could look to see do some digging to see what's on those trains, the transport right you know. See, well we might need a chemical, a mask, a gas mask for this chemical. And the vehicle. Yeah, in the vehicle because he might be able to drive home and you know, scrub down when he gets home and you know, decontaminate. But if he can't breathe can he hold his breath that whole way. You only got three minutes out here. But it's stuff like that. I mean you might not think about, but you might. Have, like, yeah, it's true in Vegas they're taking all kinds of nuclear through there and whatnot as well right by the strip. Was like I would think, right right, you. Never think that, So that's a little crazy, okay. And then the area of interest is the ring just out Yeah. So that's what we're talking about. Was like, oh, okay, you might have this nuclear facility in nearby, or a military base or major highway even we do you know. In your area, your area of interest might be the alert zone for you. You might see activity start popping up in the area of interest, which will start giving you the time to alert and prep in your operation. You know what I'm saying. So if if you say, you know, this this circle around outside of my area of operation, there's there's a correctional facility, and that facility had a jail break, right, so you could say, well, if that jail break, and the easiest way of getting away from the jail would be to come the power lines that go behind my house, you might want to be on you know, be on alert. If you're not home, call home, tell them to make sure to lockdown, or tell them to you know, go to mom's house or something, you know, go to Grandma's house and and hang out there until we get the all clear, until we know everybody's captured, either you know, hunker down or evacuate. But knowing what's in your area of interest could give you advance warning so that you have the time to prepare, as opposed to you know, just watching inside that one mile radius or five mile radius whatever you choose for your of operation and just washing inside that and then all of a sudden something blows into your area where you had no advanced warning. Yeah, it's nicer to have a little little Headstone. That's one of the reasons why I like, wasn't too hippity half I'm moving into uh Tennessee because if something happened in the east coast, there'd be so many people coming through there. But I was like, hmmm, I don't know. That's a really major thoroughfare, right, Yeah, it depends on where that comes off those mountains and goes into that area. So I was like, I don't know, I wasn't very hippiie half on a beautiful state too so and close to you guys, that'd be better. Yeah, But like you're saying, you got to know terrain, great physical train, the weather. We've already touched on those two human train, Like what are the people on human trade? You know, with elections seasons is a really good time to look at who's got what yard sign up. You'll start you'll start seeing who's who. You know, am I surrounded by people that are voting alike? Or do I have an oddball? You know three houses down that has a sign that's not similar to how I vote and start marking that writing that that have have a notebook or whatever you need how you want to do it. Operation, But you're just. It gives you, It gives you advanced notice, right if it's true, God forbid, Like you're in some big red flag where they have red flag laws, right, and you're going to want to know who's friendly and who's not friendly because somebody could be you know, calling what's your sheriff? Like, you know governance. They also talk about know your governance, So what are your your you know, your county, your city council, your county, town council. But what are all those people like, yeah, you know, and what's your sheriff like? And what's your your chief of police? Like you know kind of I can tell you. That it's a lot different down in Texas than it is up in Minnesota. So that's definitely something that's going to be, you know, different on your area assessment. But have you noticed how much it's it's changing places You always it's like, well this is there's a lot of country music bars here. We'd never change. And you look at the camp on the balance, Holy. Smokes, we're two generations away from losing our freedom. And so it takes that's that's a constant. That's not it. That's not like, oh, we made it through twenty four yay, get all the head winds. Recent example that everyone will know at this point as I ran, I mean when I was born or it was a much different country than what it is now. That's too. Oh yeah. You see some of these videos about the seventies and our it's like they had short shorts and everything else, right right. Yeah, and everything. They were super advanced. They were our first world nation doing just fine, and then two generations later they're oppressed and you know, living under the boot. So don't think it can't happen here. It's our vigilance as Americans. Look at some of the communities they're trying to set up in Texas. In Texas, yeah, exactly, because freedom rains here, so it takes advantage of it, right. Yeah. They learned the rules and they play on the edge of the rules where they can you know, there's a gray zone right there where they they play it hard. Yeah. Yeah, they're all for the minorities till they become the majority. Then there is no minority, all right, But that's neither here nor there. We can we could have a whole other account. Of oo on that one. Well, that's just talking about what's your political you know. And you should know. You should know what communities are around you. It's a lot different if it's an how much community or a Muslim community. It just no, I'm not saying you could. You could like or hate one of those two sides, right that you just it doesn't matter. But as long as you know for your household how you're going to deal with it. If the one that you don't like how they live starts to get more influence in your town, in your area, and you're also going to and you're also going to want to do what you can do to keep that other influence from gaining in your town. Right, and that takes us being active, being aware, getting out there and making a difference. Haha. Amberscot competition today. They have Ragnar was like, uh, that's my assessment. He's always assessing the area. Good for him. He's like one hundred and fifteen pounds now. He is the size of a miniature horse. He's nineteen or yeah, exactly the same size as my aunt's miniature horse, as my German shepherd. He's a moose. Yeah, so. Okay, So we talked about all that kind of stuff. And then we're going to get together with James and talk about, you know, getting together a challenge or something. That we can start doing a little bit more of the area. And the other thing we've been talking a lot about threats. You also want to do your assessment to know what you have for positive assets correct? What do you have for people that you can work with and like strong community add to your community. What do you have for resources in your community that you can work with the help you know, do you have a good fire department or a good volunteer fire department, or a good desert team or a good you know, volunteer police. I know the sheriff's department here is starting starting up like a volunteer shriff's department. So there's a lot of stuff like that that you can look for that are positive. What do you have for good off grade comms in your community? Do you have a good GMRS repeater system or a good hand repeater or a good mestastic What can you do to help improve it? Improve it? Yeah, yeah, it's not just a negative. Also look at the positive assets. Yeah, absolutely, we got it. It's all part of your ye are, that's all part of your area study. So my area is getting ready to grow like huge, right, now, so I know that's definitely on my radar. We have, uh, the city of Tyler is basically just out pouring right now and so new shopping complexes and how and tons of stuff going out. So it's like, well, okay, where that fure? You know? Yeah, I was there for almost thirty years in Charleston, and I watched this like two lane road that used to go down to the dump turn into that's where on that road it gained into four lanes and then it was over congested and there was housing and developments and harbor developments every by the time I left, I'm like, yeah, that's just crazy. And the other thing too that I would think about, like this is really hard to judge, but they found like lithium north of where I'm at, and so what does that mean? What does that look like on future mining? So look at look at the area, look at existing lithium mining facilities, and look how that grows. Because I'm sure you can research over time how long it took to get to what stage and then look at what infrastructure was developed and everything else. So that's that's something that you know, the lithium could be something that you could say this is something. It could be good for the economy, but it could also mean there's gonna be tons of traffic, there's gonna be a heavy burden on housing. You know, they're gonna be building a lot more houses, So that that's something. And then what what do you have for dangers? You know? What threats? Does the lithium mind create? What? You know, what exposures? What kind of you know, health threats? You know? Does it carry stuff in the in the wind? You know, is that something you could be breathing? You know, there's a lot you can Yeah, and that's to say with data centers too, right, data centers, with water uses and with energy use electrics. Another thing they're doing here except Elon's getting ready to like launch just thousands of satellites to be able to hear store all the data up there, which I think is a phenomenal. You don't have to worry about cooling. Yeah right, yeah, because you. See he's got he started a phone like a cell phone service. Really yeah, So it's going to satellites instead of to towers. Towers, I mean why not? So the amount of debt I guess he proof with the Internet, he can he can have contact right connections, and now that as they build out the infrastructure in space, they can add additional usage demands with cell phones. But yeah, he's doing a cell phone service now like AT and T Verizon. Now it's going to be like a starlink or whatever he calls it. The other thing is the only thing that bothers me about that is if he's got like the. Yeah, yeah me too, right, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean because I have Starlink at the house and they ran this stupid deal where they gave me a free Starlink mobile Antena thing intent router. It's free for usage as long as I have the account, and I pay five bucks a month added on to my original bill. So of course I got that. So now like if I travel, I'm not dependent on AIGHTE and T or Verizon. I can do Yeah, I can do Wi Fi calls my phone, and then I've got I've got my walkie talkie. My cam radios are digital DMRs and those passion to the Internet, so I can talk through my radios or my cell phone through if I had my Starlink mobile with me, she says, as. She's been experiencing Internet problems all yeah. I was talking through the lithium battery thing, and I saw you fell off the thing. I'm like, well just swing It's so what's the reasons about? Yeah, but I would say that's like the perfect example of what's in your area. You know that's coming, So research how that's affected other areas and neighborhoods where because you could watch a timeline and see how it. Affected those areas. You know, what did it do positive and negative? What did it do to those areas, and then pull it back to see how it can affect you and what you need to do to plan for it. Hell, you might need to say there's a bubble right there, and in five years of them opening that mind, it's like real estate is hot and heavy, right, and then but if fifteen years of them open to mind, it's dirty and you know they're starting to whatever. So you might not have the hot So you might want to sell at a certain time. You might want to we were going to sell. Let's just say we were going to sell the house in five years whatever. That was our game plan. But you might say, oh, it looks like if I hold off for eight years, that could be the sweet spot and we could like double our money if we got ship. So there's stuff like that that you can you can watch what's happened to other communities and pull that back to your community to make plans. Yeah, that's true. I like that. Okay, we all have homework to do. Yeah, you gotta research it, you got it. It's not enough to just learn. It's the same as self defense, you know, you gotta know what's in the areas. Like I'm getting in bad where's rag? Now? I have something to say? Alrighty, let's go ahead and get on with some change in Earth news. We got tons of talk about catch up. On Dream, Survive, Thrive. Is changing Earth news? All right? Or goose? It's been a while, so I've only been looking for like the really big things that had had a really big impact, and we've had them. So that's what I'm looking for. I didn't want to bore everyone with running down everything that's been going on. We'll get to the volcano numbers later, but it looks pretty much like we are still above one hundred. I think we're at one oh four last time we're on, so we're still sitting at the same type of area today, which is you know that that activity doesn't seem to be slowing, and we have some interest same things going on as well, earthquake wise, so let's jump into it. In January, we had big old floods in the Asian region fifty four plus disaster events and with volcanoes going on alerts there that's over at Asia, so that was some big activity that was happening, had a big impact displays multiple families. January sixteenth to the twenty third storm Hairy hit western Europe. There was about three hundred and ninety plus deaths from that event. Damage was greater than one billion dollars in damage. So that was a huge storm that came crashed in, mister Harry. There on January eighteenth, there was an X one point nine class solar flare. But honestly, the. Last January hit a little bit, as you can say, but we've been really quiet on the Sun. It's been really just kind of chill with not even really a lot of big corona holes going by, so very interesting. The Sun said us humans are doing enough chaos and. Relax a bit, right, Yeah, it's it's chilling that always accompanies human beings going a little mental crazy, so it's good that it can just chill out for a little bit. There was a big event in southern Africa, probably flooding down there. It doesn't tell me what it actually was. Hunter plus deaths, one point three million affected. But they're in their storm seasons down there, so I know there was an event that came across Madic gas car in there. Oh that's in next month. So yeah, they're definitely down in storm season right now, and they always get a lot of rain North American Winter Storm FERN. I love that they always give all these storms names. Really like everything the name. Now. There was one hundred and seventy four deaths involved in that one, though, over a million power outages. That was the big storm we had in January where it even got really cold down here in Texas. We're going to February. We had first to the seventh a couple of X class solar flares. They were not directly earth facing. We did have some intense radio and satellite disruption from one of those, but again not something that was going to be like, hey, everybody, this is the last episode of the change in Earth you're ever going to see. February first, we had twenty four inches of rain in sal Paulo and one day a thirty five guests from that event, hundreds displaced. And again, what we're really looking for as the Earth keeps evolving from where it's at now is we're looking for more extremes because of the weakening of our magnetic shielding, it just kind of lets our weather do a little bit more crazy stuff. So that's what we're looking for when I say like I'm looking for unusual events. In Japan coast, they had a serious snowfall, thirty plus deaths from that snowfall, three hundred plus injured. Tropical Cyclone Jazani hit on February tenth. That's the one that hit Madagascar, fifty nine deaths plus seven and twenty three affected. Madagascar is like one of those coastal islands that is literally just taking the brunt of the storms coming in from Indonesia before they hit the coast Africa, and so they can bounce in between Africa and Madagascar sometimes, so there's some briive people over there. That's again the type of situation where you know you're gonna be hit with those storms, so you better be prepared for that coming on and not be like, oh, who knew we were gonna get hit with another storm this year. What we got California storm came in the twenty first to the twenty fourth. They had a large avalanche up in Lake Tahoe. Nine people unfortunately lost their life in that event, and then they had the extreme whiplash. Those why I'm saying extreme weather. Ninety degree fahrenheit record heat right after that. So I always tease that California is like a land of extremes. Like it's a light switch. It's just on and off and on and off. It's got to be cold, drain, and it's lots of time it's hot. So they're dealing with a little bit of that right now. This is their season. It's just hot and cold. But again, the extremes is what we're looking for. February twenty six, there is a big glacier collapse, which is pretty interesting. The glaciers, some of them are collapsing, some of them are growing. So you guys really got to do your research there before you just talk about, like, oh, global warmings taking out our glaciers. It's actually just the movement of the planet. And this happens the one earthquake that I found really really interesting was there was a four point nine earthquake in Louisiana on the Louisiana Texas border. And it's not because I'm near that area that I'm interested, it's just hasn't happened there in a lot of years. That one did happen where they were doing a lot of fracking, but with the amount of activity that's happening on the Ring of Fire and to see the West coast just kind of stalled, nothing really happening there is just eerie. Either it's being released enough through these little drill points and stuff. This constant activity is releasing enough, or it's building. And if it's building, that's a problem. So you can see the stress fracture coming down. Where it hit in louisiana's at the very bottom of the North American Crayton that sits on the eastern side kind of the United States. It's like kind of from Yellowstone down to Texas and then back up to Maine, and the New Madrid fault line is on the North American Crayton edge. So obviously that's why we keep a watch on that one. The earthquakes that happened on the New Madrid we're just seriously insane to read about like a month of these people just thinking the end was coming because dirt's just blasting out of it. On the ground, the Mississippi ran back, whards, lakes were formed out of nowhere. Some areas went up like two stories in just a minute. It was really crazy stuff to read about. As far as erupting volcanoes, we have forty two volcanoes currently erupting, which is still mind blowing to me after watching these for so many years and be like, wow, twenty nine is so many, and that was just like two years ago, and now we've been riding that forty two for like a long time, so I'm interested to see it like move again because that was pretty cool. Thirty three volcanoes showing minor activity, twenty seven showing unrest, for a total of one hundred and two. So we're still up over one hundred volcanoes on our planet showing activity. One of the signs that I always look for is from an Edgar Case prophecy that you know, if Vesuvius and Pele are going, then Nevada and the West coast of the United States better watch out. Pele is still on the list, but Vesuvius is nowhere near It can't be Flay Gray, the super volcano in Italy is still on it And I can't remember the town. It's on one of the islands, oh man. The South Sandwich. No, I want to say like Sicily. It's definitely in the Mediterranean. But they have just been losing like a ton of land. Their whole one side of their city is just like falling. Oh yeah, I saw pictures of that. Yeah, the town just has fallen off the cliffs. Yes, it's just going and then it falls like their major road is down there at the bottom. So are things falling down? You see like a cutaway of this apartment complex and there's a car still in the garage because the earth. Right it's just boom. It's insane. And we're talking like a mile long you know area that's just being so you know, the earth is on the move. When you're seeing stuff like that happened, that's because that's been there for hundreds of years, you know. Okay, As far as earthquakes, December there was two twenty thousand, three hundred and sixty three total that were two point zero or bigger. We went up in January. We had that solar activity. We went up to twenty one thousand, one hundred and thirty. But in February we're down big time. We went down to seventeen thousand, two hundred and eleven so and I haven't really seen the solar activity uptick to push those numbers. We'll see what March does there. Like I say, there's been some biggies already and we're definitely eyes wide open. But if that solar energy stays pretty chill, I don't think we'll have too many problems. Alrighty, well, we made it through the show. I don't know if our live feed to Twitter actually made it through the show or X my throats dry. I've been done this in a while. I got to get back and practice. I'm gonna have to podcast a little bit. I will be ready for Prepper Camp. All that talking all have no voice by the end. 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