WOMENS WEDNESDAY: Getting Ready for Gardening Season with Sara Hathaway

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 three. Hundred and twenty two, Season ten, Episode thirteen. Welcome back, everybody. Happy to be back on the Prepper Broadcasting Network. Always a pleasure to be here, and I much love to the Intrepid Commander who was pumping us up. Got me a little a little excited for the pregame show. Hey Chim, what's up? Hey, Chin's up? Y'all? I want to leave you out of the intro there, I almost did. I was like, Intrepid Commander show, Yeah, Yeah, it's going to be a cold one. It's definitely gonna be a cold one. I got my woolies on. It was seventy niney here, so I had to get my sweatshirt, my socks. Brox just shaking his head at me. Bet he does, he does for sure. So we're going to uh stick with the pattern for now. But we were we were kicking kicking around an idea of coming off of The Bitter End because it is my last book, and I would appreciate if you guys went out and actually grabbed that book. And the audio drama has now begun airing on PBN, and the audio drama is a blast, and it has a ton of preparedness information in it and all kinds of things like that. So we are thinking, and I would love your feedback as listeners to the show of just kind of the Bitter End where we're at with it. You guys go out and pick up copy of that book. I can chat back and forth with you personally on it, but picking up the audio drama content into our fictional slot as opposed to the Bitter End, So i'd love your feedback on that. It'd be great. We're just kind of kicking around before the show. I think you guys would get more out of it because the audio drama is airing on PBN as well. So for today we're gonna stick with the pattern. So in the Bitter End, and you guys can get a hold of The Bitter End the audiobook, I'm doing it chapter ahead of time, so you can be ahead of the game if you are listening live. If you want to come over and become a member at the Changing Earth Podcast, or don't don't listen to me Changing Earth series dot com, Changing Earth Series dot Com. That's where you can go become a member, get access to that audiobook, or you can listen to the record and get the story out of it too. So those are a couple options for you, because we don't want to play it here live. That would just be I think it'd be silly. So never silliness does not happen on the Changing Earth Podcast. So last week. Bennett found out that the more family left and then Erica's tracker lights up in the Central Region. We had a lot of fun talking about tracking and whatnot with Ellen a couple of weeks ago on. Our three round show that we had to pull off. Yeah, but this week we're catching back up with Erica and they're discussing how do they get out of the Central region without or with bones And looks like they had a pretty good plan to get in, but not really to get out. So I don't know, maybe she needs to do like some more classes with Samuel Kolper on you know. Tactical strategies and whatnot. Yeah, So, if you're listening to the record, here's the story and we'll just continue on. So I love the interaction with Bones and the chapter thirteen. Hello, doctor, Erica said, as she watched doctor Bone slowly regaining consciousness. You must have thumped him too hard, Jefferson t's gear. My dang arm was frozen. Gear countered. Getting him out of there is all that kept us alive in this cold Hall interjected. Thank god, we've found this place. Rob commented as he huddled over a small burner. Most of the team was with him, packed together in the warmth of the tarp. You okay, Danny Star asked, holding him tightly. The young man's teeth chattered violently. I'm feeling a little better, Daniel replied, watching the doctor become more alert. He's co coming around, Erica told Dexter and Genie, who were looking over Erica's shoulders. Vince's Ray's voice drew her attention as he stated, no, we have to go further south. He Gear and Hall were arguing over a map on a table. As she looked back to the door, his eyes became as wide as saucers Erica more, the doctor said, in recognition in the flesh. She responded with a slight bow. He looked around his surroundings. Where did you take me? Do you know what I was in the middle of. You don't get to ask the questions today, doctor Erica, gloated. Your men shot Dolores Erica. I was treating her. She'll likely die now. Do you know what TJ will do to you and your family if she dies? The doctor explained smugly. Erica paused for a moment, listening to Dexter sigh a little, guessing her son had done something. Erica assumed doctor Bones was not lying. Don't you worry about what TJ is going to do to us? There's only one question you need to answer, is the baby Dexter's. Erica listened to the other conversations in the room halt, and all eyes looked to the doctor, watching their curious faces. The doctor smiled, Is that why you came here? Because of a child? Erica punched the doctor in the mouth, replying, you don't get to ask questions today. She followed up her statement with the kick to his ribs. She hated this man, passionately, you will never get to ask questions again. No more examining patients, no more designer drugs, She cursed at him, Her mind flashed with horrible memories of his examinations and the feeling of the drug that he had designed just for her, so TJ would be the only one with the supply. Immersed in the hateful feelings, Erica spun away from him as he lay doubled over on the floor, coughing, finishing his spasm. The doctor realized there was a chain around his neck that restrained him as he moved. Looking up at the holder, the doctor recognized Dexter. He looked closer through the darkness at the faces in the room and laughed, you stupid woman, You brought your whole family right to him. The doctor chuckled in amusement. His eyes came back to rest in contact with hers. Answer the question, Erica demanded, hitting him again, spitting blood, The doctor asked, what are you going to do with me after I tell you we're going to kill you, you bastard. Jeannie Bark, stepping forward with a knife in her hand. Genie, TJ's missed your pasta little girl. Don't you think it's time to come home? Uri has missed you. The doctor chid at her. Shut up, you pig, Genie curse to him, Lunging toward him. Erica stopped her, explaining, now is not the time, Genie. There you go. Erica, I tell you and you kill me. Is that what you're going to do? Doctor Bones asked, It's what I should do, but I'm not going to. TJ needs you. You're much more useful to me alive than you are dead. So tell me. Is the baby my grandson? Erica insisted, kneeling down into his face. The doctor remained quiet. Erica struck him again, but he dodged and grabbed the bracelet on her wrist with his teeth. Dexter yanked on the chain when he saw the doctor's slick move, but it only provided more force to the doctor's clenched teeth. Erica's bracelet flew through the air as the doctor fell over with a wide grin. Erica jumped, scrambling through the contents of her cargo pants for the spare bracelet she stored there. The new bracelet snapped onto her wrist rapidly. You're fucked now, the doctor seeded, maliciously. No, you are, Vince declared stepping in and kicking the man across the small room while Dexter yanked on his chain. When they were through, the doctor moaned in pain on the floor, his blood freezing as it spilled on the ground. Son of a bitch, Erica, Vince said, turning to look at her. I'm sorry, she replied, I didn't even think about that. That changes the game. Gear. We need the fastest route out of here now, Vince instructed. You'll never make it. The doctor moaned, But I can put in a good word for you with TJ. I'd tell him that once you thought about your choice, you gladly traded the life of your wife for that of your family. At least he will spare them. Shut your mouth, Dexter demanded, hard on the chain. Let's just go through, Brady, Erica suggested. Everyone knows us there, Star interjected, Exactly. They'll protect us, Erica added, or they will turn us in. Robin Hall said, in unison, looking and smiling at one another. Thanks to Doc Ahole, TJ already knows where we are, Jefferson interjected. The doctor smiled up at them with a wide grin. Stop it, Dexter said, wrenching at the chain. Again, No, Bennett, the doctor inquired, looking at Erica, why didn't you ask him to come? I told you no questions, Erica replied, as the doctor diverted their attention. I know why. The doctor continued, He's a sensible soldier, and you knew he would disapprove of your idiotic plan to come in here. What did you do, Erica, bringing them all here? He chided her. He had the attention of the room now, and you all supported this idea? Did she tell you all about the wonderful world of pain you'll all live in forever, even you, young man. The doctor finished his statement with his eyes locked on Daniel. Shut your freaking mouth, Erica screamed, kicking him hard in the ribs again. He's just stalling. Gear insisted he's right, Mom, TJ will already have a plan A, B, C, D, and E. We need to get moving now. Dexter insisted, let's move. We'll figure it out as we go. Erica told them. Shouldering her pack, the team loaded up their gear and Dexter pulled on the doctor's chain. Doctor Bone sat stiffly, unyielding on the ground. Let's go, Dexter instructed, dragging the man across the floor. Gear looked back at Jefferson. Dexter go scout it with Star. Erica told him, you guys got him, not a problem, Gear assured her. Taking the chain from Dexter, Erica watched the giant of a man slowly pull the small statured man into the air until his feet dangled off the floor. When Gear set him on his feet, Jefferson shoved him from behind. I need your professional advice, Doc, Jefferson whispered in his ear. When the doctor didn't reply, Jefferson asked him how many times do you think I could stick this knife in you before you die? The doctor remained quiet as Jefferson pushed him again. Don't you want to know the answer to your question? The doctor tried to refocus them. No, I want you to move, Jefferson told him, slicing the knife into his jacket and touching the blade to his skin. I'm moving, the doctor mumbled, shuffling his feet along. Slowly. They crept along through the hazy daylight, barely moving inches. The Black Shirts patrolled in trucks and on foot, scouring the area. Dexter and Star scouted a vailable utes, only to have them shut down by the enemy fighters, pausing their progression for a moment. The doctor smiled at Erica's worried eyes shining behind her goggles. He knows where you are. It's only a matter of minutes now, the doctor chided her quietly. Vince watched his Erica's concern expression turn to a look of sadness and defeat. Just shut up, Vince snapped at him, perturbed with his badgering, The dampner only works far away. If Swinson can pick it out of the noise, it will be over even quicker. Doctor Bones continued, You don't think we've been researching ways to beat your technology. His men are closing in on you right now. Just let me go with Erica and I'll put in a good word for you, Vince. In exchange for her, you can save your family and your friends. I can't stand this bullshit anymore. Gear declared, grabbing his bandana, removing the doctor's scarf and shoving the bandana into his mouth. After Gear was done, he tied a rope around Doctor Bones's head before putting the man's scarf back on him. The doctor rolled his eyes at Gear. You asked for it, Gear declared, flicking his nose with his finger. Daniel chuckled at Gear, moving to the edge of the doorway and peering out. Are we going through Brady Then'ce asked the group. I think we have to, Jefferson said. The doctor made sense. If they can detect her single nearby, even with the dampner, the noise of the other bracelets may be all that's keeping her hidden from them. So if we stay in the noise of the city, Erico stays hidden. Rob asked, trying to understand exactly. Jefferson agreed. Oh man, we're in deep, Dexter said, returning to them with Star. We did all this for him, and doctor dumbass won't even answer us. Dexter's eyes were lo the doctor. In a fit of anger, he punched the man across the face. The doctor smiled under his mask, knowing the plight they were facing and awaiting the moment when TJ would arrive. We have to keep moving. Another search party is headed our way, Star told them, Hustling out the door and crossing the expanse at a low ready, she headed towards a barn that was thick with cover. The town of Brady stood in the distance, surrounded by ruins of suburban homes from a forgotten past. Joining Star by the barn, Erica stared out, watching the patrols emptying the homes and rounding up the people they were being loaded into trucks. Wondering how they would ever make it through the barricade. She quickly backed up, clinging to the wall. What is it, mom, Daniel asked as she bumped into him. It's Ury, Erica, fretted, looking to Vince there sniffing around too close. Gar interjected, looking for another exit route. We've got to go back east. We can head south and figure out another way around. Vince advised, maybe it's not Erica. Maybe they're tracking him. Genie interjected, holding a knife to doctor Bones's neck. She could be right, Gear agreed. Rob nodded his head as he stood with Starr, wondering what way they were going to scout. Is it my baby, dexter pleaded, shaking Doctor Bones furiously. Doctor Bones just stared back at him. The team jumped as a small door on the side of the barn open st An older lady with long, gray, wavy hair called to them. Starr moved on the door with her rifle ready. Robin Hall backed her up, watching the lady motion for them to enter. Erica's eyes shifted from the door back to Ury's vehicle. She watched in horror as another truck pulled up and Swenson exited the truck. A team with a radio antenna emerged as well. They pointed towards the barn, where Erica stood watching them. Whatever we're going to do, we better do it fast, Erica urged. Vince had already entered the barn and quickly returned to Erica. It's all clear, baby, Let's go, Vince said, breaking her focus on Swenson in the distance. Come with me quickly, the woman inside the barn directed. As they entered, Jefferson shut the door behind them. Erica felt safer as soon as they entered the barn, but the woman insisted, we can't stay here. She hustled to a door on the other side. Trusting in the woman's advice, the team followed her out the door towards a house, but the woman didn't enter. Instead, she went toward a lone tree dying from lack of sunlight in the yard. At the base between the roots, the woman knocked at the ground. A tiny hatch opened. The woman descended quickly, urging them to follow. Erica watched the team wiggle their bodies into the hole and then disappear in the darkness. Erica had never been thrilled about the prospect of hiding under ground, but she had little choice. Gear stuffed doctor Bones into the hole and then looked at Erica. You're up, he told her. Erica took a deep breath. The aroma of raw earth filled Erica's nostrils as she squeezed through the tiny hole between the roots of the tree. There was a. Metal ladder to descend, and she found herself in an earthen tunnel through the darkness. A soft light flooded the passage as a metal door opened up ahead. Erica's heart pounded with nervousness as she approached it. When did he appear? Erica asked Gear, realizing another man had joined them along the way. The man had a round face and wore a thick pair of glasses. Get inside quickly, he directed, closing the door and locking it after everyone was inside. It's swarming out there, so Leah, I heard TJ Swenson himself is here. This was too risky. I painted their faces, Raith. It was meant to be. The woman explained, everyone except him, she said, looking each one of them in the eyes. Oh my goodness, do you know who that is? Solay? Raith asked her. That's doctor Bones. Looks like he's lucky. He still has bones, she teased, examining his bonds and bruising. Who are you, Erica asked, My name is Solay. I'm a healer, she told them. Erica rolled her eyes at Vince. She wasn't very into healing lately, even for those who don't believe they deserve healing, Solee declared, looking to Erica, this is Raith. He's a librarian. The team chuckled in amusement. Knowledge is power. Where do you think everyone came for information after the quakes, he defended, nodding with understanding. Star asked, how did you know where to find us? I followed my spirit guide, Soley replied. Vince turned his back to her and gave Gear an okay symbol with his hand. Gear shrugged back at him. Vince's reaction was when Gear had experienced many times when talking about the powers of his Nordic gods. Can he get my signal here? Erica asked? TJ. Swinson so Ley asked, yes, TJ. Erica admitted, he can't find you here, but they're so close. We need to wait before we go home. So Lay informed her, Oh great. She's TJ. Swenson's bounty. Raith fretted, I told you this was too risky. How many of you have trackers, he wondered. Erica, Dexter and Gear raised their hands. Is the doctor tracked? Raith asked. They looked at him curiously, unsure how to respond, for they themselves didn't know the answer. He doesn't have a barcode, Erica replied. Raith took a device from his pocket and scanned the doctor. Nope, he's clean, replied. Now that we have that figured out, who do we have here, he wondered, unsure of their names. Who did Slay bring home? This time? His eyes scanned them, almost looking perturbed. This was obviously not the first time Soleay's intuition delivered strays to their door. I'm Erica Moore, Erica replied candidly. Ray stopped short, staring at her in disbelief and hoping she was joking. Erica Moore, he asked, And I suppose this is your whole family, he teased, sarcastically. It is, Erica replied, staring confidently into his eyes. Ray stared at her for a moment, realizing she wasn't joking. Holy hell, Solay, you've really gotten us into it this time. No wonder they shut down the borders. Do you know what will happen if they catch us? TJ freaking Swinson is out there. The message from the spirits was urgent. They needed my help, and my guides wouldn't have led me to them if it wasn't important. So Leay explained, how are we going to get them out of here? He wondered, staring at the door. I love the interaction with Bones in this story or in this chapter. It's just great, right, and then Gear finally puts the gag on him. He's like, yeah, not enough because man, he's just talking it just trying to get up in their head, and it was working. And then he alerted TJ to his whereabouts. So that's just great for them. So they need to get the rock out of dodge. Erica knows TJ's on their heels, and. Solay's character is introduced. So Solay is an interesting character, kind of a spiritual being, and there's ups and downs for that character along the way way. But uh, you know, I had to put in some of. The spirituality people in their different characters and whatnot full pilot. And gosh, who's the librarian guy? What's his name? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Beta boys. Yes you got it. Yes, And uh so I don't know if he wants me to say his name, but that character is actually based off a real individual too. He did a lot of help for me along the years with my audio books, and he wanted a spot in the story. So uh, you know, I'm happy to make new characters. It always gives me food for thought. A couple of us listening and beta listened to to her stories, so we were the Beta boys. With the Z with the Z Beta boys tell me, I added ellen and then you know, but you guys really told the line there for a long time. So you always gotta have those beta listeners for sure. Also, a lot of the radio technology was mentored by you basically in the story because you're like, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait, you pulled a brac. On me, you know, wait wait wait wait wait, this is. How it might really work, you know, in real world. So a lot of that came straight from you as well. We did a lot of crafting, well, we did a lot of rewriting in that area. It was fun. I loved like reading the books and then like firing off texts and messages to you. I'm reading it throwing my phone across the room. Honestly, that was the best fun that ever had. I will I always tell everybody. I'm like, tell me your thoughts along the way, because it's so exciting when a reader is. Like, oh my god, I can't believe you killed Vince. He's not. You were so mad at me out You're. Like what what? Oh my gosh, I'm like, keep reading, keep keep just keep reading. Don't make me get in a car drive out there. Yeah I believe that was in that text. Yeah. So today we're going to go into uh, surviving the cold, because that is what they're doing a lot of and they can't burn a fire right now. They have to be super careful because the amount of cold. But then they're being tracked. You don't want to fire all these things just tip off everybody to where you are. Even in that extreme cold, a Dakota fire becomes difficult because the ground is frozen, you know, Uh. For those of you who don't know, a Dakota fire is like when you dig two holes, you put a channel in between, and then you build the fire low down in one hole, and then you can kind of hover over the other hole and you can absorb the heat from it and it hides your fire really well from anybody that might be looking. Almost felds like a rocket stove kind of sort of, it's like a rocket yeah, out in the dirt though, yeah, exactly below sub level yep. And then you can put your poncho over the top of that secondary fire. You know, you get a little smoked, but you stay warm. So that'd be the key. But even in this situation with the ground beings so frozen, you know, that's going to be really difficult to even build that shut. Yeah, so there are some signs that we are going to have a severe winter here in the United States. It's been kind of a concern of mine watching global things happen on our planet that oh, this is a one in one hundred year event, this is a one and fifty year event, This is a one and blah blah blah year event. Over and over and over again. I got some great changing Earth news for you today, But there are major signs that we are have a severe winter on the way. We've already had snowstorms hit the Rocks and the northern US and California. Although they very much need the rain, it's coming in hard at them. Today was supposed to be really, really nasty. So when I talked to my buddies at work tomorrow, we'll see how that went. And then they call it some bomb or something. I heard it. I heard them describing one of these storms as a bomb of some sort. It basically is for that area because they've been so dry for so long that when you just get that much rain all at once, the grounds can't even absorb it right, So it just turns into straight runoff flooding. And then all of. Your burn areas that were just burned by the wildfires, they just all turn into mudslides. It's some crazy stuff. Bomb cyclone. Yeah, they're saying it was too fast and too furious. It was the bomb cyclone. Yep. Yeah, it's just too much all at once, So they're getting gonna get hit with that. They definitely need the water, but it could be. A mess, and then Arctic ice melt will trigger global cooling through ocean current shutdown, and we're watching this happen on our planet right now. It's the same basic theory that they presented in Day After Tomorrow, except that happened really really quickly in that movie, So it does happen a little bit slower, but it is happening on our planet right now. And these rapid warmings are shown to trigger cold in mid and high latitudes, and these come from this information is coming from jaj Jing Yin from Arizona University and Ming Zhao and they're both in Princeton and Noah right now, like they both work for Princeton and Noah. So this is legit information. It's not like timfoil hat kind of time. The ocean current. It is shutting down, and the Rockies, the heat that they receive on the east side of the mountains is supposed to shut down, and so the Arctic clold is just going to dominate the planes area. And they're saying that the Texas event last year is gonna seem like a walk in the park. So are we getting firewood this year? Oh? You bet y? Yeah, Nah, It's gonna be okay, Everything will be fine, right, you. Got solar panels and windows. Right, yeah, no, we don't actually none of that either. Oh I'm gonna do the can one. Did you see that the can idea? You you glue all the cans together for solar radiant heat. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll get there. But that's a pretty cool idea. So clothing is first thoughts. And I grew up in Michigan, so I know a lot of you northern people are like, oh yeah, we're ready for the cold, and I believe that you are, but be ready for some serious cold. Those of us who aren't used to the cold, like I'm not really anymore. I had to dig back to my roots to remember. Oh yeah, layering, layer the clothes, multiple layers upon layers upon layers, and you can even add padding in between your layers of cold earth newspaper. Life, go bum life. It works. And again, layers and it does really work. Last year during that week, I was darn. I was getting really close. Man. Uh. Double layers of socks. So you want a thin synthetic pair of socks that's gonna wick the sweat away from your feet. And then you want a natural fiber like a wool or an opaca something like that over the top of that. And why do I. Say that, because cotton kills it literally does. When cotton gets wet, it becomes an energy, a uh warm air sucker from your body, and it is really not a good material to be wearing in cold weather. So we've got. Great wolf socks out now. I mean even like some thinner wool socks for like you know, warm weather like hiking and stuff where they're padded on the bottom and the heels, but they're not as much on the top, so you know, swat itchy. No, no, I mean I have a wool allergy, so like if I get it around my face and stuff, I get you know, red and itchy. But I had Marino wool socks. I've been going crazy buying that stuff because they're great. They're they're my favorite socks, bar none. I really like the camp. We prepper camp. I bet you were, I bet you were. It was nice weather prepper camp, right, beautiful, it's beautiful. Okay, no squirrels. The majority of the heat of your heat is lost through your head, so put on a hat. Very important. Hats are great, and again you want something comfortable, but. Hey, we need we need changing earth to watch beanies. Oh yeah, that'd be awesome. We need to think about that, sorry, squirrel. Yeah, okay, squirrel. I was like, I'm gonna write that down. No, I'm not going to stay focused on the show. Mittens are warmer than gloves. So when it comes down to it, especially if you can get like those mittens that have the top that come off so you can actually use your fingers, right, But mittens will keep you warmer than gloves because your fingers body heat is a great thing, and they'll help keep each other warm instead of you know, spreading them all out individually. You know what's nice about those glove mitten combination things is that they don't have fingertips. Mine don't have fingertips, so I could I could take them off to do the fine work and then I put the mitten part back over to keep my hands warm. Exactly. Those are put in my winter back. I have a pair of mittens, but they're like the nit ones and that you know, they get all snowy. And mine are actually wolf So the minute I like rubbed my eye or. Yeah, then you get awesome. That's good planning right there. Yeah. I hope you have the bed a drill on hand as well. Okay, uh, your vehicle. We're gonna touch on vehicle next, because home is last, because there's all kinds of great info that I have for you on your home. So vehicle batteries tend to suffer when it gets really cold. I have a backup battery. I know they're expensive, but it's worth it. I do a load test. I was I was looking pregame, I was looking up you know, the things to do for cars, and like a lot of these car parks stores do like free tests of all this stuff, and you get there's this there's this little piece of a little like piece of machinery that they hook up to the battery and it does a load test to test the health of your battery. So like now it's a good time just to swing by whatever your favorite autoparts stores ask you if they've got, you know, if they can do run a load test for you, because they love to do it because if it shows bad, they get to sell you a new battery. Right right, Yeah, so they have no problem. Don't charge Yeah. Yeah, it's true. They test in my Sun's battery, no problem when it his went down yep. Okay, make sure you have ana freeze in your car, and not just water water. You've been dealing with a faulty radiator and just putting water in your car. Yeah, probably stronger water, plastic and metal. Yeah water is I totally froze my engine black one time. You went off to Lake Tahoe and I on land water in there. Yeah, blew out all the freeze plugs and everything. That was awesome. That was a great day. Have in your vehicle. In your vehicle, have blankets, candles, water snacks just in case, because you never know. It could be like blizzard just comes in, you're stuck in traffic for a long time, that kind of thing, or you have a total breakdown and you have to not mental breakdown. Or that too. I mean, you need some snacks if you're gonna have a mental breakdown. So make sure you have that stuff stored in your car so that you have it on hand if you need it. The ration bars. We have ration bars, you know, and they store for a long time. They store everywhere. So I tell you what, cliff bars kind of let my go to. I have those. I like the the oh darn it, I can't remember the name now, And it's a squirrel anyway, But it's a. Good peanut butter one. It gives you a ton of energy. Yeah, always have good clothes on or with you, and shoes that are appropriate for the weather you're gonna be walking in. I would get in the car because you could be doing some whatever movie night or going to work or something right, and the clothes that you have for that event or activity might not be the best clothes for winter survival exactly. But I cannot tell you the amount of people that here in Texas that I saw walking down the street in sleep pants while we're in the middle of that cold thing. Like, really, you like you didn't choose something different. To put a pair of jeans over top. Yeah something? Yeah, So yeah, definitely make sure you have appropriate clothes because you never know if you're gonna break down, you're gonna have. To walk something like that. Footwear footwear, Yeah, you don't want to be in your heels, your fancy you know, office shoes. Yeah, walking in my heels. It just kills my feet for long distances. I know, I know that was the worst image you could have put in my head. Ever, I just saw chin and heels walking down the snowy road like yours, like like shorts on or something. Yeah, okay, your fuel level, you should be topped off. Make sure you have a lot of fuel because you never know if you're gonna get stuck, you're gonna need that engine to run a little bit longer than it wanted to, kind of thing. You might have to drive farther because you might have to go around certain obstacles. Things like that. So fuel is really really important. And then ice scrapers and snow shovels. So in a lot of the South they do not have snow Oh shovels, probably not a bad idea to have one. They have ones that fold up real tight and you can put them in your emergency kit in your car, so yep. And then ice scrapers. You know, sometimes your credit cards just not enough and you need it. Actually, was it at a grocery store a month or so ago and there was ice scrapers on cleared, so I grabbed a couple in the bin. Yeah right, uh huh, Well I pay five dollars for an ice scraper when I can pay fifty cents literally, Well. My sales card works pretty good. Yeah, that's an ice scraper. So you know, all right. For your house, make sure you have food and water on hand. I mean this is Oh wait, can I add one more thing to the car. For the cars, go for it. Your windshield wiper, the heavier duty windshild wipers and allow them have a piece of rubber over that like the top, uh framework of the blades, so it helps move snow as well. Oh so check your windshield wipers and make sure that there winter blades. I wonder the compound, well, they are on mail order and the compound is different for cold weather versus hot weather. That makes sense. The rubber rubber compound, h that was the one. That makes a lot. And make sure you have windship wiper fluid in your car. That's that's helpful as well too. Well. I think it might have been the same tripper. We didn't have any I'm leaning out the window to use a spray. Shield the windshield. Yeah you know it worked. Mm hmmm. So all right, so now we're ready to roll rolling. I'm sorry, I can get the blades. No, I like it. I like it. I'll definitely check that out because, uh, well, my van's not going anywhere, but to have a pair back up for a Brox truck. Really good idea. Yeah, okay, so extra food and water. It's always a staple. We're gonna say it on every show. If you're ever preparing food and waters. What it's all about. Man, I keep a lot of my water in my freezer. As the meat goes down, I put water in. Then I can take the water out when we meet back up, you know. So I keep a lot of it there, so it's not it's gonna be fine. If it freezes, no problem, just leave room in the gallon for the expansion to happen. Yeah, or else they break. I have a broken wind No, I have one in my freezer right now. Well, you can always put it into a five gallon bucket still, and then you can use it for like high you know, hygiene stuff. All right, Everyone in your household should know how to shut down the water at the main and bleed the lines. Not just the man of the house or the woman or you know. Yeah, everybody should know this because that is one of the biggest problems and one of the biggest problems with areas that aren't built for cold weather. There was big plumbing problems here last year, so and a lot of it could have been avoided if they knew how to shut down from the main and bleed the lines to the house. So you don't have power. I know it sucks not to have water, but it's better to not have water than to freeze your pipes and have that problem to deal with after everything. Thoughts, have firewood on hand. If you have a fireplace, make sure you stock it, even if you live in a warm area. You never know what's going to happen. And we could go on about this one, but I'm just gonna avoid the avoid the shame. There, stare down the hallway. Yeah, I'm gonna stare down the hallway at my husband. Go see, I told you so, I told you we still need a firewood. I told you. I'm the prepper, and you don't listen anyway, I digress. Yeah, if you don't have a fireplace, or even if you do and it's really cold, you can put your tent up in your family room and then everybody can. Yeah, everybody can stay in the tent. It makes that smaller area that captures more heat. Yep. Smaller spaces equal more heat. So uh, it's a good idea. You know you can. Oh, if you still power or something. Oh, you could watch TV out your little screen area or something, or bring a. Tablet in or whatever. Uh, put blankets on the windows right so close your blinds, close your curt put blankets up over the windows. Stop that heat from coming in to the house. Yeah, yeah, the draft. We shut down every single room in the house except for one, because then you're creating all the heat there. It's keeping the heat there. We did pick the room with the vaulted ceiling, but you know, so if you even pick a smaller room, that'd be fine. Do that. Shut down all the rooms except for one. If your heater is struggling to keep up, you shut down all the vents in your house except for the vents going to that one room, because then all that heat is going to focus itself there. There are times when the heaters struggle to keep up. Everyone can sleep there. Snuggling makes more body heat, so snuggle up, get the blankets, everybody, just hang out all right. In case the power goes out. Of course, of course you need your oil lamps, candles, flashlights, batteries, headlamps, that kind of thing, and then know the capabilities of your heating system. So we had a brand new house we weren't very versed in our heating system, and little did we know that the pump would actually freeze and it doesn't work below like thirty one degrees I think it is. So there's an auxiliary switch that kicks it into emergency mode so that it keeps producing heat. But it's not as great, you know, but it and it struggled a little bit more to keep up. That's why we shut down except for that one room. But these are things you want to know in advance about your particular heating system. Is there a certain temperature where that thing is not going to perform anymore? You probably should know that ahead of time. It's really helpful learn from my mistakes. Manual powered Noah radian and a regular radio, so just in case you don't have batteries, you should. You should have all the stuff you need. How long will you need it? I don't know, but you should have one that's manual powered as well. Do you have one of those like the crank one? Mm hmmmm hmm, yeah, I know, because you're like mister prepper awesomeness. I don't really have a good one though. It's kind of a cheap wind that I don't like that much. Okay, I mean I have one, but it's there. I can truthfully say yes, but push comes to show I should have a better one. We have won, but it's batteries, so I mean again. Yeah, I mean yeah. The battery ones are my go to. And I've got some solar charging systems. Yeah, us too as well as I'm not not. And that was my next one. Solar powered USB chargers. Those things are worth their weight in gold. When you don't have power, you just put them in a window or whatever and they power up and they'll power up your devices. So I just got a solar panel. Uh, good Will store were stinking new. Wow, I'll take that. How much there wasn't any price? How about five bucks sold done? Yeah? Wow? You find the best deals. You're like the deal man, all right? So also know your area. How are people going to handle this? You know, a catastrophe to have cold for a long amount of time to where maybe some of the services are starting to fail, some of those things. How are your emergency departments going to handle it? Like, I had no idea that Texas didn't have snowplows. Of course, why would they have snowplows? You know, so those are good. Yeah, I mean it doesn't that doesn't usually happen here, but what if it happens again. You know, these are good things to know in advance. All know, your. Neighbors, you might have to get together, you might need to have extra food for them, stuff like that. Phil Rabelay was talking about the hurricane and about how you know, he was having welcoming people into his home and stuff like that, and I think that's awesome, totally charitable, great thing to do, and very very impressive. So you know, you never know. Growing up, I grew up in more of a country setting, and our well went out. So the neighbor ran a hose, a long hose, and we were able to fill up you know, like bathtubs and stub you know, every couple of days. And then you know, we rolled the hose back up put it away because it was in the wintertime. Yeah, and that way we kept water in the house until they could actually drill a new new well. That's cool. So your neighbor, Yeah, it's a good thing to do. Extra building materials and hand power tools. So of course we talk about that in like a collapse scenario, but it's probably a good idea. To have some on hand. Now, what if a tree comes through your window, nobody's moving because it's so cold, or they can't get there to help repair it kind of thing, or maybe you don't even want to have it repaired in that type of weather when it comes to a window, you know, So. Having some plywood something like that on hand. I know it's really expensive right now, So maybe just like a sheet or two, because what if it was your roof kind of thing, It's really important to have those where you can do like an emergency repair real quick if you had to, or you. Could do like the construction grade plastic and cardboard or whatever. You don't put the plastic up, put the cardboard up behind it. Just get a layered the bit. That's true, I mean, make it work. It'd be better than nothing. Yeah, Limb things. I was looking up some notes too on the house part, and they had a good idea is to kind of do a scope out your house. Yeah, and look for. Like ailing trees or limbs or suspects that might actually fall during like an ice storm, because ice storms are the big thing right right in the winter. Yeah, yeah, and trim trim them now while you can control the fall as opposed to when Mother Nature kind of pushes it onto your house. So that might be a good pregame before the weather really gets bad. Yeah, and not only that, but like check your insulation out, how is your home inside exactly? You know, are you looking at my computer screen right? Get prepared for that extra you know, you know the cold's coming, so make sure now is like. Great weather, you know, in the seventies during the day, it's like the perfect weather to. Do work right and make sure that it's just up to snuff. And yeah, also your roof condition. What kind of shape is your roof in? Is it going to be able to handle? You know, freezing conditions that are going. To real put broken shingles or something. Repair it now before water can get in there, ice can get in there. Yeah, I can tell you. Working in the insurance industry, you know, so California hadn't seen rain for a long time. Now we start getting rain. How many claims do we get that's like, oh, well, we had a cracked tile on a roof and didn't realize it. Now the rain's coming in Da da da da, you know, and it's like these are things that before these storms start rolling, you should be up there kind of checking it out. Were with drones now, right? Or if you have a buddy or a buddy's kid has a drone, we'll fly it around your house. Yeah that's true. That's not a bad idea to. Get out there anymore. You can literally fly drone around. Yeah, really good idea. So I was out doing research on it because I was like, Okay, that's kind of my my brainstorm. You know what, what else can I find out? And Off the Grid News has a cool article about alternative heating methods and they were saying prop pain you know, is an option. You can use pro paine heat. Most of them that are hardwired to your house to your heating system do require electricity to run, but you can get catalytic heaters that run. You can even use. They have ones for like a tent warmer where it runs on the Coleman the little Coleman deal and uh, they're safe indoors and outdoors. They don't require electricity. They come in all shapes and sizes. What are those called the buddy. Heaters like the ones that you put in your pocket, that's my buddy warm yeah buddy. Oh yeah, yes, you're right, yeah, yeah. And and you see these like when you go to a restaurant they have outdoors uh seating in the yea or they're the the like big stand up ones. So they call them in all shapes and sizes U. So you can really pick what is your price range, what is your preference. The only thing is propane is on the rise for expense as well, and thanks to mister Brandon, we're looking at very high heating costs this winter. So even if you don't you know, even if it's a normal winner, we're looking at really high heating costs, So having some alternative heating sources might not be a bad idea. There's also kerosene heaters. I remember these from when I was a kid, like down in basements and stuff like that. And it really depends on where you're at in the country as to what the price of kerosene is, because if they use it a lot in that area, it's gonna be cheaper, but if they don't, it's probably gonna be more expensive and not worth your time. Well, anisa gonna be backup sources, right, So this is emergency heat. It's not like your daily heating source. It's the best right, passive solar. So you can open a south facing window during the day, put something dark on the floor, and that dark item is going to absorb heat and help you stay warmer at night. Open the blinds and stuff. You mean, yes, yeah, not open the wind. Yeah, well, like take your curtains away from the window. Thank you. Clif everyone's like, wow, let's get a lot. Cold, you gotta open, We're gonna get the passive heat from that. At me. Yeah, close the window, all right, solar convection heat. So this is the tin can idea. You cut the bottoms and the tops off of them, you glue them all together, put them in a frame, paint them black, and then line the window with it on the inside. They'll catch the heat from the sun and the heat comes out. The top of Yeah, that's a pretty cool idea. Yeah, I like it me too. I don't know how much. It would work in like twenty below, but hey, every little bit it's gonna count. It can't hurt, right exactly. So if you don't have wood and you have a fireplace, are there cows nearby? You could burn the patties if you needed to. I know. Yeah, it's weird. Cow pokes out there. They were talking about coal burning too, but you have to make sure that your wood burner is aligned with fire brick. You cannot use like a metal one because it burns so hot it can actually melt the inside of your wood burning stove. So be very careful about coal charcoal. That's why I did not put it on the list because I was like, we're just going to avoid that because you if you have a special system that will burn coal. You know it. Yeah, you already know it. So if you're in a really old apartment building, check to see they might still have one. Yeah, that's accessible, And then long term we talked. I even use it in my book. The compost heat system is really really cool to be able to pipe through your compost pile and then funnel that into your house. It doesn't smell or anything. It just provides you with heat. So no, it's as you're just running a pipe through the pile and it heats the air up as it runs through the pile. And then run it through your house like baseboard heating with hot water. Yep. So that's a really cool system and I'm so fond of it, Like save and used it in my book. That's how they do a lot of heating and pine springs. I've seen that used for like greenhouses and stuff to keep greenhouses warm. Yep. Yeah. Up in main Stellar Idea, Stellar Idea, So okay. Happy Prepper also had some cool stuff and they said stock up on the hand and toe warmers, you know the little ones that you break things. And either way those are that's the kind of stuff that you can buy postseason in the clearance spin and you just fill up the cart yep. And they're not going to go bad. Yeah. Yeah, I mean they. Might go bad, I don't know, but no, I had one. You'll have them. I had ones that I had put in my go bag from like ten years ago, and I was like, oh, I'm just gonna try it because you know they're probably toast anyway, they still work. Yeah. I was like, wow, all right, what are they playing? And they're even great for like football, you know, like high school football sitting out and there the bleachers or concert outside Carolyn or what. I used to use pockets here. When I had to pull birds for my grandpa shooting trap. Yea, yeah, I have those things in my pockets all day long. That was cold and then the old men, old men yelling at you because you're not pulling fast enough. You're like, I'm. Frozen drinking their brandy. Yeah, like from BlackBerry brandy my grandfa. So I guess Zippo makes a hand warmer. Two. You can check that out. If you're If you still have water, Like, you still have water and your water is heated with gas, you can take a shower that don't get you warm. I love hot showers, so all right, mm hmm. But once that power goes down, shut down that water or it's really cold, right like you can you can watch the temperature house. If it gets to that point you know where it's freezing, you need to shut that water down. Uh. They make alcohol camping heaters that will you know, Yeah, I mean I don't know. If you want to burn your alcohol, you don't want to drink. It, not that alcohol. Yeah, the clay pot heater, the terracotta pot with the tea candles. If you don't know what I'm talking about, it's everywhere you look it up. I have not tried it. Because honestly, because I don't have any terracotta pots around and I haven't been that heard up. Yeah, there's so many other methods. Uh that Yeah, body heat, so snuggle. Uh, your emergency sleeping bags can be of use. Those things keep you really warm. Down blankets, fleece blankets, mylar blankets, wool blankets, all of these are are great heating items. Back in the day, they used to use hot stones. But we can use hot water bottles. And I would rather go with the hot water bottle than I would hot stones. And then generally they've used the hot stone. They don't leave the stones in the bed, but they put them in a middle tray. Yeah, they put them in the bed warm and then take it out. Yeah, they used to do that. I mean that was their staple, like pocket. Warmer back in the day was hot stones. Yep, generators stay outside. I shouldn't have to say this, but man, you'd be surprised when the power goes down people actually bring their generator inside and then they die of carbon monoxide poisoning. Driving through floodwaters. Yeah, shouldn't have to say it. Shouldn't have to say, oh whatever, whatever. That's a totally different situation. So the other thing is we were like boiling hot water to stay warm, which makes sense because the water puts the warmth into the air. But then people that were doing that were actually, you're forming condensation in your house. So they had icicles literally dripping off of their ceiling fans, and it can form a layer of ice on the windows which can crack your windows. To so go sparingly with. The hot water. You don't want to condensate the inside of your house. It's it's generally not a good thing. All right, Let's go ahead and jump into our changing earth weather news. All right, So we had an interest interesting week. The top stories for today are we have a megasun spot entering view on the southern end of the Sun right now, and it's going to be aiming up at our planet very soon. So we're keeping a sharp eye on that one because it is a big solar, it is a big sun spot, and it has a lot of potential to produce big CMEs. So we got our eyes. On that one, Lapoma. The earthquake activity is not slowing. They had a four point eight yesterday. We were hoping that it would kind of stabilize, but it actually hit again with a four point nine. So I don't know if you guys have been staying on top of this, but there has been rumors out there. I've seen it myself. The earthquakes have made a complete grid pattern. It looks very artificial. So there's a lot of debate going on about why it looks that way. Maybe it's just their monitoring systems, or maybe it's something else going on. But you know, you can do your own research there. I just wanted to kind of bring it up, and it's just kind of curious that it looks that way. There's a series of atmospheric rivers that are going to impact the western United States and British Columbia, so all of our you know, we got we got Ryan, our host up there in Washington. There be looking at some severe winds, rainfall, and snow coming to the mountains there out west. So batting down the hatches everybody out west because it is coming in at you hard. What was it the bomb. Chin, Yeah, the bomb cyclone. Bomb cyclone headed your way, guys, for real. It's uh, it's pretty big stuff. We had flooding on our planet in on the sixteenth India, and man, I just slaughter these names. So, uh, Kerala twenty six dead. They had massive flooding, landslides, the minimal river just went crazy. It is. It was some serious events in India, and India really hasn't been getting a break, so we need to send some prayers their way. On the seventeenth Peru, ol ban Los Banios del Inca. That is like that means inc and bathrooms. Literally, that's what the town's called, is the Inca bathrooms, los Banos del Inca. There was severe flooding there. The seventeenth in Brazil uber Landia, look these names today, uber Landia. Forty minutes of rain, they had severe flooding. They got one point three inches there in thirty minutes. It instantly turned the roads to rivers, so it was kind of crazy to watch. On the nineteenth, India was hit again in Utarkhand, third day of rain, flooding, landslides, mud slides, bridges destroyed, tourists stranded, fifty four dead, five plus missing right now. On the twentieth, Nepal got hit with massive flooding of their own. Eighty eight dead and thirty one missing in that event. It was really torrential there and some horrific scenes coming out of that area. On the twenty second Spain, the streets in Valencia turned to rivers. They got one hundred liters per square meter, so I don't know what that is in American terms, but it looked pretty severe. Yeah, Australia is on the list a lot, and I hear this one in lifetime because Illinoi's text is, you know, always text me and let me know what's going on. So on the twenty second, Australia got three point ninety seven inches an hour. That's a one in fifty year event. So what I'm finding interesting, like I said at the beginning, is all these one in one hundred year events all happening on top of each other. So for thunderstorms and early snow. On the eighteenth, Finland got nineteen inches in half Land. It's an usual amount for October. So Finland's way up their way up north. You know, we'd expect them to be getting some snow here, but to get that much that fast this early is really unusual. On the nineteenth, now listen to this one, Australia had hailstorms. Greape fruit sized hail. Was Yeah, was the largest hailstone ever recorded in Queensland. Ellen's right by there. And we were just talking about several weeks back they had hailstorms too, didn't they. Yeah, yeah, this is some crazy weather going on in Australia. Like they don't get this stuff and they are getting it this year. Uh hailstone the size of a grapefruit has a terminal velocity of sixty two miles an hour. Ou right, I. Mean like you better. Have a helmet on safe. Yeah, like my hockey helmet something out there. Yeah, that's insane, dude. There was autumn store Autumn storm Aroar swept through Europe and left four dead and Poland. There's massive damage to Germany, France and the Netherlands. It was this huge storm that came through another bomb like the one. And then on the twenty second, Pakistan got hit by a cold snap. They had hail in Islamabad and it's just really unusual for that to be happening there as well. We had a ton of tornadoes and water spouts. Water spouts were like big time on the list this week. On the sixteenth, India was seeing water spouts, very rare for their region. On the seventeenth, Lake Erie off the shore of Cleveland, Ohio had water spouts. On the eighteenth, Cuba had a tornado water spout. If you look up anything. Look up this tornado water spout that was in Cuba off the coasts of swin Fuegos, very rare, dangerous, but the pictures are phenomenal of this thing out in the ocean. Trinidad and Tobago waterspout. A waterspout off the Black Sea of Russia. UK had an unusual mini tornado common hit Cheshire the Cheshire Cat and damaged cars and houses. It was pretty crazy. The Netherlands also had a tornado, and Queenland Queensland, Australia on the twenty second they got hit with the tornado as well, and they don't usually happen in that area, so it's really crazy. Russia saw really strong winds. There wasn't a lot of rain, activity or anything associated with it. They saw it on the sixteenth though, it ripped off roofs, left to dead. I'm not even gonna try and say that name because I'm gonna slaughter it. And then on the twenty second, Moscow in Russia got these severe winds, fifty trees down, twenty five vehicles, several roofs, and power outages in like twenty six settle mints around Moscow, so pretty severe stuff. Going into volcanoes. On the nineteenth Papa New Guinea, the Manim volcano shot ash fifty feet in the air. It was pretty cool to watch. And then on the twentieth Japan the uh oh I think you forgot. A couple zeros after the five zero? Is it fifty thousand feet in the air? Yeah, fifty thousand feet in the air? Yep. In Japan, powerful eruption on Asulsan's Naka Dooka crater. Week of tremors led up to that is shot ash eleven thousand, five hundred feet in the air. That is just disturbing because of the the activity that they saw leading up to it. We've had so many tremors going on. I mean, tremor activity never really ends in like the Yellowstone activity, but it's area. But it's really been on an optick, so we have eyes on that one too. On the twentieth Eastern. Russia, this was really cool pictures too. A mud volcano, I'm not gonna say that name because it's really hard, but a mud volcano began a series of eruptions. This emits mud and gas that can spontaneously combust, so it's kind of like in Princess Bride, the one fire swamp. It looked like that. It was crazy, like the mud just b and it's just eruptions of this gas and mud just spewing out. And then of course La Palma on the twenty fourth, it expands, new spouts are opening, cones are collapsing. It is the most devastating eruption of a volcano in recent times for sure. Right now, Okay, fireballs and asteroids, because you know that's good, good topics. On the seventeenth, one fl across southern California. On the eighteenth, newly discovered twenty twenty one TG fourteen flew by Earth at one hundred and fifty five thousand miles away. That thing was seventeen to thirty five or thirty nine feet in diameter, so it could have caused some serious damage. And then on the twentieth there was another fireball that came through and they saw it in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and West Virginia. And word is that this is from the Orionids meteor shower that's supposed to be coming up in a week, So keep your eyes to the sky. That'll be fun to watch, all right, let's get. Down earthquake news. On the sixteenth, three hundred and forty two earthquakes magnitude two point five or higher hit, the highest of which was five point two in the Cayman Islands, five point two in Russia, five point one in New Zealand. On the seventeenth, activity stayed about the same, three hundred and forty two earthquakes two point five or higher, with our highest coming in five point four in New Zealand. Japan had a couple and then Russia had a couple, but we saw four point nine at Vanatu. I keep my eye on Vanatu because that's a big volcano area over there as well. On the eighteenth we had a little bit of a downtick. Three hundred and thirty four earthquakes two point five or higher, six point one at Vanatu, five point three in Russia, five point one in Chile. On the nineteenth, the activity upticked. There was three hundred and forty nine. Earthquakes two point five or higher, the biggest which was a six point one in Greece. It was only thirty six miles underground and it was right off the coast there rattled them pretty good because it was so shallow. There was also a five point two in New Zealand, five point three in Japan, five point two in Costa Rica, and Kostrica has been popping up more and more, so I'm keeping my eyes on that too, and then a four point nine in Alaska. And then on the. Twentieth there was three hundred and thirty nine earthquakes two point five or higher. So you know we're staying about the same. Five point one in the Solomon, five point zero Indonesia, four point nine in Chin's favorite, the South sand language Out. Yes, I don't know. The Alaskan one might come in as a good second. Rat Island Rat Islands, Yeah, in the that's in the Alyitians. Yeah. Twenty first, four hundred and two earthquakes magnitude two point five or higher. Uh, there was a five point nine and a five point seven in New Zealand, and you know a lot of wealthy people have their bug out properties there. I'm not sure with the amount of earthquake activity that they get, and like the forecasted movement of that country, I don't know that I'm really buying into that one. I hope they built pods like in your story. Right, yeah with the legs, yeah yeah, yeah, five point five in Japan, five point zero in Alberta, Canada. Canada doesn't usually come up on the list, four point nine and Iran, and a four point eight in China, so a lot of those are weird places where we don't see a lot of them. And then on the twenty second there was two one hundred and sixty five earthquakes magnitude two point eight or higher, so we're looking at a higher magnitude, bigger number up there. And there was a five point four in Micronesia, five point one in Indonesia, five point zero in Tonga, and four point eight in the Mid Atlantic Ridge. So this is a lot of the ring of fire that's just being really really active, really active, and. He's just calm down a little. And then looking at our volcano activity, there was twenty eight active volcanos today. That's the highest number I've seen since I started recording volcano activity. So that's way up there. But as far as minor activity goes, we only had fourteen that's at the low end of the scale, and unrest we only had twenty seven, so that's the low end of the scale, and I have to wonder about their general they're reporting in general right now because the numbers, even though we have so many active, it's like the other ones have just fallen off. And I'm not sure if. I believe so much of that, because we used to have like forty six that we're showing unrest, you know, and now we're down to twenty seven. So it's just interesting. I'd like to learn more about how they gather up these numbers, but. It is what it is right now. So just as far as tracking trends, we're looking at twenty eight active volcanos on our planet right now, which is at the really really high scale. So yeah, you got the inter commander scared. He just chimed into the chat room. Oh see. I just pushed it over to the side because I was. Like, Okay, yeah, he's all nervous now with your changing news. He loves it. He loves it. So no, we just got to keep an eye on things. And just because the difference of activity around the globe, you know, it's been Australia's winter, that kind of thing, and so watching that activity and then kind of equating it to what's going to happen up north this winter. That's why it's really important that we prep for the cold. And if if it doesn't happen, well then you know you were prepared. But if it does happen, then you know you were prepared. So better to be ready. Than not in my opinion. Yep. Yeah, So anyway, let us know how you guys feel about the book information if you'd rather, because we can jump into the audio drama. It's just laden with survival information and we can definitely delve into some of those topics there. Or I will tell you honestly, I'm not going to air the end of the Bitter End, so I'm not far sure how far we're gonna take it anyway, but I'm not going to air it on the podcast because it really is the coupdi grad of the series. But I'd love to hear your opinion on the content that you'd like to hear moving forward. What would be more relevant in your guys' life. What fictional story would you like Mama to read to you. I'm thinking the audio drama. I mean, it's cool, it's a lot of fun, and everybody here at PBN they have a great time putting it together and it's. Just a really a labor of love. So that's why I'm thinking we kind of switch up to that now again. But yeah, I need feedback from you guys for sure. All Right, well, let's keep eyes on that solar sun spot. I'll post stuff up on our PBN chat line about it this week. We'll just keep saying some prayers that it just pitles out and passes us by with no big deal. And that's really and we're eyes on the west, you know, with that big storm coming through right now. But yeah, that's about where we're at. What do you got? You got nothing at nothing. I'm scared. I'm going to I gotta go outside and chot down some trees, go out and make. Sure your branches are all trimmed up and all that stuff. Right, Yeah, yep, everybody should get out there and check it out. Alrighty, then we're out of here until next time. Remember, Dream, Survive, 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 at www. Author Sarah Fathaway dot com. If you love the Changing Earth series and podcasts, become a supporter while you're there,