The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Changing Earth - Wildfire Safe

Episode Date: May 5, 2025

It is so great to have Chin and Sara back in action!! 

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. Hey guys and welcome to the Changing Earth podcast. This is episode number 482. We are broadcasting live. It's gonna be interesting. I'm learning all kinds of new technology, but I missed having you guys. And so here we are. So hey, Tim, what's up? Hey, Tim's up, y'all.

Hey, and I get to watch it live too. Right. I know you're not like in the dark anymore. Hey now. Got my feathers all slicked back looking good. Right? Yeah, so here we go. I've got all kinds of things to watch now, so be patient with me. I've got computers set up and chat links and all kinds of stuff going. So you'll have to keep an eye on the element for me. If you can do that, Chen, that would be helpful.

So we can kind of see what the PBN members are doing. Um, as well as we're getting the live feeds from YouTube and from Twitter and from Facebook, it's just all kinds of crazy going on. So if you see me, you know, I know, I know just like ramped up the game. Okay. So let's do a little bit of, Oh, and beyond that. Okay. One more thing before we go in. See, I had to get all gussied up. I had to have my hat on everything else. I was literally out just painting and staining the chicken coop.

So I was like staying all over the place. I'm like Sun tan Homestead or sun tan? Texas the summer So, uh, well, it's coming. It's getting hot here already. Hey X X shows the changing earth live Right. Boom. Wow. I know we're stepping up in the world. So that'll be fun.

And then we still have the traditional, um, reloads where it'll play and all of that, that good stuff over on, I got a couple of YouTube channels for you guys to follow now, or rumble channels. We're going to get into that. Still working on the Las Vegas years to get that book out to you guys. I will have it done by September. That is my goal. I've got projects that just keep coming up and taking precedence. Speaking of season two, the remix is done.

I've been having just a great time playing with AI and bringing my characters to life and like I've never been able to before. So it won't just be the bouncing ball screen saver on that video anymore. You'll now get to see the actual images, you know, just a few images actually take a long time to create. It's fun, but it is time consuming. That was it simple I saw, right? Yes, right. Yeah, that was, you did good with that.

Thank you. Yeah, it's totally. Very nice, very good. And yeah, it's AI, so, you know, you can look for like the little inconsistencies along the way. I'm getting better at finding programs that produce what I want and things like that. So definitely a work in progress. Season five is actually still in the works. Oh, the our tiny pictures. Okay, I don't want to like put it out too far. Sorry, I got a comment from YouTube

and we're awful tiny, so there you go. There's me and there's Chin. So I made that graphic for Chin because the first time I met you in person, you had that mascot and it just made you look like a duck. We quacked at you all weekend. It's a pe like a duck. We quacked at you all weekend. Yeah, man. It's a Peking chin duck. Chin got his feathers all shined out for this month.

Yeah, you'll have to do a little placement of it. But season five. So season five, I have a couple of episodes done in season five. It's going to actually just absolutely rock your world. The audio drama. And I'm not going to play them until I'm done with all the remixes.

However, I've been talking with James at PBN and as a special gift to changing Earth members and PBN members, we're going to start playing season five way ahead of time. So you're going to get access to it well ahead of when anyone else does. So go become a PBM member, go over, become a Change the Nurse subscriber. You're going to get access to season five way earlier. Membership has its benefits.

It does. It does. And so I want to see. I'm so excited to get it out to you guys and see what's going. So we got L2 Survive over at YouTube as well. He says hello. Should be asleep. Pulled a double today. Oh, for more solar panels.

Yeah, my money is all being saved for a greenhouse right now. That is the game plan after the the chicken expansions done and Unfortunately, we got 15 new chickens and now I'm down to 14 today. So Yeah, we lost one just wasn't wasn't doing well and we lost it. So Bummer it sucks survival the fittest, right? Prepper camp's coming up. So if you don't have your tickets yet, now is the time. Don't forget you need a camping spot, but I will be at Prepper camp again this year.

I can't wait to see you all out there. It's always so much fun. Just, I look forward to it all year. So it's like family reunion for me as well. With the family that I really like to spend time with so I can't wait to see you all out there. Exciting piece of news I put my books up uh Change in Earth series they are available on Kindle if you're on Kindle Unlimited you can read them there and I got over 63,000 pages read of the Change in Earth series. Man! Yeah. You're devouring it.

Yes. So, I'm loving it. You guys are the ones that made that happen. So, I can't say thank you enough and let's keep it rolling. Change in Earth TV series is going to be here before we know it. And you guys are the ones making it happen for real. So thank you. Appreciate it. Oh, fighting over chicken eggs at the end of the ration.

Yeah, that's exactly my thought. Firewolf Forge says they're fighting over the chicken eggs. And that's exactly where we're at. We only have three chickens right now. They're getting old and it was time to replenish the flock. And I always love being able to sell them to my neighbors, being able to give them to my neighbors and it creates a lot of camaraderie if you can be a provider like that. So yeah, wait till you see it. I'll do a picture because now that we have the YouTube and everything live,

I'll do a picture and show you guys. It is literally like the chicken coop Taj Mahal we're building. It's so beautiful. And Brock made it so nice that now I'm like, Oh, it's too nice. And it needs to be airtight and it can't get water damage. And he's like, the chickens need to be able to breathe, or you're just going to smoke them out in this place. So, uh, the argument continues, but it should be done tonight. Actually.

That's why I was out there beating feet to do the stain and everything. So, all righty. How cool is this? This is fun. I know, I just saw the chat. I was in the private chat and I hit the button and now I'm on a-

Right, yeah. It's going off. Yeah. We got lots of viewers. I know. I'm like, James was like, well, you got this tool and you got that tool. You got this. And I'm like, oh, this is see, this is one of the reasons why I was like, I don't know.

Was James called me a tool? Yes, he certainly was. That's why we put the radio antenna. I tried to make Yeah, I can to make it. I'm gonna get it on my head. Yeah. I can hear you now. But the AI wasn't too thrilled about it coming directly out of the head.

Yeah, it created some interesting things, but that's for sure. Alrighty, so we are going to be talking about wildfire safety today. And why are we talking about wildfire safety today. And why are we talking about wildfire safety? There's a few stories that really caught my attention this year. First of all, the hurricane in North Carolina, of course. Okay. So there's so much downed material from that hurricane, and it's all just turning into fire starter right now. So we have so much ground cover

that's just going to get burned up in these events. Michigan lost like 3 million acres due to the ice storm, the tops of trees just snapping and coming down. So coming from California, when I saw, you know, these stories multiple times, story after story about how much forest was leveled I Was like, okay We've got some peak conditions for wildfires this year and areas where you might not be as wildfire conscientious, right

Yeah, there's a huge push in California right now, you know Obviously to get wildfire safe But I don't see that so much in other states So I wanted to bring in some of the information that we talk about Yeah, absolutely this so one of the comments was sprinklers on your roof. Absolutely I watched a really cool episode of homestead preppers to where they did a whole irrigation system that put it out to like 30 feet beyond the home. Right. It's great to have your roof getting wet. What about the vegetation surrounding it? So that's what I've got,

like 20 tips to go over it. Stuff I teach people all day long as an insurance agent about how to be fire safe. And then I know you have some great resources that you found and that you've been watching because unfortunately those fires have been near Orchard Lake where Prepper Camp is. So how's that situation looking now?

Oh, I think it's fine now, but it was really unnerving for a while. I mean, you could, so it's a drive for me to get to Orchard Lake, but this smoke was like coming into my community, so it was unnerving. And then you're always watching the wind direction, right? Yes. That's what I tell people.

They're like, oh, well, you got tornadoes now down there. I'm like, yeah, a tornado event is like, oh, okay. Um, let's watch out for a half hour and see if this is crazy. Yeah. Well, yeah. Wildfires can be months even like, like, so I came from the coast with hurricanes, right? So you're, it's like the big lead up and then it blows through and then it's recovery time. Wildfires. It just keeps going. We're

on during this way, then re-under in that way. The wind changes direction, it goes over this way. Wind changes direction, it goes back that. It's crazy. This is my first real like wildfire season I've ever really, really participated in. Yeah and that's what the last three years we were evacuated in California. It was just so much, you know, that so much stress and to sit there and watch them burn from end to end and, you know, when you smell the smoke in your house. Yeah. Not only that we had the smoke. Um, like when I wrote dark days in Denver, I don't know if when I write

things, they just come to fruition or what? Yeah, you need to stop that. I know. Knock it off. Literally like the sky was orange for days. And it was really, really crazy because of all the smoke in the air. And then also like you leave your house open

because it's nice and cool at nighttime. All that ash would come in. It would literally be laying all over the place in the morning. So, yeah, some scary stuff with wildfires. That's why it's really important to be wildfire safe. So first thing I was kind of talking about defensible space. This is hugely important to have defensible space around your house, at least zero to five feet around your house. Everybody asks like, Oh, so I have to be living on a rock, you know, in California for sure, you know, I have to be living on a rock.

Well, no, but you know, people plant like berms of bushes that like continually go on and then they come up to the side of your house. Right. That's like the worst thing you can have. The fire can jump in there and then it's just going right to your home. And you know what looks really nice is that wooden mulch. That looks so nice up around the house.

Right? Yeah. And it's all tender just waiting to go up. Exactly. They actually make like a rubber wildfire safe mulch now. Yeah, and it's all tender just waiting to go up. Exactly. They actually make like a rubber wildfire safe mulch now, right? It's going to cost a little bit more money, but it's just way better to have down or stone. You can do the weed cover for your flower bed and put stone on top of it. So we get we got one duck dump truck load of

uh stone so far and I'm putting it all the way around the house. Right. No, because we originally thought mulch, no stone. No, no. Stone's way better. Stone around the house, yeah. Yeah, um comments coming in, uh the pump, a pump truck trailer, that's that is what saved us the last three years in California Was one of our neighbors does a lot of paving and stuff and he has Tank tankers that are water tankers So they would literally just go surround the fire and then put it out because my other neighbors are local They would start the fires. They drive their truck out there You know, you can't fix stupid sometimes. So it's true.

That's true because come on, how many years in a row? Right? So the defensible space, zero to five foot is an absolute must. You really need to think about the zero to five space around your home. This also includes if you have a privacy fence and the wooden privacy fence comes right up to your house, that's another thing. Like if you have that, we have a whole list of wildfire discounts and if you have a wooden fence within that space, you don't get the discount. People are like, oh, it's just my fence. Well, your fence is another walkway for that fire to walk up. So that's what we're trying to avoid. Um, and then extend that space. So the zero, the zero, the five foot is like minimum, right? And then, um,

the up to 30 feet as your ideal, you know Ideal space if you're gonna have wooden outbuildings stuff like that. You want them to be 30 feet off from your house Obviously, it's not Able to do that in all urban areas. You might have to switch out the siding, you know, I make it more wildfires safe Um, but any kind of fuels that are in that 30 space that 30 foot space need to be gotten rid of But any kind of fuels that are in that 30-foot space need to be gotten rid of. You don't have to remove your trees because everybody likes shade for their house. We'll make sure they're skirted up off the ground. 10-foot is great, 6-foot is minimum. And then the grass underneath has to be kept because a lot of that's what happens in California. A grass fire goes along and then it jumps to the canopies of the trees.

So that's what we want to avoid. And without all the ground material on the ground, it's gonna be really important to do that. And then the 30 to a hundred foot zone. So a hundred feet, if you've got acreage, you wanna make sure that a hundred foot looks like a park. When we were in Cali, we had to do 200 foot and we lived on a mountain with Scotch broom growing.

Really tough. Yeah. It was bulldozer time, you know, to get it to a place where we can maintain it. And then we sprayed chemical on it. You know, we just didn't have an option or else you're on the side of a mountain trying to weed eat all that stuff down. Yeah. Mm-hmm. We had a year and a half ago,

we had what was big like a vulture deforesting. Yep. A domestic. Yeah. So I had to go, it's like a skid steer, but that has this big like grinder on the front of it. Yep. And cleared out, we have over a hundred foot

of cleared out brush and stuff and small trees and down trees and you know, so that was the, the hurricane didn't help, but that kind of. Yeah, like I said, it was 2020. And that's what I've been working on is cleaning up all that down trees, but I was so, I did it because I wanted just to get a little bit of a yard, you know, kind of feel to the house.

But now I'm like, oh, thank goodness I did it because that's created a break, you know? I still have some trees, but like when you said park, it looks like a park, you know? Where before it looked, you couldn't see through everything because all the brush and, you know. Right. Now if a fire got into there, at least it's not going to crawl along the ground. Right. So that it's essential. I mean, you really got to, this year is going to be really important. I just have a bad feeling that we're going to have a lot, a lot of wildfires this year

And if not this year next year Because all that stuff is just gonna turn to tinder and be very vulnerable Fire resistant roofing materials so most typical shingles comp shingle roofing is at least the class a fire safe shingle now. So that's good news. You know we worry more about like the wind resistance and stuff here in Texas in our area especially we don't have a lot

of. Yeah that's what we had at the coast too yeah. I was seeing a prepper for the show they were saying and it does like, you should be looking to make sure your roof is well maintained. Because if you don't have total coverage of your roof, that could be a place where Amber could get in and start fire on, you know, the wood structure of your house. Even moss growth, and things like that, it dries out in the summertime. And then you have that moss or that lichen that's sitting on your building, your siding or your roof that is now dry. And so if an ember falls on that, it lights on fire.

The shingles aren't really that well insulated from. No. And shingle degradation. So it really starts showing at the edge of your shingles. You've got so much granular loss that it's just not good anymore. People are like, Oh, see your gutters,

you know, you look in your gutters and you have like, you know, pebbles, you know, collecting like little mounds of pebbles, almost like the beach, you know, in your gutters, when you're cleaning them out, you know that that like little mounds of pebbles, almost like the beach, you know, in your gutters, when you're cleaning them out, you know,

that that's coming from your shingles. From your roof. And like, if you just had it done, that's gonna be normal. But if you're seeing a lot of that and your roof's getting pretty old, well, it's time to probably do something about it, you know. Which sucks, I know they're super expensive, trust me. I just did one.

Everything got a new roof last year. It was quite a year, so. Including the trailer. So yeah, fire resistant roofing. If you've got a wood shake roof, get rid of it. They're still there. They're still out there, if you can believe that. Wood.

It's an architectural shingle, right? Not the wood shingles, but the asphalt or whatever. Yeah, especially if you're like in the woodlands, maybe it's more of a historic thing. I'm sorry, but it's time to go. Metal is good. If you can afford metal and you like listening to the rain on the roof,

that kind of thing, metal is good. I don't have any qualms there. It's going to hold up against the wind, all of that stuff as well. So, uh, you know, you can think about what's the most prevalent disaster for your area and then kind of champion your roof towards that. A lot of times insurance companies have discounts too, for whatever. Um, if you've upgraded your shingles to a certain level, they'll give you a discount on your homeowner's insurance. So you gotta just talk to your insurance agent,

your local one, they're gonna know the best. Fire resistant siding, this is huge again in California. We're not building with T111 on a normal basis in California anymore. It's all cement fiber siding that's going up on anything that's being newly built. It's going to be cement fiber siding. So that would be my recommendation. Yeah, it's a little bit more expensive, but you know what? It holds up for the long haul and it's going to help prevent that fire from licking into your house.

it's gonna help prevent that fire from licking into your house. That's we have some we have some decorative spots on on the the peak of my roof and we use the cement fiber shingles to look like old-fashioned wood shingles. Right. Yeah. Made out of cement because I didn't want to put the wood up there. Yeah they have the little scallops for the side. Yeah. Of the house. Well no it looks like wood shingles like shiplaps, the shingles. So yeah, not the yeah, not the fish. Yeah, but they do the scallops even in that. You can get in all the different patterns. Yeah, exactly.

And then you just paint it and it looks but it's cement poured. And it even has like a wooden it'll have it looks like a wood texture. Yeah Some at fiber, you know, that would be my recommendation a hundred percent hundred percent Okay This is this is weird because usually I can look at my notes Everything I don't worry about worry about, you know, everybody being on camera and all that. I'm a writer, I write, so I still have physical notes.

Yeah. Oh, okay, so how you were talking, seal the roof and roof gaps. So make sure that it's, you know, 100%. I saw they make a mesh, I forget the diameter, but there's certain size hole that helps with the ember intrusion so like you could put this mesh over like if you have vents and stuff like that or Yeah, they keep embers from getting sucked up into your attic or yeah, and it's really not difficult to do like

Oh, I'm gonna budget. I can't afford to do that. Don't you don't have to go buy the fancy ones You can just buy the metal. It was the size, right? It was the size. So that nice. Yeah. Yep. So you can buy metal screening for your screen

and just put it over your vents. And that's a fire, you know, the fire safe. Yeah. Mm hmm. They were saying your window screens is make sure your window screens, like the bug screens didn't have holes in them because that helped with the embers as well. Right.

Enclosed eaves as well. Like if you look at the outside of your house and you look up, can you see the boards from your attic coming out? If you can, then you'd want to enclose that. So the fire can go up into that and lick all that as well and do it in cement fiber so that it's protected from that type of thing.

You know, I saw an interesting pointer. They said, look where the wind blows, like the leaves like in the fall, like around nooks and crannies of your house. Look to see where the leaves gather because that's probably where the wind's gonna blow the embers. So that's a great way. You know, like when they do like smoke tests and stuff or they do, they put dye in like in your car and you see where the leaves are.

Yeah, it's that kind of procedure. So just walk around your house and if you see where leaves start to collect, you know, that's where Mother Nature is pushing the winds and where stuff is going to gather, right? So it's probably going to be where the embers are going to come as well. So put a little more focus in that one, you want to clear out that debris, right? But two, you want to kind of focus on those areas. If you do have to have fire. That's true. That's a great point. I'm, I'm going to keep that one as a tip.

Yeah. And usually too, if like the leaves are piling up there and stuff, then you're siding in that area might need a little bit more, you know, you might need to replace that area more often. More damage. Okay. So the windows as well, you should have them upgraded to the multi pane window tempered glass. It's I mean, that's all they're installing these days pretty much. But if you have an older home, start thinking about doing like one window at a time, just to make it a little bit more wildfire safe. The double the dual pane really helps prevent that fire from coming. Yeah, that's what they said in and one of the articles

I read was a double pain temper Mm-hmm. That's true. I mean it's just it works. They would not be Applying it across the board Because you know, my hope is that because let's face it in in areas like, California The the foothills are meant to burn. That's what happens. So if we can improve our building techniques to be able to just be a little bit more resilient to that activity, then it's not a problem.

Here you go. The non-combustible window screens that they make. Yeah. Metal shutters like they do for hurricanes and stuff. You can have a shut down to your house for if it's a wildfire. You think it's like right now you're like, oh, that's so dumb.

But if a wildfire is on your doorstep and you're looking at losing everything that you own, you're gonna maybe think it wasn't so dumb. own, you're going to maybe think it wasn't so dumb. You know, they were saying it takes, they, they did some of this, like those lab burns, like they put a house in a big lab kind of thing and had wins. It was like 10 minutes for a little ember to ignite a house, right? You know, exactly. And ember, not, not like a grill or anything. And ember. Not like we're flaming, we're going to set the frame

on this house. Yeah, I see the things like the turkeys, when they deep fry turkeys and it lights up the garage and catches on fire. But this is just a little ember, right? A little ember that landed next to the house and caught a leaf or caught some dry grass or stuff on fire. And the side of the house was burning in 10 minutes.

Yeah, and when we get into the change in earth news, I have, um, information on, but like the Southwest is still in a big drought. Yeah. And so you're dealing with a lot of dry, dry materials. So that's all really scary. Even if, you know, you're like, I'm not in forest. I don't have any of that going on. Well, if something else sparks that fire and it comes onto your house, just like you said, that little ember can make big difference. So, oh, always super aware with the forge,

Fire Wolf forge, all right. That's what, that's next after the greenhouse. We've been struggling with the design of that. Sorry to squirrel, but we've been struggling with the design because it's so hot here. We need it to be like shaded in the summer, but catching it in the winter. Yeah. Too busy working to make a video. I love it. All right. I like the comments keep them coming guys That's why I went back live. I was like I miss y'all. I gotta get back on here You know cuz I have nothing to do Oh

Crazy crazy busy schedule Um clear gutters and roof debris. So that's what I was talking about. Yeah, the boss. Yeah. I kid you not. We got pictures of this house that we ensure it looked like, you know how old men just grow the hair around the crown, right? All done top like the crown. It looked just like that. They hadn't cleaned the gutters in so long. The weeds are literally just growing out of it.

I was like, how do you come home to this house every day and not think that's a problem? Right. And then how do you provide your insurance person with a picture of your house? Yeah, I think it's not going to be an issue. Right. And then how do you provide your insurance person with a picture of your house? Yeah, I think it's not going to be an issue. Right. I've had people give me pictures before with fires actively burning in them. They're like, so you were doing cleanup.

I'm like, well, you might not want to send me a picture of things on fire Trying to sell a car and having like a toolbox next to it. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah I went to look at a car one time and there was like a tube of epoxy in there. I Was like, oh, yeah, I'm definitely by that one Yeah Definitely by that one. There we go. Yeah. OK, old decking. So decks. I hate decks. I live in a log cabin and I just hate them now. But a lot of times underneath the decks you get, you know, it's filtered sunlight. You get vegetation that grows under there and a lot of people just don't pay attention to that.

Big problem. That's a big problem. Gravel. Gravel. Old decks that now are just pockmarked and getting dry rot and stuff like that create a lot of places for those embers to land and catch flammable material. Yeah.

So what they're doing now is they're doing the treks, of course, which I'm not exactly sold on because we had tons of tracks or it's a poly material, poly whatever. It's like plastic wood. Yeah, I don't want to call out the company, you know, but ours all started warping in the California. So it was just a mess.

So I'm not always not exactly sold on that. The other thing they're doing is the suspended concrete decks. Nice. They're very cool. That's some weight though. That is some weight. Yeah, I looked at doing that and got to it.

Yeah. I did the fake wood deck. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean- I did aluminum deck. The, the floorboards is aluminum and then the trim, the railings, the trim is, um, the company that shall not be

named just, but I like the iron ones too. You can do like, just would blow with like the, I didn't, I did a hog panel for like like instead of doing, you know, flats for the railing. I did hog panel. Yeah, that stuff is good. We may look and it just goes away when you're looking. I painted it black and when you look, it doesn't really draw your eye to it. You just see through it.

Right. But it keeps the little princess dog from falling off the porch. Amber poo. That's what we should make as your picture. Amber poo. She'll be like, I'm excited about this. The dinosaur costume. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. Um, relocate flammable items from the exterior. So of course, you know, watch that's in there. Yeah. That what? 30 foot radius. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I would put it past there. Like if you have a stack of building materials or, uh, your wood pile, like, and it's not winter time, right? Yeah. I'm like crap firewood. You don't want to walk in the winter, but you don't want it right next

Yep, so you have to do like your main pile far away New staging area. Oh the main pile got moved way far away Yeah Yeah, like i've been i've been staging logs for for cutting, you know into firewood and that's like Outside that's down in the 100 foot range. Yeah. Way far away. So that all of that material is far away from the house. Yeah.

There's so many chips and you know, when you're cutting wood, it barks. Yeah. All of that. The processing area is way far away. Yeah, we have piles of that stuff. So that is important. I've looked again, you know, just as my time in the insurance industry go up to a client's house

and they have like all their boards piled or paint can. Yeah. Yeah. Then sir cleaner that kind of stuff all right next to their shed. And I'm like, Hey, you're going to have to pick up, you know, your garbage. Oh, that's not garbage. Those are my building materials. Well, great. Put your building materials away inside the shed, you know, cause it's just, yeah, that's what I had all the like the drops of scrap wood and stuff for building.

Cause I saved it all because it's good for, you know, building chicken coops and stuff like that. Right. So I didn't want to get rid of it. But now I'm like, Oh, that's getting out of here. That's, so I'm moving that way far away from the house. Yeah, exactly. Don't keep it close. Get it stored up. It should be stored up proper anyway,

in order to keep it. Well, it was, but it was close to the house. Yeah. Had to put the forks on the tractor and move all that crap. Oh, I'm sure it was a big hardship to have to drive the tractor around. I tell you, everybody asks, what are you doing? What are you doing? I'm like, nothing romantic. I'm just moving crap away from the house.

Right. From here to there to there to here to here to there, endlessly. Yeah. Oh my goodness. and again, I'm gonna... Fuel tanks for your lawn mowers and... Yeah, I've had clients that like build lattice around their propane tank and then grow vines over it because they don't wanna look at it. Well, that's great, but you just bought a bunch of flammable material all around. Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, no, no. So yeah, you're gonna have to look at it, but yeah, anything that's flammable, get it away. Metal, put it in metal if possible. TARPS, you know, we wrap everything in TARPS and then the sun beats it and the TARPS get all fray and whatnot. TARPS are ridiculous. TARPS are useless. They're totally useless. I'm like, oh yeah, this will be a great survival tool. It'll last for two seasons

and then you're gonna have garbage. You're better off to go get like a really hearty piece of canvas. And I know you're gonna have to carry around. It's gonna be more weight. But if you're talking like serious shelter that you wanted to move from place to place, I wouldn't do it in no tarp.

They're garbage. I've been living in the South too long. I didn't do it in no tarp. They're garbage. I've been living in the South too long. I didn't do it in no tarp. Get that out of here. Is there Splatoon next to your desk yet? People are always like where are you from? People are always like, where are you from? You got the North, South California. American. American. That's right.

America. Fire resistant fence. So same thing. You can use the carbon fiber wood for your privacy fences. Yeah, it's going to cost more. But guess what? Most people put up that privacy fence. They don't stain it. or your privacy fences, yeah, it's gonna cost more. But guess what? Most people put up that privacy fence, they don't stain it.

It just gets beat by the weather and you have to replace it in like three years anyway. So you might as well invest in the good materials to start with and make it last for a lot longer than, you know, just so. The older you get, the more wisdom you see in that, right? It's true. That's true. Well, I could do it.

Well, even with our chicken coop, for example, Brock's like, oh, cause I was like, I want the roof papered and shingled. Yeah. And he's like, oh, we don't have to go that far. Like it's the roof, you know? I mean. Water flows down, out.

Exactly. And the sun too. The sun is just as bad out here. California, the south, you know? So I guess I could have sheeted it in metal or something, but I wouldn't have had a better idea. A lot of shits and stuff out here in metal. Yeah. Just the corrugated metal. Yeah, I mean why not? so They start making America. It'll be cheap again Alrighty um Maintain a hydrated

Landscape so amen amen to everybody was like oh, I got my water tankers and stuff like that going on. Great. You know, that's perfect. They make pumps. Yeah. But what do you do when they put restrictions? Oh, well, I mean, we can only do so much. You could turn like a rain catch system to fill up your water truck. It might take a while, but, uh But well, not the way these systems have been moving through. But um, yeah, maintaining the hydrated landscape is just really, really important. Like I said, I watched that Homestead Rescue. The scary thing is because the insurance is getting so expensive in the wildfire zones people are just going

without insurance yeah without insurance altogether or without fire coverage because that's the big piece of that puzzle so like I'm like you know I'm advising my clients and I'm like that's absolutely your choice to do that however take that money that you would have been spending on insurance and put it into an irrigation system that can auto run around your house, even when you have to evacuate because that's going to save your place. The more you can. You know what I was just thinking today while I was prepping for the show.

So I have a well that's what, you know, I don't have like city water, well, well I need to prep the well. The well has like little fake stones on it right now, right over time. I really should do like a cement cinder block building with a metal roof on it around that well. Little well house.

Because the well, you know, part of that's just plastic plumbing, part of it, it's not all metal piping and stuff. If the fire comes through there, I have fireproof the well, so if we need the water, because I'm going to lose water if I lose that well. Yep. And it's expensive. So thanks to the show, changing earth is another project to work on.

Now you got another item, thanks to you. Another item on my list. That's serious, right? It is. It is. I mean, that's essential to your home set. So it's an essential piece of the puzzle that needs to be considered.

And with the wells, you can also turn them into places where firemen can hook up their hoses too. So it is an added cost. That's no doubt, but you can make it so that a fire crew can literally come up and hook up to that. Um, so that well, the other thing, um, I don't know if this is on my list or not, but the houses where, so the fire truck has to be able to turn around in your driveway.

That's code, right? And I think that's in like most states. It has to be able to turn around your driveway. But if your area is so nice that they can actually land helicopters there and things like that, guess whose house is gonna get protected? Yeah.

Right? Well, that's what we saw here. If you look up the fires around here, the helicopters would dump in the lakes and the ponds, like all the retention ponds and all the, like where they have livestock ponds and stuff. The helicopters would dump the hose in there and then go work on the houses.

Yeah, and if your house has that defensible space, it's going to be saved. They're going to put attention to it. If your house is in the middle of the trees and they can't hardly get their truck there, guess what? Your houses, your, your- There's only so many, so much resources. So they'll, they have to focus of what they actually can use the resources to do, right? National triage, Chan. Yeah.

Yup. It's true though. They're gonna save what they can. Not what puts them in danger as well. Yeah. Another thing that people might not think about tile roofs, if you have a tile, a clay tile roof or a cement tile roof, that roof is not going to be on their list to go into your home, because it's so heavy. Because it's so heavy that if the homes on fire they're at a bigger risk of that roof collapsing So they're not gonna go in there That's just one of the it doesn't burn as well right the the roof doesn't it's definitely a fire safe roof However, it's a lot of weight and so if things are burning underneath, it's gonna come down They don't go in there

Plant your plants so you can get fire resistant or fire attractive vegetation. So we had this plant in the front of our house. We called it the grass ball. I don't really know what it was. Honestly, I'm not the landscaper my husband is, but whenever I wanted Tinder, all I did was go in there and pick out all the stuff out there and boom, I got Tinder. So like, how smart is that to have it right next to

your house? So we moved it away from the house. I saw where they suggested consulting with a local forester. You know, like, what are those with the colleges, the local colleges? Oh, yeah, they're like Ag Department. Yeah. And they probably have like services where they can come out or show them pictures and stuff. And they'll help you, you know, with, you know, you might want to turn this back or that's a good tree. This is a bad tree or, you know, prune this. Like you were talking about pruning trees and stuff.

Um, they could help me with that. Yeah. Um, in California, the, the fire service guys actually go out to everybody's house. Yeah. And they have a list of like, okay, we're not going to this house. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

If they can't access it and everything. So they, when they're out there, they also give you the report, right? Like, this is our concerns at your house, and you have the option of improving it or not. It's not like they're, you know, giving you tickets over it or something. But, you know, it's a good, good idea. So they definitely have the resources to be able to do that. Yeah, there's lots and lots and lots of material on this. It's just you need to think about it. So, okay, the exterior sprinkler system, always good. You can do it over your roof too. People do that. I'm fine with that. I mean, I don't have any problems with that. But I'm more prone to water the surrounding areas, because if you can keep the fire back, you know, to where you don't need it right over your roof, that's best case scenario. Um, chimneys in the state of California, every chimney has to have a spark arrestor on it. So, um, I don't, that's definitely not the rule

across the country, but it's probably not a bad idea to have a sparker restaurant on your chimney. And yes, the screens do get sooty and yes, you do have to go clean them. What we found worked well was we just shot the airsoft rifle at it. And hit it with the- You do what? Shot the airsoft rifle at it. We just stand back airsoft rifle and hit it with you. What shot the airsoft rifle at it?

We just stand back and dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig. And it would knock all of the soot off the screening. So let me see what colors your neck. Yeah, I know. I know we have like gravel driveway. We're teasing about we're repaving it in airsoft bullets. They were everywhere. Just everywhere.

You can get biodegradable ones. So for out in the woods, then we use biodegradable ones. Secure garage and outbuildings. So just because they're far away, you know, don't paint. But like we were talking before, don't pay it like we were talking before. Don't have all your building supplies out there, all that kind of thing. It's all still a risk and you still don't want to lose your outbuilding. And you're still going to be subject to your deductible to rebuild that outbuilding.

There's different coverages. It's not as much coverage for your house as on that outbuilding. So if you have a really nice shed or shop or barn or something like that, you wanna make sure that your dwelling extension amount has been increased to account for that outbuilding. But if you never have a fire touch it, that's going to be your best case scenario right there.

Create water supply for firefighting. So that's why I was telling you, you can actually turn your well into a system that the firefighters can hook up to. You can have water tanks, you can have water storage, get the pump for your pool so that you can pump that water out and you're just gonna make that better defense,

that better move. A lot of people, you know, it's totally up to you if you stay or leave. If you have a really, really defensible space already in action, I mean, this is the time, like this is, this is the prepper material right here, right? This is what it's all about. Like, we are fortifying home hardening before the threat ever reaches us. So if you have faith in your system and you've done all of these things to make it fire safe, then I would agree that you might not want to leave your home

because you're there to spot treat your house. However, that's your choice and that's a risk, right? That is an absolute risk. But I've seen people that saved it because they were already ready for the event before it happened. Right. That's the key.

Otherwise, if you're not ready, get out of there. You've got insurance. Life is worth way more than stuff. Late James Yeager. No, I am. So what else you got? You got any? Yeah, so get your community involved. So don't just dig your house. Try to get everybody on your road thinking the same way. Share this podcast with them. Share some of these ideas. Because

the further you can keep the fire away, the better off for everybody, right? It's true. If your neighbor's house, if the house catches on fire, well that's a lot more stuff coming your way than if everybody on your street or, you know, in your little subdivision is prepared for it. Yeah, you make a great point. There's a program that's available through the federal government. I know, but it's called a fire wise community. Yes. That was what are the sites? I just sound it was, it was, uh, yeah.

Fire wise. Yep. And, um, most insurance companies, I know definitely in the state of California, if you're a fire wise community, you get a discount for that as well. So it's a great way to approach the subject with your neighbors and to get them encouraged, get their properties cleaned up as well. So, because then you're just expanding your bubble, right?

And it might be a good, we're also like, we've talked in the past about gardening could be the gateway into having conversations about being a brewery. So, well, this, wildfires could be the gateway into having conversations too, you know? And if, you know, if people are prepared, are you, you know, do you have exit strategies? Do you know, have you made plans on where to go and how to get your communication plans and also, so use of wildfire as the catalyst for broader conversations. Yeah, so definitely having your go bags ready,

that evac plan huge. What about your animals? That was the other thing I was gonna mention. Some shelters won't take your animals. So it's really, really smart to be heads up ahead of time about what shelter. I mean, obviously, I don't want to go to a shelter. But if you do have to go to a shelter, you have horses, right? Things like that.

We saw people loading up cattle and horse trailers and sheep and goats and stuff. Yeah. So that's just something you're not going to do on a spur of moment. You need to have a plan for that. You do. Yeah. So yeah. And it's one thing to throw a cat in the carrier in the back of the car. Yeah. Right. But you know, if you have large livestock, it's when you do. Unfortunately, a lot of people just have to let open up the gates. Yeah, let them Find for themselves. That's a scary position to be in and it is a really really scary thing when the wildfires on your doorstep

And now you have all this stuff to think about that. You never thought about before So yeah the evac plan if you guys need information on that, just go change in our series.com. We have web all those bases covered for sure. Um, while Firewolf Forge did bring up an interesting one, the blankets, so they have fire blankets that you can climb into. Personally, I would want my space so well defended that I have never would never need to think about crawling into one of those Blake kits. Okay. However, my friend is a firefighter and he was in the big Montana fire and they were out at this house fighting the fire. The pro plane propane tank exploded. And they were out at this house fighting the fire the propane propane tank exploded

Their only safe spot was under the truck with the sprinkler going over the top of them Oh, and they climbed into those blankets and stayed under the truck with the sprinkler going around them and they all survived So yes, I do I would say not a bad idea Would I ever want to use one? No. But we have, we have them in the, in the bedroom, because if we ever had to evacuate because of a house fire, I had to get out of the house, wrapping myself in that, I'm thinking it would help me from getting burned as I exit the house.

Right. You know what I mean? getting burned as I exit the house. Right. You know what I mean? Yeah, it's true. So I have those in the bedroom. You have to tap your feet through like little waiter's thing, don't you? Yeah.

Proper footwear by the bed, right? I wanna see that, man. I wanna see that. I mean, no, I don't. I don't. I wouldn't. Thanks. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I did it. Let me read it. Don't write that into any of your storylines. No problem. No problem. Your character survives, I think. Okay. Um,

let's go ahead and get into some change in earth news. Cause we are, we are long. This is a long show today. That's okay. What happens when you'll get out here once a month. I know it's true. It's true. And it's a good topic. All right. Ready? We have changing earth news. Maybe. Maybe. I tested it beforehand. Yeah, I was excited. Oh. Okay, hold on. Let's go to this. Yeah. Okay.

Oh, I see why I'm on the wrong one. Okay, got it. Dream. Survive. Thrive. This is changing Earth news. Okay, I found the right button and we're good. How do you like the video?

Oh man. I need like the applause. I get to be part of it now. I know it was always silent. I always had dead air when Sarah played that When are we coming back when okay now? So we've had some interesting Activity so did you hear about the Spain blackout?

Yes, right. So there's been three of those blackouts due to solar activity, but like watching what's happening on the sun, there was not that much happening on the sun. Okay. So we weren't like in any kind of big, big solar storms. And that's, that's scary because that means our magnetic shielding is way weaker than we thought it was. So guys, you got to be ready. This situation is very, very interesting as our poles are moving and the Earth's just doing all of these incredible things. Awesome time to be alive.

Did you hear about Mars? Like we were always taught Mars was a dead planet and now they've actually found, so it's having seismic activity now, which is just incredible that because we thought it was like this dead rock everybody, oh we live on a rock, it's a dead rock. Yeah, so and they actually found what they think is stages of life. So they've got like some like in or something like that off of it. So like, you're going to have a new, a new lead in music, changing Mars, changing Mars news. Yeah. You know,

I just think it's so exciting to be here. I don't know. You get you a new habit like crochet or something. Oh my gosh, you and my mom. I was like, I'm gonna have to teach you to crochet. I'm like, do you think I can sit still long enough to crochet? My blanket would be that big. I wouldn't want to be sitting next to you.

You'd be stabbing the needle in my leg. For real, for real. So, yeah, so I found that rather interesting and I don't really have a big explanation for you on a lot of it. That's it because there was just, it wasn't like we got to see a me that day or something like that.

So- Everybody in the back channel was asking you about it. I know. And I'm like, we haven't even, and then Ben had a little blurb on it the next day, um, space weather news over on YouTube, great place to go to watch, um, about sun news. And when you start watching space weather news, you're not going to understand hardly like a quarter of what he's talking about, but I'm like three years in now and I'm like, oh, okay. Yeah, I get it now. Oh, yep

I remember that or you know, so you start to get a little bit more educated as you as you go, but Basically, I at least always watch what's going on with the Sun It's a great temperature gauge as far as for the public as well because when we have those high solar events, people that are a little bit on the edge psychologically, they get a little bit even crazier on those days. So for me, working with the public a lot, I like to know is everybody going to be cool or psychotic today, you know? All right, so let's break it down. April 4th to the 7th, central and southern United States, this is Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, got 6 to 15 inches of rain, flooding event, at least 25 deaths were unfortunately reported from the flooding that happened. 500 homes were damaged in

Frankfort Kentucky. Agricultural losses were significant due to the flooded farmlands. Luckily we're right before planting season kind of up north so we're getting on the doorstep. We don't want to see that when seeds are going in the ground and stuff like that. So yeah, big event up there. Then on the same day, that same storm was a tornado breakout in the Southern and Midwestern United States, Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois. Most of this activity has been going north of where I live,

thank the Lord above. But that wasn't the case for everybody. There was 156 confirmed tornado touchdowns, including an EF3 in Selmer, Tennessee, killed five people, damaged 332 structures. So prayers for everybody out there. It's just a mess when stuff like that happens. Nine people unfortunately lost their lives due to the tornado and then 15 people died in non-tornadic events. The price tag on that event was 6.25 million dollars or billion dollars. $6.25 million or billion dollars. As somebody who's in the insurance world, I don't understand how we're gonna just keep soaking up

these events. We have to rebuild. There's so many big major events going on all over the country. All the time. Yeah. You know, we're still struggling with Helene. We're still struggling with Southern California. We're still strong.

And then all to have tornado season already coming in, walking into hurricane season again. Um, yeah, I just don't know what the future is holding because the wildfire problem in California is not the only place experiencing that. Florida trying to get a coverage, you know, when you're on the only place experiencing that, Florida, try and get any coverage, when you're on the coastal areas and that. So it's gonna be a challenge, that's for sure. Definitely landslide potential.

We saw that with Hurricane Helene, all the landslides that happened because of saturated soil. So luckily none of that was going on. April 5th, there was a 7.2 earthquake struck off the coast of Papua New Guinea. It was in a remote region. So we're not really worried about that. But the uptick is there.

And that's what I'm still concerned about as far as like our earthquake volcanic activity uptick. That's why I picked a little volcano picture for today. Right? Because yeah, it's still really concerning. They were warning about a tsunami from that event. There was no associated tsunami, so that's good. If it was, it was tiny. I did hear a tiny one came in, but it wasn't anything to write home about. Then in the panhandle of Texas,

if you can believe this is why I don't live in the panhandle, the fifth and sixth, they had a blizzard. So what? Yeah, late season blizzard, 12 inches of snow in Silverton, Texas, four to seven inches in Amarillo, wind gusts of 50 miles an hour, just zero visibility on the road,

having to close roads down. Nobody died thankfully, drifts were like 9.5 inches tall. And likely- This isn't Montana or Alaska, right? No, this is the panhandle of Texas. It's just crazy country. Get out of Dodge. No, I know, it's insane.

So that's why I don't live over there on the west side of Texas. Just a nice year. April 8th, magnitude 4.8 hit near Taiwan, depth of 50 meters. It was low intensity, no damage, no injuries, just eyes on. That area is still rocking and rolling, still trying to settle down. We had a volcanic eruption in the Philippines, 4,000 meter high plume coming off of that displaced over 8,600 families in that event. Debris ignited wildfires, there's your embers, so the embers coming off of that ignited wildfires.

This is just making problems that already existed worse. So there was $3.7 million worth of damage from the volcano last year. And so they're still going to deal with it this year. And I don't see that it's... I think the volcanic activity is still going to uptick, uptick, uptick as the Earth is going through its current pole shifts and changes. So we'll have to see if I was right or wrong. I don't know, but that's just my gut feeling on it.

Earthquake eruption in Costa Rica on the 8th. That's a really active volcano down there. It was just within the park, so nobody hurt. Kilauea also went up on the ninth. It's been making noise and doing its thing for a little while. Same gig there, all within the park. However, Yellowstone, April 14th,

steamboat erupted for the second time this year. And Steamboat Geyser is a geyser that used to be, it used to be really rare for a steamboat geyser to erupt. And now it's just happening more and more So do I think? Yellowstone will erupt on the level that people warn about no, I don't But there's other super volcanoes in the United States and in Europe that I have my eyes on long Valley caldera in California, and then also Campi Flagre in Italy.

Those ones I have my eyes on way more than Yellowstone. Yellowstone has, even if the magma chamber, because we've tracked the magma chamber of Yellowstone and it's moved over the millennial. And so even if it's still on top of its magma chamber, it has a lot of release mechanisms, Steamboat Geyser, right? So, yeah, I'm not like raising a flag there. Big time flooding April 20th in Singapore due to heavy rainfall, disrupted traffic,

there was no deaths. A lot of times you'll hear about it like electrocutions and stuff and mad flooding events over there because of their power systems. But no deaths reported. Likely that it, it was due mostly to poor drainage within the city and the trash buildup and whatnot. Mount Etna in Sicily went up. Pele is still on the list as far as active volcanoes, but I always watch Pele and Vesuvius because that was the big warning from Edgar Cayce. Once you see Pele and Vesuvius going at the same time, it's coming for Nevada and the West Coast. So I keep my eyes on that, whether it's true or not,

I don't know, it's just, you know, the Lord only knows. Volcanic eruption on Kamchakka Peninsula in Russia. That one was a low risk event. Another 6.3 earthquake rattled Ecuador's coast. I know the audience has family in Ecuador, so I try to keep eyes out there. Some damage to homes in the northern areas, but no deaths reported, thank goodness, no significant agricultural losses. In Russia, Kamchek went up again on the 23rd. This was a much bigger eruption event with plumes reaching up to four kilometers in air. There was 153 earthquakes the previous 24 hours

before that one went. So that's why earthquakes, gotta keep your eyes on the earthquakes. That's gonna let us know what that wildfire activity is. Speaking of wildfire activity, New Jersey, big wildfires happened. Yeah. Yeah, by the coast.

Yeah, approximately 8,500 acres Evacuations for about 3000 people. Threatened about 1300 structures. And it was only 10% contained in late April. So yeah, I think there's still number one on the list. Yeah. There's still number one on our wildfire list. New Jersey. That's crazy. That's why I'm saying. That's why I thought it was so relevant to do the wildfire show today because areas that aren't used to seeing this stuff are going to see it this summer. So be prepared guys, not freaking out. In India, they also had a massive forest fire breakout near Pradesh, near the China border border so it is an unpopulated area however this area is really really politically sensitive like geopolitically sensitive so it's noteworthy

because you just don't want to see that area get shaken up. China and India going at each other would not be a good situation. We had another eruption of Tonga, oh, another earthquake at Tonga was a 5.6. It takes a lot of those deep activity earthquakes usually coming from some time of solar event. Like I say, there wasn't too much of like, oh, we had a X-class on this day. It wasn't too much of like, oh, you know, we had a X class on this date. It wasn't too much going on April 26th. There was flooding in India caused by massive amounts of rain.

One of the rivers surged about eight foot, and it's definitely endangering the crops there. Those crops feed a lot of people. So we're keeping eyes on that to make sure that everything stays good over there. Those crops feed a lot of people. So we're keeping eyes on that to make sure that everything stays good over there. Of course, landslide watch for that. There was a tornado in Italy. This is northern Italy. So Viterbo, it's probably more Spanish than it is like European. But yeah, Viterbo, Italy. A tornado, you just don't usually see them

very often in other countries. So that's very interesting to me. We just have a perfect storm here in the United States to set up for a tornado alley. Sicily, saw heavy flooding. Again, those islands have just been taking it in the Mediterranean big time. So I don't know, just personally, probably not a good time to be on an island. I'm just throwing it out. When is a good time? When would you really want to be on it?

Me? No. Yeah, you mean no no no no no no I'm good, but just you know heads up on that one. I mean Indonesia used to be connected to Asia You know so now it's just beep Like Japan had a 7.4 earthquake extensive power outage Structural damage they are used to these types of events. They're obviously

Luckily, there was no tsunami that came after it the event resulted in four deaths 107 injuries from that earthquake. So Japan is still rocking and rolling the ring of fire're still in the middle of the pandemic. We're still in the middle of the pandemic. We're still in the middle of the pandemic. We're still in the middle of the pandemic. We're still in the middle of the pandemic. We're still in the middle of the pandemic. We're still in the middle of the pandemic. We're still in the middle of the pandemic. We're still in the middle of the pandemic.

We're still in the middle of the pandemic. We're still in the middle of the pandemic. We're still in the middle of the pandemic. We're still in the middle of the pandemic. We're still in the middle of the pandemic. drought right now. They've been having some major problems as far as trying to keep their wildlife alive. That's their major tourist attraction, having to call herds and stuff like that. We've talked about it in the past. So this is the worst drought that they've experienced in over a century. Still dealing with it right now. Zimbabwe alone is reporting that over half of its harvest is destroyed, and that it puts 7.6 million people at risk of hunger. So there's big problems going on down there as far as not getting the water, and it's a feast and famine issue that's going to happen on our planet. The highs are

going to be higher, the lows are going to be lower. Some areas are going to be just inundated with water and other places aren't going to get it at all. And it is prevalent across the world and within just tiny countries. One side is just getting tons of rain, one side is not. Again, very interesting to me. Earthquake 6.8, Makere Island near New Zealand. That one was a low level event. Um, there was, um, a 6.2 that happened right after it. Again, minor shaking, but no lives lost, no ag damage, um, rest of livestock, that kind of thing. There was a 4.7 earthquake that happened April 29th near Anchorage, Alaska. We do know that's a nice heavily populated area.

It did shake Anchorage and they're having severe concerns about Mount Spur erupting. So again, that ring of fire and it's working its way around kind of, I mean, the West Coast of the United States and Canada has been really, really lucky so far compared to what the rest of the ring of fire has been doing. So either it's getting released in small bites and we're going to, you know, and everything's going to be okay, or it's building pressure. And that's the concern that is building pressure. Then April 29th, we had some severe storms in Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and the, um, in the United States. Luckily, like I say, they skirted to the north of my house. That wasn't the case for a lot of people.

We're talking hail up to 13 centimeters large in King County. Um, Supersale hit Benjamin, Texas. Tornado warning in Springfold, Missouri. So this sucker was long. It reached all the way from Texas, like all the way up towards Michigan, Canada. It just wasn't as impactful in some areas. So it was a biggie though. We got hit. We just didn't get it as bad as like last year.

April 29th, there was a blizzard in the Ural Mountains in Russia. It's a mountain-esque area but it did cause significant power outages, stranded buses, and left vehicles abandoned. There's also been a severe drought going on in the southwest of the United States. This is Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. Definitely a feast and famine type situation. In the United States, sometimes I think that they claim things like a drought too fast. This is only like the 16th consecutive week, But you can look at like just how moist the layers are, you know, of the earth and things like that,

like how deep the impact's gonna be. But this is 36.99% of the lower 48 states in drought. So when it comes down to it, that's pretty significant. And again, that's gonna create burnable material. So wildfires, I just have a feeling that we're gonna need to be wildfire ready this summer. And also if you're in another country and you guys haven't seen the amount of rainfall

that you normally do in some areas, like down in South America last year, they lost major wetlands, like huge chunks of the wetlands and the Andes. So, and you know, when we were in Costa Rica, they just burn a fire on the side of the road and never think anything of it. It's not attended. Nobody's standing there, right? So we need to be aware. On the wildfire topic, Jerusalem, Israel, they had over 25,000 dunams, which is 6,175 acres,

not a very big country, on fire, forced evacuations of communities, 45 reported injuries. The fires were possibly the largest in Israeli history. I don't know if you follow revelations, but I mean, we just got to keep our eyes out. Signs and wonders. Earthquake in Pakistan, a 4.4 earthquake hit, no damage. It was out in a pretty much non populated area. Another blizzard in Moscow on May 1st and 2nd. These are unusual events. It is historic for this time of year

for Moscow to get hit as hard as they did. They were blanketed with 43 millimeters of snow and 36 hours, breaking 116 year record. Tappled trees cause power outages for 26,000 residents against 93 across 93 settlements. So when you see this happening all across the globe, you know something's up. How often do we break records like this these days? Right. Seems like every storm is like,

oh we have a, that's the worst storm in a century, that's the worst storm. It's like both extremes at the same time. Right? Wildfires and blizzards and droughts and floods. And yeah, it's pretty crazy. 5.2 magnitude earthquake in Xinjiang China. That's an area I swear, they're like testing something out there or something. I don't know. It's right up by Russia and it's a pretty non-populated area,

but it is very seismically active. I've watched them on the map hit there like day after day after day. It's pretty active area. So whatever they got going on there, it's definitely causing earthquakes. And then severe storms and tornadoes, May 1st, May the 1st be with you.

We just got hit again in Northern Texas. Line of severe storms swept across, producing winds, hail. Multiple tornadoes were reported. We were even under a tornado warning for a while, but there was no deaths caused by the storm, just structural damage, potential crop losses. And then Eastern Africa is also facing pretty bad droughts in Kenya. They had a brief respite of water coming in,

then they're looking at it again. We're kind of off of their season, so hopefully they just have some rain that comes in. I'm kind of putting that one in the category with the southern part of the United States as far as like, it's not that far gone, but we do need to keep eyes on. But the situation down in South Africa and Zimbabwe

has been quite a few years of me reporting on that now. So that is concerning. As far as volcanic eruptions, we currently have 39 volcanoes erupting on our planet. So we're back up to the highest number that I've ever seen. We went down to 38 for a couple months. Now we're back up to 39. 40 showing minor activity. So on top of the highest number erupting that I've ever seen in my years of recording volcanic

activity, we back that number right up with an even higher number showing minor activity. I was blown away when I looked at it today. Over the past couple months, I an even higher number showing minor activity. I was blown away when I looked at it today. Over the past couple months, I'd seen a little bit of a decrease, but definitely wasn't the case today when I looked at it. So that is concerning. 23 volcanoes showing unrest at this time.

So a total of 102 volcanoes that they monitor are in action right now. As far as wildfires in the United States, we're at a preparedness level of one. We have eight new fires. Seven fires are contained. A total of 31,792 acres on fire in the United States right now. Number one state is New Jersey. They have one active fire which is burning 15,300 acres. No new fires but the good news is that fire is contained. In Florida they have two active large wildfires for a total of 9,067 acres. Three new wildfires. Four of those are contained. And then number uh number three on the list is North Carolina. We have two active wildfires there. One of those is new. Total of

4032 acres and no neither of those fires are contained. Yeah, we had just had another one start up. You were just, yeah. North of us. Yeah. Today was it new on the bucket today? No, I think it's a new one. You were just mentioning, I think it was a day or so ago it started. That it just kicked up. It was maybe Friday. Yeah. Arizona is four on the list. They have one fire burning again. It's dry out there guys. Be careful.

2,138 acres, one new fire and that fire is not contained. Oh, Firewolf Forge says, West Texas had an earthquake of six, something a day or so, not surprised at all because that activity comes in from Alaska, feeds down the North American Craton. They're keeping eyes on that volcano that's out off the coast of Oregon big time right now.

It's one they like reporting on because they don't believe that if it went off it would cause a lot of damage, but it is literally right there. It could be tsunami damage, that kind of thing. But yeah, the activity comes into that North American Crayton, comes down to West Texas because there's so much fracking and drilling that we're doing there. Whenever, like if you have a rock or you're at your forge or at the piece of metal

and you have that imperfection in it, that's where it's gonna break. So that's where it's gonna release that energy. So like I say, hopefully maybe we've done enough kind of alterations. Like maybe this is a good human manipulation that we've provided lots of like Swiss cheese holes for this activity to kind of release itself without the West Coast just going crazy. But come on, we're talking a huge scale the west coast just going crazy but come on we're talking a huge scale uh mother nature right so you never can tell well that's the change in earth for today that was a good show that was fun

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