The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Preparing for Catastophic Flood

Episode Date: July 7, 2025

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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 hosts, Sarah F Hathaway and Chen Gibson. Hello and welcome back to the Changing Earth podcast. This is episode number 484 and we've been at this so long. I have no idea what season we're in anymore, but hey, Chen, what's up? been at this so year. I'll have to go back to the archives and check that out. But yeah, how fun is that?

I didn't even think about that. So let's start with a little changing earth updates before we get into the news today. Because obviously we have some changing earth news going on right now. So Las Vegas years, my newest book, it is the book in between day after disaster and without land.

Fans have been nagging me for years, when are you gonna finish the book? And it is finally completed. It is at the cover designer right now. So, whenever he has time to do that and get it formatted, we'll get it up on Amazon and do a pre-release date. And if you guys can help me out with the pre-release, that would be epic. Want to make it a big success. So that is coming. I know it's my own work, but I'm telling you, I really like how it it turned out I was like, I know where I wanted to start. I know where I wanted to end

I don't know what the middle looks like and I think we navigated it pretty well So I say me the family always helps me helps me Get it get the ideas together. Yeah, it's coming garden girl. It's coming Really soon we got to get on Doug to get it done. But I hate to nag too much, because he's my bro and I love him. Crack that whip. Yeah, literally.

So, um, audio drama. We are in season two. If you guys haven't checked out the videos that I'm doing over on YouTube, pretty cool stuff. AI just giving me more and more and more tools to use. So that's coming along really nice. It's a lot of fun to watch the videos now over there instead of being screensavers as my co-host would say. So they have the added value now and they're looking really cool. They're a bunch of work to do don't get me wrong But they're looking pretty cool

season five is Tentatively ready. I just have to make sure that I have performers kind of Nailed in because I hate switching it up too soon. Yeah, so Jasmine. Yeah, JB So yeah season five is coming It's gonna be pre-released for members only until I get done re-aerying two three and season four so it's gonna be a long time of like a member pre-release for the public I'm estimating I think it was December I'm estimating but you know my weeks get kind of messed up in and

around Prepper Camp with coming up and you guys if you haven't been out to Prepper Camp, you're missing out every year as a year to remember. Um I'm praying that we don't have any hurricanes this year. That would be great. Uh that was a little interesting and then with the bees and everything. The bees last year. Yeah, that was bad. So, um get on out to Prepper Camp. Guys, the tickets are never cheaper than what they are right now. Every day they

go to the night. Yeah. Go ahead Jen. Yeah, I said, tickers are never cheaper than today because tomorrow, it seems like they go up again. It feels like every tomorrow they're going up again. Yeah. Yeah. So Chin is Amber poo today. Dragon. My 10 pound attack dog. She comes by. Yeah. We were teasing because Chin's a big old guy. Got a little old dog. I'm just a little chick and I got a big old dog I walk down the street with, you know. But it keeps everything at bay, including other dogs. But yeah, Amber Poo the snack there.

So there you go. New books coming, audio dramas rocking. Gotta check it out. Got some great new performers, new voices, and the AI tools are just incredible. I'm literally a kid in a candy shop, so I'm designing my own music. You're gonna be able to get the Changing Earth Soundtrack soon, which is incredible. I'll have to show you some of that, Chin. It's incredible stuff. And I'm just going off on production. So I love that.

Oh my goodness. How many more hats can you fit on that little head of yours? I love creating. It's so much fun. So the more I can bring the change in Earth world life, the better. So I'll have those CDs for sale. I'll have these songs available for download on the website. It's just, I've got so much to do right now. I am finishing up projects so we're putting

checks in the boxes. Alrighty we are going into a pretty serious topic today and let me first open it up with a prayer for all of the people who don't know if their loved ones are coming home tonight, don't know if they're going to see their kids again, I can imagine. And I just hope that the Lord Jesus reaches out to them. And you know, the Lord's will is done on earth. We have no idea what his will is. It doesn't always work out the way we want it to, but what a catastrophic event to happen down in the Texas Hill Country floods, you know, with Camp Mystic.

It's a very prestigious camp. You gotta wait years to get onto that waiting list. And I couldn't even imagine dropping my kid off at camp and then not knowing if I was going to be able to pick him up afterwards. So prayers for everybody, pretty serious note like I'm saying. And last year, just to lighten it up a little bit, we went through Haleen and we were just chatting about this earlier. It could have just as easily been Prepper Camp picked up last year. Yeah, if the train was a little different at camp,

it's scary to see those pictures of Texas. It could have come right down that system. We drove through scenes like that to get home. We did. We've got through scenes like that to get home. We did. We did us as well and you know, looking out the window at somebody and half their house is

there and they're just standing there like deer in the headlights. I mean, that really brings it home. I really, I mean, I don't know how many down power lines we drove over. They are still, they are still a little over nine months later. They are

still cleaning out Lake still it's still empty and they still have heavy equipment in there cleaning it out. The town is on the 27th of June. They just opened Chivney Rock State Park. So, right. So let's just open. It's days and days and days of cleanup. I don't know how fast that's gonna be able to be done,

but the community is pretty powerful in Texas. We have 70. That's what does it. Yeah, right. We have 70 confirmed deaths, including 21 children. 11 girls are still missing at this time. The people I know, well everybody knows a gal, Carrie that I've had on the show, Carrie Hansen, she has a lot of boots on the ground over there and has been keeping me updated on what's going on. It's not good. People literally poking around with sticks for bodies.

But the Texas first responders, they would really appreciate any kind of assistance. Texans don't really ask for it, but we're up to 80, 80 deaths now, Garden Girl says. Yeah, and I have a feeling that's just gonna increase. Texas first responders though though Cajun Navy H-E-B Hotel Echo Bravo disaster relief and the local Texas communities the more you guys can help out the better the

Texas our state government wanted to go in and help out and the local communities were like no no no Well, you know we got it under control kind of deal because that's really what Texas is all about. It's impressive to see how much they tighten up their bootstraps and just get down to business when stuff like this happens. A very big breath of fresh air from hearing the complaints about how FEMA could come save us

because we've had four days without power in the California Foothills, you know. So today we wanted to talk about flooding, but we have talked about flooding a lot on the show. So we're not just talking about flooding, we're talking about these catastrophic events. We've had too many of them now to not talk about it, to not talk about how to even increase your preparedness level to that next level so that you understand if this type of

catastrophe could befall you. It's really scary the FEMA and flood maps how inaccurate a lot of them are and that's really like the basis that homeowners mortgages everything's going off of. So that was one thing I found kind of frightening in the research one I was putting it together. So Helene dumps 30 inches of rain record-breaking rain there. 2,000 landslides and that's not an exaggeration I bet you it's more. They were everywhere. French River and Asheville hit twenty four point six seven feet. I heard stories of people on the third floor that were watching water out their window

of apartment buildings. This surpassed the 1916 record for flooding. Pigeon River in Newport Tennessee reached 29.72 feet. Just incredible stuff. The Texas Hill Country floods. This was driven by a slow moving storm. Prepare guys I've heard more rain is coming your way so just get prepared get ready for more. It dropped 12 inches of rain in just hours. Hours it happened so quick. Did you see some of the some of the videos on that? Some people were hiking and they took a picture of the stream and it just kept growing and then you started to see trees and shrubs coming down the stream and it kept growing and growing.

It was amazing. To think what happened, what they were seeing the front line of coming towards you, you know? It's almost like you have to watch that and memorize that. And if you ever someplace that you see that to freaking high tail it.

Kern is at evacuation orders right now, JB says, yeah. And that's one of the things we're gonna talk about, get out now. When they give you the warning, man, it is not worth it. Don't play. I went into North Carolina last year. It was a big argument between everybody, you know, with PBN and Prepper Camp and everything. There was a lot of back and forth about it. And I drove from Texas

into North Carolina. Knowing what I've known now and being through that event, I probably would have pulled out. I would pull out, right? I would be like, nope. Cause I sat there all night long in my trailer, just praying and crying and begging the Lord, just asked them like, hey, if you're gonna take us out of this world, take us all out together.

You know, and that's how frightened I was that night. So would I wanna do a repeat of that? Nah, I'd probably get out early. We're preparing as people. I mean, so you gotta go back and clean your house up while at least you weren't in it, you know? So. It's way different than like hurricanes because I used to live the coast and we had like two weeks of prepping for it. These storms, you don't think about it being that devastating. like, we had like, we had like, we had like, we had like, we had like, we had like, we had like, we had like, we had like, we had like, we had like, we had like, we had like, we had like, we had like, we had like, we had like, we had like, we had like, we had like, we had like, we had like, we had like, we had like, we had like, we had like, we had like, we had like, we had like, we had like, we had like, we had like, we had like, we had like, we had like, we had like,

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Because these events you don't even you sometimes you don't even see the rain and boom there it is and you're done you know. As a garden girl just said some of these remote camps didn't have reception so they weren't getting the warnings. Right and we got them we got them at Prepper Camp boy we got them all And we got them we got on that prepper camp boy we got them all Minute you just fall asleep Do besides sleeping out now? It would be hitting again. So yeah, Guadalupe surge 26 feet and just 45 minutes This is because so l2ive hit it right on the head

over on YouTube. So just wait for the floods from the pole shift. This is like the birthing pains. This is the beginning. We're gonna see more areas, just extremes, more rain in some areas, less in others, just this extreme situation with weather. So we really have to get prepared for it We've got to be heads up in the central breadbasket of the United States

Because if we had a rain event like this that hit Fort Peck dam up in Montana That would destroy the whole center of the United States So I really I'm really adamant about that day I'm doing something about it because it's just shouldn't even be there. And that's at the top of the whole Mississippi River system is crazy. So, anyway, we have to be ready for this kind of stuff. We have to be aware. The 100 year flood maps. Are indicate areas with a 1% annual flood risk, but Helene only showed 2% that was hardest hit

was on the flood map even. Like it wasn't even accurate. If you were like, oh, I need flood insurance, I'm gonna check a flood map to see if it's necessary. It wasn't even there, it wasn't even accurate. So that is a problem. Oh Oh JB just chimed up. Yeah the the alerts we get them so often now that we're getting desensitized Yeah, I wouldn't disagree. I wouldn't disagree Like thunderstorms like you're constantly getting thunderstorms rain is gonna start in five

Okay, I get it, but you know Five minutes, it's gonna okay. I get it, but you know, yeah Right and then you know, we wake up. Oh tornado alert my husband. I'll go back to bed. I go what? Yeah We did it was crazy So, um, First Street Foundation, they have flood mapping models over there And I guess they're a little bit more accurate. They identified 19,500 properties in Bung Colby. How do you say it, Chin? Sure. You know? County alone. I know how to say Canadian things. Buncombe County. Yeah. So they identified 19,500 properties that weren't on the list that got hit during that event, you know, so they already had them.

It also suggests your local disaster relief is going to have more accurate maps than like the national FEMA flood maps because the other the other thing is topo maps like Like get some topo maps and learn where the hills and the valleys are, cause water flows downhill, right? Right. So learn, cause I know like for Lake Lure, we had a major like valley heading into the lake and then we had a whole bunch of these other valleys that kind of created a little feeder rivers into it.

They were just little yeah, you can go over there and you have to pay for them, but you can just screenshot it. You know, I just screenshot it and print it. So I don't have to. I mean, I guess I should be paying for it, but you know. We're preppers on a budget, right? Right. Yeah. That I that's where I found the best topo maps is on topo topo map dot com, I believe. Yeah, it's been big time rain events, big time rain events. So when do we bug out versus stay and put? This is an interesting question with flooding, right? Because you never drive through the flood water.

Talk to us James. Right. You never drive through the flood You have to go now. Like they just put that warning up for curtain. Now is the time you get out. Yeah, either the road, the road get undercut, the you know digging underneath the road and collapsing or mudslides coming down on top of it. Right. Yeah. And they just got destroyed. Same thing's been happening. So now is the time. Like if you're gonna go, go now. Especially if somebody has any kind of medical problems where you would need like emergency assistance very quickly

because of the, and it's a preexisting condition, you already know about it. Get them to a hotel or something, you know, that's outside of the area. I mean, that's just smart. You know what, if anybody gives you crap about it now, you just refer to North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas and just say, you know, there you go. Exactly. Oh, Elon Musk is dropping star links to all the first responders. Yeah, that's huge. It is because my first responders

to my county were totally blocked out. Right. And that's why I've been on such a big kick about backup comms. Yeah. Because that's what ham and GMRS is what got us through until some of the people started getting starlings. Right. And thank God that JB had them. Yeah. My mom would have been freaking out heart attack. I mean, so yeah. Oh, they found two of the girls 30 foot and trees alive. I saw that. I think.

Yeah. Right. Amen, amen. OK, so bugging out. So 12 inches of rain on the road can sweep your car away. It is way more deceiving than you think I have driven through a section that after talking with James I probably shouldn't have. It bent my license plate out and stuff. It was really small. If it was any bigger than what I went through,

I would have been in the same boat. So just don't do it. The time to get out is early. So just don't do it. The time to get out is early. And that's a lot of what happened. Why we have more deaths is because people out driving around in it. When we were in Helene coming home, we saw piles of vehicles, just bulldoze under the overpasses.

Cause they were like, we can't do anything with this. We gotta just pile it up. It was crazy. So this is your tip, Chen, the monitor, the 10 day and hourly forecast. What are you going to for your weather apps? What's your go-tos? Well, I go to them all, honestly,

but I use like the weather bug and what's this other one? Windy and active weather and weather channel because I don't trust just one, you never know if one, I'm going to 10 day to get a feel for it and And then I look at the hourly for the data. I'm in to get a feel for You know when it's hitting and when it's subsiding kind of thing, right? Right what that looks like Yeah, and sometimes all you can do is watch it come in. So they did put up the flood watch for Texas at 118 p.18 PM on July 3rd, predicting up to seven inches of rain, but 12 inches fell overnight,

catching many people asleep. So it happens a lot. So pay attention to those early warning signs, especially for any catastrophic flooding they say say is gonna come your way. Know your high risk area, know your area. Are you at a high risk area? Know that, get to a better place. If you're not, try your best.

Pre storm window. So you only have that little time to go, you know what, this storm could be a lot worse than it is. We're gonna get out? This storm could be a lot worse than it is. We're gonna get out. Right. This storm could be a lot worse. We're just gonna postpone our trip this year. And it hurts and it sucks.

And it's not a decision you wanna make. But yeah, sometimes that's what's gotta be done. And have multiple friends and families in multiple directions, right? Because you might have to go one way or the other way. Right. That's why I've got people all over the US. Like up there.

Yeah. So, JB had put up as well the sinkholes. The sinkholes have been crazy. And then the gates have been crazy as well. Buckling roads. So, you know, be careful out there. It's been it's been a change in earth. Change in earth. So no safe exit. Keep in mind if it's nighttime when you're leaving, that's even more dangerous.

You know, at night on the road during an event. Bad idea. Move to the upper levels of your home. Ideally with the attic, we're gonna talk about some supplies you should have in your attic. And then monitor conditions, just constantly, constantly monitoring, monitoring those 10 apps that you use,

or the weather apps that you use, the 10 day forecast. And the NOAA, you use, you know, the 10-day forecast, and the NOAA, the Hand Crack radios, come back to the old faithful, right? Never, never, never, never, never drive through the floodwaters. We're sticking with James on that one. It's just a bad idea. I don't care how many- When you see a house floating down the walls, the structural integrity of your house, this is one thing that I've really been noticing in these flooding events is obviously the whole house going, but people

have been dying because they're waiting it out inside, but their wall collapses. And then it takes kills them kills whoever's there. So it's not really something we think about. We think about it more with like tornadoes and hurricanes wind events But we don't think about the water. So this is actually pretty cool One foot of water against the wall generates 500 pounds of force per square foot That's insane. That is crazy and that's without like the debris and all that stuff,

right? That is just water that you know, water is heavy, water moves, water is intense. It is something that demands respect all the time. You can drown in one tablespoon of water. So, weaken foundations, dry, saturated drywall, debris, when debris, like you say, when the RVs come slamming in the motor home, boom!

You know, that just hits your wall. So do not- Trees, yep, boom. Yeah. Battering rims, they become battering rims. Yeah, literally. And if they're sideways, so same rule is going to apply. You want to be on the interior of your house, like it's a tornado or something. So that's very structurally sound. I wouldn't go like under the stairs because you know, you need to be get up the stairs if you

need to. Right. So make sure that you have identified those safe zones in your home. Make sure that you do pre-flood checks. So this is like literally checking your house out to make sure. Does everything look good? How's my roof shape? Guys, it's really important with roofs right now. It's not only a wildfire danger to have a poor roof, but then flooding, wind damage, the wood, the roofs are just taking it on the chin with this extreme, ah, no fun intended.

But they're just taking it in this extreme weather. And unfortunately, yeah, they are expensive to replace, but they have some really, really great shingles and product now that you can put on your roof for protection so if you do have to update it make sure you look into a really good shingle um ask your insurance company about it yeah Guam built concrete buildings for the typhoons yeah because they're just getting wrecked i totally agree jimmy i'm thinking like future home is like the hobbit hole you know you would think after how many years of construction, how many centuries of construction,

we could build a better house than these stick built, I mean, my goodness. Single roofs. Like obviously it's not cutting it anymore. I really liked that product that I've seen out of Florida. That's like the Lego blocks. Yes, those are cool. That kept us staying in the Lego blocks. Yes. That's cool. Yeah. But yeah, it's time to

like update our building here. Okay. Um, we got to keep moving along. I'm like, on this platform, I have the little clock that tells me how long I've been going. I don't have to do the math in my head. I like that. I'm sorry. Side note, side note. Squirrel. Post-flood. So it's very big chance of electrocution. We see it big time overseas. They don't have quite like the systems that we have. So like every time it's flooding over there you hear about somebody was electrocuted is really how people die, which is really sad But it'll happen here as well. And they were like check for um Leaks with a flashlight not a candle

Got my old dick Yeah, my back. I'm sorry, dude. What if I mean survival of the fittest? You've come this far and you can't figure that one out. I don't know. But yeah, use a flashlight, not a candle. That's so hilarious. But I guess so, right? I mean, I mean if your house gets if if something damaged the pipes outside or your house gets damaged, you might have a gasoline.

Right. And you're burning lanterns or whatever inside for like, but boom. So I can see that. The Coleman stove. Yeah. Um, swift water navigation. So something that isn't talked about a whole lot in my opinion is how different it is to be in flood water versus a lake or a pool.

You might be a really, really great swimmer, you know, more power to you. But I have been in the American rivers. I've been in the Yuba River. I know the power the American rivers. I've been in the Yuba River. I know the power of those rivers. There are times you do not go in those rivers or you're gonna die. Yeah, I

mean that's it. That's why I said I spent time up by the Hudson River in New York. Yeah, we never went swimming in that we went boating there but we never went. It was fast currents. Yeah, you have to give it respect. There's under toes, there's things you can't see.

You could go and get wedged under a rock, even with a life vest on and you're still dead. So it's very important to understand, like you're not just jumping into a lake, you're jumping into a rapidly moving current where you're going to get pulled away. So my advice on that one is to study the swift water rescues. Have an understanding of like how they're using ropes to go across things. They even do classes on how to be a swift water rescue aware,

or you can go become a swift water rescue person. Didn't you do rafting? I did. Well, I did the rafting photos, but I did a lot of rafting as well. But yeah. So we had to go through classes on if you fall in the river, what you have to do.

So basically, life jacket on, and you point your feet down the river the key is to keep your head away from being down there because you get you know whammed on your head so definitely learn the method if you don't know what I'm talking about get up open up your YouTube and check it out because it's not just the same as like, oh, I'm floating down a raft and tubing. Yeah, water world or whatever avoid strainers. So strainers are fences, trees, debris, anything like, like, if it was a river, it would be a rock. Right? fences, trees, debris, anything like, like if it was a river, it would be a rock, right? Anything that's gonna get you hung up on it.

The moment you get hung up on something, that's big trouble. That 500 pounds of pressure is on you now, right? So it's really, really hard. You're gonna have to fight for all your life. It's very hard to swim up river, but a lot of times you can swim out you know like at an angle away from things or a clump. They had they had I beams from bridges like personal bridges for like homes up

in the mountains around here and I beams were washed away wrapped around trees that's how much force I mean-beams made the bridges that people drove their cars and trucks over but it was just wrapped around like a you know, like a freaking yeah, just wrapped around the tree. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely avoid any kind of

cars, houses, anything that has more mass is also going to create its own Eddie and its own break and it's going to want to suck you in there. So yeah, seriously, that's why like if you go down with the ship in the ocean, it pulls you in. It's going to create that kind of eddy, that kind of thing. So definitely be aware of debris.

And then you should have the USCG approved type 3 life vest. These are not the attractive skiing ones. You know, these are the ones that have the hoods. So it's going to protect your neck. And I keep your head above water. Yes. Yeah. Your head above. Even if you go out, even if you're back down. That's what those are made for. Yeah.

Right. So I would definitely have, those are made for you. Right. I would definitely have I would definitely have your life vest in your attic. I mean I would just save them there for sure. You know the one thing about that though is the address gets so hot and it just plays havoc on like sporting goods and stuff.

Yeah, that's true. You might not want to store it there, but bring it up for the event if you had to evacuate it to your attic. I have my hockey gear up there. I'm like, my hockey gear is in the attic. Uh oh. Yeah, I had I had a pair of um snow ski boots and I had them stored up in there. First time I took them out to use after being stored in the attic, I was skiing and it just kind of fell apart and I had to rent I had to rent equipment for the rest of the trip. So that So, that's that I I'm just saying a little heads up on sporting goods in the attic.

Yep. Yeah, absolutely. Um so, I mean, I would say like you could put uh a boat like a raft up there but unless you're gonna like you're gonna have to get it out. Yeah. Yeah. And like your average blow up raft is

not going to do it. It's going to be so fast. You're it's not worth it. They do have those tsunami balls now. You know, this the ones that are like sounds like a nasty drink at the bar. It does. It does. Yeah, um, I love that design. It's like a bounce house, but you're inside and you can survive a tsunami in it.

So I mean, I'm sure they're like 10 grand or something, but you know, something crazy. But if you can do something like that or maybe like robots become the new like what is it? A wind turn wind sock or whatever that you put on your roof. Yeah. Right. We talked about the axe, having an axe in your attic to be able to go through the wall or the roof. We've talked about it before, the life vests, your food plan, obviously, keeping it up there is an issue, like you say, because of the heat. Yeah.

And even any kind of rubber too. Plastics, rubbers, yeah, they just. Yeah, it's gonna get compromised in that kind of rubber too. Plastics, rubbers, yeah. Yeah, it's going to compromise in that kind of heat. Yeah, Firewood Forge would just say that in the hot season it was 123 degrees Fahrenheit in his attic. Right. And that's not even in the hot season. I can't even imagine. I mean, we have minimal air conditioning up there. Yeah. I can't even imagine. I mean, we have minimal air conditioning up there. So, yeah. So, communications blackouts where both events had complete communication blackouts.

That's why- You gotta listen to that crazy guy that talks about communications and mesh-tastic and walkie talkies, I'm telling you. Hey guys- Yes, there's something going on there. We have a mesh-tastic group in our signal group. and walkie talkies. I'm telling you into that room or whatever, but we do have a group there and we have some Yep, you know we have chin, but we also have That are pretty yeah pretty intelligent when it comes to that stuff so

Oh, no, I'm not trying to be the expert. I'm just trying to get everybody involved More people we get involved. The more experts will create you picked up those reins. It's all you're the guy. Oh, so having the sky link sky link. Am I right? Sky link. I always want to say starling starling

having the starling uh is a really good. I've seen it come through time and time again So I'm not gonna diss anything about it The local alerts Obviously stay tuned with your social media is that kind of thing they help out that kind of stuff the Hankrake radio so stay connected stay together and Don't forget about your community. That's what it's all about.

So speaking of, we have many, many people supporting the relief efforts here in Texas. Most of them are nonprofit agents just doing the right thing at the right time. So you can donate to the Kerr County Flood Relief Fund. That's at communityfoundation.net. The Cajun Navy, that's at unitedcajannavy.org. The HEB, that's Hotel Echo Bravo's relief efforts via local drop-off points, so that one's more of a local relief effort.

If you have time, you can definitely volunteer your own services, your own time. Go to Texas Community Recovery. There's a phone number for that one. I'll put it up in the blog, but you can just google it. This is easy stuff to find. The Salvation Army in Kerrville does need trash bags, bleach, and diapers at this time. So if you're in the area and you can help out at all, that would be great. Everybody that's involved needs prayers. So the more that you can pray, the better. I will tell you that I do believe the power of prayer is what kept Prepper Camp 2024 safe. We were probably, you know, just throwing up the prayer bubble around that place. So it's not it's not in vain. It's it's good stuff.

So these floods are going to increase. We got to be ready and this is next level preparation. This is like you being. So prepared, like above and beyond what anybody else is for these type of events. That you can actually assist other people in making sure they're doing the right thing. And that's what happened at camp. Yeah. That's absolutely what happened.

Because the campers, the out of towners were given to support to the local community at camp. You're not wrong. If there's a reason we were all there at that time, that's why, yeah. Cause we really did. It was impressive. The guys getting out there in Cotton Roads,

everybody just pitching in where they can, coming together, food and everything for the local community. Yeah, so don't, you're worth, you're very much worth something and they very much need you when these things happen it's all about your community yep already let's jump oh I got to do some media stuff let's jump into some changing earth news Survive. Thrive. This is I? News, news, news. So we're picking up from June 1st.

And guys, this is wild. Everything is just wild sauce right now. It's such a great time to be alive. Okay, June 1st to 6th, we're having earthquake swarms in Pakistan. Most of them were under a 4.0, but just because of the fact that they're swarming, it was of concern. No deaths, minimal impact probably to the local agriculture of the area,

but about 30 quakes. So that's a pretty big deal and it's an urban setting. So there's a lot of people feeling those quakes. And usually swarms indicate something bigger. So we're going to keep our eye on that one. June 1st, Sakurajima volcano in Japan erupted. Minor ashfall. There was impact to like rice and vegetable crops, crops, cracks, vegetable cracks. Those are shoes that look like broccoli. The vegetable crop near the mountain. It was recommended that they cover their gardens,

that kind of thing. June 1 to July 6, so this is ongoing all last year. Severe or all last month, we've got severe drought going. In the Rockies, the Great Plains, and central Texas, it's just been kicking up the heat on us pretty good. Significant stress to the crops and it's just been hotter than Hades. But there's also been a heat wave going on the east coast of the United States, so you guys have not been immune to the heat that's going on. Stresses to corn, soybean crops, livestock, that kind of thing.

Record highs broken on June 24th to June 26th. So again, we got the extremes. We got the extreme heat. We got the extreme cold. We got the extreme rain. We got the extreme drought. People map, right? We got the extreme drought People not right everything in moderation Sarah come on. No no no this is the changing earth It's gonna be it's gonna be hot and bothered June 1st to July 6th France and Spain are also under a severe heat wave

You know they don't have air conditioning a lot of times and stuff over there. I was actually reading a report. It's more likely to die of not having AC in Europe than it is of getting shot by a gun here in the United States. Like that. Right, the ratio is actually higher.

They're worried about their grape and olive groves over there. So that is a concern going on with all that heat. The yields just aren't as good and the production, the value of the product is just not as good. June 1st to 2nd, we had a CME that was a G4. It caused that G4. It was an M8 that erupted from the Sun, came by us. There was moderate radio blackouts, Wi-Fi communications, things like that went down. So that was happening June 1st. I always watch that stuff because of the, everybody's temperature, everybody's brain, their cognitive abilities. What are my clients gonna be like?

June 3rd, there was a tornado outbreak in Kansas City, an EF1, EF2, two confirmed tornadoes touched down, one in Jackson County, and then there was a flash flooding in Wyandotte County as well. June 4th the 12th tropical storm Wutip, a severe tropical storm hit the South China Sea and Hanan and then it hit Guangdong as well. Floodings from massive rains there damaged rice and fruit crops. from massive rains there damaged rice and fruit crops. This storm did intensify to a minimal typhoons, made landfall on Henan,

and then eventually hit Guangdong as well. That's just fun to say too, by the way. June 4th through the 12th tropical storm all rain came through hit Taiwan in East China. No confirmed deaths in that event but there was flooding that took place. They really got creamed last year so they could use a break. June 6 to 12 there was CME ejections that caused a G1 storm. The systems for precision farming would be thrown off by that. You're also going to be able to see the

auroras a little bit better because that one was did come at the earth. Solar wind speeds dropped. On June 10th the 13th, Tropical Storm Delilah was off the Pacific Coast of Mexico, minor flooding from that, limited impact on local crops from that event. And it did form to a tropical storm, but it dissipated really quickly, which was great because my dad was down there right then. June 15th, there was a solar flare that came about. It was an M8.3. It did not directly impact the earth earth but it did cause minor radio blackouts it was just like a glancing blow. June 16th we had tornadoes there

was an EF0 and an EF1 I love the EF0s that means it was just really windy right in Minnesota no loss of life crop damage. There was a tornado that ripped a roof off near Bertha. Bertha, Bertha, Minnesota. So fitting for Minnesota with the Vikings. Supercells produced a tornado there. Four to six inches of rain caused flooding. Hurricane Eric came through June 17th to 19th. A lot of hurricanes already this year, guys. I don't know what this year is going to look like. As far as last year, they did a big prediction. Oh, we're going to have so many more.

And we didn't really. We had some big intense ones, granted. But we didn't have that many. This year, it seems to be I'd like to see some numbers on our frequency already already stirred up June 17th and 19th hurricane eric came through it was a cat four Off it hit the pacific coast of mexico two people unfortunately did lose their lives in that event Um, and then the there was 17 deaths in guatemala

Honduras and el salv Salvador from when the big storm came through. Lots of flooding. So the precursor storm was damaging maize and coffee. Again, coffee, we don't need a hit. We got to keep our cheap coffee or my husband's going to be a mess. Category three landfall impacted Mexican the coastal agriculture peak winds on that storm were 145 miles an hour so it was pretty big. June 17th there was one is going mega eruption.

Ash fall was up to 11,584 meters damage to rice, maize, coffee. That's really good growing area. So they're kind of used to that. A 10,000 meter ash column goes up from that volcano, which was, which is pretty epic. June 17th tornado touchdown in Colorado. It was an EF1 with 106 mile an hour winds. You just don't hear them out in Colorado very much but they did have that one that was on top

of the mountain two years ago which is crazy. That's not supposed to happen. June 17th, 2025, there was an M class solar flare, no direct impact. That one was not earth facing at all. June 18th to 25th, we had flooding in Guangdong, China, severe flooding, likely damage to the local crops, water levels reaching 55.22 meters, .43 meters above historical highs in China. They've been recording for a long time, right? So you know, that's legit, right?

When you see those getting broken. June 20th there was a tornado and or land in North Dakota. 3 deaths, 2 injuries from that event. Many farmhouses were leveled significant crop damage from debris. It was a monster wedge tornado that came in. And then to tornadoes in the Valley City area. June 22nd to 21st to 22nd there was a winter storm snow event. If you can believe it there was snow in Glacier Park, Montana and Idaho on 21st to the 22nd. Rare storm 12 to 18 inches of snow above 6,000 feet 4 inches in the valley winds up to 50 miles an hour so I love reporting on snow

events in the summertime it just makes you feel like yeah right as you're just sweating it out. June 21st to July 5th there's an extreme earthquake storm that's still actively being monitored. This is off the coast of Japan, the southern coast. Minimal impact right now like sweet potato crops and fishing but they've had 75 quakes. That's a lot of earthquakes. 4.0 was in the 4.0 area, 5.6 was the largest, so they are actively monitoring this. No tsunamis or anything at this point, but very interesting. And in that area is where I believe like the new

volcanic islands are being formed and then they dissipate and they're being formed and dissipate. There's also June 22nd to the 25th flooding in China again. The Duli River flooded 11 meters above normal, likely destroyed rice, vegetable crops. This is the largest flood on record. Again, when we hear news like this coming out of China, their historic records go away, way farther than ours. And this is their largest flood on record, major economic losses. So again, prayers going out. You never hear a lot about how many people are dying or who's missing, that kind of thing, coming out of China. But when you see big events like that you

got to take note. June 22nd there was an EF1 tornado in Clark Mills New York. Crop damage, uprooted trees that kind of thing. I was stopped spawned by a direct thunderstorm remnants. June 22nd to the 26th we had a coronal hole high-speed stream causing a G1 to a G2 geomagnetic storm. No direct impact on the earth as far as like major damage we're just looking at a lot of auroras possible radio blackouts it does uptake earthquake activity so we do keep our eye out for that. It could be one of the reasons why we're getting that swarm over by Japan. June 23rd, there you go, there was a 4.1 earthquake in Farz Providence, Iraq.

Minor damage. You gotta wonder about, oh I I'm sorry, it was in Iran. You gotta wonder kinda about earthquake news coming out of that area right now just because of the activity that's going on, right? June 24th, the tropical storm Andrea was out in the central Atlantic Ocean. It was the first named Atlantic Storm. It was very short lived. June 24th, 25, there was the urban fire. This was in the United Arab Emirates.

It was a contained construction fire. Not a big deal. Just lets you know, you know, you gotta be prepared for anything. Even if you think you're not in a fire area, you never know what the guy's building building the house next door might do. Right. June 24th flooding landslides in Venezuela. National emergency was declared.

Forty seven hundred people displaced, but no deaths from that event. Thank goodness. June 25th to July 5th volcanic eruption of the Great Sitkin Mountain up in Alaska in the Lushen Islands. So wait till you guys hear these volcano numbers it's insane. June 25th to July 1st volcanic eruption in Indonesia, minor ashfall. So we're just looking at they actually have clove plantations out there which is interesting. So coconut and clove is grown in that area so they're they're watching that. Tornado EF2 and an EF1 hit Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Providence, Rhode Island. Unfortunately two

people lost their life. 300,000 people were without damage. The EF2 was near New Alexandria, Pennsylvania and two EF1 tornadoes came down in Providence area and then unfortunately we had that loss of life from that event. June 28th to July 5th we had wildfire events out in California. It's getting hot and dry and guys just because like you're not in the area this year if go back and watch the wildfire episode because everybody needs to think about it this year there's gonna be so much debris that is being created by these storms right and it is just fuel fuel fuel fuel so be on alert for a wildfire this year

They had the wolf fire 2,400 acres 30% contained juniper fire 689 acres 30% contained the lake fire 485 acres 25% contained so guys high wildfire. We're back up into a preparedness level of 3 at this time June 28th a 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit in the South Atlantic. It's not around land but it is a deep deep hit onto our planet. Usually we get other earthquakes that come out from those events so we're gonna stay heads up. June 28 to 29, EF2 tornado, EF3 tornado South Dakota and southern Minnesota. Significant crop damage from those events. Two people were injured. The EF3 hit near Clear Lake, South Dakota,

destroyed a home there. Five tornadoes including an EF2 near Altmont, the EF3 near Clear Lake, EF2 in Codota, South Dakota. Sorry if I just slaughter your town name, by the way. Like try and know them all and live in Texas. Like you think you got it in Texas and you're wrong. They say it totally different. June 28th to 29th, tropical storm Berry off the Bay of Campeche, Mexico. Two people died in that one flooding in Quan, Quan, Kana, Roo. I know I killed that one. Um, maize crops hit fruit crops hit from that event and it is just active out there in the Pacific

right now so heads up everybody. June 29th 2025 hurricane Flossie supposed to be a cat 4 storm in the eastern Pacific near Mexico again. No confirmed deaths from that event. It was minimal offshore storm that really kind of petered out and turned second major hurricane of the year, though. July 30th, the fifth, another earthquake swarm. This one is over by India.

So we had Pakistan hit with that earthquake swarm. We have Japan hitting with that earthquake storm. Now we have India hitting with the earthquake storm. So we have a lot of stress going on right now, I'm watching these swarms because It's usually a precursor when things start moving like that. It could just be releasing energy We don't see something big afterwards, but it can be that like settling before it actually moves Impact on coconut rice farming impact on coconut rice farming July 1st to 5th we're into July now wildfires the Bird River fire the Red Earth East complex the Red Lake 12 fire in

Manitoba Alberto and Ontario Canada so the north part of the United States can start looking forward to seeing smoke again I know my dad was getting it up there in Michigan. No confirmed deaths from the wildfires, but definitely damage to graze land, potential crop damage out there. The bird fire and that they go in hectares, so 226 hectares on that fire. Red Lake was 195,000 hectares. That one's crazy. All of those fires are out of control. There's no contamination on or no. Thank you. No contaminant. No, there's a lot of contamination. Yeah. Yeah. And when you say numbers like that, I mean, 18,289 hectares out of control. That's like, yeah, and 195,

that's like 300,000 acres on fire right now there. So you're definitely gonna be seeing some smoke up north. July 2nd and 3rd, Corona Hole Stream, a Jiwang Geomagnetic Storm hit. This one caused the G1 storm. Solar speeds peaking out on that, but no radio blackouts, that kind of thing. Earthquake in Tibet and China, that was a 6.8. Pretty big quake there.

They need to be aware of aftershocks potentially coming. July 3rd to 5th, this is the Texas Hill country flooding horrible loss of life there catastrophic event damage to obviously the ranches and the loss of property the devastation of the area just insanity I really encourage you guys to help out if you can. July 3rd to the 5th flooding in China. 5 deaths, 3 missing. You know that was a pretty serious event if we're getting that kind of news out of China. Severe damage to rice and wheat crops in the region.

A red alert has been issued. And they are evacuating people from that event. That's still ongoing. July 3rd, we had another solar eruption. It is not earth facing. July 4th, tropical storm Chantelle hit in the Atlantic coast, southern United States. No confirms death, minimal impact, minor flooding from that event, very short-lived as well. Seems like they're just kind of getting revved up. July 4th, there was a 6.0 earthquake in the South Atlantic Ocean near Chile, again, another deep sea event. We keep our eyes on those because those have a ripple effect July 4th 6.3 hits Tonga again another deep quake. That's three within just a few weeks there

So definitely we have to stay vigilant because wait till you see these That's the volcano numbers July 4th tornado event tornado event, EF2 hit, we're in China. Very, very rare. Right? I know. It's just the same kind of us, but they usually, they don't have the crosswind section that we get here in the United States

to really pump out those tornadoes. So they don't usually have tornado events. So it is very rare, but we had one there. July 4th to 5th wildfires in Greece and Turkey, likely damaging to the olive groves, grazing lands. It's heat wave fueled, so it's definitely because it's so hot over there. Earthquake, a 4.0 in the Dominican Republics that area has been

taking more earthquakes no impacts from that they're kind of used to seeing that type of earthquake activity. Now for the volcano numbers I know you guys all the way in front of the volcano numbers. I'm gonna get back over here and just check out our chat. Alrighty, so very, very, I've been doing this for years recording these volcanoes. I used to do it weekly, now I'm doing it monthly. So rarely do I see a major eruption. I think the last one was when a nate crackatow, that's the child of Toa erupted for the first time since it's been building back up. They put it up as a major eruption. They put one up for today.

It's Lua Toby in Flores, Indonesia. It is having a major eruption. That's your 10,000 foot ash plume going up there. Oh no it was Tongo. When Tongo was erupting. That's when I saw the major eruption. So this is a pretty big event going on right now. Then we have 38 volcanoes actively erupting. 40, 40 showing minor activity. 25 showing unrest. So you guys are like, oh, what does that mean? Does that mean anything?

104 volcanoes active on our planet right now. I've been recording for like four years now, the volcano numbers, and I've never seen them that high, ever, to have, you know, 39 actively erupting with 40 showing minor activity, backing it up with the 25 at unrest. Off the chain. It's crazy. I don't- we gotta just keep an eye on it. I thought like, we saw it tick up. We saw it tick up to like 98, 99. This has been months long of like the uptick, right? And I was like,

oh, we're finally at 100. That's something special. Now we're at 104 earthquakes showing activity on the planet. That's, that's just interesting. You know, it's on the move. And with the pole shift, the interior of our planet spinning faster inside our days are actually going quicker but it's like microseconds you'd never notice it oh I feel it do yeah where's the time go I've seen that every day now I mean we can slow back down that'd be fine but you can bet our magnetics and the minerals in that know what's going on so interesting okay so quick quick geeking out on it earthquakes 2.0 and above for May we capped out with 18,977 earthquakes for the month that actually came down from the month before that and

in June we actually down ticked again so even though the volcanoes are still up they're letting off all the pressure yeah yeah we actually down ticked an earthquake activity again till 18,881 the in May there were 16 quakes that were 6.0 or bigger and in June there was only six. Hey that's one of those numbers you could read either way. Starts with a 1. But yeah, so July so far we've got the one quake that's a 6.0. We're just in the very beginning, about 30 quakes that are the 5.0. It'll be interesting to see what our numbers look like this month.

As far as wildfire preparedness in the United States, like I said, this year, you guys got to be on it. I don't care where you are. There's so much fuel down. We're at a preparedness level. We have seven we're at a preparedness level three, which means we're not on super high alert, but we're getting there. Seven new large active fires, 81 total for a total of 4006 462,144 acres only one of those fires is contained out of 88 one is contained. Alaska is number one on our list. They have 59 active fires for a total of 261,000 acres.

None of those fires are contained. None of those fires are contained. California's number two on the list with six active fires 74,000 223 acres three new ones, but I've been really Proud of the way, California is throwing down on the fires this year So that it's hoping to keep the numbers down. Let's just hope they can keep that up New Mexico, wildfires, there's three burning, 49,000 acres, and then Utah's coming in on number four with one fire, 34,942 acres.

So there you go, changing earth news. Hey, I looked up your, the the the the the the the the the the most deadly four per billion gun homicides in

America. See, you're more likely to get killed. Die without a without a um air conditioner. Yeah. Then you are from gun activity here. Yeah, we'll see that stat called out on some of the main channels. Uh huh.

Why don't you not worry about our guns and go buy them some AC. Right? Put some of your attention in over there. Who would have thought? I know man. It's crazy. It's crazy. Change in Earth. Change in Earth. You just don't know. You don't know. Gotta be ready. Gotta be prepared. Alrighty so man, prayers like I said to everybody over in Texas and honestly, everybody's sorry rebuilding from all these disasters. You know, my worst fear is that we have a series of catastrophic disasters. That's across the whole.

across the whole United States right we get hit multiple areas all at once that's when we're in big trouble so we need to just stay vigilant stay prepared prepared communities will be able to help each other out all right well guys thank you for coming out everybody being so active in the chat that's always so much fun that's why I decided to get back on doing the live shows I missed you guys You can come over if you're listening to my my show recorded you can come over to Prepper broadcasting network over on YouTube Facebook or an X and we're live casting the first Sunday of every

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