The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Tsumani's of the Past and Future, Virgis Ch 30

Episode Date: December 17, 2023

Discovering tsunamis of the past and how to prepare for those coming in the future. Chapter 30 of the novel Virgis.

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. Chapter 30. I was wondering if you guys found something else to do, Al said as the men entered town. We wouldn't have missed this for the world. Here's our stew, Monroe told him, looking across the faces in the crowd. You got someplace we can be useful, Cole wondered. Come on, I think they're lacking manpower at the tomato canning station, Al told him. Perfect, Cole smiled, knowing he had the knowledge to help.

Who you looking for, Monroe? Chappy teased, watching his friend search the crowd. Al smiled at the men. She's over there putting lids on jars. Then lead the way, Monroe agreed. Cole froze as they approached the grocery store they used as a community center. He listened carefully to the sound in the distance. Knowing the feeling, he instructed, make sure these people are safe. Then the rumbling began. Everyone cowered looking for a safe spot to ride out the quake,

but Ginger insisted, secure the jars. She knew if they broke, the community would be in serious jeopardy. Get out of the building, Cole insisted, ushering everyone out as the walls began to crack. Monroe ran to Ginger. Let's get them stowed and get out of here. Better to lose the jars than your life. We can't lose our food, she insisted, knowing the odds of survival without the supplies. Come on, Ginger, we have to go, Monroe urged as the earthquake intensified. Fighting against the movement, Monroe led her out the door. Everyone gathered in front of the building, watching the town crumble around them. Chappy pointed out at the horizon.

Look out towards the horizon. Look out towards the valley, Virgis. Is that water? Cole watched a colossal wave clearing the land in the distance. Oh, crap. Everyone get to high ground, Cole commanded. He grabbed the arms of two elderly women, gently assisting them to the end of town where the bank building stood.

It was the highest point in the town's only chance of survival. Turning to Chappie, he insisted, we have to get the supplies out of my house. It can't make it that far, right, sir? Chappie asked. If it does, we'd lose it all, Cole countered. Let's go then, Chappie declared. Come on, Monroe, Cole insisted, running back towards his home. Chappie brought the truck around and they worked quickly the people of the community scrambled to save all they could their chatter echoed in the distance as a massive shaking began to rock the vehicle to and fro the noise of panic erupted from town as one of the gas lines broke and a building exploded we gotta move how high is the water coming up, Cole asked.

It's taking the west end of town, Chappie commented. How many trips, Monroe? If we pack everything tight enough, this one and one more, we should have all the supplies cleared. You think the community center will hold, Chappie asked. It's the tallest building in town on the highest point, Cole responded.

You didn't answer the question, Chappie asked. It's the tallest building in town on the highest point, Cole responded. You didn't answer the question, Chappie challenged. Cole looked at him concerned. It's our best bet. As soon as the truck is loaded, get the supplies over there. Monroe and I will stage the last load so we're ready when you get back. I'll be back as fast as I can, Chappie assured him, hopping in the driver's seat. As they turned to go back in the house, the men looked up, hearing the sound of another truck approaching. Heard you guys could use a hand. We're done at the Wilson's, Al informed them. Cole smiled widely at the man's arrival. We sure could. We got one more load. I'll stay and help. We'll all get there faster, Chappie volunteered. Form an assembly line. We'll make quick work of this, Monroe assured them. As they moved the boxes, Cole asked Al,

did anyone have news of Kingman? If the water is already on our doorstep, that town can't be doing well. Why didn't anyone warn them? National triage. What's that now? National triage. The feds are deciding who and what they can save, Monroe interjected.

And what they can't, Chappie added. Guess a city in the desert ain't worth much, Al noted. They're already invested in one of those, Cole agreed. Suppose they'll come round up refugees to ship to Vegas, Monroe speculated. Hell, I'll walk there myself. I'm not sure what will be left after this, Al admitted sadly. Not much if we don't get a move on, Chappie added. That's the last of it, Monroe declared. They left, closing the door. Cole stood there for a moment, staring sadly at

his home. Come on, Virgis, we have to go, Chappie encouraged him. I know. I'm coming. He slowly left, climbing into the driver's seat of his truck. He started the vehicle and pulled away. What will we do, guys? If I lose my home, we're all refugees. You told Dolores the Badlands were going to be under Merc control, and if she could survive, she could stay, Monroe commented. Yeah, so? Cole wondered how that was relevant now. So we survive and help as many others do that as possible. We wait out this flood, see where the chips fall, and hop on the game board, Monroe offered. Or we go back. McClintock will fight for your position. We go back and do our job, Chappie suggested. The problem is, Chappie, our job would be rounding up people like us.

I'm not sure I can be a part of that. But for now, Monroe is right. We got to wait this out. Life is about to change, Cole confirmed. Hello and welcome back to the Changing Earth podcast. Hello and welcome back to the Changing Earth podcast. This is episode number 428, season 15, episode 30. Happy Sunday, everyone. Hey, Chin, what's up? Hey, Chin's up. So is this episode going to be sponsored by Tiger Balm yes it sure is oh my gosh now the best is a tens unit like the little electric things that saves me from so much advil it's not even funny so chin's comments because he just threw his back out a little bit and i decided to run a ninja warrior course yesterday and I ain't 20 no more. Sucks. Yeah, the upper body is a little tough.

The upper body is just not there. Yeah, mine's like, dude, I got this all day long. Body's like, no, no, no, no. We've done that already. On to the next thing. I was going across that cargo net. If you don't slow down, I that already. On to the next thing. I was going across the cargo net. If you don't slow down, I'll slow you down. Yeah, exactly.

I was going across the cargo net, and you have to turn to go the other way to get up to the platform, and my leg got stuck in there. So I'm trying to get myself untwisted so I'm not hanging like a moron from my ankle. It just toasted me. How did that work out? I fell into the foam pit. And like I said, the foam pit was like three times harder to get through than you can imagine because it's so deep. That'd be fun.

Yeah. Yeah, Fletcher did pretty decent. He's all long and lanky and skinny. I hit him pretty good. But yeah. I was like, I have a whole new respect for those people now. Before, I'm like, come on. What's wrong with you?

Now I'm like, he's going to do what? We love that show. yeah american ninja whatever that show american ninja warrior yeah i love yeah yeah that's good that's why i say like i have a whole new respect now man i'm like that stuff is tough like on this one they take like a candy cane and they swing it's like hooked in a in a circle they swing have to unhook it and then hook it into another one and then land on a car I'm like yeah that I see them do it with rings and bars like a a bar where they go up like a ladder kind of thing. Yeah, the salmon ladder. Yeah.

Yeah. Uh-huh. Yes. That's crazy. So anyway, more work needed on my upper body. And then my suggestion to you was when you got to help out moving boxes this weekend, that's just crazy time as well. Yeah.

I twist my back on Friday, so I've been resting up because I have to help a friend move tomorrow. Oh, my gosh. I would definitely put a back brace on. I'm not a fan of wearing those all the time because they will make you weak. But in a situation like this where you're already yeah kind of on edge um yeah i would say definitely put one on if i was you well that's what happens because i wasn't on the mountain doing stuff i was just hanging out at mom's yep bonbons brock threw his back out one time picking up a bottle off the floor when Chris, when Fletcher was little.

Yeah. And we were going to hockey camp like a week later. We did a, he went into the chiropractor and like intensive chiropractic and he had him going for, for hockey camp. Yeah. So I was,

we were another trip down. Maybe it's visiting my mother. That does it. Another trip down to my mother that does it to me. Another trip down to my mom. It's a stress. I went to pick up my dog off the ground. And it's not like you're Ragnar. My dog's like 10 pounds of fur, right?

Fluff, uh-huh. I picked her up and I threw out my back and I couldn't get off the floor. They're all like, what's wrong with you? I'm like, you know know it's hard to breathe because every the wrong movement it like shouldn't send spiking pain through your back so like just give me a second i'll roll over in a minute and i'll work my sit up off the ground the back's the worst because it's like your central point so like everything you know it's not like when your arms hurt or something you just you know kind of put one on a shelf unless it's your primary.

Yeah, it's like, what do you do? It's like. Right. It's core. You try to find that, like, no pain zone. And the minute you move, it's like. That's why we all got to stay physically fit because, you know, tough life. And then like, OK, say you had to get your food and your water and everything for tomorrow

you know and why you need a community i'm gonna say i've had a lot less aches and pains since moving to the homestead lifestyle right that i had in the office lifestyle yeah because you just work more it's just yeah just do it so, just doing stuff. I mean, I haven't really worked out that hard, but I've worked. I mean, just feeding animals and moving, building supplies and just doing stuff. At a jujitsu class, the girls would be like, gosh, you're so strong, dude. I'm like, farm strong. You know, you're just carrying buckets around, carrying feed bags, doing firewood, you know, all of that makes a difference. It's like every movement.

It's not just like lifting a barbell, rotating, you know, the same up and down. It's like all kinds of twists and a turning. Although I would encourage you to still do some lifting up and down because, you know, it's important to keep all those stabilizer muscles in good shape. All right. So there's my rant on physical fitness. We both got a little cooked today. That's funny. Oh, my goodness.

Yeah, same day. And then even Fletcher's like, oh, I haven't done anything in so long. I'm like, yeah, lazy butt. Yeah, suck it up. Yeah. Wait till you get to be Chin's age, Fletcher. Yeah, put like 23 years on yourself and then come talk to me, okay?

I'm like, now I know why there were no other adults out there. So, all righty. Now we got a little bit of a cold going around as well. so alrighty now we got a little bit of a cold going around as well yeah Christian wasn't feeling very well today he's had a little bit of a fever last night so yay tis the season

yep um let's see what we got going so next big appearance for Sarah is in April. I will be out at the Patriot Conference in Illinois. That's the last weekend of April. Hopefully I'm going to get a Texas class together for my self-defense and anti-kidnapping

and sexual assault classes between now and then. So I'll keep you posted on that. I'm getting everything in line so that, you know, you got to be a prepared person, right? So I got to worry about insurance and all that kind of stuff. So I'm getting all those ducks in a line and should be able to roll that out for some of the locals here in Texas pretty soon. that out for um some of the locals here in texas uh pretty soon uh episode nine changing earth audio drama is now playing over on the website over at your favorite podcast platform so check it out um we're just gonna come ripping right into the end of this series it's it's all good stuff and uh um epic upgrades going on with the audio

on it so i hope you enjoy that um that brings us into virgus so we had our funny chapter last week i actually love that chapter so much the water it's such a good like survival lesson and funny this two chapter yeah yeah the monroe special um so this week disaster strike so another earthquake um and we have the tsunami that comes in so that brought us right into the topic for today, which is tsunami risk. So what was the statistic that you found? A third of our population lives within 60 miles of the ocean. A third of the human population yeah yeah that's

just crazy you know that's starting to work opposite here in the united states because everybody's getting the heck out of those states right now they're like yeah we're not living there like 40 percent of the population of the united States lives in counties directly on the coastline. Yeah, no. Oh, well, I don't know. I don't know how close I am to, like, the Gulf of Mexico from here. Google map it. You can do a little distance calculation as the crow flies.

Probably pretty close myself. I might fall within that. Oh, my gosh. I'm going to freak myself out. 39%. Can you outrun a column of water? No. How many mountains are between you and the coastline?

None. Exactly. I'm in Texas, dude. You got mountains out there. Oh, that's true. There might be actually one set of mountains. Yeah. I mean, it's not like a lot, but.

Yeah, there might be. Okay, I'm going to put golf in Mexico. You guys are with me on my little adventure here. I got to find out. I know. Push pin in and do the measurement. Probably like

five hours is my closest. Oh, that's good. Yeah, five hours for me to get to the coast. Say 300 miles for me to get to the coast. That's pretty good.

Phil is definitely a lot closer. Yeah. I've got to have a lot of water i've got over a thousand foot of elevation to get up to me so yeah see garden girl says no real mountains here that's because we're used to we both lived in the sierra nevadas in california so we're like yeah those aren't mountains but i've heard there's some down south even by this town called georgetown which is kind of funny because that was one of the towns uh well i think there's a georgetown in every state really i think so i mean i look at a lot of maps because

we do a lot of road trips and a lot of the states have a Georgetown in it so anyway we just stopped by AAA and re-upped all of our maps oh love it like all the surrounding state maps just to have them in the car oh yeah I've got a my state farm one but it's like falling apart

because I used it for so much research for my books so I had something tangible in my hand. Yeah, I have a road atlas, but I get individual maps too because there's even more detail. Yeah, for each state. Look at you go, Hugo. Indiana

Jones over there. Hey, I got a whip. Right, you do. You got a red one. Didn't I give you a red one? Yeah, red and black. Yeah. I got a blue one.

And then I have my one from Australia as well. That's kangaroo leather. Yeah. That one's huge, though. Okay, squirrel. So tsunami is a giant ocean wave that comes ashore it's usually caused by a submarine earthquake underwater or coastal landslide or a volcanic eruption so like when La Palma was in danger of erupting we're really worried about a tsunami on the east coast because that would push the wave if that land fell in there

it would push the wave towards the shore so that's basically how our tsunamis work and they get so powerful because basically the fast water fast moving water starts stacking on top of the slow moving water which is why like we were talking in the green room they don't just count the head of the tsunami they count the whole column and that's insane what power yeah that's did you have a number on that i can't remember if you had a number on that on what the no i think but they were just saying how if there's more power because it's the entire column of water it's not just like a surface wave. Right.

Yeah. Yeah. So they just start pushing in. When a tsunami is going to happen, typically the water will pull away from the beach ahead of time. So if you're ever sitting on the beach and you see that water start pulling away get the heck out of there yeah not a time to start hunting for shells my husband had me watch this movie this morning called uh like moon moon i don't know it's like moon collision or something maybe if you guys in the chat know what i'm talking about um anyway it's pretty good it was about like how the moon

is actually like an alien ship and this ai technology was like gonna crash the moon into earth and i had to like figure it out moonfall i think it's called moonfall it was actually pretty good it had some like good um from a earth geeks point of view you know like good cinematography of what would happen uh with the water like just going up into the air because of gravity and stuff. So that was pretty neat. Check it out. Yeah, moonfall. Okay, so eight tallest tsunamis ever recorded.

We're going to start at number eight. So that was Carrotd in greenland that was a 295 foot wave in 2017 that's that's number eight yeah that's eight on the list right right seven was um and if okay if you think of a building's story, it's about 10 feet or so. Right. So that's like 25, 30 stories tall. It's gigantic. It's huge.

I mean... Yeah, if that hits your city, I mean, just goodbye. Ambon Island, Indonesia, they had a 328-foot wave. So yeah, if that hits your city, I mean, just goodbye. Ambon Island, Indonesia, they had a 328 foot wave in 1674. Latua Bay, Alaska. This is on the list three times. So I'm not sure I'd want to live in this place at all. And I'm sorry if you do live there. Maybe you should choose a different space.

But Latuya Bay, Alaska. I'm still on Google Maps. I'm going to look it up. They had a 394-foot wave in 1853. A 490-foot wave in 1936. There's another one coming. I'm not going to bring it in yet. Number four on the list, Icy Bay, Alaska.

A 633-foot wave in 2015. 600. Vajont Dam, Italy. 771 foot wave 1960 now that one was a reservoir induced earthquake uh that caused that tsunami to happen is that not insanity like the how do you measure this height building the dam i know that's what i'm wondering because number two on the list was when mount st helens erupted and the landslide hit spirit lake it caused the 820 foot wave in 1980 in the lake so like if you think that you're safe. It's like all the water just got displaced. Yeah. I mean, not just displaced.

Like, all the water got stood up on end. Yeah. And it caused, like, these mud rivers to just start flowing. And. I remember that. Yeah. A lot of people died just getting buried in the mud. All the ash flow and mud and everything else.

Mm-hmm. Okay. I'm looking this up. Latuya Bay. What's Latuya? Gulf of Alaska. Okay, so it's like a lot more

I thought it'd be like on the edge of Alaska by the Aleutian Islands. And it's not, it's more like snuggled up by British Columbia. Oh, okay. I'll share it on the,

on chat for everybody. Yeah. That's crazy. Okay. There you go. All right. So number two was Mount St. st helens washington and then number one is latuya bay again 1720 full wave in 1958 and that one i've heard stories of like um whenever you watch right earthquake documentaries, this one dude was sitting on the

pier when it happened, and three of his friends were just washed right away and killed from it. See what this is? It's a big funnel. Mm-hmm. I remember watching a documentary on

tsunamis. And it was talking, one of the events was, I forget, it was like Greenland, Iceland, one of those. And it was a bay like this. And at the mouth of the bay or across from the mouth of the bay was a big iceberg that would drop chunks of ice and create waves that went up oh uh-huh yeah and since it was funneled as it it focused the energy of the wave to you know shorter and then the depth of the water got shorter and shorter so even more intense yeah because it can't spread out then at that yeah. Yep. So it's like when you put your finger over a hose, when it's just coming out, it just blah. But as you put your thumb over the end of the hose, it makes it stronger stream.

Mm-hmm. Now, that's definitely what it's doing is funneling in there. Yeah. Yeah, it funnels in there, and it just gets pinched as it goes down the bay. But I also found it interesting as far as the dams and the lakes. Because we're thinking like, oh, well, I'm not near any of that. You know, that would never happen. Well, it could happen off a lake.

It can happen if a dam breaks. You got, you know, that huge wave coming right down at you. So the deadliest tsunamis are not necessarily the biggest tsunamis yeah um san san riku japan japan's on here a lot um that one happened in 1896 did 26 26 000 people died in that event hondo japan 1826 27 000 dead in that one um and you see like japan's older numbers too they definitely uptick their warning system because 1707 30 dead um Nankaito. Nankaito again, 36,000 in 1883. When Krakatoa erupted in 1883, there was 36,000 people that died because of that event. South China Sea in Taiwan, 40,000 people dead in 1982. In Arica, Peru, it's now Chile, but it was peru in 1868 70 000 people dead in that event italy messina italy 80 000 people dead and then there's a tie for second portugal um there's a

tsunami that hit portugal morocco ireland and the uk all at the same time 100 000 people dead it was in 1755 approximately 1.5 million dollars in damages just in portugal from that event and then uh ancient greece the the tsunami that took out the islands of crate and santorini um 100 000 people dead because basically the islands just got wiped out um that was in 1645 and then the one that happened in the indian ocean um on the um in sumatra that was 300 000 people dead that one happened in 2004 10 billion dollars in. And the most costly tsunami that I could find is the one that happened March 2011 in Japan. And that was $23.5 billion in damage from one tsunami. So extreme events, lots of loss of life,

really, really expensive. Tsunamis. They've been coming out with all kinds of reports about Washington and being so vulnerable to tsunami damage because of the same kind of thing. It's funneled in, right? Yep. Those bays. There's like the Crescent Bay, too, on the coast of California.

That's really, really susceptible to tsunami activity as well. All right, so future threat. The reality, like I said, any coastal area is really vulnerable. It can happen. Lake, side. But the Ring of Fire Pacific Ocean, Ring of Fire is the most risk

because of the amount of volcanic and earthquake activity. They monitor the activity with buoys. But like you said in the green room, Chin, don't wait yeah yeah because that one that was indonesia or whatever it was in 2004 that killed like over 200 000 people because they didn't have any warning systems. Yeah.

Yeah, they just didn't know it was coming at all. People were like running out into the ocean when the ocean was peeling back. They were like, oh, it's so cool. Well, you know. Have you ever got caught like a rip current in the ocean? No. Because I don't. Scrubs you and tumbles you away on? No. grew up in michigan with lots and lots of great lakes and uh i don't really care for the ocean so

yeah i've had so many nightmares about the ocean look at silver streaks there we need tsunami control more than gun control right that's yeah We were talking about that in the green room, about like there's so many more things that are very, very important for us to be, you know, thinking about and spending money on as a society that we're not doing right now. My son was a member of the Civil Air Patrol for a while, and the civil services used to be so much bigger for disaster prep than they are right now um it's crazy that it really got like a bad rap thanks history channel

you know everything's good a bad rap that should be good yeah okay so tsunami.gov there there's some good places to go and find alerts for your area um they probably have like apps and things like that as well i wasn't able to find any online but i'm sure they're out there if you looked it up in your app store weather.gov has weather.gov backslash tsunami ready they have community preparedness programs so that if you are one of those coastal communities you you first like identify the hazards in your area and then you put signs up and then you have clearly marked evacuation routes and education, both in your community and your schools, regarding tsunamis and how to get to high ground and do those things. So I always love prepared communities. So I know it's like a government program, but I got to stand behind that one because preparing your community is never a bad thing, right?

And translate over to personal preps as well. So knowing your hazard zones, right? I live by this lake. I live by this body of water. It could be a potential threat, even as much as you would hope not. You never know. Know multiple routes to get to high ground and practice them.

Don't just be like, oh, I got them all drawn on my map. I'm sure I'll use it one day. You know, like actually drive it so you know like, oh, this road doesn't actually go through. Even sometimes on Google, you can't

tell and the other day because i research all my stuff for uh changing earth there was like a google reroute that was just like taking people out to the middle of the desert and leaving them out there because they'd run out of gas and stuff yeah yeah so um you know, do your homework, do your research on that stuff. Multiple routes, do the practice. If you have a medical emergency at this time, where are you going? Right. Is the hospital that you normally go to in the danger zone? Then you probably don't want to go that direction. You know, so. Do you want to fly into the danger zone? No. But if you have a medical emergency, you know, when you're in panic mode, things shut down, you go into muscle memory,

and you're like, this is where I go when emergency strikes. But you've got to make sure that you can go, you know, to a safe hospital that might be in another town or something like that. Yeah, Garden Girl says got to find some high ground around here. It's so true. So my thought was, because I'm going to talk about this later with suspicious observers, has kind of figured out, like, put one of those blow up rafts in the attic with an axe up there and then if anything ever happened like you could just go through your attic boom and your little raft it's probably you gotta have your your axe up there yeah right uh-huh they make like those ocean blow-up rafts

that have like the top on them so maybe it would work like a bobber if you had to like through the water that's just a fictional author brain going off um and know where to monitor your alerts you should have an noaa the noah weather radio already it's going to be on there so you should have one of those ready to go anyhow um If you don't have a Baofeng, you should probably get a hold of one of those at the Bear Min. Me, the pot calling the kettle black. But they do work. And if you, like, don't mind shopping on Timu, even though I don't ever because it's directly funding China. Yeah, I don't mind shopping on Timu even though I don't ever because it's directly

funded in China. I don't. You can get like they do. I'm sure. I mean everybody tracks you but. You can get like 15 Baofangs for like 10 bucks.

It's awesome. They're all over the YouTube. I'm not even close to that. I'm not touching it. $10. It's awesome. They're all over the YouTube. I'm not even close to that. I'm not touching it. I know. Each their own. I had ordered pants from there before I researched the company. Just because I like the pants.

Yeah, because they're dirty. Yeah. I was like, no way. Like $5. And they're nice. I mean, they're great summer pants and everything. And then I was like, oh,, like five bucks. And they're nice. I mean, they're great summer pants and everything. And then I was like, oh, I'd rather shop Amazon. Yeah, this is like directly China trying to be our new Amazon

so we can directly fund China. No, I'm good. Nice. She's got her life jackets in the attic. I love it i don't have any life jackets okay um suspicious observers head on over there check out his catastrophe cycle the video entitled the oceans from his playlist and there's a good explanation of what he kind of predicts there as far as what's going on there's many other videos um that he has of this as well that's just

one that um has a pretty good summary on it and if you need further explanation watch some of his previous videos because um you have to just kind of start watching ben's content to really get educated enough to understand like 85 percent of what he's talking about you know he's super super intelligent so um your eyes open yeah no fear just takes a little time to uh to watch him and start understanding all this stuff so basically with the pole switch there's a significant risk of as our planet actually moves and slides because of the poles moving that the water would like just start slowly coming up onto one of the other continents but as it does that it's going to hit resistance and there's also um so we've humans have never been alive and recorded one of these cyclical events before last one was

6 000 years before that they're pretty much on a 6 000 year cycle the only place we have the record of it is in the ground and then like stories like noah's flood and things like that so as it comes up then the ocean actually sloshes back so on the other side it can be a higher wave than what was initially done on the one side, because as it sloshes back, you know, it's moving faster, it's going to be bigger. The bonus there is that you would have a time lead on it. So let's say that, you know, it started coming up on the coast of California, the ocean level just started slowly, slowly, slowly encroachingaching kind of like what's in my in my later books if you guys read that um i have this event actually happen and so the other side of the world's

going to be losing that ocean you know that that edge as that water moves and then it sloshes back towards the other side and it can be really violent on that side so interesting theories and it's just a crazy time to live through when things like this start shaking up because it's happening whether we want to admit it or not it's happening to our planet and uh so it's just going to be an interesting time to be alive to see what happens with that and you know make yourself right with uh with whoever you believe in so that because it's going to be like a safe fun time um first also that video so if you're looking, well, what's going to happen in my location? That video will tell you.

But he also has another video of like the safest places to be when the disaster hits. And so those are a couple of great videos to watch if you're like, well, what's going to specifically happen to where I'm living right now? It doesn't look too awesome for North America. i'm just saying like the he predicts the wave coming over the appalachians so um and then coming up through the gulf of mexico and all that and if you've ever seen edgar casey's uh his prophecies and what he predicted that the united states would look like it's basically what i use as the model for the world in my books. And it's an interesting flood map, so you can check that out as well. And then, you know, of course, oh, I get all kinds of stuff from feedback from people.

And they're like, oh, well, you know, this area is way higher than that area. And so your map doesn't make sense because like I made the map or something, but whatever, you know, because of where the elevation of the land is. Well, the whole theory bases itself on a crustal displacement where the continents are actually freed from the bottoms. They're kind of floating around. And it gives the ability for land masses to just go up and down. And even without that crustal displacement, you know, when the New Madrid earthquake happened, there was some areas that went up two stories, like as high as a two-story building, just in a matter of five minutes, that literally made the Mississippi run backwards.

So, you know, I know people just are keyboard warriors and saying their thing and doing their thing. But for you to not recognize that there's been events like that that have happened in the past, it could rapidly change. It doesn't have to happen millions over millions of years. That's kind of, you kind of my take on it. Most scientists are like, oh, well, it happens slowly. Does it? Or can we have these rapid events?

Because more often than not, the ice and the core samples and everything show a rapid change. There's my tinfoil hat section of tsunamis for you. I'm such an Earth geek. You are. I know. I'm like, it's just so cool. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

They thought it was the end of the world. And that was just the, I mean, it was like months of earthquakes in New Madrid. Silver Streak had popped up on chat. It was just months of earthquakes. If that happened now, it'd be crazy. We just haven't seen anything like that. We've been so blessed to have such a stable place to live that we kind of forgot that these things happen so gotta know our planet and then the arrogance of oh well we caused everything to happen no we didn't you know

it was just uvs yeah uh you know four big volcanoes can do more you know atmospheric damage than we've done in like five minutes than all of human existence so um you know i'm not i'm not for polluting the planet obviously i love mother earth i'm happy to be here. And I want to take care of our land and work with it. But I think it's pretty darn arrogant to be like, oh, well, it's all humans' fault. Like, we're just on a rock, you know. No, not the case. Ah, I love tsunami talk. I know, this was like my show.

Like, yeah, tsunamis tsunamis baby here we go that's why i don't live by the ocean though and that's why i don't take much stock in like a lot of the elites are choosing like hawaii to set up their bunkers new zealand i'm like you want to catch me dead on an. I want to be like in the middle of a continent, dude. And there was a time like all of Nevada was underwater, you know. So obviously it's happened before. All right. On that note, you want to just jump in to Changing Earth News?

Play that funky music. Will do. All right. Hold on. I've got so many buttons. I've got the chat room going. I've got to look at my maps. Okay.

Here we go. Funky music. All right. Changing Earth News. News. News. all right change your news news news as soon as i win the lotto i'll be able to have like a switchboard operator for me every time i go on be like taking care of me making sure that i got cool music don't say anything too like dumb you just turn me off for a minute boop already geomagnetic storm in effect right now a couple days ago we had an x-class flare it was a big flare um but it was on the departing limb of the sun it's just a glancing blow at us it's not gonna be anything scary but we have had that increased uh geo storm all day so it just comes with those associated health risks and maybe your cognitive abilities are a little bit lowered that type of

thing um the auroras should be pretty good we'll'll see what they look like, how bad the earth takes it. But we did have that going on. It's been pretty quiet up there right now. I don't know when we're supposed to have our next major uptick. Ben hasn't mentioned it in a little bit. I think it might be February. So, yeah, they even mentioned that. I've been noticing more and more that they have been putting up solar news on the mainstream news like on i have to look at msn news or whatever of my work you know that like the main

screen or whatever is that um i've seen it up on yahoo they're like oh it could be a cannibal cme and i'm like you call us the fear mongers like whoever calls it a cannibal cme and that just sounds wrong and like scary you know so um yeah but they have been putting it more and more up on uh the actual news so that's a good thing we need to bring aware to bring awareness to what's going on. Because that CME could be like, boop, you're done. Just like that. Tomorrow is like, today was your last day to prepare. Thanks, Dave Jones, for putting that idea in my head.

I always think about that now. I'm like, when is today was your last day to prepare? Oh, my gosh. Then I'm like, oh, God's got us. No problem. All right. On December 11th of 2023, there was 450 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger, biggest of which was a 6.1 in Tongapoo. In Nebraska, there was a rare

4.2 earthquake in South Central Nebraska. Now, why this is big news to me is because of the Ogallala Reservoir. So when I wrote, because I learned about the Ogallala and what was happening with it. And it's this big reservoir that stretches from Nebraska into the panhandle of Texas. And I wrote it into my book because sometimes I just get like weird stuff that goes on and I'm like, oh, this would happen, you know? And so I wrote it into my book that it would become the Ogallala Lake rather than the Ogallala Reservoir. And then Chin thought, you thought I was making it up about the Ogallala. And because of the name too. And then, so we did the research on it.

And what was freaky is it's actually made of like limestone and the perfect materials to actually degrade, which is what we didn't want to see. But it is. And so the more water that we remove out of that reservoir for our farm farming and everything, that's our breadbasket of the United States. The more vulnerable it is to actually caving in. So there's that factor going for the Ogallala. And then they started doing all the fracking around it. So now there's fracking-induced earthquakes. I mean, that's just reality.

They take the wastewater and they eject it back into the earth and it causes these earthquakes. Another fucking earthquake. Right? So a 4.2 is pretty legit. That's not like a 1.6 or something. And so when I saw that, that always concerns me because that is definitely Ogallala territory and that would be a crazy crazy crazy day for the United States

there was a 3.8 earthquake in Kingston Jamaica there was a 4.4 earthquake in Fozzybad Afghanistan I don't want to laugh at your name yeah Fozzybad I don't want to live in Fozzybad but like Yeah, Fozzie Man.

I don't want to live in Fozzie Man, but maybe if it was in the U.S., I might want to live there because that's a funny name. On the 10th in Australia, there was a 2,000-kilometer-wide dust storm that engulfed northern Australia. That's just insane. You got to do the math on that for me because you know i suck at conversions on like how long it is in america speak um well yeah huge right a big storm hit the midwest there was flooding in new york connecticut had multiple power outages and And then also, of course, you know, prayers goes out to everybody in Tennessee from the tornadoes that hit last

week. I'm sorry, I'm not laughing at Tennessee, I'm laughing at the chat. There was a story about a seven-month-old child that was actually picked up in the tornado and left in a tree. So that was pretty interesting. Yeah, a little infant. So he survived. He's like the tornado survivor. I talked about the new volcanic island

that formed off of the coast of Japan by Okinawa. And it is still growing in size. A lot of times they just appear and then dissipate. But this one is still growing in size. So it might be a new landmass, you know. Man, I get so much stuff for some of my maps on Pinterest that I'm like, you know. Welcome. I know.

That's why I was, like, laughing. It was interesting timing. Thanks, Garda Girl. Y'all have to be in the chat group because we have way too much. That's what I was going to say. That's exactly what I was going to say. That's exactly what I was going to say. I love having everybody in there. It just makes it so much more dynamic.

And I love being able to have the instant feedback and whatnot. It does give you more to worry about. On the 12th of December, there was 464 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger, biggest of which was a 5.8 in Tonga. There was a 5.2 earthquake in Afghanistan, another one, a 5.5 in Argentina. Melbourne, Australia got 40 millimeters of rain in just over an hour causing flash flooding there.

Maine got hit with a major storm right after in New York. It makes perfect sense. They had flash flooding events there. And then there was also a severe hailstone that hit Timaru, New Zealand, and they had flooding events as well. And on the 13th of December, there was 442 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger bigger biggest of which was a 5.5 in the norwegian sea northern california southern california and south carolina all had earthquakes on the 13th so really both coasts kind of getting kind of getting shaken up a little there was a 5.8 earthquake in mexico city and they've had some subsequent earthquake activity going on there uh cyclone jasper finally made landfall in queensland australia as a category two storm

it brought the heaviest rain to adelaide that they've had in 70 years so they had some flooding event in yobi nigeria there was sand and dust storms. They've been destroying communities and farms and homes. So Nigeria, we're seeing these dust storms. And then still the flooding in Kenya continues. So it's been the same type of pattern. Such extremes within a very small geographical area. Severe rain in gaza so that was interesting for all the people that are displaced there and then since it's all over um when i'm doing my research they're also flooding the um the um hamas the uh tunnels there in g, which I thought was a pretty ingenious little idea.

I guess they did the same thing in Egypt during the Arab Spring, except they flooded them with sewage in Egypt. Nasty, dude. It's a fish. There's no hiding from that. No! No, sir. You've got to get out of there.

On December 14th, there was 390. Oh, you guys, are you noticing how high these earthquake numbers are? Like, this is the first one that's been under 400. So a lot of big earthquake activity over the past week. 395 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger, the biggest of which is a 5.5 in the south pacific ocean south carolina had another 1.6 earthquake and we had a 3.8 earthquake in texas as well that's that part of the north american craton again that's been acting up so usually it hits the california coastline then it'll transfer into that North American craton.

Flooding risks continue from Cyclone Jasper, just hitting northern Australia, northeastern Australia. Merapi, the volcano that erupted and killed the 23 hikers that were on the mountain, it's erupting again. Also, a Krakatau erupted over last week. Just a minor eruption, though. No tsunami threat or anything like that. Florida got hit pretty much all week with pretty heavy rain in and out. Saw some flooding events there. And also in the UK, London got hammered again. Rivers just came up, flooding local areas and then leaving vehicles stranded on the 15th of december there was 407 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger biggest of which was a 5.3

in the south atlantic ocean there was a 4.2 in pakistan and um um more sandstorms in the Canary Islands, but there was also sandstorms on the Mongolian plateau. They were mixed with so much salt that it's literally like stinging, you know, all of your eyes. Like it's not just dust, it's salt dust that is hitting you. Um that's been really hard for all the herders that live on that plateau out there. In the United States, extreme weather is estimated to have brought in a damage toll of $80 billion in losses this year. That is a tall number,

and I don't know how insurance companies are going to keep up with that so the next article that i have for you is of particular interest to me there is a company it's called renko usa you got to check it out for yourself but they have a new building system that's made from a composite of like plastics and um recycled glass and tires stuff like that and they make these lego blocks out of them and build the house with this basically like a lego block system and they can withstand a cat 5 hurricane so um that's cool i'm into learning about new building systems because we were talking about this in the green room.

Just like how long have we been cutting down trees to make sticks and build houses? You know, I mean, it's not working anymore. We're just, we can't afford to keep losing at the rate we are in trying to rebuild. We've got to come up with something better that's going to stand the test of time. We can't have disposable houses, too. There's no way for us to keep up with that.

So on the 16th of December, there was 409 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger, biggest of which was a 5.7 in the North Pacific Ocean. There's been blizzards in Russia all week, leaving heavy snow accumulation in that country. We have a bomb cyclone en route for the northeastern part of the United States and the atmospheric storm coming back and hitting the northwestern part of the United States. So on, thank you, Chin. I was going to put that up in the chat, but I'm mid-swing. Thank you. So today we've had 308 earthquakes that are 2.0 or bigger, biggest of which is a 5.7 in the South Pacific Ocean. I expect to see that

number climb, and especially tomorrow with the earthquake activity but we did have a large corona hole lined up with us for a lot of the week so that really pushed our earthquake numbers there was another 2.6 in Toya Texas and then Florida's getting hit again with another storm so they just haven't been able to to out to get rid of the storms this year. Currently, there are 27 volcanoes erupting. That's down one from the 28 we've been looking at lately. Only 14 show a minor activity. That's a nice low number and only 30 showing unrest.

So that's a nice low number as well. However, I've noticed that the volcanic activity usually follows a couple weeks to even a month behind the earthquake activity. So we're going to have to keep our eye on that number. And then as far as wildfires in the United States, there's a couple of small fires here and there. But we are not reporting any big fires in the United States right now. So, yay. Oh, I remember. We need to talk about the holiday schedule.

So Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve are both falling on a Sunday this year. I'm going to be with my family on Christmas Eve. Sorry, everyone, but I'm celebrating Jesus' birth. And that's just how it is. Love you guys. And with the audio drama going on, we'll definitely be doing like a fun, maybe right after the holidays,

the blooper show and get some folks on. But Christmas Eve is definitely for my family. So we won't have a show Christmas Eve, and that's next week, right? Yeah. That's next, this coming sunday so no show this sunday i know i'm so busy all the time and then um the week after that is actually new year's eve on sunday so that's tentative. There might be a show there and there might not. It just depends if I end up having friends over or not.

So because I'm sure I wouldn't be in any shape for podcasting on that night. So yes, ma'am. Jesus is the reason for the season. And it's actually been a lot of fun this year. We've been reading a chapter of Luke every night, because if you start at the beginning of December, there's 24, 25 chapters in Luke. And so if you read one chapter every night for the month of December, then by the time you get to Christmas Eve, you've had the whole life of Jesus. So it's been really fun to do as a family.

And my son's all like, yeah, it's Bible time, you know, and it's just, it's awesome. Yeah. I mean,

Jesus has done incredible things for, for my family and for, for the world. So, yeah. So we're definitely going to be celebrating Christmas. So Merry Christmas to everybody. We'll have the new audio drama episodes. But we might not see you guys for two weeks here.

I will definitely keep you posted as far as New Year's Eve goes because if we end up not doing anything, I'd love to get on and do a show. And maybe we'll just do a fun show. We'll get everybody in the chat or whatever and just do a fun show instead of worrying about doing a book read and then having a specific topic. Maybe we'll just do questions or I don't know. You guys like that idea? What do you think, chat room?

See what everybody has to say, but you guys can answer that question and let me know. And until next time, we'll see you in a couple of weeks. Merry Christmas, everybody have a happy new year. And until then, remember dream.

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