The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Urban Gardening and Readiness; Virgis 42

Episode Date: April 7, 2024

Join special guest, Gregory Barone, Changing Earth Audio Drama performer as we dive into urban gardening and general readiness. 

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 42. The desert sand whipped through the light of the transport's headlights as Monroe pulled the truck to a stop at the Vegas gate. Good evening, Major Virgis. We weren't expecting you tonight, a federal soldier declared, stepping forward. Just finished a hunt. Figured since we were so far south, we'd stop by for a visit, Cole stated. The soldier looked at him curiously.

Hold on, sir. The soldier walked towards a guard shack and picked up a radio. He doesn't look too happy to see us, Monroe commented. Probably because we're here for supplies, not providing them, Cole suggested. True story, Monroe agreed, watching the soldier approach. Captain Reno says your teams can use the guest quarters, but he wants to see you first thing in the morning,

the soldier directed. Thanks, Cole told him as he opened the gate. Monroe drove the truck inside and directed it toward one of the old hotels. After an early breakfast, Cole stood in front of Captain Paul Areno. Cole could never stand this man. He did his job ruthlessly, and his breath filled the air with a sour stench as he spoke. Major Virgis, we need the supplies, the captain insisted. I'm not sending my fighters into the radiation zone for clothing. Texas is still producing cotton, Cole protested.

Areno shook his head, countering, they want to barter, and we're not negotiating with traders. Cole's face scowled at the captain's response. That's BS. The feds do it for oil all the time. That's different. Why? Cole wondered. Because the fuel isn't for refugees,

but the clothing is, Reno explained. Landowners don't need clothing. Everything they're wearing is produced with the cotton they grow. Anything recovered out there wouldn't be good for much except making sure refugees aren't running around naked. Those people you call refugees create enough food for this town to warrant a trade, Cole defended, sickened by the disgust in Reno's voice. That's not how my superiors see it, Reno explained.

I'm not sending my fighters into dangerous situations because the feds don't want to spend some resources, Cole declared. Fine. Maybe we can use some of our refugee squads. We already feed them iodide like candy, Areno explained. Still disgusted with the disdain Areno had for the refugees, Cole declared. Whatever you think is right, Captain. I don't have the authority to make that call. Just keep that supply list in mind while you're out there, Reno insisted. We will. If you'll excuse me, I have to oversee the supply transfer, Cole declared, eager to be dismissed. Take care, Major Virgis, Reno told him. You too, Captain, Cole replied, exiting through the door. Heading towards the loading docks cole listened to the sound of trucks idling and people loading

boxes major virgis sir private jessup greeted cole as he approached private how's it going cole asked looking at the trucks and the list the young man was carrying the feds are all in a over the amount of salt we need sir jessup informed him yeah Yeah, we need it for Empire. You got it worked out? Monroe did, sir. Is he still over in the office? Yes, sir, Jessup answered, but he paused, hesitating. Finally, he asked, Major Virgis, sir? Yes, Private. I saw Chappie leaving with the last team we encountered. Uh-huh, Cole responded, looking at the list. He knew where the young man's questions would take them, and this was not the right place to have the conversation. Why weren't they put with the others we brought here, and where is Chappie, Jessup wondered.

Shoving the clipboard back at the young man, Cole commanded, keep your voice down, Private. Cole watched Sergeants Bingham and Bennett approach. We'll talk about this later. Private. He insisted before greeting his friends, staff Sergeant Alex Bingham, Sergeant Patrick Bennett. How are you guys getting along these days? Fine major. How about yourself?

Alex responded. No complaints. Cole declared. Honestly, the soldiers looked at him. Curiously. Seriously. Alex wondered. Cole nodded, replying,

doesn't do you much good to look back. Sergeant Bennett nodded as well. I'll second that. You got everything you need? Monroe's got it handled, Cole affirmed. It's good to see you, Major, but if I'm not needed here, I have to report to the captain. Take care, sir, Bennett said, heading off to accomplish an unknown task. Cole thought the man looked stressed and a vein in his forehead looked more bulgy than Cole remembered. Good to see you, Cole told him as he left. Turning to Alex, Cole declared, he seems even more focused than usual. He's put in too many years at the re-education camps. It takes a toll on a man, Alex said, watching Bennett leave. I don't know how he does it, Cole admitted, thinking of how the captain talked about the refugees like they were little more than animals. He believes he is

helping. He believes in the system and thinks he's assisting people so they can survive in it, Alex explained. He's bought and sold, Cole declared. He was a little disappointed. He liked Bennett, but couldn't understand how a man could manipulate another human being so ruthlessly and still feel he was doing the right thing. More like blind loyalty, but damn that man can fight. I'd go into any battle at his side, but damn, that man can fight. I'd go into any battle at his side, and honestly, he has a way with people.

He's convincing, Alex respectfully corrected Cole. Encouraged by Alex's explanation, Cole suggested, maybe he just needs a break. We could plan a trip to Dolores' place. It'd be fun. Take a couple days to pretend the world isn't falling into shit. Alex smiled at the suggestion. I don't know. He used to take time off before all this, but not since. I'll try though. Where's Chappy? I sent him with a load to Colorado,

Cole said quietly. Found some good product? Shaking his head affirmatively, Cole responded, I did. I think that's the last of it, Major. Staff Sergeant Bingham, I wasn't expecting to see you down here, Monroe explained. I had to stop by and see how my favorite fighters in the north were doing, Alex said, teasing Monroe. We sure did have our hands full on the way here, Monroe explained. Alex lowered his voice, changing the subject. Burgess, did the captain talk to you about clothing stocks? He did, Cole affirmed. Are you sending your people, Alex wondered. No, Cole said flatly. Good. I'm glad you decided to keep your people safe. They have a whole

warehouse of clothing. They're just using it as an excuse to form the refugee salvage squads. I heard Tweed discussing it. I'm surprised that it took this long. They've been using the refugees as fighters since the beginning back east. Hell, half the feds and mercs are refugees. They put trackers in them, Cole explained. Alex looked at him curiously. Really? That way, the fighters they train can't jump ship. Did they put trackers in the refugees here? Alex wondered. Who knows what's in those shots they give them and us.

You could have one in you, Cole teased. Alex didn't smile. He simply stated, I'm going to look into that. Let me know what you find out, Cole requested. Will do. Drive safe, Major, Alex declared, checking his watch. Take care, Staff Sergeant, Cole responded, let me know what you find out cole requested we'll do drive safe major alex declared checking his watch take care of staff sergeant cole responded watching his men load up for the trip home what if i told you you could own land for 200 down and highly affordable monthly payments

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Enter your social credit score. And be sure you have enough remaining carbon credits to enjoy today's show. PBN family, your garden is the resistance. Hello and welcome back to the Changing Earth podcast. This is episode number 441, season 15, episode 42. Hey Chen, what's up? Chen's up y'all. Man, we had a little bit of an excitement with our live broadcast there, but no worries. We will adapt and overcome. And we also have Gregory Barone in the house. Hey, Gregory, how you doing?

Greetings. I come in peace. Take me to your leader. Gregory is one of our spectacular performers from our audio drama and I really wanted to be able to showcase you know we got some talented voices on the audio drama but they also have their own talents and their own rights when it comes to the prepping community so welcome to the show Gregory so glad you can make it with us today oh thanks for having me on here. This is like my first time doing an interview on a podcast. And you're live, so

no pressure. Yes, I know. No pressure at all. I'm so sweet. I'm sorry. It's just how I am. Upcoming events, we got the big eclipse day tomorrow, and I guess my area is just going nutso down here in in texas over all that

so a bunch of hoopla and we also have prepper camp of course coming up last weekend in september get your tickets get your camping spot now they will sell out that is one thing you can pretty much be guaranteed of every year is it will sell out so get your stuff now well it's still they've done a couple price hikes now right chin they they have yes yeah so you got to get it now well it's still affordable guys does it get any cheaper doesn't it doesn't it just gets gets more expensive come pandemic hell high water whatever we have prepper camp oh yeah we're there every year every year i told rick i was like i don't even care if there's not a prepper camp oh yeah we're there every year every year i told rick i was like i don't even care if there's not a prepper camp you'll still see me over here on your front door would you be hanging all right so in our reading of virgus today um they were getting

back from the roundup that they were doing out in the Badlands. And Reno was trying to get them to send guys out into the radiation zone, just being classic Reno jerk. More clothing to wear. Yeah, right. And they can't trade for it. Come on now. It's all about supplies. The trackers. The trackers was a topic of conversation and how, you know, they were installed in vaccination shots and whatnot.

So, yeah, interesting little theory there. And then we kind of have the catch up with the boys. And Virgis is like, I don't know about this Bennett guy, you know. I don't know about him. It's funny because my good friend Skip plays him. And I love Skip. He's my guy. So it was perfectly suited for him.

All righty. So we're talking urban prepping today. What a great conversation. We were chit-chatting in the green room. We had lots of time today because of a couple little technical hiccups. So yeah, we're getting gardens going and whatnot. So Gregory is my urban man. And Gregory, how long have you been interested, like, both in gardening, but also, like, had the idea that, like, maybe I need to start being a little bit more prepared? And what was kind of the trigger for you to start having that awareness? start having that that awareness um actually it happened with my grandpa who in like in my younger years he well he's deceased now he lived in new york with my grandma so he had like this row of of cinder block and concrete of a 15-foot row by a

2.5-foot wide row of this dirt. He would just grow peppers, tomatoes, zucchini, cauliflower, broccoli, and that. Then it also

moved on to my dad, who, like, wherever we lived, we always had, like, a little garden to grow our own little vegetables to save money. Yeah, so, like, on weekends, I would have to get pulled away from the TV and help out gardening. Yeah.

Eat. Yes. Yep, got to do the weeding. That's perfect. So they really help foster that uh we're going out to the garden and and getting those fresh goodies out there and things like that right yes it's one of those kind of skills you it's good to kind of know about in some ways from others that I know of. Yes, you're not wrong because there's so many urbanites, you know, that we talk to that it's like, well, I don't even know where to begin. I'm doing a garden. So to have that handed down through your generation, you know, your grandfather that passed that to your father and then you're picking it up.

That's a really cool thing. There's a lot of people that don't have the skill so that's that's really impressive step one on a prepping journey that's for sure yes yeah so and some stuff i've done is kind of well what we did for doing this urban gardening is mostly experimental stuff but it has worked in some ways some stuff we worked in that's the best though that's that's what now is all about when you don't have to like rely on it you know um we had one year that like gophers took a bite out of every single potato we had planted and it was just devastating you know because it was so much work but better for it to happen now and for us to understand like those threats are there

than when we needed to eat that food you know like rely upon it so really good to start um start practicing early yeah that must have stuck for you oh it did we had just expanded and did like a whole it was a big field like a 20 by 20 at least of potatoes and the whole thing got masqueraded ouch yeah to say the least so those but that's why i say like experiments are good what kind of uh i'm i'm curious now what kind of like what's your top one or two experimental items that you found that let's Let's do one that was really good and one that was not really good. What was it?

Experimental. Yeah, we've actually took those thick plastic storage bins that you get from, I guess, Walmart or somewhere. Yeah, like a Rubbermaid? Yes, one of those.

And we drilled some holes in the bottom of it to drain out the excess water. like well, I want to say polished or very well-rounded stone, like real small stone that you probably put in your fish tank or something. Right. You put that on the bottom there, and then you put like a mulch-y dirt on top of that for the water to go through. And you just put the seeds in the dirt and let them grow. Using that as your storage for a raised bed.

That's actually a killer idea. Yes. I mean, you could actually do that indoors too. Right. Yeah, because we're going to be building a greenhouse. And we're always in debate over whether to do concrete board or to do wood board with the liner um but i never even thought about like a plastic product and if it's not in the sunlight then you're you're

it's going to be able to last a lot longer that's a killer idea yeah um i think we also did liner one time too and that worked pretty well we just had to put the dirt in it and it worked well yeah yeah we've had one last oh i want to say like eight years in the california sun that was wood with the liner um so it's not a bad system it just when it failed it really sucked because like now you have the wood uh and you have to remove the wood. Now you've got piles of stone and all that stuff, you know. So, I mean, whatever you use, you're kind of in the same boat there. Yeah, apparently the thick plastic that these bins are made out of are very durable. Right.

You would not think it would work, but it worked. Huh. I like that. Okay, what about something that just total, like, oh, we're never doing that again? For me, it was, everybody's like, oh, planting an egg carton, right? I didn't have good success with planting in an egg carton. I thought it was like the ball was too little. And then they're like, oh oh you could just plant the egg

carton and I guess but I don't know I didn't like it it didn't decompose quick enough for the yeah yeah yeah one time we tried this thing that's supposed to like

help like grow the seeds and like this little thing that looks supposed to help grow the seeds. This little thing that looks like a smushed down net. That didn't really work so well. The Topsy Turvys, right? They always

marketed those as the urban grow your tomatoes upside down. Oh, yeah. I remember those. They were the worst. I didn't have any success with those. I've never tried those. Oh, like in California, the sun's just baking that dirt that's in the ground, you know, above ground now.

My father-in-law was like, oh, Topsy Turvies, Topsy Turvies all the way. And the Topsy Turvies were the worst. They sucked. So, so yeah, that's some good ideas. And then I guess one of the other things I was hoping to go over is like the right vegetables to grow, depending on what region of the country you're in.

So, and then you have, then of course, like if you think about depending on how things, if anything goes wrong in today's society, you need to have some kind of way of getting vitamins inside you. from some history thing that um sailors got a major scurvy from not having um yeah from not having um yeah the vitamins in you and all that that's not fun that would not be fun for anyone pine needle tea you can drink a pine needle tea it gives you vitamin c and that's that's how you can ward off scurvy if you're not getting, like, access to oranges and that kind of stuff. Oh, that's a good one for me.

Yeah. Yeah, the pine needles are super useful, but that is one, yeah, that the natives taught to the Westerners. Yeah. Yeah, and I also have a list of different things you could actually grow depending on where you are. So, like, you're not limited of different things you could actually grow, depending on where you are. So, like, you're not limited to, like, potatoes, carrots, zucchini, tomatoes, peas, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries.

Artichoke is a good source of vitamin C2. Oh, artichoke is? Yeah. How about that? Okay. And I know that milkweed thistle is a artichoke relative so i'm gonna have to check that out now you're just perking all kinds of interest i mean now i'm like oh yeah thank you i did a lot of work on this yeah yeah that makes sense so yeah don't forget

broccoli and cauliflower too here now do you grow those in your region um because you're in virginia so how's that yeah we can grow those where i live so winter crop yeah because i've when i plant it in the spring and that and i've lived in warm areas it's just too warm um and you get the vaulting that happens like they grow like they want to bloom too fast so and then when i was planning in the fall because there was a plan in the fall um um i was getting worms in it um like these i know they get worms in them that happens but uh more so in the fall so yeah do you plant that like as soon as you're coming out of winter? You're in a different latitude as me, so.

Yeah, I mean, sometimes you can grow that. Where I live is just, I haven't really grown much of anything as of late, so. Just. Gotcha. Yeah, so, and then, of course, you have your herbs, too, like thyme and rosemary. You can also grow. I have thyme like crazy. And Texas.

And I don't have any thyme. I got thyme, man. I got some thyme. It's done really well here. And usually we have basil that is just, like, growing like weeds here. Wow. But, yeah, parsley is a good one you can get to go year round um yeah depending on where you're at my mom used to even grow that under the snow oh wow yeah like she'd just cover it in leaf clutter and then you'd be able to dig down

through the leaves in the snow when we were in michigan and still get to fresh garlic it was or uh fresh parsley it was really cool that's cool yeah so how about water storage where you're at i'm always interested to hear like how urbanites are tackling water storage it's just curiosity of mine personal curiosity do you um sometimes you just put a big huge like plastic bin out and just let it rain and you just collect the water and you're good right yeah yeah sometimes like that before um where you're at it's probably more coastal right so yes so we get lots of rain and so before like when you're hearing hurricanes coming and stuff, you're just worried about like filling up your water storage at that point, then you don't have like a permanent supply on hand.

Yeah, it's always somehow plants in some areas grill better with actual like rainwater than you would from like your faucet. Oh, I'm talking personal. Personal for you. For like hurricanes coming your way, what do you have for water storage at your house? Oh,

well, sometimes we have the those like one gallon jug things of water that we have to store somewhere in case things go, like the power goes out and we can't get any good water that's what i have in kitty litter like the kitty litter the big kitty litter ones

are really good for water storage for like gray water of course but oh yeah so i'm just curious i just always like to kind of pick into that question because it's such a challenging thing water storage is um and so i'm always curious like how are other people tackling that beast is that something i can you know adapt to my system because my system is mayhem so yeah some people i've seen actually like collect water from like um what's the term i want to use here the stuff the gutters for for your roofs here the downspouts yes downspouts yeah do that sometimes but i think in some cases you need to have like a special permit or something for isn't that whack i know yeah yeah and then i've also seen like done some research on that made or something for it. Isn't that whack? I know. Yeah. It's a collage of rainwater.

Yeah. And then I've also seen like done some research on that and I've seen like people actually have like these very intricate water filtration systems to do that. I'm just like, whoa. Off of their rain storage?

Yeah, they actually use like the rain storage and put them through water filters fair enough why not yeah and then there's also some way they have this what's called a water collector

it looks like an upside down umbrella but there's a hole in the center and the water just comes down and just drains right down into the bin yeah i i want i'd like to do one of those for my system up when we do the greenhouse i just don't think uh your your flow of your property needs to be good or you got to have a pump for it so yeah that's your deal top of the property so so yes i think i've also sent you some diagrams of actually making your own little homemade water filter yeah um so i have the

the system that i have is an alexa pure and i love that filter um i don't get paid by patriot supply or anything but uh or um my patriot supply yeah but yeah they're they are really good and even if your filter is gone out of that thing you have the stainless steel jugs to be able to do that same system you sent me inside of there and it's so efficient so yeah yeah it's a good little system, the Alexa Pure. Yeah, I'm actually having this kind of crazy idea of actually trying that and then get one of those special water test sticks to see how well it works. You should. You absolutely should.

And those would be good to have on hand as well. I don't have anything that would check contamination of water. Yes, the water test sticks you would find on Amazon. Because there's that thing, Zero Water. They have that filter with five different ways of filtering water. They give you that little stick to test the water. And it's just like, huh. And then I looked it up online.

I found a bunch of test sticks on Amazon. Nuts. That's a good idea. That would be a good thing to have in the go bag even. Yes. Yeah. And then, of course, we can't forget compost. Yes.

Okay. Bring it. So, like, if can't forget compost. Yes. Okay, bring it. So, like, if you have, like, bad vegetables. This is what Chin needs right now. So, like, if your food goes bad or, like, you're moving. So, yeah, you could just use anything, like eggshells in there. Fireplace ash works, eggshells in there. Fireplace ash works too. Mixed in there. Like animal poop, of course.

I mean, it's efficient. It does a good job. Except for not for pig poop. It's too close to humans. Chin, you can't use that one. Oh, yeah. So you have some ideas of what to use for actual dirt to help with your gardening too i always thought they would smell i know i'm gonna like for i'm gonna show myself but like

i always was opposed to um composting as much because i'm just so afraid of like just having a stinky freaking bin of grossness i feed them to the i just feed everything to the chickens and then they i use their excrement we'll go from there so how but that's like hot right you can't put the chicken poop right on your garden yeah yeah you got to mix it in with dirt and stuff like that but i still do use it that way especially when the soil's been super deteriorated over years and years to like give it that reinvigoration yeah yeah rabbits the best though yeah yeah rabbit droppings are like the best for a garden because they hold their shape so yeah jb is saying in the chat um just on the water restrictions um washington

where where she is it's illegal to collect the rainwater um which is crazy because it rains so much up there um lifting the restrict the restrictions um oh she thinks it's because of mosquitoes and that would make sense um oregon though has like gone full assault on small gardens is what i've heard i don't know if anybody else has information on that but oh that was kind of crazy to hear why but okay so continuing on the compost thing, we had a compost bin at one of my houses that I lived at. It's not that bad of a smell, depending on what you put inside it. Okay. You mostly just put in grass clippings, eggshells, bad vegetables.

Yeah, food scraps. Yeah, food scraps sometimes. So those things would help absorb all the nasties. We really need to do it. We really need to develop a good compost system because the soil here is just the worst. It's all sand.

Yeah. You can't even grow potatoes in it or uh um peanuts love sandy soil and it's just there's no nutrients in it so yeah yeah we're up against the wall but we're figuring it out we got like i say we got a nice couple beds for root vegetables now we're going all containers for our other stuff this year. So I'll have to report back on how that all goes. But it's looking pretty good so far. Definitely best Texas year so far.

And because we're not in the ground. I know. It's weird. But when it's in a container, you can be sure of like the drainage and all of that. Um, so if you can grow like in the ground, the soil sucks so bad here that maybe you'd grow eight tomatoes, but they only have eight tomato plants, but they only yield like five or six tomatoes a piece. I mean, that's not enough to can or do anything with, right? five or six tomatoes a piece.

I mean, that's not enough to can or do anything with, right? So if I grow four plants instead, but the yield is up to maximum level, then it should be fine. So we'll see how it goes. It's still experimenting, like you say, stuff that works and stuff that doesn't. Yes. Very cool.

Yep. So anything else you want to ask me here? How about security concerns from an urban area? So when you think about big storm comes in, that kind of thing, is that throwing up more of a red flag in your head? is that throwing up more of a red flag in your head? Or are you feeling like you can pretty much trust the urban people that you're around? You know, how does that sit from your standpoint there?

Well, from when we've done it, we had like no issues depending on where you live. I mean, in New York, I guess, it might be different now. Right. But you've seen when you're in a disaster because you've had hurricanes and whatnot up in your area, everybody's still coming together for the community type thing. Does it pull it together, or people are just kind of going on it at their own pace? They're kind of just going on it at their own pace. Because, like, you have, like, downed power lines sometimes. And it's just, like, almost, like, standstill.

So it takes a while for things to get back to normal. Got you. So everybody's just kind of, like, wait. Hold your breath and wait for... Yeah, you just basically bunker down and wait for it to go, kind of blow over. The authorities to come get things cleaned up before you're worried about it again. Yeah, downed trees are

real bad too. Yep. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I'm kind of curious about. Yeah, if you ever look on like, you type in Google and look at the pictures of all the downed trees on cars. Right. So how does the general cleanup with that go like is it people taking care of their own spaces or is it the city that comes in and does that um sometimes the city comes in and does it

and then some people who have their own tools kind of help out too. Yeah, take care of that. Okay. Yeah, we've done quite a few shows on like just what kind of tools you should actually have at your house to be able to be the road crew. That was an interesting topic that Chin had brought up a little bit ago as far as like you don't really think about that when you're in an urban area, but what if you don't have those people to rely upon to take care of it so yeah interesting yes all righty well let's go ahead and get into some changing earth news and um get this show on the road are you gonna stick around gregory you're gonna take off sure i'll stick around all right, or are you going to take off? Sure, I'll stick around. All right. All right, we're going to roll out some Change Earth News. We've had some interesting things happen, so the Earth is having fun right now.

All right, here we go. Hold on one second. Dream. Survive. Thrive. This is Changing Earth News. JB's reporting in that trees are an issue there too. Yeah, trees have been a huge issue in California as well.

And you know it's a serious storm when you see the big trees that come down the old growth ones that's how i knew when we hit texas that we had been through a big storm i was looking at old growth trees you know they've survived a lot of storms they didn't survive this one right carry the chainsaw in the car yeah i don't carry a chainsaw in my car but but my husband's got one all right changing earth news today is april 7th 2024 the sun is calm today um but it has been an interesting two weeks of course everything um decides to light up the week that i'm not gonna do a show. So we had some big X-class solar flares that could have been big problems. Luckily, none of them were a big problem. No major systems went down, but it was some interesting solar activity that we've been watching. Today, it is calming

down. We're only looking, watching one plasma filament. It's a gigantic one, but it appears pretty stable. But we will be upticking solar activity as we go into the end of this month. The official hurricane forecast came out from the University of Colorado, and it is not looking good, guys. They are basically saying we're going to be looking at double the amount of hurricanes that we usually deal with, and possibly it could get severe enough

to produce a Category 6 hurricane. So we're going to... I know. Well, Acapulco last year, down in Mexico, that was like a cat two. And then it just instantly went to a five and just smacked Acapulco. It was really, really odd to see it uptick so fast. So they're kind of concerned. And Ben was like, from suspicious observers, was like, it's not a forecast for Cat 6,

but it wouldn't surprise him if there was one. And I was like, wow. For him to say that, that's something. He's pretty exact on what he actually lets fall out of his mouth. On April 1st, it's true. It's true. You know if he's going off. If it's politics or whatever fine but when

it comes like real like scientific stuff that he knows his stuff on um yeah there's it's it's pretty right on okay april 1st 2024 364 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger biggest of which was a 5.9 in Japan. On April 2nd, there was 375 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger, the biggest of which was the 7.4 that hit in the Philippine Sea in Taiwan. So that is the Taiwanese earthquake that hit. That was a massive earthquake. It's the biggest earthquake they've seen in 25 years. It injured at least 800 people and killed nine people. The second, Southern California received two inches of rain in one hour causing flooding, more flight delays there in Southern California. St. Louis was also seeing

some flash flooding with heavy rains. Venezuela has had a record drought bringing wildfires with that activity and Quebec also had its third wildfire of the year. In Indiana in the United States there was a tornado that came through flipping semis and cars so lots of disruptive weather going across central United States. And in West Bengal, there was a cyclone that came in. I'm not even going to try to say the name of the cyclone. I will just slaughter it. It killed five people and injured over 100 people.

Madagascar was hit with Cyclone Gamani, and 18 people were killed in that event when that cyclone hit. On April 3rd of 2024, there was 467 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger. Big uptick from the day before. This is solar activity for sure having an effect. There was a 6.4 follow-up earthquake in the Philippine Sea by Taiwan. Those are aftershocks that were hitting. Cincinnati, Ohio saw some major flooding with subdivisions submerged in water. And in Brazil, their Amazon is having record wildfires for February. So that's never a good thing when the Amazon's on fire.

Tennessee, the town of Sunbright, was hit by a tornado. And in Iceland, they saw another eruption with at the same time as the northern lights were displaying. And so those pictures are really, really neat to go watch. If you're going to go watch any of the volcanic activity that

happens in Iceland, go look for the pictures of it erupting with the northern lights in the background it's beautiful on april right it was pretty cool to see the pictures on april 4th of 24 there was 435 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger biggest of which was a 6.1 in north pacific ocean by japan um the east coast the United States got hit with flooding, tropical storm force winds, lots of power outages. That storm that was hitting the central United States

moved over there onto the coast. And then Quebec also got hit with probably that same storm pattern, left thousands of people without power there as well. On the 5th of April, there was 409 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger, the biggest of which was a 6.8 in the Philippine Sea by the North Mariana Islands. On the 6th of April, there was 392 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger, biggest of which was a 5.4 in the North Pacific Ocean near Japan. So that area is still just rocking and rolling. There was a 4.8 earthquake in Pennsylvania,

biggest earthquake in 140 years, felt all the way to New York, a big earthquake up there. That was a big topic of conversation on that day. And Sydney, Australia is breaking rain records now so they had over 200 flood flood related rescues from the amount of rain that they're receiving over there i got to get on the line with ellen make sure she's good um oklahoma had a series of wildfires break out on the six but they were contained as of today. And Cyclone Olga is headed for Australia's west coast. So Australia's east coast is getting pummeled right now.

And then the Cyclone is going to head in for the west coast of Australia. Storm Kathleen is headed into the UK. Hundreds of flights were delayed because of that huge storm coming in and then as of today um 413 earthquakes that are 2.0 or bigger biggest of which was a 5.2 in the salman sea in orsk russia over 200 um 2 000 people have been evacuated so far they They had a massive dam burst. It is affecting 30 regions in Russia. They have over 4,000 homes flooded. So they definitely need some prayers over there with that incident that happened. It was a dam break. And so it's really unusual to get that amount of flooding in those areas. So prayers for the people over there. As far as volcanoes, we have 30 erupting volcanoes today,

20 showing minor activity, and 30 showing unrest. So we've actually added three to the list. Not very surprising with the amount of earthquake activity that just happened, but also something of note. So added one to the erupting we never see them up at 30 that's a lot of erupting volcanoes and added three to the minor activity um as far as wildfires in the united states we have only three large wildfires going right now for a total of just above 1,100 acres. So we really have no fire activity going right now. Number one on the list is Alabama with 604 acres. This is from one fire,

the big, that's, well, there's five new ones and four contained. So there's still one fire burning. And in Florida, there's 290 acres ablaze. This is from one fire. It is not contained at this time. And there's also reports coming in from Missouri, 250 acres burning. This is from one new fire and they have three of those contained. And then as I mentioned, the wildfires in Oklahoma are also a hundred percent contained as well. All righty. Well, that's, I mean, you know, during the Easter break, I was just watching the sun go off

and I'm like, oh, it figures. We're not going to have a podcast and our sun's just going crazy. It was one of those hold onto your britches moment because that X class was really, really big. Always impressive to watch too if you're into watching that activity happen on the sun. that X class was really, really big. Always impressive to watch, too, if you're into watching that activity happen on the sun.

All righty, guys. Well, short show today. I got other plans tonight as well. It was short. Yeah. It was fun. It was fun. And I want to thank you for coming. Yeah. It was fun. It was fun. And I want to thank you for coming.

Thank you for your time. I appreciate it. Always good to have those voices, those diverse voices on the phone. So thank you for both coming on the show and, of course, your work with the audio drama. Without you guys, I can't make that show possible. So I appreciate that as well. Oh, I would love to come on again some other time too. Absolutely. Let's do it.

Keep learning, keep learning, and we'll keep getting updated with your journey. Thanks. And I also have some other interesting little subjects to cover too. Awesome. Very cool. All right, guys. Well, thanks so much for joining us tonight.

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