The Prepper Broadcasting Network - WOMEN'S WEDNESDAY: How to Focus in the Crazy w/ Sara Hathaway

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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 host, Sarah F. Hathaway and Chen Gibson. Hello and welcome back to the Changing Earth podcast. This is episode number 477. I think. This is the March show. And so we're doing a monthly, monthly update.

Oh, my gosh, there's so much changing Earth news. Hey, Chin, what's up? Chin's up, y'all. Oh, my goodness. So good. Like our green room, we just sit around and talk forever before we even, oh, we got to start the show. Oh, yeah, I know. I was like, we got to actually do this, or we're just going to have a couple hours of recording

combo going on here. Lots of ketchup to do when I don't get to see you. It's always good, yeah. We were texting stuff all week long, but it's good talk to you. It is. It's always good. That's always so much better. Yep.

So, wow, like we were saying, there's just too much. Wow. I mean, I'm just floored. We could go all day on political stuff and goodness knows we could. And I'm sure it's been the conversation around many, of the audience. So, today we're going to do a show on staying focused.

On your family, on your do items, like, wow. Because I was so focused, I went to a meeting a week early. Whoops. Yep, that's what happens.

So much going on. you know. Oh, I just don't even know. So, um, I struggle a lot with that because I just have so many hats on there in the day. Yeah. Um, let's do a little change your earth catch up. Uh, season one is the remix is airing. If you haven't checked it out, it's pretty darn cool.

Brought it up to snuff. If you haven't subscribed to the new YouTube channel, changing hyphen earth, please. do so. That one has the potential to be monetized and really get us the push we need to get the project to Hollywood. So if you haven't subscribed to it, please go over there to YouTube, changing Nash Earth, and check it out, subscribe, and then you'll get all the new episodes as they're uploaded. I tend to do like the premiere and stuff for them every week. Also, if you've read my stuff, please head on over to Amazon, drop me a review. That would be great. Again, we're trying to get the pushes there so that everybody knows how great the Trinity Earth series is,

and we can get some investors to invest in the series and getting into the TV series. So if you head on over to Amazon, drop me a review. That would be great if you've heard my books, you've read my books. I really appreciate everybody who goes and takes time to do that. It makes just a huge difference in the long run on all the sales number. and things like that over Amazon. So please do that. Last on the list, I would always talk about

Preper Camp tickets. Preper Camp tickets are available. They're ready now. But we do have a wildfire over in that area. So, guys, we're going to need your prayers that is quickly put out. Those people have been through enough, not specifically the Orchard Lake campground, but that surrounding area has been through a lot.

and definitely don't need a wildfire ripping through the area. So please pray for... It's up to like 600 acres, something like that. Yeah. They had a grip on it. I saw that because they didn't even make the weekly numbers this week. Surprisingly enough. Nebraska.

The Carolinas are starting to light up. Yes, they are. Which is weird. So let's just everybody say some prayers. It's my gut. feeling that there's some underground stuff going on and wait until you see these earthquake numbers and what's going on with our planet. So everybody just stay really vigilant. Wildfires used to be something that like, oh, well, maybe if you're, you know, in Texas or you're

in California, you got to worry about the wildfires, Montana, that kind of thing. But, oh, that's not going to happen here. Hey, man. Things are happening everywhere. So make sure you have your go bag ready. Make sure you're practicing the five-minute evacuation. five minutes goes by really fast, especially when you're standing there, stare at your house being like, what am I going to take with me? Well, you better know what you're taking with you. Way before that moment ever comes. So just a tiny bit of practice with your family goes a long way, long way.

I know, because I've been through there multiple times, and the five minutes, it's hard mark to hit. Well, once you practice it a couple times, it's actually not that tough. You'll know where everything is. I'm just... And then, that would be my recommendation. I'm probably too slack where I'm at. A little bit too comfy here. So I know, you know, but I've got some stuff spread around now

that would have to be gathered and whatnot. So I'm just as much to blame as everybody else. So make sure you guys figure out that five minutes. minutes out. Grab your important stuff as far as your paperwork, titles, house deed, if you have it, any kind of insurance documents, your birth certificates, this should all be in the same area where you can grab it easy and go with your, with your go bags, your guns, all your stuff. Okay, so there's my rant. Say some prayers. Say some prayer. Yeah. Say some prayers. All right, so let's get into staying focused on home, right?

Yeah, we have so many distractions right now. Yeah, it's a five-dimensional chess game going on on every level of anything right now. And I feel like everybody's just been holding their breath. right I don't know it went from being positive to

a lot of positive to now we're like come on start seeing some fruit from this there's a lot of blockades and they're really trying hard to make you know Trump and Vance look like idiots

so that's my opinion on that one but you know my faith is going to lie with the with the Lord first and then but the way they're rapid firing all this change

it really does require some faith in the man that we voted for as well and that's tough we've been hurt we're I would call we have some serious PTSD going on in the United States for as far as trust

goes on both sides, you know? Nobody really can trust anybody, and right now, things are just going too fast as to keep your grip on it. So it does require a little bit of faith, and the people that we elected actually gets a job done and follow through. So I'll see. Well, and there's, we're so, our culture is so used to wanting that instant gratification. Yes. So, you know, like, we fought the battle, we got the election, we won. And now we want to, you know, see all the spoils, but it's still a continuous battle every day.

Yeah. And they're just, I think the reason why they're doing so much like that is because they, there's not, you know, everything, every move that they make is litigated. There's blockades up against them. There's the deep corruption within the government that's trying to block them. It's entrenched. Right. So if they can just like, I always had the analogy, like, there's so many snowballs rolling down the hill that even if you were the best person in the world and you could stop one of those snowballs and be like, yeah, we stopped the snowball. Well, there's like 80 other snowballs running down the hill at the same time, right?

What was that crazy TV show that it was like the obstacle course that they had all those different like courses? Oh, MXC, I think of this. Oh, my good. And you were, like, trying to jump over stuff and not fall in the pool and all this stuff. It's, yeah. And they have the American gladiators, too. Yeah, that was good. Yeah, that was good.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's like, it's a gauntlet. It's almost like Trump brought in that whole cabinet so he could start pushing every single snowball at once. So that had to. Yeah, exactly. He absolutely has to wear it. You can't do onesies because they'll just swatter away. Right.

He has to keep them. on their defense because the minute the machine takes over, it's so much harder to. Yeah, exactly. So I still have faith there. You know, I've never been like 100% in on Trump, but I do like the things he says. I do respect the way he came out of being shot. I do respect the fact that he's never drank alcohol, never done drugs, and he's never been in, like, Like, you know, those just really nasty type of situations that we're seeing nowadays.

So I tend to respect his moral values more, which I guess gives me that trust and gives me a little bit of faith that he is really pushing for the right reasons. I just have to believe that. Anybody who said the same thing since I was one years old, you know, that I don't want to be president, but if it gets bad enough, then I'm have to you then I will you know and now we're there it kind of reminds me that her founding fathers were I mean they gave up you know personal fortunes like musk and trump I mean they'd have been better off not to get involved in the political scene and work work everything from the back offices in fact you know the boardrooms and the cigar and once you enter that cigar bars you know

there's just so much pressure on top of that, you know, of everything. Everybody criticizing you. Every little move you make, step you take, movement you make, you know. I had shared that video of the Trump Zelensky interview that... Oh, yeah. Right. They analyzed all the body language from it. And by the end of it, you're just like, oh, yeah.

This guy came in with a complete. completely different agenda, not ready to listen, not planning to do anything he had told them previously, and so when you, you know, when you're watching on that, you can see what's happening, but they spin it every which

way, so you'll just like that. There's so much information to try to digest to make your own opinions. Yes. Yeah. So, so many distractions, right? And beyond that,

I thought the balance, the idea talking about balance with your family and whatnot was great because without all this political stuff going on, without all the stresses from our planet going on, you know, a full-time job and I have

a family and... There's still, you know, cooking and laundry and repairs. Right? Everything that happens for the phone and everything else. Dedication to prayer. Got to make time for God every day. That's got to be a priority. I'm also an

author producer. So I'm producing shows, writing scripts, doing all this stuff at the same time. Plus, I practice MMA and train my body about five days a week, have the small homestead. And I like to sleep. No, you don't. You can't prove that by me. Yeah, that says the one that was up at 4 o'clock in the moon. And they woke up this morning. Oh, I think you just catching up with me. I just can't sleep all night. Oh, I was just up all night long.

Yeah. Yeah. So, but I slept a little this morning. So I would like to kind of think of myself as somebody who knows what it's like to juggle. And I have been, I have been made myself so busy before, and I say it specifically that way. I have made myself so busy, right? With my goals and my dreams, my bullshit, me, me, me,

and passing my husband in the hallway, like we don't even know each other anymore, you know, and tapping out of my kids' lives, that I can tell you, it is important to find that balance or else you're going to lose everything, everything. So that's really, really great. So I did some rules. Number one of my rules was hard work, God first. If you don't make time for the Lord studying his word, he's not going to make time for you. And you would much rather walk in his blessings than not. So I do all this stuff. How do I fit in time for prayer, right?

I really like the Halo app. Oh, yeah. The Bible in a year. Father Mike is awesome. So when I'm doing my morning walks, I listen to a half hour. of a Bible read. Yep. And it's awesome.

And, you know, I just listen to it over. I think I'm going on my third year again. So, like, I've already listened to it one year or two years. Now I'm going on my third, right? Yeah, I did one of those audio Bible news a few years ago. Yeah. You know, you just get so much out of it. You get to hear the word.

Father Mike's great. He does great analysis and really just teaches you how to live and thinking the word and be there. The other thing that my family does is after we eat, we read from the Bible. That's good. Yeah, so we'll read, like, one section of Daniel. We're just finishing up Daniel and a psalm or something like that, you know. So, and everybody in the family reads it, and then we can talk about it, reflect together.

Christians always into studying, you know, oh, well, was it the Romans or this or that? because he's into the wars and whatnot. So it's a great way to not only have God in your life, but also make your family a part of it together. And then, of course, if you have a church that you love to go to, you know, church on Sunday, that kind of thing. I just haven't found our fit here in Texas. Yeah.

It's a challenge. It is. It is. I grew up in a really small town church. I haven't found that since. I grew up Roman Catholic, so I do like the Lutheran is very much the same, but not Catholic. And so I do like the ceremony of that service. And a lot of times out here, it just feels like, what band do you like the best?

Yeah, that's what I haven't. It's... Like, I didn't come to hear a band. Yeah. I came to... love the music and it's cool, but it's, I feel like it's too much, um, slash. Yes. Yeah, one had lights going and everything.

I was like, oh boy, you know, we're out. So. Okay. Number two on my list is remember without your support network, you're nothing. So you just heard what I do during the day. And if I didn't have Brock behind me, you know, he's just a great father and really cares about the boys and what's happening in their life and helps making dinner and with laundry and everything. We're a team. We're 100% a team.

And if I didn't have that and my boys behind me, there's no way I could do what I do at all. So the minute that you get so busy that you don't take time to say thank you and you don't take time to listen to their day and find out what's going on with them and really connect with them. And like when you ask them questions, actually listening to their response and caring about how their day went, not just like thinking about what you have to do next. That's a bad moment. And that's the moment. You're either growing together or you're growing apart with every relationship in your life. So the minute you start growing apart, if that's somebody you don't want to grow apart from, you better figure out how to grow together again.

I think that's some of the value of doing the daily Bible study, read, prayer, whatever. Having that quiet time. Yeah. it brings on a lot more instead of all the distractions pounding through your head bouncing around right pink ball it's not like oh let's scarf down dinner so we can get to the next thing yeah and you're trying to juggle three things but when you're actually just reading out the Bible or you know thinking about the verse or it slows you down and it lets you start concentrating right and that's why like the Lord gave us the Sabbath

because we weren't made to be slaves and we weren't made to work seven days a week so we just have to keep in mind that there is a point to that rest and you deserve that rest and that's something that's hard for me

so because I would just go go go everyone has ups and downs in their life and if you're not there for them when they need you, they're not going to be there for you either. So choose who you care about and be there for them. Make sacrifices. It's important. We like to believe that we're like, oh, it's all about me. It's the me show in America. No.

Once you have a family, you have a spouse, you have a serious responsibility of that person. And you're going to need to make some sacrifices. And so are they? And that's what it's all about. Okay, number three on my list is don't lose track of yourself. Right, you got to take care of you, too. You can't just be like running from everything to everywhere, which is one of the reasons why we went to monthly podcasts because I was just trying to do too much all at once. So make sure you're engaging in activities that better yourself. So obviously I'm an exercise freak. I love working out. I love staying self-defense ready. I'm never going to be a victim ever. I don't care how old I get. I'm going to keep training. Because I love being able to teach elderly people that, yeah, you can

still defend yourself, you know, you're good. At least you can die trying, you know. But also, if you're not really into exercise and you're like, that's just really not my gig, then learn, learn, learn. Teach yourself a new skill. Do something. paint, you know, do something for you that you always wanted to do that takes you to that meditative space. And maybe it is meditating. But for me, working out, you know, I'm not thinking about anything else. So much. But yeah, I think we need to get to times when we just focus on a project or a event

an item as opposed to trying to handle so many things at once Yeah So you can like Stay in that space It sounds counterproductive Because you feel like you have to get all this stuff done

But it In thinking if you say Okay Monday is going to be the day that I work in whatever, the yard. Then you got to work in the yard on Monday. And you get it done as opposed to only get a tenth of the yard done and then bounce around to something else. And then that zaps your mental energy as well because you get home,

you walk into the house and you see all this stuff that isn't done. Right. And it just pulls that energy right out of you. It's just so overwhelming. and then everything else is so overwhelming. Yeah. Yeah. This winter was cold, cold, cold,

and we had planned to be a lot further along on our new chicken coop build out, but we're getting there. It's going to be sick when it's done. I'll put up some photos and stuff. We're getting there. We got the pad all done. Because out here, okay, so a little bit of a squirrel.

Look at our episode on Focus, and I'm squirling. But you know how we talk about, like, things that you've done, like gardening. that you've done in one area. When you move, it's different, right? Well, even with raising chickens, out here, there's so many fire ants. Right. And, like, one of my chickens was killed because of fire ants.

Because, like, once the ants find out that there's, like, food source there, you're giving them scraps a little time, then you're attracting the ants in. And then also the mice out here, like, burrow under the ground. And they will create these holes right by the chicken. chicken feeders and everything. So, and the chickens will kill them, but, you know, they're not always sitting right on the feeder or whatnot. So what we're doing is we're doing all concrete pad for their, like, living area without, they'll be able to go to grassy area, you know, when we let them outside. But that way we can hose it down. The ants can't get to them. It's

easier to control. You can't, you know, mice don't dig up there. So it's an investment to get that pad done. But in the long run, the chickens will be healthier for it because they're not under threat so much. So we had to do that before we went any further with adding

more birds to the flock and whatnot. So we're getting close now, and it's going to be cool. It's going to be cool. But there you go. Like, you've got to be ready to adapt and change when you're in a new area to the new threats, to the new environment.

And boy are we going to need a lot of that. Changing Earth News is, ooh, buddy. Okay, a couple more notes I want to make. So rule number four, the more you do, the more you do, the more you do, the more you do. Right? You see a pattern. Yes. My mom used to tell me the more you read, the more you read, the more you read, the more you read, the more you read, the more you read.

Right? And it's true. Like the more you read, the better you get at it and everything. It's the same thing with what you do. If you spend 15 minutes a day on a skill by the end of a month, you are going to be really close to being a master at it. Just 15 minutes a day. It's incredible. So there is time to do everything that you want to trust on that one. But make sure you're balanced. Make sure you're balancing things and not losing focus on what's really, really important. So you need a game plan and you need to stay out of the scrolling. Yeah, I think the game plan is crucial. Mm-hmm.

You can't just like neander through the day. Right. You won't be efficient. Yeah, I have this, this, this, this, this, this, this. I'm just like, oh, it's all in my mind. I write lists and I have notebooks. And so what's on the list for today? Boom, boom, boom.

Once I get those things taken care of, then I can work on something I actually want to work on, usually my audio or spending time with my family. So the other, my last note is a quote from the chosen. Matthew says with all this noise that's going on, it's

nice to know that I only have to do one thing. Wake up and follow him. Having Jesus in your life will calm your mind and give you focus and give you direction and give you take down your anxiety levels and your fear, because you can trust that, you know, you're on the plane with Jesus at the wheel.

You're in the car with Jesus at the wheel. You can trust that he's there driving your car along. And all you got to do is make sure you're doing your part to navigate, you know, your one task to move the whole thing forward. Yeah. All righty. You ready for changing Earth's news? I got my seatbelt on. All right.

You better be. The captain has turned on the fancy seat. Yeah. Hang on for this for. You're listening to PBM. You're a path back to stability here. Food storage and preservation are at the heart of self-reliance. Our sponsor, Pack Fresh USA features Made in America,

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We had a big corona hole. It was like gigantic. And other than that, there wasn't too much like CME activity, just some cold storms. I've been hearing more and more stuff. that they've actually found life on Mars that like they've known about it for a while, there's lichens and stuff up there. So I think that's we're going to be doing some really cool stuff

with space at the end of my lifetime here. So excited about that. Okay. February 1st to the 8th. So listen to some of these earthquake numbers. On the first there was 528. So if you recollect, 400 is a lot. of 2.0 or more per day, 400s, a lot. 528 on the first, second, 735.

On the third, 840, and on the fourth, 842. Okay, insanity. It's crazy. I just never see, you know, how long I've been doing this. It's just really, as I have the word. Brazil has been having major flooding. This is Brazil's flooding time of year, but they're having big, big floods.

We're going to see them all month long down in Brazil. Same area as last year, pretty much. Tanzania, flooding, sweeping away vehicles and homes, and even the USA, West Virginia, got hit on the first with massive flooding, and then they had the frozen ground, so that water had nowhere to really sink into. Australia, southeastern Australia, Victoria area, they had multiple bushfires at the beginning of the month,

and then in comes the rain. Up north as well, northeastern Australia, they had the worst flooding up there. They've had in 60 years, six months' worth of rain in three days. Yeah. Two dead, one missing, lots of evacuations. Sicily, Italy, all the islands like the Mediterranean are just getting totally flooded right now. A lot of them.

Buenos Aires in Argentina, they're having these huge windstorms with massive amounts of hail coming down. Trees down, property damage, roofs being ripped off, very close to Holine-type stuff there. And then we had forest fires start up in Chile. 150 hectares. So that's like, you know, 260, 280, 200, on acreage. So, you know, that's like doubled up for acreage. Seven homes destroyed in Los Palos.

There's no injuries, but this is up in the mountains. Spain, Southern Spain, heavy flooding, mass of rains again. If you remember, that area has already been wiped out once, like Valencia, got hit really, really hard. So they've just been getting more and more rain there, which is, again, on that area of the Mediterranean,

which is really interesting to show how much flooding's happening there. In Japan, they had four feet of snowfall in 12 hours, which broke its national record since it's been recording. which is I mean Japan Wow Yeah Japan Right

Argentina got hit again Another violent storm comes through Then we're over to the fourth Namibia Flash flooding there Death reported when a vehicle was swept away Western Russia They had a cyclone

They brought in heavy snow and wind 45 mile an hour winds Five foot of snow comes down South Africa, they had a big windstorm, rain, trees just coming down, lots of property damage roof ripped off again, same type of stuff, one person died in that storm. On the fifth, 756 earthquakes, on the sixth, 767 earthquakes, so our numbers are just still, just pushing, pushing. California, two people died in Sonoma, California, the atmospheric rivers came in.

And at the same time, we're talking 90 mile an hour wind, power outages, of all that going on landslides. The bonus was, at least it wasn't Southern California, on the burn zones. So, I mean, then Argentina again, after they've already had these two flooding incidents, then they get a month's worth of rain in eight hours, adding to the whole debacle. same thing in Brazil they had 7.8 inches in 24 hours 7 people died landslides and electrocution

gotta have your waiters like would you get electrocuted if you had waiters on because of rubber No, I don't want to try Right? I don't know I don't want to try either Chin, go walk out there But if you gotta walk through this water

Man, it would be crazy sauce Okay, but have you ever wore waders out into the water and not get wet? Yeah, fair. Yeah, it always comes in on the side. Well, that was when I wrote Day After Disaster with the raft. You know, whenever you're on a raft, you get at least a little splash of a boat, right? Okay, so Jordan, Saudi Arabia, they had a big dust storm up there, 37-mile-an-hour winds. Northern Ecuador is also getting flooding.

I know one of our listeners has family there. In Greece, Santorini, thousands of earthquakes. Santorini, we just don't know if it's going to blow or not. That is a super volcano. That is capable of doing some big, big damage to our planet. 5.2 was the most powerful quakes so far, and so they evacuated that whole island. It's a huge tourist attraction.

but there's actually this volcanic field just north of Santorani that could also be some of the earthquakes are coming from there as well so it could be like all new earth uh all new volcanic eruptions as well which would be crazy but there's definitely something happening here and Campy flagray is also over there another big volcano that could do a lot of damage been making a lot of noise so it's definitely eyes up on that region still. On the 6th, we also had violent storms that hit Tennessee.

Two tornadoes came in. Two people died. Others were injured in that incident. That was an EF2 and an EF1 that came in. EF1 also hit Kentucky. Did a lot of property damage over there. So then, in Japan, we're talking complete standstill due to the snow accumulation in the central part of Japan.

one person dead, 28 others injured, because you just, it's just so much snow. You can't do anything. So then, flooding in northern Iran, thousands of people evacuated there

as the rivers breached the banks. Canada had this multi-vehicle pile up because of this huge snowstorm that hit Quebec. One person died, 11 people injured. Indonesia is always getting socked.

They had unusual tidal waves come in, 13-foot waves coming in off the ocean into their city and rain caused even more flooding there along with those type of waves. In Bolivia, they had heavy rain as well.

23 people have died there since November. Completely flooded, 332 homes gone, thousands of people evacuated. It's like, you can see the pattern. These unusual rainstorms are just just everywhere now.

In China, because of the rain, they had a large landslide in Cheshuan province. One person dead. 28 missing. 10 homes destroyed. Two people were saved out of that rubble, but now, like, so much time has passed.

They're really doubtful that they're going to be able to rescue anybody else out of there. So prayers for the family who lost other people there. Northern Iran, they now have a heavy snowfall that comes in. Northern Russia also had one, but like, Iran. I would think Iran would be much more less likely to get this huge snowstorm than Russia. Severe blizzard, 62-mile-an-hour winds, zero visibility there in Russia, and then a 7.6 earthquake at the Cayman Islands.

The Cayman Islands have been making more noise as of late, and that's kind of an unusual earthquake spot. We don't usually see him a whole lot down there. All right. So the ninth, let's get back to our earthquake numbers. Ninth, 668 earthquakes. 10th, 791. The 11th, 1,215, 115 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger.

That is insanity. The 12th, same thing. 1,126 earthquakes are 2.0.2.0 bigger. And then on the 13. Is there like a record of how many? I don't know. I don't know what the record is.

That's a really good question. I've never seen numbers like this. Like ever. 13th, 914. So, like, yeah, we had this massive crone hole. And, yeah, there wasn't a lot of, like, really big ones. you know, above a 6.0. But it was rocking.

Let's see. Philippines, severe flooding, five people died when their vehicle was swept away. Hundreds of hectares of cornfields destroyed over there major agricultural damage. Two people dead again in Brazil.

And Iran, they had a huge pile-up accident. Nine people were injured there because of the low temps, the snow and the icy roads. Peru, their rainy season, because it is rainy season down there, hit hard, crops, homes, damaged. Two people died in that last storm that came through there. And then in Chile, like on the other side of the mountains, right? Intense heat, 107 degrees Fahrenheit.

They had these huge wildfires go off, multiple across the country in the central area there. One person did die. 14 people were arrested in connection with those fires. So somebody's actually out there setting some of those fires, which is sicking. Yeah. In Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, flooding, 21 rescued, which last we heard, you know, they were burning. Now they're flooding. Brazil hits again.

We had an EF1 near Pensacola in Florida, which left a trail of destruction, injured three people there. Spain, southeastern Spain, tornado. Super unusual to happen in Spain. Got a tornado there. In Indonesia, the island Barley Island flooded. They had 3.2 feet of water, so they had to be evacuated. Italy, Etna erupts. In Argentina, central western Argentina, so this is kind of over by Chile.

618,000 acres on fire. Two people dead, hundreds of homes destroyed. Worst fires in the last three decades, affecting two national parks. It's going to take over 200 years to recover the forest that's being burned by these wildfires. So that's horrible. The Andes Mountains also have a lot of lithium in them, so you have to wonder. You know, I hate to wonder, but you do have to wonder. 7.9 inches of rain in Ontario, along with 37 mile an hour winds.

In back to the United States, in Mississippi, they had a big tornado come through. It harmed businesses, homes, no deaths. Then on 13th in Italy, 2.5 inches of rain in one hour. in Elba Island, flooded homes. Then we have the atmospheric river line up with Southern California. Not good at all because now that everything was burned out, now you're looking at landslides. So they had that all come through. Big mess down in Southern California.

Plus their homeless population there is, you know, it gets a little moist, so. I'm sure I'd love to be on that street. It's gross On the 14th We had 1,034 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger Northeastern Australia They had cyclone Zelia hit

132 mile an hour wind So that is a cap 4 equivalent But in cyclone So cyclone spins backwards From what a hurricane is Great Northern Highway had to close down and that cut off supplies to some areas because of that tropical cyclone.

And Catalina in Greece, two days of rain, 5.9 inches. Just massive flooding, through more people dead. Two people died, 30 injured because this bridge collapsed because of all the flooding. And two miners were killed in a landslide there. Uruguay, here's a new one on our list from the 15th, violent 93 mile an hour golf ball size hail,

34,000 acres of crops damaged in that storm in Uruguay, Sweden, intense snowstorm. They had a 95-car pile-up, 100 people injured, two people severely. Japan or China also had a big 100-car pile-up because visibility just got so low, just kept coming over this hell and running into the pile of everybody um you back to the united states south eastern united states got hammered by the storm 700,000 people out of power from new york to albama little spots along the way hundreds of highways close 17 people dead in that storm one person in georgia one in west virginia 15 people in kentucky in 24 hours there was one month of rain that came down in that

system. So you can see I'm really kind of concerned about Fort Peck Dam up north. I mean I just talk about this all the time but with the amount of earthquake ramp up that we're having and then the amount of these unusual rain storms

that if Fort Peck went I mean the whole central breadbasket of the United States is in trouble. So hopefully we get some of our money redirected at our own infrastructure. Great.

In Quebec, 38 inches highest total in history since 1941. Not 38, yeah, 38 inches highest total since 1941. They just had two major storms come in so quickly. That's what made it so unusual.

With 56 mile-an-hour winds up there. The Rio Grande in Brazil, they had 62-mile-an-hour winds down there. Hale, hundreds of businesses and homes damaged in that hail storm. And then in the United States, this isn't really a natural one, but in Detroit,

did you see the pictures of Detroit when they happened? Like this water pipe exploded? Yeah. And then it just freezes because it's so cold. It's like 90 people had to be rescued out of there. And their homes are just uninhabitable because now it's filled with water

that is frozen. It's like that movie would. that 2012 or so? What was that movie? Where there was like that instant freeze? A day after tomorrow. Yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love that one.

But yeah, it's just like that. It was crazy. They say it was just old infrastructure. 925 earthquakes on the 17th. The numbers are still up there. Still continue to be up there. There was a rare tornado down in South Africa.

Northern Chile, they had heavy rainfall with flooding up there. So again, you're looking at the situation where it's like 107 in Central Chile, and they've got all these wildfires going. And just up north of that, there's all this flooding happening, you know. We've seen this over and over and over again, just these streams are more and more amplified. Botswana, they had heavy rain, widespread flooding, flash flooding killed seven. The dams are literally overflowing. Madagascar, they had a severe storm there, 11 people dead.

South Africa got hit again. This is southeastern Africa. Nine people lost their lives in that flooding incident. They had 7.2 inches of rain in 8 hours. Major infrastructure damage. Ecuador, back on the flooding list. Northern Turkey, that intense snow in Istanbul. but they, you know, they have the mountain-esque area there.

So, I mean, that's not so unusual. 21st, 22nd, 23rd, we're still looking at numbers 895, 7661, 712, but at least they're coming back down. More snow falling in Japan, but the temperatures are expected to rise. 22 people killed in the Kentucky flooding. South Africa wildfires in Cape Town, Table Mountain National Parks. They have 140 acres there. Not huge, but it is one of their big national parks there.

On the 27th, 600 earthquakes are 2.0 or bigger. Afghanistan, they had 39 people lose their lives in Hale and Flash flooding incident there. And then the 28th, six people died in Durbin, that's in, Guazulu Natal from flooding. India they had flash flooding, causing damage, and there was a 6.1 earthquake in Nepal as well.

And then up in northern Japan, they start having the largest wildfire they've had in 30 years. Right? So, again, you have this huge snow incident and then wildfires going on with right there. And then we had everything that's going on in the Carolinas as far as wildfires.

Nebraska is actually They're burning pretty bad right now. They have two big fires going. It's 50,000 acres on fire there in Nebraska. Not contained at all. We're almost, that's probably at 51,000 right now. Florida has a good wildfire going on, 1,350 acres, and then Alabama's number three on the list with two wildfires at 1100 acres.

So a lot more states on the wildfire list than I would expect to see, but most everything's in that, you know, 600-acre range, including North Carolina right now. So for all February, we had 24,501 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger. That's a 71% increase from last month. That is a whole lot. I really was expecting not to see that. So anyway, as far as volcanoes erupting, well, we had 38 erupting last month. We still have 38 erupting.

Okay, that sounds good, right? Yeah. Minor activity? 40 showing minor activity, that's up too from last week. from last week. So did they come out of the unrest category? No. Unrest category also went up by 20 or by 2 to 26.

So we have 104 volcanoes on our planet showing activity right now, which is way higher than I've never seen before. And given all of the earthquake activity that we just had, I would expect to see more pretty quick. So, it's going to be interesting. Right? It's always the planet against the people. Which one's going to...

Right? The people stabilize a little bit. Mother Nature's like, yeah, here, hold my beer. You're right. No kidding. Just insane. Those are crazy numbers. I've never seen like a thousand in a day.

that coronal hole was pretty massive. I would not be surprised if it was on the same days. I don't line them up when I'm researching, but I won't be surprised if it was. Because that coronal hole was like, it was like the sun was like eating itself or something. It was like the whole center of it. But nothing like, you know, that's going to make big news,

like the earthquake in Turkey or, you know, You know, something of that nature. So I guess that's the bonus. That would be the last thing they need in Southern California right now. Wouldn't that just be? Right. Just drop the curtain. The show's over.

Yep. Ah, I got your Hollywood pun there. No. So, yeah. It's really getting interesting. out there, we'll just have to, one more month and we'll be back and we'll get to see what it did. But that's my prediction for the month. I think we're going to see even more volcanic activity, honestly.

It hasn't stopped. It's been up for like what, at least probably six months? How long have I been like, whoa? Probably six months, I would say. I'll bet being up that high. I'll have to go back and check my notes, but... that's a lot you search for your notes when you said the average is 400

because right after that yeah it's true we're like on the average you know if we see like 4005 but yeah and now we've got 1100

yeah honestly because I watch another program too to get some of my news and she was reporting the earthquake numbers and so I went and double checked all of the earthquake numbers and I was just like whoa no way that's what the volcanic um observatory is recording to this was like oh where are you getting your information from you know I'm a fact check I was like whoa okay yeah all right guys well get out

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what do we got April? April showers bring me flowers coming up next so gardens will be going in my garden better be done before then or here in Texas I'm way behind my peach tree is already in full bloom I mean it'll be

yeah while I was just talking to Rick and he had some fruit trees that were starting to blow and he was not very happy. Right, yeah. So ours always goes off about now, though, and then we'll have peaches in like April. It's really tough on the tree because we're going to have those big wind events coming through, you know. Hopefully we keep all of our roofs on our stuff this year, every single roof. Things that I own had to be replaced last year.

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