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Feb. 19, 2021 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Situation Update, Feb. 19th, 2021 - Texas blackout SURVIVAL GEAR reviews
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All right, and welcome.
I have a special situation update for you today for the day of February 18th.
What is it?
Thursday, maybe?
Thursday, yes.
2021.
Mike Adams here.
And we're enduring now, coming up on the fifth day of the Texas rolling blackouts, third world conditions.
Across much of the state, millions of people without power or electricity, I'm sorry, or water, millions of people also running low on food, grocery stores closed, gas stations run out of gas, food rationing kicking in at the household level, people freezing to death, sleeping in their cars, running out of gas.
It's freaking bad, right?
It is.
It's really bad.
So in this special situation update, however, as a prepper, I'm going to bring you Because I've been living through this myself.
I was living out of buckets of water for, I guess, about three days.
And no electricity or on and off electricity, no water, all that myself.
And I found that there's some gear that worked really well, life-saving stuff.
And then there was some gear that didn't work.
And for this situation update, I'm going to focus on gear.
Just preparedness gear.
Now, I'm not...
This isn't a bunch of sponsorships or anything.
The brands that I'm mentioning here are not brands that we sell.
I think we do have an affiliate relationship with Big Berkey.
So I'll mention that up front.
But aside from that, I don't think we have any...
No sponsorships.
We don't even sell most of the stuff that I'm going to talk about.
Because it's not superfood stuff.
But...
I'm going to mention a lot of gear, a lot of brand names.
And none of those brand names have paid me to say any of this, so let's get that out of the way.
This is all about life-saving gear.
What works and what doesn't work.
So when infrastructure fails, Your reality collapses down to the very basics.
And you're dealing with simple things like collecting water off the roof with buckets.
That's what I did.
Myself and my wife were collecting water and putting it into barrels so we could have water to flush toilets.
That's a friend of mine who's probably listening to this.
A friend of mine also from Texas who was texting me saying...
Hey, it's a good thing we filled our bathtub with water because we still have water to flush toilets with because if we run out of that water, then I have to dig a trench in the backyard and crap in the trench.
Right?
So, yeah, he's not joking.
Just having water to be able to flush toilets is very important.
And it's also good to note that toilets don't require electricity, do they?
All they require really is gravity.
And water in the tank.
So even without water pressure, you can just fill the tank and you can flush.
And thank God for that.
You don't want to have to deal with that in some other kind of messy way.
So buckets are very important to have.
I know it sounds super simple, but just buckets that work.
And I buy these pails, I don't know, buckets slash pails.
I buy them from an agricultural store.
And they're sold in four packs.
And they're really, really rugged.
And I use them to carry chicken feed or grain or water in this case.
So I've been hand-carrying a lot of water to the chickens.
You know, I've got chickens and goats and so on.
And a lot of my daily tasks have been just moving water around and keeping all the animals clean.
I'm fed and having plenty of water.
And it's a lot of just physical work back and forth.
Also, I've got donkeys to take care of and they're always asking for more food, of course, but I have a big round bale of hay for them, so they're actually doing fine.
But you need simple things like buckets.
And barrels are great to have around.
I've got like, well, drums.
You might call them a 55-gallon drum or a 30-gallon drum.
Or, you know, the blue drums.
It's good to have some of those around just in case you need to store water.
Now, everybody should be storing water all the time at some level anyway.
And this whole situation in Texas was a reminder of that.
But I don't like to store water in things like, you know, soda bottles or milk jugs that have been rinsed out because the plastic quality is not very good.
They're not very rugged and they also leach BPA and things like that.
Whereas polyethylene, which is what the big rugged drums are made out of, polyethylene is the best material, doesn't leach anything into the water.
So PE, that's what you want.
And that's what most of these barrels are made out of.
It's also sunlight resistant as well.
Won't break down in the sun.
It's amazing.
These barrels are super rugged.
All right.
Now, let's talk about clothing here for a second.
I'm going to mention a brand, Carhartt.
C-A-R-H-A-R-T-T. Carhartt is known as a brand of work wear, work clothing, things like that.
Carhartt, I have been wearing, during this whole thing, I've been wearing this Carhartt, it's kind of like a, what is it?
It's an insulated sweatshirt slash hoodie.
And it's clearly built for cold weather.
It's insulated on the inside.
It's got pockets.
It's super rugged.
The seams and everything are awesome.
I gotta tell you, I've been wearing this thing the whole time.
Even when it was five degrees outside.
And I never got cold.
At least my core temperature never got cold as long as I was wearing this Carhartt.
This hoodie sweatshirt thing.
It's amazing.
And then I have these Carhartt work gloves.
And they are...
Looking at them now, they're super insulated.
I mean, I wish I had like a model number or something.
I don't know what they call these.
Let's see.
Oh, it says...
A511. I don't know.
Maybe that's a model number or something.
But anyway, they're rugged work gloves.
They're insulated and they have kind of a grip surface on the fingers of the palm area.
These gloves have been just amazing.
Again, I'm just blown away.
Carhartt did a great job.
I've been using these gloves to go out and gather wood.
Because I've been using a lot of wood heat.
So the wood I've been picking up is covered with ice many times.
We've had freezing rain where the wood has like a quarter inch of just ice all over it.
So I'm picking up frozen wood.
There's snow to deal with.
I've also had to collect rainwater off the roof.
And what I did is I rigged up a giant barrel and And then I would dip buckets into the barrel and pull water out of the barrel.
While I'm doing that, water is falling all over my arm and my hand and the gloves that I'm wearing.
But I have to say, these gloves are pretty water-resistant.
Not 100%, but I was able to do that bucket job quite a lot without having my hands be totally saturated with water.
So Carhartt gets my thumbs up.
In fact, I'm going to order another one of these hoodies that I'm wearing.
This is the only one I own, but it's so good.
It just really proved itself.
I'm just amazed.
It's warmer than a lot of super thick coats.
Oh, look at this.
It's got a logo on it that says Rain Defender.
So I guess it's got some kind of anti-water something treatment on the outside.
But whatever.
It's been really, really warm.
So that's been great.
Now, shoes.
There's a brand of shoes.
They're not just shoes.
They're kind of like heel...
What do you call them?
Half-height boots that I've been wearing.
And I know for those of you who live in northern states, you probably have way better boots for deep snow and everything like that.
But here in Texas, we never deal with snow.
Not normally.
So we don't have snow boots.
But this...
This brand of shoes is called Salomon.
Salomon.
I guess that's how you pronounce it.
Salomon.
Sounds like it's from the Middle East or something, but whatever.
That's just the name.
I don't know where they're from, but man, their shoes just rock.
And I've been wearing these.
They're super rugged.
They have good traction.
And they've got, like, reinforced toes on the outside.
So water intrusion doesn't happen very easily.
I mean, they do get wet.
They're not 100% waterproof.
But, man, this has been a great brand.
Salomon.
Definitely check that out.
They're not cheap.
I think I paid $160 for this pair.
But, gosh, worth every penny.
In this situation, you can't afford to have crappy shoes when your life depends on staying warm and gathering wood and being able to keep your animals alive by hiking around, carrying buckets of water on slippery surfaces and everything.
It's no joke!
You've got to have good freaking shoes.
And these certainly fit the bill.
Now, water filters.
Gravity filters save the day here.
And the gravity filter I'm using is Big Berkey, as I mentioned up front.
I think we sell that at our store, but there are lots of other brands of gravity filters.
And they all work, especially if you're collecting water that's fairly clean in the first place, like what I was doing, collecting it off a roof.
You could probably just drink that straight out, but I'm running it through the Berkey anyway, and then to make drinking water.
So any gravity filter, any brand that's good quality.
I mean, the big Berkey, stainless steel and everything, but I think Katadyne makes them.
I think, gosh, I keep hearing other brands mentioned.
I forgot all the names.
ProPure, I think, is one that InfoWars promotes.
I think.
I don't know.
All the brands are kind of jumbled on this, but get yourself a gravity filter.
And, I mean, if you don't have one already, because obviously it works without electricity.
And that was the game changer during this rolling blackout.
Nobody had electricity, or at least not much.
Yeah.
And water pipes were frozen or damaged from bursting.
So what were your options, you know?
You need a gravity filter.
And I was using it.
We were living out of it.
And it absolutely worked.
So make sure you've got a good gravity filter.
And the nice thing about a gravity filter, too, is you can fill it up.
And it takes time, of course, for the water to drip through because it's being filtered.
It takes time.
But you've got other things to do anyway.
So there's a lot of work to be done in a survival scenario.
You might be doing what I was doing, taking care of animals.
You might be working on a garden, planting seeds, sprouting seeds, harvesting food.
I don't know.
There's plenty of other stuff to do.
So just allowing a gravity filter to let gravity do the work instead of you having to sit there and pump it by hand because there are pumping pump filters, basically, that you have to pump by hand.
And that's tedious.
Just let gravity do the work and you can go get something else done and then come back and your water is ready.
Alright, let's move on to equipment and battery boosters because, as I mentioned in a podcast from last night, my dog, Great Pyrenees, fell through the ice walking around on the pond.
So I've got a pond and it was partly frozen over and he fell through.
And he was 15 to 20 feet off the shore, off the edge.
And I discovered him last night.
I was looking for him because it was feeding time.
I couldn't find him.
He wasn't responding to my calls.
And I went out looking for him and I found him there.
He had fallen through the ice.
And I saved him, by the way.
He's fine now.
He didn't die, amazingly.
And the bottom half of his body was under the water.
His two paws were on the ice and his head and shoulders were above the water level.
But obviously because it was water underneath, his lower legs couldn't grip anything to get himself back up onto the ice.
So he was stuck and he would have died.
No question.
In fact, I think he was in that situation for at least an hour before I found him.
Good thing I was looking for him.
So I was on the shore and I was trying to figure out, oh my gosh, you know, I'm going to watch my dog die here if I don't figure out a way to save him.
And I happen to have, I've got different pieces of equipment on the ranch and one of them is an excavator.
And I told the whole story in a separate podcast if you want to hear it.
So I'm not going to go into every excruciating detail.
Bottom line is I used the excavator to break the ice in front of my dog so that he could swim to shore.
And fortunately, he still had enough strength left to swim to shore.
And they dragged his ass out of the mud and water.
He was moving slow.
And it just turns out that Great Pyrenees are really cold-resistant dogs.
They have a lot of fur, so they can maintain core body temperature.
And they're large.
They're large animals.
You know, this guy must weigh 150 pounds or something, maybe more.
So I was able to save him, but only because I could start my excavator, which is a diesel engine.
And diesel engines don't like to start in bad weather.
And so, here's the thing.
On a ranch, you're always trying to start things that don't want to start, because vehicle battery technology totally sucks.
It's the worst thing.
Batteries suck.
I can't tell you how many times I'm buying new batteries that only last two years or something, and I have to replace them again, you know, for a tractor or a truck or what else?
A lawnmower, whatever.
And the battery on this excavator isn't very good.
So I own a lithium-ion battery boost device, and I've tried like six different ones.
And they all suck, except this one brand.
And it's called Genius Boost Pro, made by NOCO, N-O-C-O. Genius Boost Pro.
And the model I have is the GB150, which is rated for starting diesel engines up to 10 liters, I think.
I think that's the rating.
Let's see, what does it say here?
It says 12 volts, 3,000 amps.
That's interesting.
I've got two of these and they have different ratings.
One says 4,000 amps, one says 3,000.
So one of them says like 22,500 joules.
Anyway, these devices, the lithium ion, you charge them up.
You have to buy a charger separately, by the way.
If you want to charge them fast.
Otherwise, you've got to charge them through a USB port, which is really slow.
So I bought the charger, and I have two of these devices.
And I always carry one in my car, and I carry one in my truck.
Because I've had times where the truck won't start.
And I have to power this thing onto the truck battery and start it.
Well, anyway, with my dog having fallen through the ice...
I was like, I have to start this excavator.
I've got to start this excavator because an excavator has the long arm that you can reach out with and it has a heavy bucket on the end.
The bucket weighs hundreds of pounds and I knew I could maybe reach my dog or maybe smash the ice or whatever or scoop water, whatever.
But it has the reach, you know, and it's on tracks and I knew I could drive the tracks into the pond.
Which is what I did.
I drove this sucker right into the pond.
I mean, the water was...
Like, above the tracks, okay?
Fortunately, the way these things are set up, the engine is above the tracks.
The engine is behind you, where you're sitting on the platform.
So you can actually drive an excavator into deep water.
I'm not recommending it.
It's not the best thing for it, but you can in an emergency.
And this was an emergency.
But I had to be able to start it.
So I hooked up this Genius Boost Pro.
This GB150, which I think these things are not cheap.
I think they run like maybe just under $300 or something.
I don't remember exactly what I paid.
They're not cheap.
Anyway, I hooked this up and it was below freezing.
Outside, you know, because of the Texas Arctic freeze situation.
And I put the key first on the glow plug warming for the excavator.
I let the glow plugs warm in the diesel engine for like 20 seconds.
So there was plenty of power for that.
And then I cranked it.
And it was very...
It did not want to start, but it kept turning.
And maybe within...
I think within five seconds, actually.
That's all it was.
It started up.
And so I was able to use that machine, drive into the pond, extend the arm, break the ice.
My dog swam to shore.
And then I used...
By the way, I used a blow dryer on him for the next hour in the barn.
I was blow drying my dog because he was shivering.
He was so cold.
He was probably about to die.
So I was like trying to warm this guy up.
He's just sitting there with ice hanging off his shoulders.
I'm laughing because it's like the only time in the world that he would let me sit there and just use a hair dryer on him.
He doesn't like things that are loud like that.
He would usually run away.
But this time he's just sitting there.
He's like, I'm going to die.
Give me some heat, you know.
But anyway, I couldn't have saved him without the Genius Boost Pro.
Yeah, that's what it is.
So I was looking online.
I was like, this thing is so freaking awesome.
I wonder if they make a bigger one.
So I went on Amazon just to see, and they do make a bigger one.
I forgot.
The bigger one, it starts like big diesel rigs, and it's like $2,000 or something.
So, okay, I'm not going to get that one.
I don't need a $2,000 battery.
Drag it around the ranch.
But I guess people who drive big rigs and such, if they need to start a giant diesel engine, or maybe that's for heavy construction equipment or something, like 20-ton excavators or something, I don't know.
But that company, NOCO, they do make bigger ones if you want to spend a couple grand.
It's like, wow, that's a lot of money for a battery.
Alright, so anyway, that's another piece of tech that worked.
Also, I want to mention, firearms work when there's no electricity, but I did not have to use...
I didn't have to fire any gun at all during this whole thing.
This was not a firearms type of emergency.
It was more like a water, electrical, heat type of emergency.
So the firearms are just sitting around.
But in case there were looters, which seems very unlikely because it's too damn cold...
Then, of course, the firearms would do their job.
They don't depend on any electricity whatsoever.
Thank goodness for that.
All right, so I'm going to get back to some more gear here, but let me talk about something that did not work.
I have mentioned this briefly before in a podcast yesterday, but my backup power plan has always been that I have this PTO-driven generator.
The brand is Winco, W-I-N-C-O, Winco.
And PTO means power takeoff.
That's what the back of your tractor has, a PTO generator.
I guess a connection.
So you can connect any kind of implement to the PTO, which is a large diameter, basically a drive shaft is what it is, and it rotates.
And all tractors have these, I mean real tractors, have a PTO. And so my plan has always been, and I've used this before, to plug in the WinCo generator to the back of the tractor, and then I just start the tractor, and then I've got 50 kilowatts of power out of that generator, and I've got my ranch wired up.
It's wired up with a transfer switch, and I've used this before during hurricanes and such.
I can transfer to the WinCo generator, and I can just run everything off that, because I use...
Considerably less than 50 kilowatts of power.
But in this case, that plan did not work because I could not start the dang tractor because it was too freaking cold.
It was 15 degrees Fahrenheit.
Whatever it was at the time I was trying to start it.
And I got the engine to turn a little bit, but then it froze up.
Now it just clicks.
And I've charged the batteries.
I've used the Genius Boost Pro.
I attached that.
It's not enough power, I guess, or the starter is bad now or something, or it's just all frozen up.
But it's a bigger tractor to be able to drive a big 50-kilowatt generator.
It's a full-size tractor with an enclosed cab and everything, and it's just not starting at all.
Maybe I need that $2,000 Genius battery.
There you go.
Maybe that would have worked, but I don't have one of those.
So I ended up with no off-grid power, just relying on the grid itself, which completely sucked.
So my power plan was thwarted, and that completely sucks because I've got all this stored diesel here, and diesel is a great store of energy.
Diesel works.
But only if you can convert diesel to electricity, which requires a working tractor, which requires the ability to start it, which requires batteries that function, and so on.
So I learned a couple of things about that.
And I think I need a more modern tractor, frankly, that has glow plugs in it to preheat the engine and everything.
I might have to look at that.
And I might have to look at, frankly, the brand I'm going to look at is Kubota.
Because I have this other Kubota vehicle that's a little get-around vehicle.
It's a little four-wheel drive, little ranch vehicle.
And I bought it a few years ago.
That thing works.
That thing starts every time.
It has been ultra reliable.
So if you're looking for a get-around vehicle for your ranch or countryside, and this thing has a little bed in the back with a dump, like a dump hydraulic lift on it.
So it's actually a dump bed.
And so I would drive this thing out onto the ranch and gather up the wood, because I've been using wood heat this whole time, and then that bed would just get full of ice and snow and bark, and it was taking up too much space, so I would just dump all that and then clear it out, and then I could gather more wood.
I had more wood capacity in it.
So that vehicle has been...
Just absolutely rock solid.
And it starts every time.
It's the best starting vehicle that I've got.
So I'm thinking, well, Kubota must know what they're doing when it comes to starting engines.
So I think I'm going to go look at a Kubota tractor.
Because, again, my backup power plan totally crashed and burned, sadly.
But it's important, you know, as preppers, not everything that we plan for is going to work.
And this is why you've got to have multiple layers of plans.
Like, I could live without electricity.
I don't like it.
It totally sucks.
But I've got wood heat, and I've got the gravity filter, and I've got these other layers, and I can still survive.
You know, I mean, I was sleeping in, you know, 70 degree temperatures in my bedroom.
That was great.
Whereas a lot of people were freezing death, their house dropping below 50 degrees, and maybe they didn't have a sleeping bag.
Well, I had a super awesome sleeping bag as well as the wood heat and everything, so I was fine.
But anyway, no matter what you plan for, Some of your plans are going to fail, and that's why you have to have multiple backups and multiple layers of redundancy in your plan.
Yeah, learn that lesson again.
I mean, just confirming that.
Okay, now, let's talk about stockpiling some stuff, because I am a stockpiler type of person.
Now, Other people might say you're a hoarder.
I don't consider myself a hoarder because I think a hoarder is someone who stockpiles useless things.
I stockpile things that are very practical.
So no matter what I'm doing, I tend to have a lot of extra supplies.
For example, plumbing parts.
Like, I'm the kind of person who has a bunch of spare parts.
In our plumbing system right now for our ranch, we have an interchange of pipes that is all inch and a quarter.
And this is to allow multiple sources of water, well water or rainwater, to provide water to the barn and the house, for example.
And then also some spigots and so on.
So there's an interchange of parts, of pipes and valves and so on.
So I happen to stockpile one and a quarter inch PVC couplers and elbows and valves.
And so when this cold wave swept through Texas, of course, well, some of my pipes burst.
It happened to everybody.
Well, I mean, not everybody, but lots and lots of people, people I know.
Pipes burst everywhere across Texas because they weren't properly winterized for this.
None of us ever expected that it's going to hit five degrees or it's going to sit it below 20 for three or four days in a row.
I mean, that's just not part of the...
You know, expected margin of craziness.
So the pipes weren't sufficiently protected, and they burst.
And by the way, this happened at nuclear power facilities in Texas as well.
Their pipes burst at the nuke plant.
There's a nuke plant, I think it's on the Colorado River, just near the Gulf of Mexico, and the nuke plant...
Went down and took out power for millions of homes because the nuc plant, its pipes carrying water also burst.
There you go.
So it's not just me.
It's a nuc plant.
In any case, I had spare parts on hand.
So I have a rolling metal rack with little parts bins, little bins full of parts.
And there I've got PEX pipe stuff.
I've got PEX pipe crimpers and rings.
I've got PVC parts and PVC glue.
And I've got shark bite components and disconnects and all kinds of stuff.
And it's like a little mini Home Depot, basically.
And I think until now, people who would see that would say, what are you crazy?
You could just go to Home Depot and get that stuff.
Why are you stockpiling parts here in your house?
Well, shop, basically.
Why are you stockpiling parts?
And now, see, now you know why.
Because the roads aren't open.
The stores aren't open.
The gas stations have run out of gas.
Guess what?
I've got parts right here, and I was able to do repairs and get my water system back online, which was amazing.
And then I was able to take a hot shower for the first time in three days, which was awesome as well.
And the reason it was hot was because we have propane.
So propane is stored energy.
And propane, you know, heats water.
We have an inline propane-powered water heater that's been awesome.
I think the brand is Rheem, R-H-E-E-M. I think that's it.
I'm not looking at it, so I don't know for sure.
It's something like that.
And that thing has just been ultra-reliable this entire time.
So from now on, whatever I do for the rest of my life, I am never going to have a regular hot water heater because the inline propane-powered ream water heater works so well, and it doesn't require constant electricity to heat a giant tank of water.
See?
So it's been great.
I've really learned that that works very, very well.
Okay, also worth mentioning, fireworks.
Yeah, fireworks.
So the wood-burning stove is doing great.
It's been burning and doesn't require electricity except for blowers, but it still produces radiant heat even without the blowers working.
So a wood-burning stove is a great idea, even in Texas, believe it or not.
That's what I found out.
Now, I grew up in the Midwest and we had a wood burning stove in the house where I grew up.
It was actually installed by my mom.
I forgot what age I was when it was brought in, but it wasn't always there, but it became obvious that heating the house in the Midwest during the winter was going to be more affordable with wood.
So I actually grew up around a wood stove and a wood pile and the duties of that.
Like, hey, go gather some wood.
And then, you know, hey, scoop the ashes out of the wood stove and get those out of the house.
You know, the tasks that go along with wood heat.
And granted, wood heat is messy You'll have, you know, bark and wood fragments on the floor.
You have to sweep that up.
But guess what?
In this kind of situation, fire works.
And you need stuff that's low-tech.
Fire is very low-tech.
Super low-tech.
So this is a good time to think about a wood stove, frankly.
If you're anywhere in any of these states that got hit with this Arctic freeze, it's a good time to think about maybe getting a wood stove once society returns to normal.
Get it for next year, because you might need it again.
This could happen again.
Who knows?
Maybe...
Who knows?
Maybe this is some kind of crazy weather weapon system, you know?
And they're going to do this annually or something to punish the southern states.
I don't know.
All right.
Okay, next recommendation is for flashlights and lights.
When the power would go off in our house, remember we were on rolling blackouts where we had basically 10 minutes of power For every 30 minutes.
So for 20 minutes out of 30 minutes, we would be in the dark.
And so...
I have flashlights...
Made by a company that I'm going to recommend here.
And it's a company that all their stuff is made in China, so it's pretty rare that I would actually recommend a China brand for manufacturing.
But this company does a really, really good job, so they've earned my recommendation.
The company is Nitecore.
N-I-T-E-C-O-R-E. And what's especially great about Nitecore...
And what I strongly recommend is that you get flashlights that work off these lithium-ion batteries that are known as 18650.
Now, 18650, you might wonder, what does that mean?
What's the deal with 18650?
It's actually 18650.
18 is the diameter in millimeters, and 650 is the length in millimeters.
So if you're wondering what that means, 18650, that's describing the physical dimensions of the battery.
You can get flashlights that run off of these batteries and then you can buy these spare batteries.
Nightcore sells the lights and the batteries.
The batteries hold as much as 3500 milliamp hours or 3.5 amp hours, which is a lot of juice.
And so what I would do when the lights would go off, I would just turn on one of these lights from this company and just aim it at the ceiling.
And it's so bright that It's just like having lights on.
And then when the power would come back on, I'd just turn off the flashlight.
So we had a flashlight just sitting there aimed at the ceiling the whole time.
We'd just turn it on and off.
And then I had enough of these batteries sitting around that I could just swap them out as needed.
Didn't even really go through very many of these batteries.
So Nightcore is...
It's a very recommended company for the reliability of their equipment, the capacity of these batteries.
And I don't like AA batteries, and I don't even like the CR123 batteries very much, even though a lot of tactical gear uses the CR123 batteries.
The problem is CR123 don't have good rechargeables available on the market.
The rechargeables mostly suck.
And so you're just going through the CR-123s and chucking them as you use them up.
Whereas these 18650 batteries, which are basically the size of two CR-123s, these batteries hold a lot of juice.
They recharge well.
They have a lot of life cycles in them.
They carry a lot of juice and they power flashlights just really reliably.
So...
So there you go.
That's nightcore.com is that company.
And they're always running specials and everything.
I think if you sign up for the newsletter, just wait for them to send you some kind of a sale.
The one thing I would watch out for is they sell a lot of lights that are USB rechargeable because they have a built-in battery.
The problem is you can't ever change that battery.
And I accidentally bought a couple like that, not realizing that I couldn't change the battery.
And I really regret that purchase.
And it wasn't really clear to me on their website that that's what I was buying.
So they could probably do a better job explaining that.
If you buy something from them, watch out.
Make sure you're not buying a permanent battery built-in flashlight because that's not what you want.
You want to be able to swap it out.
So that's basically the gear review for you so far.
I'm probably leaving something out, but those are many of the items that I directly used that helped me get through this rolling blackout third world post-EMP collapse, basically, that Texas has just gone through.
It's crazy.
Never thought I would live through this in the United States.
I'm not totally sure we can consider Texas to be part of a first world nation anymore.
We'll have to see where that goes.
I'm sure Governor Abbott's tearing his hair out.
He's like, what the hell happened to our state?
But like I said, there's a bonus from all that, which is that people who don't like a hard life are free to leave.
You're free to go!
Get on out of the state!
Just the tough people are left here.
It's kind of like a natural selection type of event, I suppose.
I'm not trying to make light of the people who died or anything.
I feel very sorry for them.
And the fault lies with lack of preparing on the part of the power companies.
That's why elderly people died.
My prayers go to them.
Not trying to make light of that.
But for people who aren't elderly, who could have been prepared but weren't, you know, who are left in their homes with no water.
How could you have no water when you knew the storm was freaking coming?
How could you have no water?
I mean, I had stored water.
I needed to augment it with roof water.
But I still had enough stored water to get by.
And plus, I have a pond.
So, you know, I can always use that.
But how can people not be preppers at this point?
I don't even understand that.
Oh, by the way, I've been sprouting this entire time and eating my famous sprout sandwiches.
So guess what?
Sprouting works during a blackout, too.
By the way, the sprouting is slower.
When the temperature gets cooler, I've noticed that the sprouts are very slow growing at this point.
So, yeah, got to factor that in as well.
But sprouting works.
Fire works.
Diesel works if you can get your engine to start.
Gravity works for your water filters.
Batteries work if you have good ones.
The 18650 batteries, flashlights work.
All this stuff is working.
Thank God.
Because without all that, We wouldn't have made it.
We would have perished.
Would have been a bad scene.
So take a look at your own preps and see what you have.
Make sure you've got some stored food.
Make sure you've got all this stuff.
We didn't experience any kind of medical emergency.
We were really careful.
No falls, no cuts, no broken bones, none of that stuff.
Thank God.
Because we couldn't get to a hospital or an emergency room.
I don't want to go anyway because they'll give you a COVID shot without your permission while you're unconscious, probably.
So we're super careful.
You've got to maintain your health and safety during all of this.
Be really, really safe.
You know, don't run around at night without adequate warmth.
You know, in a sub-zero blizzard, people die outside just walking around.
Slip and fall, and then they're dead a few hours later, you know?
That's happened.
So keep all this in mind, folks, and be prepared for what's coming.
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It's called The Global Reset Survival Guide.
It's at globalreset.news.
It's really good information about the coming Global Reset.
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Download the PDF. And print it.
That's at globalreset.news.
And I also publish survivalnutrition.com, which is another downloadable book all about nutrition and foods for survival.
I might be working on another similar audiobook pretty soon.
We'll see.
I've got to catch up on some stuff here after this blackout situation ends.
It's not over yet.
We're still in the deep freeze, but It's going to get better over the next few days, so maybe life will return more to normal.
But thank you for all your support.
Thank you for your patience.
Thank you for doing your part to help everybody get back on their feet.
I'm doing the same.
But my biggest priority right now is to really help people become preppers.
Because preppers did well.
Non-preppers did horribly.
And some of them died during this.
That's the bottom line.
So everybody needs to be a prepper if you want to live.
Because hard times are coming.
This is just a little small taste of things yet to come.
Wait until the financial collapse hits.
You think an Arctic freeze is bad?
Yeah, wait till your dollars disappear.
And it happens to everybody all across the country and the food stamps stop working and bank accounts are looted by the government, the dollars abandoned.
Yeah, wait till that day happens.
That's going to make this deep freeze look like a walk in the park.
So be prepared for everything, folks.
Hard times are coming, but we can make it through with knowledge and determination.
I'm Mike Adams, naturalnews.com.
Thank you for listening.
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