Oct. 13, 2021 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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| Alright, welcome to this prep with Mike's special update about how to survive without electricity because this winter we are anticipating rolling blackouts across the United States because of the coal supply shortage. | |
| And if you've been listening to my podcast, we've quoted the industry insider who's warning about that. | |
| We've seen rolling blackouts in China right now. | |
| We've seen the energy shortage in Europe, the shutdown of the natural gas supplies, the skyrocketing prices. | |
| We are almost certain to see rolling blackouts across America and other nations that use, well, anything, wind, solar, natural gas, coal. | |
| None of it is keeping up with demand, and it's going to be a very tough winter. | |
| So right here in this podcast, I'm going to give you some practical things about how to survive the winter without electricity or, let's say, with rolling blackouts and some things that you can do, practical things right now. | |
| And just as a little bit of background, I went through a week without electricity in the Texas blackouts that happened in February of 2021 during the deep freeze. | |
| I think it was February. | |
| And the whole power grid went down virtually for the entire state, and it stayed down hard. | |
| I mean, sometimes we had eight minutes on every 30 minutes, but the power grid would just go down after just a few minutes of coming on. | |
| And this went on for a long time. | |
| And so the things that stopped working, this is a big red alert. | |
| The gas station stopped working. | |
| It couldn't pump gas. | |
| The cell tower stopped working, obviously, because they didn't have enough power back up to keep running. | |
| And having electricity for just a few minutes every 30 minutes is not enough to charge up the standby batteries for the cell tower. | |
| So we didn't have communications. | |
| Then, of course, you didn't have 911 services. | |
| People's refrigerators and freezers, of course, weren't working, so people lost a lot of frozen food. | |
| And then at the same time, the pipes were freezing everywhere and bursting, which could also happen this winter. | |
| Especially in more northern parts of the country or the northeast in particular. | |
| And that was causing then water outages and also municipal pipes were freezing. | |
| So it was a bad, very bad situation. | |
| And there were some prepping mistakes on my part. | |
| I want to share those with you so you can learn from my mistakes. | |
| And I learned, tell you what, I will never be in that situation again because of what I learned then. | |
| So it's like, if God is speaking to Noah, you know, God doesn't have to tell him twice, right? | |
| After the first flood, you know, he kind of has Noah's attention, right? | |
| So we're all Noah, and God is telling us to get prepared. | |
| It's time to build your ark. | |
| So how do you do that? | |
| What does that look like? | |
| One of the things I discovered is that it's important to have a massive amount of stored water on hand in containers and also to have lots of containers for moving water around. | |
| You need water for things like cooking and drinking, but also for personal bathing. | |
| You might have to bathe out of a bucket. | |
| I did that. | |
| That's something you might need to resort to. | |
| Make sure you've got buckets and you've got sponges and soap and whatever is necessary. | |
| You can bathe in your normal shower because the drain still works without the power. | |
| You just don't have water pressure. | |
| So you bring a bucket into the shower and you bathe with a bucket. | |
| Now, how much water do you have on hand? | |
| That's really critical. | |
| Most people don't have a lot of stored water because, well, they're assuming that the water is always going to work out of the tap. | |
| But in these situations, that's not the case. | |
| So how much water should you have stored and how do you store it? | |
| Well, there are several different ways to store water. | |
| One of the ways is to buy this giant plastic bag that sits in your bathtub and you can typically store about 100 gallons of water in that bathtub bag and those are readily available. | |
| You can also store water in barrels and drums and You know, old soda bottles, if you have those, or milk carton containers, or what have you. | |
| The point is, right now, as it's still several months away from probably the worst part of the rolling blackouts, I mean, I'm anticipating January and February is when we can have the coldest weather. | |
| So that's several months out. | |
| What you can be doing between now and then is you can be saving containers. | |
| Now, this doesn't make you a hoarder, by the way. | |
| If you're worried about people, then why are you saving all these containers? | |
| Well, just wait three or four months, you know, and you'll find out. | |
| It's not a hoarder when you're saving stuff that's practical. | |
| Now, if you end up not needing this, you know, you can recycle all that stuff after the winter. | |
| But if you need those containers, you're going to really wish you had them. | |
| So start saving containers now. | |
| Secondly, how are you going to boil water? | |
| So you're going to need to be able to boil water in order to have meals and make warm beverages. | |
| But importantly, with hot water, you know, you can cook rice and you can cook noodles and you can cook lentils and beans and all kinds of stuff. | |
| So you're not going to starve as long as you've got some of those food staples. | |
| You know, you can cook oats. | |
| Just being able to boil water is a big deal. | |
| So what do you have to boil water? | |
| You can get these simple little camping stoves, rocket stoves, but you also need to know how to use them in advance and you need to know how to use them safely so you're not burning your living room down. | |
| A lot of people, they try to use these indoors or they try to use propane stoves indoors. | |
| They're not made for that. | |
| It's not a safe thing to do. | |
| People use candles all the time when the lights are out and then they have candles burn up their curtains and burn down their homes. | |
| That's horrible. | |
| So if you've got candles or if you've got little stoves, rocket stoves, you can make little one-quart paint can alcohol stoves. | |
| I don't know where to find the videos exactly, but you take a one-quart paint can without paint, and you can buy these online, and you stuff a toilet paper roll in it after you remove the cardboard out of the center of the toilet paper roll. | |
| And sometimes you might have to remove some toilet paper in order to stuff this thing. | |
| I plan to do a video of this for you, but I just haven't had time. | |
| Anyway, you stuff toilet paper in there. | |
| Then you fill the paint can with isopropyl alcohol. | |
| And then you have a little piece of toilet paper out the top as a wick. | |
| And you can light that. | |
| And you can make a little isopropyl alcohol. | |
| Alcohol stove there for warmth and also for cooking things, for boiling a pot of water if you have a little stand that goes over it. | |
| But the safety warnings on this are IPA, isopropyl alcohol, is obviously flammable. | |
| If you do it wrong, you can burn things up or you can burn things down. | |
| You can burn yourself. | |
| So be sure that you know what you're doing. | |
| Check some online videos about how to do that. | |
| And then the third thing is make sure you have a way to filter water because what often goes along with these power outages is that municipal water systems, they may eventually restore water pressure, but when they restore water pressure, the water's not safe to drink because it hasn't been sufficiently treated, and sometimes there's a lot of backflow into the water system because of people's, well, septic systems. | |
| They'll often have a backflow like the The lack of flow through the main water system in the city will create kind of a suction effect and it'll suck somebody's septic wastewater into the main municipal water. | |
| And then that'll flow downstream into your tap, and you open up your tap, and you're like, hey, this smells like total crap, because it is somebody's crap water, actually. | |
| So you've got to understand and have a way to sanitize water, filter water. | |
| And this is why it's best not to rely on tap water, by the way. | |
| Have some stored water so you're not trying to filter somebody else's wastewater. | |
| It's not a good thing. | |
| It's not just... | |
| That's a bad sign, right? | |
| If it smells like a sewer, you probably shouldn't drink it. | |
| So know how to filter water, know how to cook things, know how to heat things, and know how to filter water. | |
| That's really important. | |
| Also then have some rainwater collection capabilities off your own roof surfaces if that's possible. | |
| That's a very good thing to have ready to go. | |
| Now the other thing that's going to happen is you're going to have plumbing problems. | |
| If it's a deep freeze and you don't have power and you can't keep your house heated, your plumbing is going to freeze. | |
| So the best way to deal with this is to get rid of all PVC pipes in your plumbing and replace them with PEX pipes now, before the winter. | |
| PEX, which is P-E-X, and it stands for polyethylene cross-linked. | |
| That's actually what that means. | |
| PEX pipes are able to expand quite a bit without shattering, and so they can actually handle the expansion of water turning to ice. | |
| So if PEX pipes freeze, they usually don't burst. | |
| And they're very resilient. | |
| They're just much easier to work with, whereas PVC pipes will burst. | |
| So if you're doing any plumbing or you have a chance to go retrofit some of your existing plumbing, go back and change it out to PEX pipes right now. | |
| And then the other thing is to stock up on the plumbing parts that you might need, such as unions and the PVC cement, if you're using that, the different tees or the elbows and the parts that you might need to do a plumbing repair. | |
| I also have PEX pipe crimpers and crimp rings, and I even have a high-end professional plumbing connection system called the Yupener system to repair PEX pipes, but mostly that's used by commercial plumbers. | |
| You might not want to get that. | |
| You can just get crimping systems and little crimp connectors, but it's good to stock up on those because you might have plumbing problems and you're going to need parts. | |
| Okay, let's see. | |
| Aside from that, you're going to need to stay warm. | |
| Now, staying warm when you're inside your house. | |
| Of course, the wind isn't penetrating your house. | |
| That's good. | |
| But it still may be very cold. | |
| So you're going to need cold temperature sleeping bags or, you know, thermal protection type of devices or things that you wear, you know, thermal underwear, things like that. | |
| But don't forget about good blankets, good sleeping bags, things like that. | |
| So if your house gets really, really cold, You can still survive without freezing. | |
| Now, you can get hypothermia even when the temperature is not freezing. | |
| You can die from hypothermia in, you know, 50 degree weather, Fahrenheit. | |
| it's down to 50 degrees, you're dead, right? | |
| So you got to be able to protect your body temperature, your body heat. | |
| And that also means being able to heat water so you can drink warm beverages and you can warm up food. | |
| If you're able to eat food, even just rice and beans, you know, your body's going to stay warm because it's going to convert some of that food into thermal energy, and that's going to help you stay warm. | |
| The worst thing is being cold in the winter, having no food. | |
| So you're starving, you're hungry, and you're cold, and you're shivering. | |
| That's how people die, frankly. | |
| And then if you don't have water, and your toilets aren't working, and then you start having problems with how do you get rid of your solid waste, and then somebody ends up contaminating your water supply with their, you know, their waste waste. | |
| You can end up with cholera. | |
| You can end up with all kinds of horrible infections and diarrhea in the middle of a collapse. | |
| Seriously, that's how some people die. | |
| So don't let yourself wind up in that situation. | |
| Also, don't forget about your animals and prepping for them. | |
| So, one of the things that I experienced was it was difficult to keep enough water to all my chickens and goats. | |
| And I was even concerned about my donkeys having access to water because the pond had frozen over. | |
| And I had one of my dogs had fallen through my pond ice and I had to rescue him out of that ice. | |
| And remember, he's fine. | |
| He was able to swim to shore after I broke the ice. | |
| But You got to think about your animals during all of this as well, not just yourself. | |
| Your animals might need special preparations. | |
| They're going to be cold. | |
| Maybe you normally have lights for them and then those lights aren't working because there's no power grid. | |
| So there's going to be a lot of attention that your animals need. | |
| Now another thing, I talked about fuel and gasoline shortages. | |
| The gas stations won't function during a power grid. | |
| So not only do you need to keep your vehicles topped off with diesel or gasoline or whatever you have, you also need to store some fuel. | |
| But you've got to do so safely. | |
| And this is one of the reasons why I strongly prefer diesel as a fuel medium, because it stores more safely than gasoline. | |
| Gasoline is very dangerous. | |
| A lot of people blow themselves up because they store it in containers that aren't airtight, and the gas releases gasoline vapors in an enclosed space, such as a garage or a cabinet. | |
| And when you have gasoline vapors mixed with air, which has oxygen, in an enclosed space, you've just created what's called a fuel air bomb. | |
| And all it takes is one spark, even a static electricity spark, and then you have what's called a fuel air explosive. | |
| Which is very devastating and it can blow up garages and homes and people and all kinds of stuff. | |
| So I'm not into storing gasoline. | |
| I don't store gasoline. | |
| I store diesel. | |
| It's up to you if you want to store gasoline but don't run afoul of local fuel storage laws. | |
| The fire marshals will have a fit with that appropriately because they know people blow themselves up doing this kind of thing. | |
| So don't be that guy or gal who gets all blowed up with gasoline vapors. | |
| Okay, one last thing. | |
| Make sure you have some kind of a solar panel that has a USB charging port in it so you can charge your devices. | |
| You can charge your mobile phones. | |
| You can charge a satellite phone, maybe, if you have that. | |
| And by the way, I mean, it's a good time to mention our satellite phone sponsor, SAT123.com. | |
| Because the sat phones work when the cell towers don't work, right? | |
| I wish I would have had a sat phone when the power grid went down. | |
| I have sat phones now, and the satellite phone store is a great solution for dealing with these emergency power down situations, you know, grid down situations. | |
| So that's sat123.com. | |
| But in any case, make sure you can charge maybe a laptop, computer, mobile phone, LED flashlights, batteries, things like that. | |
| You just need a little solar panel or a solar generator of some kind. | |
| Some kind of solar charger will achieve that for you. | |
| And that's a very important thing to make sure that you've got covered. | |
| So that's my advice. | |
| And you can find more Podcasts and videos about preparedness at prepwithmike.com. | |
| I thank you for listening. | |
| I want to wish you the best during this coming winter. | |
| I think the power grid is going to suffer. | |
| So I hope that you are well prepared and ready to stay safe and warm and well fed. | |
| And if you want to check out our online store, it's healthrangerstore.com. | |
| My name is Mike Adams. | |
| Thank you for listening. | |
| God bless and take care. | |
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