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Jan. 10, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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Simple actions to GET READY for the ARCTIC BLAST freak weather event

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	A major Arctic freeze is coming to North America.
	It's blowing in right now and it's going to get a lot worse over the next week or so.
	In fact, where I am in Central Texas, looks like Sunday night and Monday night are going to be extremely cold.
	Something like 20 degrees colder than normal this time of year.
	Now, the good news is the temperatures aren't going to be as crazy low as I initially thought because I was looking at a map that had the one weather model was showing these temperatures And I saw that map and said, this is crazy because it was found like minus 24 in Central Texas and minus 30 in Oregon.
	And I was like, this is crazy.
	I even said, I don't believe this is accurate.
	How could it get that cold?
	It turns out those were relative temperatures.
	And thanks to my readers for clarifying that.
	Those were relative, like relative to the normal average temperature this time of year.
	In Oregon, it's going to be 30 degrees colder.
	In parts of Wyoming, it's going to be 50 degrees colder.
	Basically, if you draw a line from the northwest of the United States, let's say northwest Washington state, all the way down through, let's say, Louisiana, and covering most of the Midwest and sort of the northern Midwest portion of the United States, including the Dakotas and, you know, Iowa, Nebraska, and Montana, and all that area.
	Of course, Michigan and Illinois as well.
	It's going to be freaking cold.
	So, I wanted to go through just a quick checklist with you, actually share with you my checklist, what I'm going through to get ready for this.
	Now, this is no joke, folks.
	It's going to be freaking cold, and we're probably going to lose a lot of services, such as electricity.
	In some areas, the power grid will be down.
	In some areas, you'll lose water, city water.
	You'll have pipes breaking.
	You'll have emergencies.
	You'll have, who knows what, wind damage, all kinds of things.
	Like, maybe gas stations will shut down.
	You'll lose cell tower access when the power grid goes down and so on.
	And if you lose power, how are you going to stay warm if your heat relies on electricity?
	So let's go through this checklist together here.
	And remember, I lived through the great Texas deep freeze of February 2021.
	At that time, temperatures got down to about 5 degrees Fahrenheit in Central Texas, which I had never seen before.
	And we lost the Texas power grid.
	And I remember the blackouts, the rolling blackouts, we had 8 minutes of electricity every 30 minutes.
	The power would come on, you'd try to do everything you possibly could for 8 minutes, and then it would go off.
	And you'd just sit in the cold, just freezing your ass off.
	And at that time, you may recall this, I was unable to start my tractor and power up my tractor generator, the PTO generator.
	And that's also the time where my dog fell through the ice in my pond and I had to rescue him successfully.
	And he swam back to shore.
	And that was quite an adventure.
	Anyway, I learned a lot since then.
	And this is when I began to use lithium batteries for tractors.
	Because lithium batteries are so much better.
	Although, in the extreme cold, they have their own problems as well.
	But they do tend to work a lot better, although they're very expensive to get a big 12-volt truck battery, let's say, or a tractor battery.
	They're not cheap.
	But I did upgrade to those, and whatever kind of battery you have or whatever vehicle you have, here's my advice.
	Start them and run them before the cold hits.
	Just run your vehicle for 10-15 minutes.
	And maybe you'll put out a little CO2 and help warm the place.
	Who knows?
	But run the vehicle.
	Make sure that your battery's in good shape.
	Make sure your battery's fully charged.
	If you have to, put a charger on your battery.
	Who knows?
	You might have to start your truck.
	You might have to have an emergency trip somewhere to the hospital, to the grocery store.
	Who knows?
	Make sure your vehicle or vehicles, plural, are all working.
	Secondly, make sure you have off-grid Heat sources that do not require electricity to function.
	This was something that I learned the hard way as well.
	Now I've settled on, and this is for barn use only, this is not for indoor use, you don't want to do this in your house, but I've settled on kerosene slash diesel heaters.
	There are ones that are just radiant heaters that require no electricity whatsoever.
	I've got a couple of those.
	Bought those after 2021.
	And they put out a certain amount of heat and they're fine.
	But the really good heaters are the forced air heaters that have a blower on them.
	And again, I like the kerosene slash diesel heaters because it's easy to buy diesel, it's easy to store diesel, and diesel is a multi-use fuel that you can use to power your tractor or power your generator or drive your truck or run your skid steer or whatever you have that runs on diesel.
	And remember, diesel stores longer as well.
	And diesel actually has more energy per gallon than does gasoline.
	And diesel's a lot safer to handle.
	It doesn't explode easily at all.
	It's very difficult to get diesel to burn, actually.
	So I like the idea of forced air diesel heaters, which you can buy online.
	They're a few hundred dollars for the pretty good sized ones.
	But if you have a greenhouse, or if you have a barn, You can put these in the barn, like this is what I'm going to do.
	I'm going to put them in the barn with my animals, although the door will be partially open so the animals can get in and out.
	And I'm going to run these heaters in the barn.
	To keep plumbing warm, to keep the animals warm.
	Now again, I don't recommend these for indoors because it's not clear to me about the safety.
	I mean, these are not designed to run indoors.
	They're outdoor type of heaters.
	But my barn is not airtight.
	There's all kinds of wind blowing through the door gaps and in the ceiling and whatever else.
	It's not an airtight barn.
	So I'm just trying to keep my animals warm.
	I'm going to use a lot of diesel.
	Most of that heat is going to get wasted.
	But you know what?
	That just goes with the territory.
	Diesel is pretty cheap.
	And one of these diesel heaters, these forced air heaters, will burn about 9 or 10 gallons in a night.
	And I'm willing to do that.
	I'm willing to spend 10 gallons of diesel on helping to keep my animals warm.
	So that's what I'll be doing.
	Of course, make sure you exercise caution and safety, fire safety.
	Don't point your diesel heater, like a forced air heater, at anything that's combustible, such as hay or straw or containers that could melt or things like that.
	Be smart about it, obviously, because you don't want to fire in the middle of all this either.
	Now, if the power goes out and you want your forced air heater to continue to work, that's where you need...
	The backup energy devices, sometimes called solar generators, battery storage devices.
	You could have a big battery with an inverter on it, or you could just buy something like the EcoFlow devices.
	Those are sold at our sponsor's website, beready123.com.
	They're associated with a satellite phone store.
	BeReady123.com You can get those units.
	Some are small, some are big.
	Get different size units.
	And when the grid goes down, these units will be able to continue to power your blower on something like a diesel heater.
	And plus, you can charge your mobile devices and flashlights and whatever else on the power.
	Just get one of the bigger models and you'll have more power.
	You can also recharge it, of course, with solar panels.
	Or you can recharge it from grid power when the grid comes back on.
	So these are devices that have a limited battery capacity, obviously.
	And the larger the battery, the longer it'll run a blower like that.
	So just think about what you need and get the size that's right for you if this is something you want to do.
	Otherwise, you could use a non-electric radiant heater, but they don't put out as much heat.
	Although, again, they don't use electricity, so they don't care about the grid.
	Now, in terms of local power, you probably know that I have a PTO generator, which is a 50-kilowatt generator made by Winco that actually attaches to the back of a tractor.
	And in my case, the tractor has over 100 horsepower at the PTO, which means power takeoff.
	And for 100 horsepower, you can generate 50 kilowatts of electricity.
	And what you're doing effectively is you're trading diesel for electricity.
	So I have a big transfer switch, and I can take my ranch off the grid and just switch it over to my tractor generator.
	And I will probably do that...
	On Sunday or Monday, given that that's the day that the temperature is supposed to be the coldest, that's the most likely time that the power grid will fail.
	So I may just preemptively switch over to my own local power grid, run off my tractor, just so that I know I won't have any interruptions at like 3 in the morning or whatever.
	But I'll just be running the tractor all night.
	And that's okay with me.
	That's one of the reasons I have tractors like that, is for situations like this.
	If you don't have something like that, maybe you have a small generator, just have it ready.
	Have the fuel ready.
	Make sure you start it up in advance.
	Make sure it runs.
	Make sure that it starts.
	Make sure the battery is good on it.
	If it's a battery starter, just check out everything in advance.
	All right, now let's talk about plumbing and pipes.
	Now, your pipes are probably going to burst.
	If you're not well prepared, anyway, in many of these areas that are hit by this Arctic blast.
	And when this happens, you don't know, of course, immediately that you have a pipe burst problem because the water is all frozen.
	But when things thaw out, that's when you realize you have no water pressure.
	Nothing's working.
	Your pipes are broken.
	Now, what always happens is then there's a run on parts at your local Home Depot or other hardware store.
	You know, plumbing parts, typically PVC parts, because PVC tends to burst very easily.
	So, number one, you can stock up on spare parts.
	And I'll give you a strategy on that, but most importantly, I think it's very important for you to go ahead and insulate your pipes.
	And you can use blankets if you can't find official insulation sleeves or what have you.
	Definitely insulate your pipes.
	And make sure that you're covered for the cold.
	And if you can, you could even put a little local heat source on them.
	There are, for example, pipe heaters that you can buy.
	And they will...
	Heat your pipes and keep them from freezing.
	You can get heated water hoses, by the way, if you need to run water and keep it warm.
	And don't forget to put heaters in your animal water containers because your animals need to have liquid water.
	You can buy small heaters, maybe 250 watts or so, that are made out of metal, and you drop them into the water containers and it keeps them liquid.
	So that's always a good strategy for your animals.
	And of course, be sure to protect your animals from the cold.
	Make sure they've got shelter.
	Keep them out of the wind.
	If you can, bring them indoors.
	And if you can't, make sure they've got plenty of blankets or hay or straw, a place to...
	To hide out, like a doghouse or whatever, so that they're going to be well protected.
	That's absolutely critical in all of this.
	But back to the plumbing, one of the things that we all learned after 2021 was that PVC pipes are the worst, and you want to eventually switch over everything you can to PEX, P-E-X, which really means cross-linked polyethylene.
	And PEX pipes They don't shatter like PVC. They're also much safer for the environment, by the way.
	PEX will flex a little bit.
	And so if water freezes inside PEX pipes, typically it will not burst the pipe.
	And there's a type of PEX that really flexes a lot more.
	And I forgot if that's considered A or B, but usually it's the kind of white-colored PEX or clear or natural-colored PEX. That tends to flex a lot more.
	At least it's usually colored that way.
	Whereas the red and blue PEX pipes that are typically used in residential plumbing, those are not designed to flex as much, although they still flex a little bit.
	But for PEX repairs, the system that you want is called ProPEX, P-R-O-P-E-X, or U-P-O-N, is it O-R? I think it's UPONOR. Or anyway, it's just called Propex.
	And this is a system that I started adopting after 2021.
	Because it allows you to very easily repair PEX lines using an expansion tool.
	And the brand that I recommend is Milwaukee.
	You get the Milwaukee expansion tool and you get these PEX rings.
	And it allows you to repair broken PEX lines in literally a minute without using any glue whatsoever.
	You don't have to wait for hours for PVC cement to solidify.
	It takes about one minute.
	You can repair a PEX pipe, and then you can put pressure on that pipe literally two minutes later.
	I've used it many, many times around the ranch.
	I've used it to build out plumbing systems, to extend pipes, to put in tees, to repair pipes, all kinds of things.
	And although this tool is expensive, it's called an expansion tool for PEX pipes.
	I found it to be worth every penny.
	It just gets the job done.
	And these connections are solid and watertight.
	And you can use this even when it's really cold outside.
	And, oh, I forgot to tell you, you can also do these kinds of repairs even when your pipes are wet.
	So you don't have to even dry off the pipes or wait for them to dry.
	You can do this wet and you can repair a connection.
	You basically insert a piece and then you do an expansion and then the ring recompresses back around the insert and a minute later it's done.
	So for any kind of plumbing repairs, that's something to really consider.
	And then of course you're going to want to leave water probably running a little bit through your pipes.
	And I remember back in 2021, it got so cold that I had a faucet that was running inside a little greenhouse that I have.
	I went ahead and let it run because I thought, man, it's going to get cold in here and I should just leave this running.
	When I came back the next morning, it had frozen into a column of water.
	That was from the faucet to the floor, which was about three feet.
	I was just shocked.
	I mean, it's like a snapshot frozen in time of a bunch of water coming out of a faucet, but it froze the whole thing.
	And that's when I learned that, well, I obviously need to run more water through these faucets.
	So I say as it's getting very, very cold on certain nights, depending on where you are, that might be Saturday night, Sunday night, Monday night, I say it's better to run a little bit too much water than too little water.
	Water is cheap.
	Plumbing repairs are very expensive and very inconvenient.
	So although I don't put things on full blast, I would run like a trickle of water and I would do that both indoors and of course Anything outdoors unless you have one of those faucets that is buried where the water recedes deep underground and you don't have to worry about it.
	Those are called hydrants where when you shut off the water, it falls way below ground level because there's a drain underneath the soil.
	Those kinds of hydrants you don't have to worry about.
	But if you just have a regular faucet outside, you either need to protect it really, really well with insulation or Run some water through it, and maybe both.
	And then, of course, in addition to all this, make sure you've got backup supplies of food in case the grocery stores are closed.
	Make sure you've topped off all your fuel tanks in case there's a shortage of fuel or the gas stations aren't running.
	And, obviously, have backup communications in case the power grid goes down.
	And, you know, satellite phones.
	I mean, that's the obvious choice if you want a satellite phone.
	You can check out our sponsor in that space, sat123.com, sat123.com.
	And they can overnight phones to you, by the way.
	So even if you call them on, like, say, Thursday, they can get you a phone by Friday, you know, before the disaster.
	And they make them really affordable.
	So you just pay a monthly fee, you get a certain number of minutes, and then after a certain amount of time, you get to keep the phone, you own the phone outright, the minutes roll over if you don't use them.
	So you can save them up, use them for emergencies, what have you.
	So take advantage of all the solutions that are out there, whether you're talking about solar generators or satellite phones or kerosene heaters, diesel heaters, PEX plumbing.
	Just take advantage of all these things as you can.
	I mean, spend wisely if you're going to invest in these things.
	But I find that investing in these tools...
	It saves so much time and money and frustration by not having a disaster, not having the inconvenience of losing running water, things like that.
	So deploy these strategies and you'll probably be okay.
	Now, as far as protecting your plants, well...
	That's a whole other discussion, but you're going to lose some plants.
	There's just no doubt about that.
	No way around that.
	But thank you for listening.
	Mike Adams here, The Health Ranger, naturalnews.com, and also brighteon.com.
	Stay prepared.
	We'll get through this.
	You know, this is not going to be the hardest thing we have to go through in 2024.
	It's going to get a lot crazier.
	This is just a small little warm-up round.
	Just to make sure that you're on your toes.
	Can you survive freezing cold weather?
	Yeah, yeah you can.
	Just get ready for it.
	Thanks for listening.
	Take care.
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	So this is just one set of tools to consider for your survival and preparedness for what's coming.
	I mean, it's incredibly obvious now that extreme weather events are going to become, well, more accelerated.
	Coengineering is kicking in.
	They're trying to cause food crop failures, famine, and just death by power grid failures.
	And that will kill, unfortunately, a lot of people, especially those who are not prepared.
	So get prepared in every way you can.
	Have a backup food supply.
	Have backup power.
	Have backup communications.
	Backup emergency medicine and first aid.
	Backup self-defense and everything else that you need in order to make it through these very difficult scenarios.
	Many of which are being engineered on purpose to try to make your life difficult.
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	So thank you for your support, and I wish you the best success getting through this.
	God bless you all.
	Thank you for watching today.
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