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Safety Wars 10-4-2024. Hurricane Response, War in Middle East and Security at Home, News and Views
Before we start the program, I want to make sure everyone understands that we often talk about OSHA and EPA citations, along with some other regulatory actions from other agencies, legal cases, and criminal activity. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Propose fines are exactly that, and they are often litigated, reduced, or vacated. We use available public records and news accounts and press releases. We cannot warranty or guarantee the details of any of the stories we share, since we are not directly involved with these stories, at least not most of the time. Enjoy the show! And from the border of Liberty Prosperity in the highway to North, this is Safety Wars for Friday, October 4th, 2020-2024. So this is what happens. Upload everything and you'll forget to hit publish. So if you're wondering why I did not have a podcast last time, I forgot to hit publish. We were here, and it was the video. A lot going on out there. So what have I been doing today? I've been doing learning, as are kind of our network, J. Allen, on the radar safety shows about a month ago. Sometimes I got to take a break and learn. Basically, he didn't say it exactly like that, but that's basically what he said. So we were involved in some learning of new technology, new methods, and everything else. And we're looking to do a major computer upgrade here in the next week or so. Right? Just stuff breaking down, you know, kids getting older, that sort of thing, and everyone needing their own computer. So as part of our making sure I'm on the air. As part of our, you know, security measures here, we have a rule here because in our house, because we have, now we read, we watch, we observe, we learn. So a couple of years ago, what's the rule? I'm going to share with you. Let's see if this story is up there. Right before showtime, I deleted everything. I closed everything out. So our school district, the Clarkstown School District, they handed this started during COVID. They realized that a lot of folks do not have their, you know, computers. So you have two or three kids in the house, one for a lot of families, and you do not, and everybody's working at home during COVID, and nobody could, and nobody really was able to, you know, you had the parents working from home, and you have the kids working from home. Most parents are not entrepreneurs like us here, so they only have one computer or two computers, one for the husband, one for the wife, or one for each parent, whatever we're going to call them. I understand political correctness and everything else. So what happens is, what happens is they went and they got a grant, and all of the kids get a computer, one of the lower-end computers, but it's enough to do your schoolwork. So you have word processing you do on there, some spreadsheets, and a lot of the different education software that you're able to do. But it's always in the back of my mind. We're going to go back a couple years here, and this is from October 21st, 2010, on CBSNews.com, and this is last February, the Lower Marion School District. That's how Philadelphia came under fire for using laptop webcams to look in on students at home. Last week, the school district set a legal action stemming from those actions. CBS correspondent Michelle Miller reports, Lake Robbins was the software when he got to take home a school history laptop. Little do you know officials at the Harrington High School were watching him via webcam, and it goes on and on and on and on, and again, you know, you're in a room. Again, this is 14 years ago now, and this actually happened like 16 years ago, where you're in the room. I think all of us know smart technology now, like a couple of brands of smart TVs where they actually have microphones and some cameras from what I've heard, definitely microphones, and one of the variants has in there. Don't stand in front of the thing, naked sort of thing, you know, in the instruction manual, and they actually go and they were spying on the kids, and it wasn't, I don't think anything nefarious, meaning that they wanted to catch the kids doing, you know, shameful things. I don't really embarrass them in their bedroom, but it was along the lines of, you know, the fact that they were doing this, watching kids, get it, and how is that going to be used? Once you, you can't unsee things, you cannot unhear things, most people can't unhear things or unsee things. Really, I just ignore a lot of the stuff that I see at there, because I don't have time to deal with Boudoni or Guivno, uh, Bull Guivno. But, uh, anyway, and that's always in the back of my mind. So what's the rule that we have? The school computer is to be used for school work. Period, end of discussion. If they have to log on to any program, like they have on a plug here, Google, or they, they have all, everyone has a Google account, a school account there, they are not to put that on a family computer. We have family, and we have school. Maybe you have the same type of thing where this is for work, this is for school. And a lot of smaller businesses like mine don't, they, they have an old computer at home. They have an employee or a consultant that they're working with. Here, use this computer, right? Here, use this computer. And they don't really wipe the computer clean. So what I do is I, why have a project going on now? Someone's using a computer in mine. Before they get that computer, that computer is completely wiped clean. And they're on their own separate account. So they got their thing going on in the job. I have my thing going on at all the other projects. I often, uh, was able to, uh, get where I had several projects going on at one time. And then we had several computers, right? And what I would then do is every project has their own computer. And they were all, you know, one project to this facility, one project to this facility. Why? Because I don't want to mix confidential information and everything between computers. And when I started working with companies in Europe, or based in Europe, they were real big on cyber security. So this is one of the reasons why people say, well, the school would never, ever, ever spy on children. Well, guess what? They did it here, uh, back in 2010. And the other thing is this as I'll point out what the other wars says. You know, you can say the other wars. The other wars says, now the other, uh, website was wars in their name. We're only questioning people who lie, who are proven liars. So, uh, trust the verify. Am I, you know, a lot of people aren't going to like that, but I'm just going to tell you the way it is, uh, with this, uh, with this. A lot of news going on today here. And, uh, it's like, where do we begin here? And we're going to kick on over to a voice of American news and some of the other, uh, websites there. So federal agencies, uh, war, and this is from the epoch times. Federal agencies weren't of potential violence on first anniversary of Hamas attack on Israel. Now, this is a topic near and dear to us in this household. In Clarkstown, New York, where I reside here, uh, we have a very large Jewish population here, whether they're reformed, they're Orthodox, or they're, I believe it's called the Harabi, the, uh, or, uh, acidic Jewish or ultra Orthodox. There are many different names, very big on that here. And we've seen an increased police presence throughout the entire, uh, town over the last couple of days with the beginning of Russia, Shana, uh, the Jewish New Year. And, uh, what we're finding now, so my, uh, daughter says to me, uh, daddy, uh, where, why are all these fleas out here? I'm, uh, took her out for run a couple errands today. All the schools are shut. And she said, and I said, well, this is what's going on in her, uh, my mother, my mother, her mother goes and, uh, speaks, uh, no, we explain what the situation is with the, uh, with the, with this thing. I mean, there's police all over the place. And apparently, uh, this is all from the federal agencies that are warning of potential violence on the first anniversary of Hamas attack on Israel. And FBI and the Department of Homeland Security has issued a statement warning of potential violence on the first anniversary of October 7th. Uh, we have here, let me share this, um, here, hold on. Do, do, I gotta do a share of screen. And I am real bad about cleaning off the, uh, best top of everything on here. So let me do that first. And okay, I'm going to do your share screen for your viewers at home. And all right. So here we have the FBI, uh, issued a warning here, alert number I-10424 PSA, October 4th, dated today, 2024, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security are issuing this PSA to highlight potentials rights in the United States for a variety of actors in response to the one-year anniversary in the Hamas attacks on Israel. The FBI and DHS, uh, assessed the one-year anniversary of the October 7th, 2023 attacks that initially aided the ongoing Israel Hamas conflict. Now, before I go on, before we go on here, all right, let me say this, there are people out there, college professors and a couple of other things that say this never happened. By the way, so this is the FBI that said it happened. So you go with it, what you want, right? I had a, uh, I was having a conversation with a fellow business owner. He owns a little luncheonette in the area. One of his employees, who he trusts, she's a college student, she went to college and one of her professors said that this never happened. I said, I don't believe you. Well, cast what? The woman was in the back, the lady in the back, she came in, oh, yeah, this never happened. There's all a bunch of, uh, bullocks. There's all a bunch of guvno. This didn't happen because my professor said it didn't happen. So if you think that there are not people in the university system and throughout our society, now think that, uh, that are dangerous, guess what? That's a dangerous person. This is along the lines of, uh, people denying the holocaust. By the way, you don't know, I think I know. I, I had people deny that my, uh, family had 13 people killed in the Soviet concentration cancer in World War II. There are people like that, believe me. There are people out there that say it's slavery didn't happen. Where slavery was a wonderful, there are people that fouled up in our society. And that really is one of the fronts on the safety war. What we're trying to do is push back ignorance and maybe have some intelligence here. I digress. All right. So, uh, when they're saying over the past here, we have observed violent extremist activity and hate crimes in the United States linked to the conflict. Jewish Muslim or Arab institutions, including synagogues, mosques, and Islamic centers and community centers, and large public gatherings, such as memorials, visuals, and other lawful demonstrations, resent attack, attractive targets for violent attacks or for hoax threats by a variety of threat actors, including violent extremists and hate crime, although such actors may view the anniversary as an opportunity to conduct an attack or other high profile illegal activity. FTOs, whatever that stands for, FTOs, foreign terrorist organizations, and other violent extremists will likely continue to exploit narratives related to their conflict, and they may not be correct narratives and call for loan attacks to contacters that conduct violence in the US. Online messaging associated with FTOs, another violent extremist highlighting the one-year anniversary of the October 7 attacks could motivate threat actors across ideologies, including those who espoused violent anti-Semitism and in Islamophobia to engage in violence. Individuals inspired by this online messaging could act alone to commit an attack. So, this is all from everything and they have contact info. And if you know that someone's going to happen, dial 911, report it, or they have other online resources here with that. So, uh, again, we are seeing a increased police presence in our community here telling everybody to remain vigilant. And now just, believe me, hey, look, we could disagree. Just don't be stupid about things here, really. Going on with that, we're going to go over to VOA News right now. Okay. And this is Voice of American News. This is all non-copyright and open source information from the feds. Collective trauma marks the anniversary of Hamas attack on Israel. As the conflict in Gaza enters its second year, the World Health Organization is calling for an end to the unspeakable suffering of civilians in Israel and the region and for health care to be protected and not attacked. The WHO says the horrific attacks for Hamas militants and other armed groups in Israel on October 7th of last year, touch off events that have caused tens of thousands of civilian deaths and injuries, as well as the displacement of millions of people in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank, and now Lebanon. Dr. Michael Tiernan, special representative to Israel, told journalists that a briefing in Geneva Friday that for Israel, the October 7th of massacres mark an event as significant and agonizing as the 9/11 attacks against the World Trade Center. Yeah, for capita, I believe it, uh, you know, uh, and maybe more, uh, when you average it out for people versus victims. Since October 2023, there have been at least 516 attacks on healthcare and Gaza, including 765, uh, that's resulting in. So again, violence on both sides. I'm advocating for a quick and speedy end to this here, uh, with this. And let's not forget that there's a lot of human suffering out there that we need to really, uh, know curtail. And we're going to go into our first commercial breakup. People are saying you're not taking enough for it. Well, okay, our first commercial break, uh, advertisements here. And by the way, if you want to advertise, we do take advertisements, um, here. 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Conduct safety audits and training. Contact the safety wars team at jim@safetywars.com or 8452-695772. Visit us on the web at www.safetywars.com. Let's build a safer workplace together. Okay, so we are back. I don't know. I apologize for your focus on safety FM, the live network. I don't know exactly what happens. It hasn't cut out like that in about three or four weeks, but it seems to combine things going. I just had to reset some stuff here. Oh, oh, oh. Ocean recordables, catastrophic losses, environmental disasters. You want answers? So do I. This is Jim Pozel with Safety Wars. That's my daddy. Yeah, so, uh, I can't yell that when I don't do that. Why don't you put the thing in? Why does your son do anything? I don't know. Yeah, I kind of ask him with this. Uncertainty clouds, North Carolina's 2024 election after Halloween. So, Helena, uh, so anyway, there is a lot of stuff that goes into this. We don't really consider that with the, uh, when, uh, there's a natural disaster. So, uh, and this is where the stuff of conspiracy theory starts. Uncertainty clouds, North Carolina's 2024 election after Helena. Here's what we know. The area, and this is from the Epoch Times, the area impacted by the sort of significant, uh, Lee Moore. Why? You can see where AI is writing stuff here. Uh, signal, right. The area is significant Lee Moore, Republican and Democrat, the state election board, uh, shows. So, uh, as we know, I believe, and I kind of do an election especially here. Uh, well, as you get closer, officials in North Carolina weren't that voting in some parts of the battleground state might be impacted due to Hurricane Helena's impacts. Well, yeah, they're missing voters, uh, unfortunately here. Uh, I think that the, uh, uh, uh, fatality rate, the casualty rate is going to go way, way up here in the next couple of weeks, uh, here. Unfortunately, from what I've heard on the ground, I do have some sources on the ground. Nobody wants to go there. Uh, wants to come on the air. Uh, everyone's afraid, right. With this, that this is going to really impact the election. So, uh, and, uh, this is the other thing that I, this is why I don't like mail-in voting. People mail their votes and, and then they die between the time that they mail it and that between the election day. What do you do with that? Right. It's just the way it is. Uh, and by the way, we get people here all, all the time saying that there is no election fraud. Well, people are getting, uh, convicted all the time of it. Uh, and I think it's been the last three and a half years. And, uh, as we like to point out here, uh, right? There were cases, uh, out there where people were not allowed, well, I mean, political parties are not allowed to, uh, do certain things up by court order. So, uh, with that, uh, the name of the Republican party in, uh, kind of involved in self, uh, kind of, uh, god, it's, uh, rear-end in a sling, uh, back in the 1980s. That, and it precluded them from, uh, talking about stuff. Well, what are you talking about, Jim? Well, we'll save it for later on here. Uh, don't have to talk about everything here. So, uh, how is it going to impact the election? I don't know, uh, with that. Uh, so again, that's another safety wars, right? Grandparents found hugging one another after Fallen Tree killed them in their South Carolina home. As Hurricane Helena roared outside the wind howling and branches snapping, John Savage went to his grandparents' bedroom to make sure they were okay. We heard one staff and I remember, remember going back there, checking on them, uh, 22-year-old said of his grandparents and, uh, they were both fine. The dog was fine but not long after they heard a broom and the sound of one of the biggest streets on the property in Beach Island, South Carolina crashed on top of his, uh, grandparents' bedroom, killing them. This almost happened during Superstorm Sandy here. Uh, the, uh, a tree, Master Tree fell out of my neighbor's house and they obviously automatically lost power and, uh, his wife had to, the wife there, there were a older couple, had to climb through a tree in the dark. That fell, like basically fell in their hallway and cut the house in half. Basically, nobody was killed. It's a miracle but, uh, she had long-term, uh, PTSD issues with that. I know she was, uh, God help and eventually made a good recovery as good as you can expect. It was just a complete nightmare. So what I've done because of that and here it was very common. It was very common for, uh, every time there was a storm, there was a power outage. So, uh, to their credit, the utility companies around here, uh, the main utility company went through and they clear-cut after, well, it was two years in a row. We had an October Halloween storm and then the next, uh, right where, uh, they canceled, basically canceled Halloween and then the next year, they had, uh, another storm, Superstorm Sandy and then they had another, right, all through here. So we had Halloween canceled and things of that nature. Uh, and what ended up happening was most of the trees that were gonna fall fell. What happened in this neighborhood was the same thing in our old neighborhood chestnut ridge right down the road here. One road was closed for months because they lost hundreds of trees, uh, along one stretch of road and that was where all, that was where the chief land was and that's where they had all the power lines down going through. So that, that was a nightmare. What they did here right up, right around the corner here was the utility took and it was on sit on the town land. They went about a hundred foot from the, uh, from the, uh, side of the road to into the woods and they just clear-cut on a whole area because that's where a lot of power lines were and things of that nature. And that was when they realized that was one of the main access ways into town. One of the problems that we've had here in the northeast, it sounds like I'm going into the woods, but I'm really not. I pointed this out on a couple of interviews I did over the years. Uh, so yeah, uh, we had, if you go into central New Jersey, you had Washington, you have Washington's lookout over in the watch on the mountains. And on a clear day, you can see from that mountain to New York City, it's like 14, 15 miles. Now, when Washington was there during the, uh, Revolutionary War, all of that area was clear-cut and was farms. That's not what the case is today. We have suburbs, we have neighbor, there are no farms. We may have a couple, we have a couple of parks, but they were observing reported according to history. The Washington was observing troop movements of the British from there at a New York and apparently, by the side of some really good telescopes back then and, uh, during the revolution, but they were able to observe going all the way out. You can't, right? So everything was clear-cut. Another minor cause of the American Revolution was this. Today, we're used to having coal, right? First it was coal, when coal was discovered in a huge hypothesis, we'd started to use coal. Uh, we had biomass wood and you had a whole bunch of other things going on. You had New York, New Amsterdam and then New York City. You had Arthur Hartford, Connecticut. You had Philadelphia. You had, uh, the Norfolk area, that whole area there. Uh, and going down the coast, all these major settlements and cities, Boston. Well, guess what? You're going to be using a lot of, uh, agricultural products and that were in the, not only to feed people, but for building ships, because you have mercantilism, things getting sent over to England. There's a point here. You had people burning wood for fuel, primarily, and the forests with easily-assessable wood were being cleaned out, right, across the 13 colonies and it was forbidden to go past the original 13 colonies. Everything was clear-cut. Literally, everything clear-cut for farm, for wood, and everything. Everything accessible. So that was a minor part of the revolution was land-use issues. Now, what happened was, late 1800s, we still had farms, right? We have the Trenton, Trenton makes the world-takes bridge in, uh, New Jersey here. And that was put in because 50 miles around that, from that bridge, from Trenton, was like a majority of the, uh, of the industry, right, even going into the late 1800s, early 1900s here. So all this area was clear-cut. Now we have the situation where things are being reforested. So for example, uh, the Soaks Forest in Northern New Jersey, those are all very young trees, relatively, and, right, and you have ancient trees and ancient growth in this country. You go to Europe, a lot of those trees are pretty old, and you know, and everything else. There's some of the northern, uh, country, I believe it was Sweden, reforesting all the whole areas here. So this is what we did here. Everything's been reforested. And then the suburbs came after World War II. So these areas that were reforested, or maybe they were the suburban areas were built, right, on top of these farms, old farms, they planted trees. How long does an oak tree live? 70 to 100 years. So now we're coming into the 70-year thing. A lot of these trees are at the end of their life cycle. And we also had a lot of blights come through, mainly the ash tree blight that's impacting us right now. We also have had the Japanese beetles and things that come through here. A lot of these trees are dying off. So what's my point here? It's what I did after my neighbor's experience and after the experience of super storm sandy, any tree around the house I could threaten the house I had removed. Same thing at my parents house. Every tree that can impact the house was removed. Why we do not want a tree fall? I like trees. Believe me, I like trees. I'm replanting the trees and other areas of the properties here. I'm not, you know, because we take down, we kind of put back. That's what I was taught. So anyway, a lot of the, so what do you do? You look around in your house what you want to do, your property. Take down the trees that are going to impact you if you can. It's an expensive notion. The other next thing you do, fires. Do you have fire material around the house? I don't mean do you stack your wood pile on your house, even though that's not necessarily a good thing usually. But around, do you have any accumulation of biomass? Something to consider for disasters. Because I tell you what, they have not had a controlled burn. A lot of neighborhoods in northern New Jersey ever, right? Since they were converted from dairy farms at other farms to suburban. And in some of those forested areas that I go into and I hang out in, you got one foot to foot of biomass leaves trees and everything else. I can see one day that lighting up when the conditions are right and we're going to have one hell of a problem. So this is some of the stuff that you got to learn from this. I'm not blaming victims or anything else. That's not what the point is. It's all part of your disaster preparation stuff. Preparing your property in the event of an emergency. Now, there's stuff going on in North Carolina. That's like a nuclear bomb going off. I'm sorry. There's not too much you can do about that. Can you build capacity? Yeah, I guess. Here, maybe you could have a bug out location of relative or friend, something like that that you can stay with, evacuate to. Maybe they have the leaflets. Maybe you have files over at their place where things up in a cloud somewhere. Are you important documents? There's a lot of stuff going on there. You can do outside of that. So what I did, anything you can impact the house was removed. That's just the way what I did because I don't want a tree falling on the house with that. Now, here's something else. It's also from the epoch times. Hurricane Helena stirs up yellow jackets and bees requiring epinephrine distribution. So not only is regular health care stuff overloaded because of what's going on, but also the weird things going on. So now you have a lot of this area flooded. The bees came out from there. Maybe some of them were already end of the summer here. Maybe they were already doing their thing, whatever they do in the winter, day hibernate or whatever. I'm not a entomologist. Even though I knew a very prominent one was my professor in college, Jamie Cremardi rest in peace. I am head of the American Entomological Society. All this stuff coming up. Now you have venetral and epinephrine issues and they're running out of it for those allergic to bees things. I found out I developed a little bit of an allergy when I got stung by 10 bees over the summer in my legs. I was never able to get this thing around in some of those areas. So it could happen. Again, the standard first stage kit does not have this stuff in it. So you need to have stuff in it for allergies. If you're right, if you have them, or just have them and work dealing with someone. Again, stuff that does not end up in first stage kits that should. So we're going to take our second commercial right here at Z37 and we'll come back to you. Maybe we'll have a little longer break here. In a world where danger lurks in every corner, one man stands as a beacon of hope. 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OSHA enforcement is suspended. No, nothing was here. I mean it's just usually during these victims is that they don't, no, it goes into your consultation mode. And then everyone says well now we don't have to obey anything and ha ha ha. We're going to show you up your safety people. All right. Great. Great. You know. And they end up doing so. So EPA has uh hold on. EPA has issued a whole bunch of stuff here and I just lost it. Hold on. On hurricane response to Hurricane Helene, Helena. So here we have on September 24th Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida's Big Bend Resident. As a category forest storm before moving into Georgia will continue catastrophic category two winds early Friday morning and the National Hurricane said they're worn a light threatening flash urban flooding including numerous significant landslides and EPA is working closely. So they have issued a pretty handy webpage here with this stuff here. So uh flooded homes uh we'll do that one FEMA resources. So we are working with our safe partners to assess the damage. Now with this uh right we are working with our safe partners going through be careful of working with generators. Again that's where people have a problem. We continue to deliver critical size impact in areas including meals, water generators, tarps and other supplies. So if you're going to be looking at this from a disaster preparation mode they've already told you what the what their priorities are meals, water, generators, tarps and whatever the other things are you may need. So probably in your disaster preparation stuff what should you have meals, water, generator, tarps four things right there. Again these people lost everything from what I'm seeing and a lot of uh some of the my wife's co-workers are giving a lot of information out there. So then we're stranded until yesterday. So I'm not a not a unique case here I'm just saying well that's happening here. How to recover. Now here what with this now I had to go through a couple years ago a FEMA application here to get a and we got a grant here just for a complete disclosure. All the information that they request those that's the paperwork you should have somewhere. So if this is impacted here you should have the paperwork there wherever it is to evacuation areas. Friend, relative, something like that. There are some people who and I'm not saying you should do this because there are problems with doing this. Some people have a safety deposit box like a couple of states away when they have this stuff there in the bank. There's problems with a safety deposit box especially if there's a fatality or death if someone if you're of for that. I mean it's a big nightmare but that's what people sometimes have. It's just stuff available because I tell you what those applications are extensive and they are paying in the neck. I was the one who handled it with us my wife was handling everything else I'm the one who handled this and I tell you what it was a it was a big freaking deal and I can't imagine losing everything and then trying to figure out apply for one of those disaster assistance loans or a grant. Sometimes they give out a grant. So here we have recovery after hurricane here prepare for hurricane we were talking okay right now recovery. EPA's emergency response capabilities and they have a big long report here emergency response. You're a good PR thing again and there's all different reports here where the EPA is involved. Let's see they have a YouTube video. I don't know if this will come over. That ain't gonna work. You got too much reverb but basically you could go over their EPA.gov they have a nice video. So making make any preparations I can minimize injury and property damage. So one of the first rules that you want to know is and responding to any of this is do not become part of the problem. So you know do not make your situation worse. So make preparation that is communimized injury and property damage. Households, utilities, and businesses should plan for a disaster before hurricane season starts. This is what the problem is. Unless you're on the coast right. You're unless you're on the coast you're not really thinking of hurricanes. And as I point out it takes roughly two weeks to get prepared for this stuff. Jimmy that's not yeah it does take right and this is a 30 days to know what we call a scenario three 30 up to 30 day long. How the hell are you gonna prepare for that in one day? You ain't. You have to do this over a couple of weeks for something. Just think about it. I mean we we had a little disruption here in the supply chain which we're going to be dealing with over the next month with the ports right on strike on the east coast. It's going to take roughly 40 days to recover from this one week average here and buy some estimates. Some estimates are 28. Some are 40 here. So let's not uh you know uh I mean we're at a toilet paper here. Some of the stores I'm seeing things on social media from legitimate sources some of my friends. So again remember you make the list do an assessment right find out right assess analyze an act. So for example let's say that you need water right two gallons of drinking water a day per person. You have four people in the house. That means you're going to have to have eight gallons a day and a five day period at 40 gallons. And in one month period 30 assuming 30 days 240 gallons if my mind is working right tonight. 240 gallons of water you think are you going to go down to your local shopping club and pick up or supermarket pick up 240 gallons. Guess what? You make it on some kind of watch list if you do that. Okay well we're going to put it in drums okay. How many drums you're going to where you're going to store that? Well we've got how about a pool? Well we got the pool. Okay well how you're going to purify that water. Make sure it's safe to drink. You understand it's a big freaking deal here. So here we have make a drinking water. Keep at least three days of switch on back to here. Keep make a kit at least three days here and this is from they kicking on over to right. They say one gallon per person per day for several days. Well guess what? It's going to be two gallons right. Food and let's not forget your furry friends. Battery operated stuff and this goes on and on and on here with this big weird thing is this one. Local maps you're going to say well Jim why is that weird? How many people can read a map nowadays? Come on how many how many people can actually read a map? The answer is not too many. Believe me. How did I learn how to read a map? I'll tell you how I was on a bus trip down to Florida. We went to Disney and on the way back remember 1980 in 1981. No one went with my brother John in the scouts. No uh there was no uh internet. I didn't even have a transistor radio. I had to listen to all this Wallonia all over the day. I would have brought a transistor of radio everywhere. Well guess what? One of the older gentlemen found out how bored I was and he said and they stopped at a travel center and he went and got me road maps and an atlas and he taught me and he said I don't know who the guy was even. He sat me down and taught me how to read a map so I had something to look forward to. Oh well what's coming up so that's how I learned to read a map. Like again people don't have that. Water and wastewater skills. Now the whole thing is this. Right where are you going to go guvano? Right when men at least half the time it's not a problem. So here we have an emergency response for drinking water and wastewater utilities. How about what you're going to do? If you're involved in a disaster maybe you can flush your toilets. Super storm sandy. They got blessed those people. They did keep the water running and wasn't treated. They said don't drink that water without treating it boiling blah blah blah. But at least you're able to flush the toilets and they tell us it was safe enough to shower with. Okay great. Well now what do you know what do you know so we had to things covered there. Imagine not being able to take a shower for a week or two. Going to be smelling a little bit right there and there's a sanitary issue and also what if the toilets aren't flushing you don't have water. You don't have access to water. Okay or maybe your septic system is flooding out on the vacuum. What are you going to do with that and you know what I'm going to I'm going to bookmark this page because I tell you what this is actually really good here right with this. Planning for disaster debris damage for hurricane depends on the size extent and other factors. Damage debris can include destroyed structures, hazardous waste, green waste or personal property. So they have a disaster debris planning thing. Now one of the other things that we learned is the most valuable thing you can have is an old-fashioned chainsaw. Right with that non-electric. Why? Why non-electric Jimmy? Why? You don't have electric you cannot operate a chainsaw. The other thing is this is where it pays to know your neighbors here. What's their capacity? We have an EMT we have a firefighter. We have a retired pediatrician right up the street here. We have a landscaper with all different types of power equipment. He got me and the guy next door is Mr. Fixit. Believe me the guy next door phenomenal mechanic does no phenomenal mechanic tell you what great guy what's your capacity on your street with everything right in your little neighborhood get to know your neighbors right with everything with that maybe someone has a chainsaw somebody has chains so you can start pulling debris out things of that nature and again don't make your situation worse with anything all right flooding limited contact with flood water and mold mold is a serious issue and drinking water I tell you what all the fraud that comes out now I left the mold business because I couldn't compete with people doing fraudulent stuff much better sales person than I am believe me and what are you going to do managing the debris uh do you have plastic bags uh do you have how are you going to do things so what I would try to do is put things out toward let's see where it's easy to get so you don't pile all your debris in your backyard I would pile it on the front yard by the street this is the kind of stuff that people do because now it's harder to get the debris to the front yard how are you going to do that simple planning and you just say even you say Jimmy you're full of groove note guess what you're uh you're not uh you know okay maybe I am but at least you're thinking about it maybe at least start the conversation and there are other hazardous things with lead in the homes and asbestos which are very extensive so that's for that flooded homes cleanup guidance and here's the EPA guidance here and they talk about uh some do-it-yourself stuff here now we should probably do a program on PPE maybe that's a program for next week uh now programming next week we got a lot of exciting things going on here uh in the New York area so uh tomorrow if I'm sorry this weekend if you're around the New York City area uh friend of the program uh the Kopala family and their organization the Pulaski Day Parade they're having a big thing going on so uh on Sunday I will not be there I have a lot of family stuff to do this weekend with things uh people who know me know what that is all right uh number one number two is uh the uh uh you know uh we have the Mets so we will be enjoying we'll just leave it as a we'll be enjoying some of the festivities with the Mets and what is it the uh and uh National League uh Championship series right with the Mets is uh I always get this screwed up here hold on uh hold on and I know I'm gonna have it right National League he's right National League uh things so what the Mets are getting involved in some of the uh festivities this week so we may not be on the air every day but we're gonna try and do we may be doing reports from the field now here we have this goes to show you there are organizations out there right I'm a member of a couple of them but people have been calling them crazy for years and then all of a sudden they ain't so crazy anymore right they use that conspiracy theorists and I know safety war sounds like a conspiracy thing but we let things cloud our judgment with everything and it's like you have to learn what is true what is not true you got to learn to hear people out and you need to use some kind of judgment because we were told for years that this wasn't a thing but now a federal judge has ordered something here the end of fluoridation of us order could be in sight after federal court ruling and this is from a couple of days ago with this right this from the you in the guardian dot com a judge has ordered an EPA risk assessment of fear that an additive that strengthens teeth could harm children's IQs for decades shrinking water fluoridation opponents are often portrayed as a fringe element and conspiracy theories when a federal ruling in the US may put an end to the practice and part marks a pivotal point in their campaign to convince the public and policymakers of the substances dangers for infants developing brains armed with a growing body of scientific evidence pointing toward florides or toxicity public health advocates say the legal win shows that they are overcoming institutional inertia and the willingness of federal public health agencies to admit they have been wrong so if they are proven wrong my question is this how do we have some type of restitution here oh it's not for sovereign immunity thing that comes up again or where people can make any decisions they want and do whatever the hell they want and there is no no accountability right can't no that's enough the order last week requiring us EPA to begin the process of strengthening fluoride regulations represents a landmark legal win that has long been in the making since Stuart Cooper director of fluoridation action network advocacy group it was on and on so next time you hear someone yell conspiracy theory maybe you should hear him add a little bit because we know where oh we are beat and there was a uh right uh what started out a lot of this stuff you know you are being lied to you are being moved out i don't like to say the other thing this is a family show you're being lied to you on so many different levels here learn the truth how many times that we were lying about with Heinrich pyramid here or and then again birds pyramid that says one thing in the research and then they go and they use it the other way a lawyers and HR kids ahold of it and people who really don't give a damn about your workers health and safety like this one guy uh we didn't cover tonight though because i'm trying to get more facts where allegedly told his workers he couldn't go home and they were all dead from the hurricane hellena i don't know if that's true or not but we're not going to comment on them until we get more information here so that's all i got for tonight it's been great this week uh broadcasting we got four programs in this week that's a great thing and i hope to see you uh next week uh with uh with everything and uh let's do this and here's the outro we'll see you and next week uh 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