The Western US is getting blanketed by snow and rain. The Sierras and their foothills have many areas that are essentially impassable at the moment. Seattle had a white Christmas. Other parts of the US are getting unusual amounts of heat for December. Hundreds upon hundreds of holiday flights were cancelled due to severe weather.
The US Army has created a coronavirus vaccine that could prove to be effective against multiple variants of SARS-CoV-2 and even previous SARS viruses. This is huge news. The vaccine has cleared phase 1 trials and is entering phase 2. It’s being tested against Omicron. The work on this vaccine was done at Walter Reed.
The typhoon that hit the Philippines on the 16th and 17th of this month, dubbed Rai, has killed 375 people. Scores of others are missing. Folks are short of food and fresh drinking water in the aftermath. Nearly 400,000 people fled coastal areas as the typhoon approached. The US government is placing trade restrictions on
Something extremely odd happened this afternoon. The press, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Axios, reported that the CDC had announced that 73% of US COVID-19 cases were now being caused by the Omicron variant, and major public health gurus like Ashish Jha, Eric Topol,
It’s possible you end up in an emergency situation where you have to deal with human waste management. Maybe you’re sheltering at home but the toilets don’t work for weeks. Or shit has really hit the fan (sorry, couldn’t resist) and you now have to grow food to survive but you can’t buy store fertilizer.
Punchline: Good as a gift or hobby, but not for prepping This past summer, I was experiencing FOMO from reading all the amazing posts from Josh, Redneck, and the rest of the community, and wanted to start planting something in my backyard. I can’t plant anything directly in the soil, so I knew that my
100 million Americans have been under significant, record-setting storms and weather warnings this week, including another round of tornado warnings and strikes. Tornadoes in December are typically rare, but they haven’t been this December. More than 423,000 people are without power across the US. Expect serious travel delays throughout the central US this week. The
I’m saddened to report that there were multiple mass casualty events from dozens of tornadoes that hit the US Friday and over the weekend. An Amazon warehouse took a direct hit from an EF1 in Edwardsville, IL. Monette Manor Nursing Home in Arkansas was leveled. The National Guard has been sent in to help with
We’ve spent the past year focused on some pretty heavy topics: supply chain failure, COVID variants, rabbit starvation, and how to harden yourself against societal collapse. Let’s start winding down 2021 with a medical emergency that many of us deal with, but usually has a happy ending: childbirth. My wife and I have three children
There could be nocturnal tornadoes Friday spanning from Texas to Ohio that could endanger 5 million people. 25 million people in this region are under storm threat: Biden wants the federal government to be carbon neutral in less than 30 years. Greenhouse gas emissions will have to be cut by more than half in less
Since my previous post about Omicron just eleven days ago when the news first broke of its existence, we’ve learned what the deal is, thanks to amazing feats of rapid research on a number of fronts by scientists coordinating around the globe and working around the clock. Although much remains to be learned, the broad
Russia has deployed additional missile defense systems in the Kuril Islands chain—a territory still partially claimed by Japan. The Kuril Islands were annexed by the Soviets during WWII. Nobody really knows if Russia is going to push farther into Ukraine. The military assets that they have assembled at the border are greater in size and
“The Omicron variant was in Europe before it was detected in South Africa…“–per CBS News. South Africa raised the alarm for the globe. There’s already evidence that Omicron has hit community spread in the US. The first US case was detected in California. Multiple states are reporting Omicron cases now, and some do not have
The UK, EU, the US, Australia, Israel, Japan, and others have enacted various degrees of travel bans for fear that the Omicron will prove to be a dangerous variant. It will take weeks to know its properties for sure. The CDC says they have not detected any cases of Omicron in the US yet. Here’s
A new COVID-19 variant has been identified with some very concerning features. Dubbed Omicron, it’s rapidly spreading in the southern region of Africa and an increasing number of countries around the world, and the news has rocked government policy and financial markets over the last two days. Despite the drama, however, we don’t yet know
