February 8, 2025 • 34 mins
Broadcasting from 4,200 feet in the Oregon high desert, Sam Wilson delivers another gripping episode of Make It Out Alive. This week, Sam dives into the impact of severe winter storms across Oregon and Florida, reminding listeners of the importance of preparedness when the power goes out, roads become impassable, and temperatures plummet.
From a brutal assault in Chicago emphasizing the need for situational awareness to a Texan hiker who got stranded on a cliff using only a cell phone app as a guide, this episode covers the critical need for self-reliance and smart decision-making. Sam also tackles the growing frustration over tipping culture and shares essential survival tips, including why spam might just be the ultimate emergency food.
Whether it's locking your car doors, preparing for two weeks of isolation, or questioning the expectations of modern service culture, Make It Out Alive keeps you thinking and prepared for whatever comes next.
Tune in, stay sharp, and remember: If you don’t make it out alive, you won’t make it at all.
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Coming to you from 4,200 feet in the hills of Oregon, it's the voice of Chaitown, the
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reddest beard in the high desert, your host of the Make It Out Alive broadcast, Sam Wilson.
Alright folks, let's get right into it.
Hopefully everyone's doing well if you live locally here in Southern Oregon where I'm
at in Klamath County, the city of Chilliquin.
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You are probably experiencing some pretty significant snowfall and other natural disaster
effects on your life.
Maybe no electricity, maybe no water, maybe no internet, so hopefully you have planned
ahead to Make It Out Alive.
If you recall last week's broadcast came out on Saturday the day before we had a significant
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snowfall and hopefully it was able to help some people out.
If not, maybe we'll get it this time.
Let's get right into our news report though.
Let's go here.
Where do we start off?
We are at Lakeview, Illinois.
Lakeview is a neighborhood in Chicago.
So Chicago, Illinois.
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A man was attacked with a baseball bat in Lakeview on Wednesday afternoon.
Chicago police said, the incident happened as the victim was sitting in his car in the
700 block of Sheridan Road around 7.13 p.m.
So if you'll recall, one of the things we were discussing and it's going to be a constant
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theme in this show is situational awareness.
What is situational awareness?
Stimulal awareness is being aware of your surroundings and what's going on around you.
Why is that important?
Well, let's see.
The man was sitting in his car.
The 30-year-old man said a man and a woman approached him.
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Chicago police said they apparently drug him out of his own car and started to attack the
victim with a baseball bat.
So the man started to attack the victim with a baseball bat while the woman allegedly kicked
and pepper sprayed him, police said.
So imagine that.
You're sitting in your car, maybe having a coffee break or watching some TikToks or whatever
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it is you're doing.
Unfortunately, you haven't probably, we don't know the store doesn't exactly tell us, but
you haven't locked your door and rolled your window up.
What happens?
Some guy and a woman walk up, drag you out of your car, pepper spray you in the eyes,
start shouting profanities at you, and start kicking you in the head, goodfellas style,
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while the other guy goes upside your head with a baseball bat all in broad daylight while
people are probably staring and taping it with their phones.
This is horrible.
Imagine this was happening to you.
One minute, you're catching the latest update on what's going on with some celebrity and
their cheating scandal, and the next thing you know, you're getting your head kicked
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in and baseball batted and pepper sprayed in broad daylight in Chicago.
The victim was taken to the hospital where he was treated and released.
No one is in custody.
Chicago detectives are investigating it says.
So basically it sounds like they're probably going to get away with it.
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Can you imagine what that's like?
You're sitting there one minute just looking at your phone or having a coffee, and the
next thing you know, your pepper sprayed, screamed at, smacked upside the head with
a ball bat and kicked in the head while you're rolling on the ground screaming in agony.
If there had been pepper sprayed, it can be a terrifying event.
Typically, when you get pepper sprayed, especially if it's a good shot right in the eyes, you're
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going to go blind for 12 to 15 minutes.
You're not going to be able to see anything.
You're just flying blind.
So now all you've got is the audio of these people probably yelling pro most of the violent
assaults I've seen and I've seen more than my fair share of them.
For some reason, people like to yell and scream obscenities while they do it.
So you're on the ground getting your head kicked in and a guy with a baseball bat is
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beating your head in and the woman is kicking you.
And it doesn't say that anything was stolen.
So I don't know what the actual motive was here, but.
Situational awareness tip number one I used to get or I still do occasionally get laughed
at by friends or family when I tell them, as soon as you get in your car, roll up the
windows and lock the doors.
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Even if you're warming up the car in your own driveway, you never know.
This guy was just sitting there one minute in his car.
The next minute he's blind, screaming and agony on the ground while he's getting walloped
and beaten with a ball bat.
What a shame.
There's a reason they call it Sharaq.
Now I used to go years ago.
I would visit Chicago.
I love that town.
This is going back a few years, but before it really got crazy, Chicago was a great place
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to visit.
So when we get to town, there were there were two places we would go for pizza.
Jordanos and Lou Malmati's amazing Chicago style pizza.
If you've never had it, there, there, the two great pizza styles in America are, and
I know we have a number of foreign listeners or listeners from around the world will call
them abroad, foreign may seem derogatory to some folks, listeners abroad.
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In America, there are the, the two primary styles of pizza, I would say are the Chicago
style and New York style.
There's also St. Louis style, which is absolutely delicious on its own right.
We'll cover that another day.
New York style is the style of pizza.
Most people are used to seeing the large thin slice cheese.
I got a little bit of crisp to it, but a thin slice and a nice crispy crust.
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Chicago style couldn't be any different.
It is, it's basically more of a pie and I'm not going to go too much further describing
it because purists will not agree with how I put it because I don't, I'm not a connoisseur
of pizzas.
I just know what I like to eat.
That being said, there's no real way in my mind to fully compare the two because they're
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so different.
They're absolutely amazing in their own rights, but that's where we would go.
Jordanos and Lumamades, I'm sure there are plenty of other amazing places and I'm not
being paid to plug anyone.
What else would we do there?
We would get, okay, so if you had a Chicago dog, we would go to this place called Portillo's
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and you would get a Chicago dog, which was a special type of bun.
I think it had like, there's almost like a Kaiser roll or something.
It had seeds on it and then there would be tomatoes and a pickle and some kind of pepper
and then like celery salt and mustard.
It was absolutely delicious.
I love a good hot dog.
I'm a simple man with simple pleasures and a Chicago dog is one of them.
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Just know this, there is no putting ketchup on a Chicago dog or any hot dog, hot dog in
my opinion of any kind.
If someone puts ketchup on a hot dog, you need to be mistrustful of that person.
I'm not saying they're automatically a commie, but you never know.
Okay, all right.
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That being said, the Riverwalk was amazing too.
I don't know what it's like now.
When I Googled the Riverwalk a couple of years ago, the first story that popped up was a
dead body floated up to the shore of the Riverwalk.
So if you've never been to Chicago, again, it was, I don't know what it's like now, but
it was an absolutely amazing, beautiful city.
The Riverwalk is like this mile, mile and a half walk along the Chicago River.
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There's all kinds of outdoor eating and shops.
It is just amazing.
You would get, the thing I remember the most from the Riverwalk itself wasn't food, but
a snack.
I think it was called Garrett's.
It was popcorn.
It was a blend of like the cheese dust coated and caramel popcorn.
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It was absolutely amazing.
It may not sound like a good flavor combination, but in practice or in reality, it was absolutely
amazing.
And they must have used, the thing that struck me at the time was they must use some particular
species or type of corn because the, the popped corn with the, the caramel and the cheese
flavor, it was, it was very bulbous and round.
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It was just a really good flavor.
The whole thing was, was very well done.
I enjoyed it quite a bit.
Again, I don't know if they're even still in business or not.
I hope so.
They provided a good product, but anyway, be aware folks, when you get in your car, lock
that door, roll up the window and keep your, as they say, some folks say, keep your head
in a swivel.
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Be looking around because this poor guy was just sitting there eating a sandwich or watching
his phone.
And the next thing you know, he's being brutally assaulted in the streets of Sharaq.
Our next story, January 22nd, 2025, coming out of Florida by Tuesday afternoon, Northwest
Florida was mostly covered in record breaking snowfall and it was still snowing.
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The national weather service reported total snowfall at 9.8 inches in Milton.
Milton is, if you're not familiar with a panhandle, Milton is about 20, 30 minutes or so away
from Pensacola, which is also in the panhandle.
Beautiful white sand beaches in Pensacola.
Absolutely wonderful.
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Listen to a revival band of three dog night there once many years ago.
I think the rest of the band had been replaced, but Chuck Negron was the lead singer.
He was still, I believe, unless memory fails me and he was singing that night.
Really nice.
Good memory.
This broke the state's previous record.
They got 9.8 inches.
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Okay.
Last two weeks ago, if that week and a half ago, they got 9.8 inches.
The previous record was four inches in 1954, which also occurred in Milton.
Now the weather channel says this was an unprecedented event, a likely once in a lifetime event,
yada, yada, yada.
Pensacola, which more people are familiar with, Pensacola, Florida, they got 8.9 inches
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there shattering the previous record in Pensacola.
Their previous record of snowfall was three inches.
One was this record set in 1895.
Okay.
Thank goodness global warming is keeping that snow at bay.
Otherwise, we'd be in serious trouble here.
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Okaloosa County, they got the nine inches according to the National Weather Service.
Okay.
Now, what is the point?
Imagine you're in Florida.
Now, for those of you not in the States, Florida is basically a tropical environment
down on the Gulf of America.
And they do not get snow very frequently.
Okay.
All of a sudden you wake up one day, it snows nonstop for two days straight, and now you
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have nearly 10 inches of snow in a place that is not equipped to handle snow.
What happened?
During a critical 24-hour period from 9 a.m. Tuesday to 9 a.m. Wednesday, emergency services,
EMS, responded to 246 service calls.
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While Escambia County, Escambia County is where Pensacola is, Escambia County Fire Rescue
handle 57 emergency calls.
On Thursday, the county reported that from 7 a.m. Tuesday to 1 p.m. Thursday, that's
50, 54 hours, emergency communications dispatched 960 calls for service throughout the county,
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including 568 emergency medical services calls and 392 fire rescue calls.
Obviously, they were urging people to stay at home.
What do we learn?
Okay.
The practical aspect for me right off the bat is driving.
The article goes into some length about how roads were just decimated.
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There was obviously a thin layer of ice covered by snow.
If you live in an area where I am where snow is a frequent occurrence, you know that led
to very dangerous, difficult driving conditions.
That's around people that drive in snow every year.
We get snow.
Three inches here is absolutely, we wouldn't even know it's snowing.
That's a Wednesday.
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People drive horribly in it because they don't slow down.
They're not defensively driving.
They're not prepared for this.
Now, imagine you're in Florida.
I don't even know when the last time they got snow, but the last time they got that
much snow was 1895.
You want to talk about crashes and I mean, but here, what do we have?
In a 24-hour period, let's see, Walton County Sheriff's Office advised, Walton County Sheriff's
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Office had responded to more than 20 traffic crashes and 30 disabled vehicles by Wednesday
afternoon.
That's 24 hours.
20 crashes, 30 disabled vehicles, that's what they responded to.
Who knows what else took place.
What is the point?
In preparedness for this, you may say, what could I have done?
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If you're prepared and you are aware of the risks and dangers, when something like that
happens, an unprecedented almost event in your lifetime, it'd been two or three generations
since they got that much snow before.
What do you do?
You stay home.
There's no need to be on the road.
Nothing is that important unless it's a medical emergency, in which case, you know, you got
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to make your decisions.
But in general, going to work or going out and getting a big mac is not that important.
Stay home.
A lot of that could have prevented a people, most likely could have been prevented a people
would stay home.
That's part of the situational awareness.
It's not always taking some big heroic action or having a go bag or whatever else.
Sometimes it's just making a good, common sense choice.
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Now, question.
This is something that's been on my mind and I know it's been on other people's minds
as well.
I've talked with people and you hear this on social media too, especially in the U.S.
Tipping culture has gotten out of control.
Now, I'm going to lay out a brief scenario for you and we're going to discuss it after
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the break.
What would you do?
Let's say you go to a restaurant, not a fancy restaurant, just a regular, a burger joint,
a taco joint, whatever.
Let's say you walk in, you order, the cashier messes up your order, cashier, I don't know
what they were supposed to call them, that's the politically correct term or not, but I'm
going to use the word cashier.
Let's say the cashier processes your order, you pay, they overcharge you and then get
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your order wrong and on top of that demand a tip.
What would you do?
We'll talk about it after the break.
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You're listening to the MOA broadcast with Sam Wilson.
Will you make it out alive?
Okay, folks, we are back with the second half of the MOA broadcast.
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Let's pick up where we left off.
Now before the break, I related a story or asked a question.
What would you do if you went to a restaurant, a taco joint, a burger joint, whatever, and
they overcharged you or got you a total wrong, whatever, made the mistake and then on top
of that demanded or strongly suggested you should leave me a tip.
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What would you do?
I'll tell you a true story that's happened to me recently.
I'm not going to name the restaurant.
We're not looking to drag anybody through the mud, anything like that.
But I went to a place.
I ordered.
I placed my order.
I paid.
I could tell something was wrong.
The total was too high.
And I'm like, well, hang on, that doesn't seem right.
So they, I'm like, don't go ahead and pry.
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They were very busy.
It was a busy day and I could see everyone was running at full speed.
So I'm like, just whenever we get to my food, let's replace it.
And so they overcharged them by $10, okay, or $9, excuse me.
So whenever we were done, I'm like, just, you know, she's like, well, I've only got
$8 in cash and singles.
She opened the till and she only had eight singles and I'm eight, you know, $1 bills.
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I'm like, okay, just give me the eight.
Why don't you just, you know, throw an extra handful of fries on, you know, in my order
of fries.
I love fries.
I don't even care about it.
I don't care about it, I don't care about it, I just want an extra handful or a scoop
of fries or whatever.
And she goes, extra scoop of fries, you should be giving me a tip.
And I.
So she was not only upset that I guess she had made, you know, the mistake or whatever
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that I wanted my money back, that I was trying to come up with an anecdotal way of why don't
you just throw some extra handful of fry that doesn't cause, I've run a food stand before.
It doesn't cost much to do an extra handful of fries to make a happy customer.
But the last thing you want to do in my opinion, when you've made a mistake like that is then
say, well, you should be giving me that money as a tip.
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And this is a problem here in America.
I can't say about the world abroad, but you go into these places.
Now you order a four or $5 coffee, which is insane on its own for a latte or a brevet.
And then they want you to leave a tip for, you know, the person that just swivels the
iPad around and you swipe your card, not even making change or anything.
Some of them won't even take cash.
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I tried to pay with the $20 bill for a call.
We don't accept cash.
It's card or you got to pay through the whatever the, I forget the app they had, but I didn't
have it.
And the options for tip are like, okay, it's not like 10%, 20%.
It starts, you know, 50%, $2,000 or you can give us a kidney for a tip just for making
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a coffee.
Now, I mean, I got nothing against a good barista, good barista, but yeah, this is getting out
of control, this tip and culture.
So tell us what you would, what you would do in that situation, right?
I said info at gearconvoy.com.
Send us an email, let us know if you have any tips or suggestions on things you'd like
to hear covered.
Again, that was info at gearconvoy.com.
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We'd love to hear from our listeners.
Let's get into our next segment.
Now, if you live here locally in Klamath County in the Klamath Basin, we have been going through
a massive snowstorm in the, for several days now.
We're on the fourth day of being under siege by snow.
It started, I believe, on a Sunday evening.
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I can't remember exactly, but around Sunday evening, we started getting heavy snowfall.
When I checked at the deepest point of it all with a yardstick on a flat metal surface
in my backyard, I got 13.5 inches of snow.
Now, I don't know what they got in the nearest city, which is about 30, 35 miles away, but
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that's what I got as measured by a yardstick.
I've got friends that are even more remote than me, 20, 30 miles further out.
They said they got closer to two feet.
Obviously, the higher you go up in elevation, we're at 4,200 feet here in Chaitown, as they
call Chiliquin sometimes.
So this has been a big deal.
We have, currently, we have thousands, depending on where you go for your information, thousands
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without power, without electricity.
I read everything, estimates everywhere from 3,000 to 6,000 to 13,000 had power in and
out, and there may be several hundred or several thousand currently still without power for
multiple days now.
No internet, no heat if they heat with electricity.
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Trees are down, power lines are down, roads are slick.
It's a mess.
It really is.
This leads right into preparedness, just like what happened in Pentecola and Milton, Florida.
Unfortunately, we did have a fatal accident here on the highway on, I believe, Sunday
evening, took two lives.
Horrible situation.
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And it's still snowing.
It's still coming down out there.
We're currently at about 26 degrees right now, but it was a couple of nights ago, it
was getting down 16 and 19 degrees, so it's still not over with.
And if your power is out, your water may be out, depending on your situation, whether
they have a well or a generator or a pump, solar powered, there are a number of different
options.
So if you have good generators hooked up to their water treatment plants, but the bottom
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line is all of this requires preparation.
That takes us to a story, to a town.
Let's go here.
We're not going to name names.
This is actually kind of sad.
I'm not going to make fun or jokes of any kind of this particular.
This is a Facebook post, a lady asking for help.
So this is not to be taken in a comedic fashion by any means.
This is to illustrate what can happen if things don't go to plan.
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Here's our Facebook post.
I'm going to name and location out of it.
After four days and nights with no power and no heat of any kind for days, ask yourself
when the last time you've gone four days straight with no power and no heat of any kind in sub
freezing temperatures, no water, no way to cook or clean.
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We're at the end of our rope.
Our cars are hopelessly buried so we can't leave.
We have two dogs and an ancient kitty and we are all on the verge of freezing.
Pacific power keeps giving us projected times for having our power restored of six to eight
hours, but that's been happening for four days now.
I know the crews are doing their very best.
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God bless them.
I just wish I would have been given a more accurate assessment three days ago when we
could have gotten out of here and gone to stay with friends in such and such and so on.
That's a problem, folks.
If you find yourself in that situation, you are in a bad spot as this lady very well recognizes.
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She's got an issue on her hands.
Her and her family are animals and whatever else they have going on there.
So what is the point?
The time to prepare is not two days.
We had some warning before this storm.
There was news, information and weather alerts and so forth a couple of days, several days
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actually in advance letting us know, but the question is what are you going to do with
that information?
We'll jump right in here.
A lot of people like lists of preparedness products.
How to be ready, what exactly should I have, what should I have in my kit?
I look at it a little bit different.
If you want those lists and those kind of things, you can go online and find those easily.
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It's easy to find.
I look at it like the number one, the jumping off point for me personally.
And again, every expert is going to have a different way of looking this, but you should
be able to easily do two weeks without having to set foot outside your house.
Have enough supplies and everything else so that you easily can do two weeks without
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setting foot outside your house.
That includes enough food, enough water, other supplies, whatever else you need, the basics,
living restroom facilities to not have to leave your house whether or not you have electricity
and running water or not for two weeks.
Now you may say, hey, you know what?
That sounds kind of extreme.
I don't want to put that much into it.
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Ask yourself that lady, and this is by no means unique situation.
I looked on Facebook.
I have Facebook for my business account and I look in there.
There must have been at least 10 or 15 other posts very similar to this.
People that have not had power, which means no heat if they have electric heat for days
now.
That is a big deal in these temperatures and being covered in snow.
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So you need to make those decisions beforehand.
All of a sudden being able to, if you would ask that lady, now that she's been without
food, water, excuse me, no water, no heat of any kind and not being able to cook or
clean, does being prepared for two weeks sound extreme?
They've already done it for four days.
This was yesterday.
This took place.
She posted this.
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So I guess we're going on day five now.
All of a sudden two weeks doesn't sound so extreme.
There are a number of ways you can approach this.
The way I look at it and the way I talk about it whenever I speak with people, you know,
informally, just friends or family or whatever, instead of going just after a certain list
or a certain type of gear, look at your daily routine.
What is it you will need to continue that routine if all power and water were shut off?
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In quote unquote survival, there is what's called the rule of threes.
Okay?
So you can go three hours without shelter, three days without water and three weeks without
food.
Now obviously those are rough, you know, projections, but it gives you kind of an idea on the order
of importance.
The most important thing for them right now is not really food, even though I'm sure they're
hungry.
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It's shelter, meaning being able to maintain your body temperature at a safe level and
then enough water because your body has to have water.
And these are things that are easy to do.
If you don't have electric heat and you don't have wood, there are a number of different
heating options you can look up, indoor propane.
I'm not going to give particular advice.
Everyone has to find what works for them and then check it out and make sure it's safe.
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But there are a number of heating options, whether it's propane or kerosene that can
be made safe for indoor situations so that if you lose your electric heat, you're not
in serious trouble.
Now they're buried with snow.
They may have gotten up to two feet of snow or possibly more out there.
If they're not young, healthy individuals digging out of that much snow, some people
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out here have driveways that are several hundred feet to a half mile long.
Do you know how long it's going to take?
That's not, it's not a feasible solution.
All the snow dumped at once in a 36 hour period.
So you got to prepare beforehand and that means being, I mean, again, in my opinion,
the way I look at it, two weeks is a minimum.
If you can't do two weeks without setting foot literally setting foot outside of your
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home with no electricity and no water, you're not really prepared for much at all.
And that doesn't require a big commitment or investment.
Things like rice, coffee, beans, canned goods are easily procured over a couple of weeks
or a couple of months time period to where you can easily have enough to support you
and however many people in your family for two weeks.
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Easy.
And let's not leave out the heavy hitter spam.
If you are, if you're one of those people looks down on spam, you are going to get no
mercy here.
Spam is a fantastic product in my opinion.
I wouldn't want to eat it every single day.
It's a very strong flavor product has a lot of salt.
But if you have a problem with spam, just ask the folks in Hawaii how they feel about
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it.
Spam was introduced in Hawaii during World War II.
The soldiers brought it with them as part of their rations and it quickly became very
popular and very, very commonly used because it's a relatively cheap product.
It preserves very well and on Hawaii where everything has to be imported for the most
part fresh meat is very expensive.
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So you can find spam and all kinds of meals there and around the world.
I think it's a fantastic product on its own, but particularly for emergency preparedness
and survival cans, either tins of spam or the individual package servings make great
meals with eggs, rice, all kinds of things and they last a very long time.
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So very easy to cook.
One of these days I'll get around telling a story about a backpacking trip.
I took with a bunch of city boys from Portland, Oregon and they all laughed at my notion of
having spam in the morning, spam and eggs while on the trail.
Let me just put it like this.
When they started taking their dehydrated or freeze dried oatmeal with like two rock hard
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blueberries and putting it over the stove and cooking it like some kind of diluted REI
commercial.
And then I started cooking up my spam and eggs.
They quickly converted and became believers.
So that's another story for another day though.
Not to be overlooked though.
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You need to plan for restroom facilities and we're not going to get a graphic or explicit
here.
You can do research online.
If the water goes, you may not have toilet facilities.
Disease can strike very quickly.
This will be a subject for an internet search, but you need to plan ahead if the sewage facilities
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no longer work or go down.
You're going to have to take care of that yourself and you don't want to be caught
on a wares on that front.
That's all I'll say for that now.
We'll get into that deeper in another time.
Let's in on a light note.
Let's go to New Hampshire.
Where did we go?
New Hampshire there.
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Okay.
Here we go.
A Texas man ended up trapped on a cliff after he went into the New Hampshire wilderness
with only a cell phone app as his guide.
The new.
Okay.
This is good.
The hiker, a man from Whitney, Texas had no flashlight, no compass and no map officials
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said he was rescued Wednesday.
When did this take place?
This was in mid to late 2024.
He had no flashlight, no compass and no map officials that he was rescued Wednesday off
the Great Gulf head wall after spending the night in a spot that he was not able to hike
up or down.
He was trapped on a cliff face here, according to the release.
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This predicament was compounded by the fact that he also did not possess any source of
light.
This is why I always include in survival kits a small flashlight.
If you look even my hollow hand survival kits and knives on gearconvoy.com, they almost
always include a small flashlight that puts out a very bright beam and a quality compass.
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You can fit that in the handle of my knives.
You immediately have light and navigation.
Let's get on.
We're running out of time here.
Moving forward, he was investigators say the 66 year old man began hiking at 9 30 a.m.
Tuesday with intentions of being picked up at the summit on Mount Washington.
However, he made a wrong turn, sending him deeper into the wilderness.
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Officials said as he made his way into the Great Gulf wilderness, he attempted to navigate
his way to the summit of Mount Washington using only a cell phone app.
Officials said it was reported to conservation officers that he followed his cell phone app
to a location off trail where he became strength.
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This is like the episode of the office where the guy is driving his car and it's leading
him into a lake and his copilot is to don't know turn Michael turn and he drives into
the water because he said the computer is telling me to do it.
So this guy literally walked himself into a spot where he could not get out of and couldn't
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see to navigate out of because his phone told him to.
We talked about this with the dependents on cell phones.
The hikers partner placed a call for help and with all the facts and circumstances.
Now to get a little of this, the New Hampshire rescue team must not have been very pleased
when they called in with all the facts and circumstances, a decision was made to have
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the man stay the night officials.
So this guy follows his phone.
He gets lost in the woods.
He calls for help and they're like, you know what, bud, just take a time out and we'll
pick you up in the morning.
And that's what they did.
They picked him up the next morning.
They found the man stuck precariously about one tenth of a mile off the trail.
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A mile is 5,280 feet.
A tenth of that is about 528 feet or so.
That means he was less than two football fields away from the trail and couldn't find himself
out of there.
I would probably be upset too.
To show you how upset the New Hampshire SAR was, they posted a photo on Facebook showing
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the hiker trapped among trees and shrubs on a steep rock wall.
And I am looking at this photo right now.
He's just some guy stuck on a rock wall.
But they put this up on their Facebook.
So hopefully he learned his lesson and it ended, let's see, it ended a mountain summoner
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on 1.30 PM official said, because of his lack of essential items and poor choices throughout
the entirety of his hike, it has been recommended that he be billed for the expenses associated
with the rescue.
The state said, details of the cost were not released.
So I guess he better get his credit card ready.
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Okay, that's it folks.
Remember, prepare ahead of time.
Don't wait for an emergency to dig your gear out and get all your crap out and realize
you have made mistakes.
Be ready beforehand.
If you don't make it out alive, you won't make it at all.
Stay safe out there folks.
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Coming to you from 4,200 feet in the hills of Oregon, it's the voice of Chaitown, the
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reddest beard in the high desert, your host of the Make It Out Alive broadcast, Sam Wilson.
Alright folks, let's get right into it.
Hopefully everyone's doing well if you live locally here in Southern Oregon where I'm
at in Klamath County, the city of Chilliquin.
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You are probably experiencing some pretty significant snowfall and other natural disaster
effects on your life.
Maybe no electricity, maybe no water, maybe no internet, so hopefully you have planned
ahead to Make It Out Alive.
If you recall last week's broadcast came out on Saturday the day before we had a significant
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snowfall and hopefully it was able to help some people out.
If not, maybe we'll get it this time.
Let's get right into our news report though.
Let's go here.
Where do we start off?
We are at Lakeview, Illinois.
Lakeview is a neighborhood in Chicago.
So Chicago, Illinois.
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A man was attacked with a baseball bat in Lakeview on Wednesday afternoon.
Chicago police said, the incident happened as the victim was sitting in his car in the
700 block of Sheridan Road around 7.13 p.m.
So if you'll recall, one of the things we were discussing and it's going to be a constant
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theme in this show is situational awareness.
What is situational awareness?
Stimulal awareness is being aware of your surroundings and what's going on around you.
Why is that important?
Well, let's see.
The man was sitting in his car.
The 30-year-old man said a man and a woman approached him.
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Chicago police said they apparently drug him out of his own car and started to attack the
victim with a baseball bat.
So the man started to attack the victim with a baseball bat while the woman allegedly kicked
and pepper sprayed him, police said.
So imagine that.
You're sitting in your car, maybe having a coffee break or watching some TikToks or whatever
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it is you're doing.
Unfortunately, you haven't probably, we don't know the store doesn't exactly tell us, but
you haven't locked your door and rolled your window up.
What happens?
Some guy and a woman walk up, drag you out of your car, pepper spray you in the eyes,
start shouting profanities at you, and start kicking you in the head, goodfellas style,
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while the other guy goes upside your head with a baseball bat all in broad daylight while
people are probably staring and taping it with their phones.
This is horrible.
Imagine this was happening to you.
One minute, you're catching the latest update on what's going on with some celebrity and
their cheating scandal, and the next thing you know, you're getting your head kicked
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in and baseball batted and pepper sprayed in broad daylight in Chicago.
The victim was taken to the hospital where he was treated and released.
No one is in custody.
Chicago detectives are investigating it says.
So basically it sounds like they're probably going to get away with it.
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Can you imagine what that's like?
You're sitting there one minute just looking at your phone or having a coffee, and the
next thing you know, your pepper sprayed, screamed at, smacked upside the head with
a ball bat and kicked in the head while you're rolling on the ground screaming in agony.
If there had been pepper sprayed, it can be a terrifying event.
Typically, when you get pepper sprayed, especially if it's a good shot right in the eyes, you're
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going to go blind for 12 to 15 minutes.
You're not going to be able to see anything.
You're just flying blind.
So now all you've got is the audio of these people probably yelling pro most of the violent
assaults I've seen and I've seen more than my fair share of them.
For some reason, people like to yell and scream obscenities while they do it.
So you're on the ground getting your head kicked in and a guy with a baseball bat is
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beating your head in and the woman is kicking you.
And it doesn't say that anything was stolen.
So I don't know what the actual motive was here, but.
Situational awareness tip number one I used to get or I still do occasionally get laughed
at by friends or family when I tell them, as soon as you get in your car, roll up the
windows and lock the doors.
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Even if you're warming up the car in your own driveway, you never know.
This guy was just sitting there one minute in his car.
The next minute he's blind, screaming and agony on the ground while he's getting walloped
and beaten with a ball bat.
What a shame.
There's a reason they call it Sharaq.
Now I used to go years ago.
I would visit Chicago.
I love that town.
This is going back a few years, but before it really got crazy, Chicago was a great place
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to visit.
So when we get to town, there were there were two places we would go for pizza.
Jordanos and Lou Malmati's amazing Chicago style pizza.
If you've never had it, there, there, the two great pizza styles in America are, and
I know we have a number of foreign listeners or listeners from around the world will call
them abroad, foreign may seem derogatory to some folks, listeners abroad.
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In America, there are the, the two primary styles of pizza, I would say are the Chicago
style and New York style.
There's also St. Louis style, which is absolutely delicious on its own right.
We'll cover that another day.
New York style is the style of pizza.
Most people are used to seeing the large thin slice cheese.
I got a little bit of crisp to it, but a thin slice and a nice crispy crust.
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Chicago style couldn't be any different.
It is, it's basically more of a pie and I'm not going to go too much further describing
it because purists will not agree with how I put it because I don't, I'm not a connoisseur
of pizzas.
I just know what I like to eat.
That being said, there's no real way in my mind to fully compare the two because they're
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so different.
They're absolutely amazing in their own rights, but that's where we would go.
Jordanos and Lumamades, I'm sure there are plenty of other amazing places and I'm not
being paid to plug anyone.
What else would we do there?
We would get, okay, so if you had a Chicago dog, we would go to this place called Portillo's
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and you would get a Chicago dog, which was a special type of bun.
I think it had like, there's almost like a Kaiser roll or something.
It had seeds on it and then there would be tomatoes and a pickle and some kind of pepper
and then like celery salt and mustard.
It was absolutely delicious.
I love a good hot dog.
I'm a simple man with simple pleasures and a Chicago dog is one of them.
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Just know this, there is no putting ketchup on a Chicago dog or any hot dog, hot dog in
my opinion of any kind.
If someone puts ketchup on a hot dog, you need to be mistrustful of that person.
I'm not saying they're automatically a commie, but you never know.
Okay, all right.
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That being said, the Riverwalk was amazing too.
I don't know what it's like now.
When I Googled the Riverwalk a couple of years ago, the first story that popped up was a
dead body floated up to the shore of the Riverwalk.
So if you've never been to Chicago, again, it was, I don't know what it's like now, but
it was an absolutely amazing, beautiful city.
The Riverwalk is like this mile, mile and a half walk along the Chicago River.
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There's all kinds of outdoor eating and shops.
It is just amazing.
You would get, the thing I remember the most from the Riverwalk itself wasn't food, but
a snack.
I think it was called Garrett's.
It was popcorn.
It was a blend of like the cheese dust coated and caramel popcorn.
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It was absolutely amazing.
It may not sound like a good flavor combination, but in practice or in reality, it was absolutely
amazing.
And they must have used, the thing that struck me at the time was they must use some particular
species or type of corn because the, the popped corn with the, the caramel and the cheese
flavor, it was, it was very bulbous and round.
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It was just a really good flavor.
The whole thing was, was very well done.
I enjoyed it quite a bit.
Again, I don't know if they're even still in business or not.
I hope so.
They provided a good product, but anyway, be aware folks, when you get in your car, lock
that door, roll up the window and keep your, as they say, some folks say, keep your head
in a swivel.
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Be looking around because this poor guy was just sitting there eating a sandwich or watching
his phone.
And the next thing you know, he's being brutally assaulted in the streets of Sharaq.
Our next story, January 22nd, 2025, coming out of Florida by Tuesday afternoon, Northwest
Florida was mostly covered in record breaking snowfall and it was still snowing.
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The national weather service reported total snowfall at 9.8 inches in Milton.
Milton is, if you're not familiar with a panhandle, Milton is about 20, 30 minutes or so away
from Pensacola, which is also in the panhandle.
Beautiful white sand beaches in Pensacola.
Absolutely wonderful.
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Listen to a revival band of three dog night there once many years ago.
I think the rest of the band had been replaced, but Chuck Negron was the lead singer.
He was still, I believe, unless memory fails me and he was singing that night.
Really nice.
Good memory.
This broke the state's previous record.
They got 9.8 inches.
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Okay.
Last two weeks ago, if that week and a half ago, they got 9.8 inches.
The previous record was four inches in 1954, which also occurred in Milton.
Now the weather channel says this was an unprecedented event, a likely once in a lifetime event,
yada, yada, yada.
Pensacola, which more people are familiar with, Pensacola, Florida, they got 8.9 inches
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there shattering the previous record in Pensacola.
Their previous record of snowfall was three inches.
One was this record set in 1895.
Okay.
Thank goodness global warming is keeping that snow at bay.
Otherwise, we'd be in serious trouble here.
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Okaloosa County, they got the nine inches according to the National Weather Service.
Okay.
Now, what is the point?
Imagine you're in Florida.
Now, for those of you not in the States, Florida is basically a tropical environment
down on the Gulf of America.
And they do not get snow very frequently.
Okay.
All of a sudden you wake up one day, it snows nonstop for two days straight, and now you
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have nearly 10 inches of snow in a place that is not equipped to handle snow.
What happened?
During a critical 24-hour period from 9 a.m. Tuesday to 9 a.m. Wednesday, emergency services,
EMS, responded to 246 service calls.
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While Escambia County, Escambia County is where Pensacola is, Escambia County Fire Rescue
handle 57 emergency calls.
On Thursday, the county reported that from 7 a.m. Tuesday to 1 p.m. Thursday, that's
50, 54 hours, emergency communications dispatched 960 calls for service throughout the county,
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including 568 emergency medical services calls and 392 fire rescue calls.
Obviously, they were urging people to stay at home.
What do we learn?
Okay.
The practical aspect for me right off the bat is driving.
The article goes into some length about how roads were just decimated.
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There was obviously a thin layer of ice covered by snow.
If you live in an area where I am where snow is a frequent occurrence, you know that led
to very dangerous, difficult driving conditions.
That's around people that drive in snow every year.
We get snow.
Three inches here is absolutely, we wouldn't even know it's snowing.
That's a Wednesday.
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People drive horribly in it because they don't slow down.
They're not defensively driving.
They're not prepared for this.
Now, imagine you're in Florida.
I don't even know when the last time they got snow, but the last time they got that
much snow was 1895.
You want to talk about crashes and I mean, but here, what do we have?
In a 24-hour period, let's see, Walton County Sheriff's Office advised, Walton County Sheriff's
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Office had responded to more than 20 traffic crashes and 30 disabled vehicles by Wednesday
afternoon.
That's 24 hours.
20 crashes, 30 disabled vehicles, that's what they responded to.
Who knows what else took place.
What is the point?
In preparedness for this, you may say, what could I have done?
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If you're prepared and you are aware of the risks and dangers, when something like that
happens, an unprecedented almost event in your lifetime, it'd been two or three generations
since they got that much snow before.
What do you do?
You stay home.
There's no need to be on the road.
Nothing is that important unless it's a medical emergency, in which case, you know, you got
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to make your decisions.
But in general, going to work or going out and getting a big mac is not that important.
Stay home.
A lot of that could have prevented a people, most likely could have been prevented a people
would stay home.
That's part of the situational awareness.
It's not always taking some big heroic action or having a go bag or whatever else.
Sometimes it's just making a good, common sense choice.
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Now, question.
This is something that's been on my mind and I know it's been on other people's minds
as well.
I've talked with people and you hear this on social media too, especially in the U.S.
Tipping culture has gotten out of control.
Now, I'm going to lay out a brief scenario for you and we're going to discuss it after
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the break.
What would you do?
Let's say you go to a restaurant, not a fancy restaurant, just a regular, a burger joint,
a taco joint, whatever.
Let's say you walk in, you order, the cashier messes up your order, cashier, I don't know
what they were supposed to call them, that's the politically correct term or not, but I'm
going to use the word cashier.
Let's say the cashier processes your order, you pay, they overcharge you and then get
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your order wrong and on top of that demand a tip.
What would you do?
We'll talk about it after the break.
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You're listening to the MOA broadcast with Sam Wilson.
Will you make it out alive?
Okay, folks, we are back with the second half of the MOA broadcast.
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Let's pick up where we left off.
Now before the break, I related a story or asked a question.
What would you do if you went to a restaurant, a taco joint, a burger joint, whatever, and
they overcharged you or got you a total wrong, whatever, made the mistake and then on top
of that demanded or strongly suggested you should leave me a tip.
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What would you do?
I'll tell you a true story that's happened to me recently.
I'm not going to name the restaurant.
We're not looking to drag anybody through the mud, anything like that.
But I went to a place.
I ordered.
I placed my order.
I paid.
I could tell something was wrong.
The total was too high.
And I'm like, well, hang on, that doesn't seem right.
So they, I'm like, don't go ahead and pry.
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They were very busy.
It was a busy day and I could see everyone was running at full speed.
So I'm like, just whenever we get to my food, let's replace it.
And so they overcharged them by $10, okay, or $9, excuse me.
So whenever we were done, I'm like, just, you know, she's like, well, I've only got
$8 in cash and singles.
She opened the till and she only had eight singles and I'm eight, you know, $1 bills.
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I'm like, okay, just give me the eight.
Why don't you just, you know, throw an extra handful of fries on, you know, in my order
of fries.
I love fries.
I don't even care about it.
I don't care about it, I don't care about it, I just want an extra handful or a scoop
of fries or whatever.
And she goes, extra scoop of fries, you should be giving me a tip.
And I.
So she was not only upset that I guess she had made, you know, the mistake or whatever
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that I wanted my money back, that I was trying to come up with an anecdotal way of why don't
you just throw some extra handful of fry that doesn't cause, I've run a food stand before.
It doesn't cost much to do an extra handful of fries to make a happy customer.
But the last thing you want to do in my opinion, when you've made a mistake like that is then
say, well, you should be giving me that money as a tip.
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And this is a problem here in America.
I can't say about the world abroad, but you go into these places.
Now you order a four or $5 coffee, which is insane on its own for a latte or a brevet.
And then they want you to leave a tip for, you know, the person that just swivels the
iPad around and you swipe your card, not even making change or anything.
Some of them won't even take cash.
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I tried to pay with the $20 bill for a call.
We don't accept cash.
It's card or you got to pay through the whatever the, I forget the app they had, but I didn't
have it.
And the options for tip are like, okay, it's not like 10%, 20%.
It starts, you know, 50%, $2,000 or you can give us a kidney for a tip just for making
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a coffee.
Now, I mean, I got nothing against a good barista, good barista, but yeah, this is getting out
of control, this tip and culture.
So tell us what you would, what you would do in that situation, right?
I said info at gearconvoy.com.
Send us an email, let us know if you have any tips or suggestions on things you'd like
to hear covered.
Again, that was info at gearconvoy.com.
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We'd love to hear from our listeners.
Let's get into our next segment.
Now, if you live here locally in Klamath County in the Klamath Basin, we have been going through
a massive snowstorm in the, for several days now.
We're on the fourth day of being under siege by snow.
It started, I believe, on a Sunday evening.
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I can't remember exactly, but around Sunday evening, we started getting heavy snowfall.
When I checked at the deepest point of it all with a yardstick on a flat metal surface
in my backyard, I got 13.5 inches of snow.
Now, I don't know what they got in the nearest city, which is about 30, 35 miles away, but
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that's what I got as measured by a yardstick.
I've got friends that are even more remote than me, 20, 30 miles further out.
They said they got closer to two feet.
Obviously, the higher you go up in elevation, we're at 4,200 feet here in Chaitown, as they
call Chiliquin sometimes.
So this has been a big deal.
We have, currently, we have thousands, depending on where you go for your information, thousands
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without power, without electricity.
I read everything, estimates everywhere from 3,000 to 6,000 to 13,000 had power in and
out, and there may be several hundred or several thousand currently still without power for
multiple days now.
No internet, no heat if they heat with electricity.
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Trees are down, power lines are down, roads are slick.
It's a mess.
It really is.
This leads right into preparedness, just like what happened in Pentecola and Milton, Florida.
Unfortunately, we did have a fatal accident here on the highway on, I believe, Sunday
evening, took two lives.
Horrible situation.
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And it's still snowing.
It's still coming down out there.
We're currently at about 26 degrees right now, but it was a couple of nights ago, it
was getting down 16 and 19 degrees, so it's still not over with.
And if your power is out, your water may be out, depending on your situation, whether
they have a well or a generator or a pump, solar powered, there are a number of different
options.
So if you have good generators hooked up to their water treatment plants, but the bottom
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line is all of this requires preparation.
That takes us to a story, to a town.
Let's go here.
We're not going to name names.
This is actually kind of sad.
I'm not going to make fun or jokes of any kind of this particular.
This is a Facebook post, a lady asking for help.
So this is not to be taken in a comedic fashion by any means.
This is to illustrate what can happen if things don't go to plan.
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Here's our Facebook post.
I'm going to name and location out of it.
After four days and nights with no power and no heat of any kind for days, ask yourself
when the last time you've gone four days straight with no power and no heat of any kind in sub
freezing temperatures, no water, no way to cook or clean.
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We're at the end of our rope.
Our cars are hopelessly buried so we can't leave.
We have two dogs and an ancient kitty and we are all on the verge of freezing.
Pacific power keeps giving us projected times for having our power restored of six to eight
hours, but that's been happening for four days now.
I know the crews are doing their very best.
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God bless them.
I just wish I would have been given a more accurate assessment three days ago when we
could have gotten out of here and gone to stay with friends in such and such and so on.
That's a problem, folks.
If you find yourself in that situation, you are in a bad spot as this lady very well recognizes.
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She's got an issue on her hands.
Her and her family are animals and whatever else they have going on there.
So what is the point?
The time to prepare is not two days.
We had some warning before this storm.
There was news, information and weather alerts and so forth a couple of days, several days
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actually in advance letting us know, but the question is what are you going to do with
that information?
We'll jump right in here.
A lot of people like lists of preparedness products.
How to be ready, what exactly should I have, what should I have in my kit?
I look at it a little bit different.
If you want those lists and those kind of things, you can go online and find those easily.
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It's easy to find.
I look at it like the number one, the jumping off point for me personally.
And again, every expert is going to have a different way of looking this, but you should
be able to easily do two weeks without having to set foot outside your house.
Have enough supplies and everything else so that you easily can do two weeks without
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setting foot outside your house.
That includes enough food, enough water, other supplies, whatever else you need, the basics,
living restroom facilities to not have to leave your house whether or not you have electricity
and running water or not for two weeks.
Now you may say, hey, you know what?
That sounds kind of extreme.
I don't want to put that much into it.
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Ask yourself that lady, and this is by no means unique situation.
I looked on Facebook.
I have Facebook for my business account and I look in there.
There must have been at least 10 or 15 other posts very similar to this.
People that have not had power, which means no heat if they have electric heat for days
now.
That is a big deal in these temperatures and being covered in snow.
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So you need to make those decisions beforehand.
All of a sudden being able to, if you would ask that lady, now that she's been without
food, water, excuse me, no water, no heat of any kind and not being able to cook or
clean, does being prepared for two weeks sound extreme?
They've already done it for four days.
This was yesterday.
This took place.
She posted this.
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So I guess we're going on day five now.
All of a sudden two weeks doesn't sound so extreme.
There are a number of ways you can approach this.
The way I look at it and the way I talk about it whenever I speak with people, you know,
informally, just friends or family or whatever, instead of going just after a certain list
or a certain type of gear, look at your daily routine.
What is it you will need to continue that routine if all power and water were shut off?
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In quote unquote survival, there is what's called the rule of threes.
Okay?
So you can go three hours without shelter, three days without water and three weeks without
food.
Now obviously those are rough, you know, projections, but it gives you kind of an idea on the order
of importance.
The most important thing for them right now is not really food, even though I'm sure they're
hungry.
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It's shelter, meaning being able to maintain your body temperature at a safe level and
then enough water because your body has to have water.
And these are things that are easy to do.
If you don't have electric heat and you don't have wood, there are a number of different
heating options you can look up, indoor propane.
I'm not going to give particular advice.
Everyone has to find what works for them and then check it out and make sure it's safe.
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But there are a number of heating options, whether it's propane or kerosene that can
be made safe for indoor situations so that if you lose your electric heat, you're not
in serious trouble.
Now they're buried with snow.
They may have gotten up to two feet of snow or possibly more out there.
If they're not young, healthy individuals digging out of that much snow, some people
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out here have driveways that are several hundred feet to a half mile long.
Do you know how long it's going to take?
That's not, it's not a feasible solution.
All the snow dumped at once in a 36 hour period.
So you got to prepare beforehand and that means being, I mean, again, in my opinion,
the way I look at it, two weeks is a minimum.
If you can't do two weeks without setting foot literally setting foot outside of your
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home with no electricity and no water, you're not really prepared for much at all.
And that doesn't require a big commitment or investment.
Things like rice, coffee, beans, canned goods are easily procured over a couple of weeks
or a couple of months time period to where you can easily have enough to support you
and however many people in your family for two weeks.
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Easy.
And let's not leave out the heavy hitter spam.
If you are, if you're one of those people looks down on spam, you are going to get no
mercy here.
Spam is a fantastic product in my opinion.
I wouldn't want to eat it every single day.
It's a very strong flavor product has a lot of salt.
But if you have a problem with spam, just ask the folks in Hawaii how they feel about
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it.
Spam was introduced in Hawaii during World War II.
The soldiers brought it with them as part of their rations and it quickly became very
popular and very, very commonly used because it's a relatively cheap product.
It preserves very well and on Hawaii where everything has to be imported for the most
part fresh meat is very expensive.
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So you can find spam and all kinds of meals there and around the world.
I think it's a fantastic product on its own, but particularly for emergency preparedness
and survival cans, either tins of spam or the individual package servings make great
meals with eggs, rice, all kinds of things and they last a very long time.
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So very easy to cook.
One of these days I'll get around telling a story about a backpacking trip.
I took with a bunch of city boys from Portland, Oregon and they all laughed at my notion of
having spam in the morning, spam and eggs while on the trail.
Let me just put it like this.
When they started taking their dehydrated or freeze dried oatmeal with like two rock hard
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blueberries and putting it over the stove and cooking it like some kind of diluted REI
commercial.
And then I started cooking up my spam and eggs.
They quickly converted and became believers.
So that's another story for another day though.
Not to be overlooked though.
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You need to plan for restroom facilities and we're not going to get a graphic or explicit
here.
You can do research online.
If the water goes, you may not have toilet facilities.
Disease can strike very quickly.
This will be a subject for an internet search, but you need to plan ahead if the sewage facilities
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no longer work or go down.
You're going to have to take care of that yourself and you don't want to be caught
on a wares on that front.
That's all I'll say for that now.
We'll get into that deeper in another time.
Let's in on a light note.
Let's go to New Hampshire.
Where did we go?
New Hampshire there.
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Okay.
Here we go.
A Texas man ended up trapped on a cliff after he went into the New Hampshire wilderness
with only a cell phone app as his guide.
The new.
Okay.
This is good.
The hiker, a man from Whitney, Texas had no flashlight, no compass and no map officials
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said he was rescued Wednesday.
When did this take place?
This was in mid to late 2024.
He had no flashlight, no compass and no map officials that he was rescued Wednesday off
the Great Gulf head wall after spending the night in a spot that he was not able to hike
up or down.
He was trapped on a cliff face here, according to the release.
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This predicament was compounded by the fact that he also did not possess any source of
light.
This is why I always include in survival kits a small flashlight.
If you look even my hollow hand survival kits and knives on gearconvoy.com, they almost
always include a small flashlight that puts out a very bright beam and a quality compass.
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You can fit that in the handle of my knives.
You immediately have light and navigation.
Let's get on.
We're running out of time here.
Moving forward, he was investigators say the 66 year old man began hiking at 9 30 a.m.
Tuesday with intentions of being picked up at the summit on Mount Washington.
However, he made a wrong turn, sending him deeper into the wilderness.
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Officials said as he made his way into the Great Gulf wilderness, he attempted to navigate
his way to the summit of Mount Washington using only a cell phone app.
Officials said it was reported to conservation officers that he followed his cell phone app
to a location off trail where he became strength.
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This is like the episode of the office where the guy is driving his car and it's leading
him into a lake and his copilot is to don't know turn Michael turn and he drives into
the water because he said the computer is telling me to do it.
So this guy literally walked himself into a spot where he could not get out of and couldn't
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see to navigate out of because his phone told him to.
We talked about this with the dependents on cell phones.
The hikers partner placed a call for help and with all the facts and circumstances.
Now to get a little of this, the New Hampshire rescue team must not have been very pleased
when they called in with all the facts and circumstances, a decision was made to have
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the man stay the night officials.
So this guy follows his phone.
He gets lost in the woods.
He calls for help and they're like, you know what, bud, just take a time out and we'll
pick you up in the morning.
And that's what they did.
They picked him up the next morning.
They found the man stuck precariously about one tenth of a mile off the trail.
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A mile is 5,280 feet.
A tenth of that is about 528 feet or so.
That means he was less than two football fields away from the trail and couldn't find himself
out of there.
I would probably be upset too.
To show you how upset the New Hampshire SAR was, they posted a photo on Facebook showing
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the hiker trapped among trees and shrubs on a steep rock wall.
And I am looking at this photo right now.
He's just some guy stuck on a rock wall.
But they put this up on their Facebook.
So hopefully he learned his lesson and it ended, let's see, it ended a mountain summoner
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on 1.30 PM official said, because of his lack of essential items and poor choices throughout
the entirety of his hike, it has been recommended that he be billed for the expenses associated
with the rescue.
The state said, details of the cost were not released.
So I guess he better get his credit card ready.
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Okay, that's it folks.
Remember, prepare ahead of time.
Don't wait for an emergency to dig your gear out and get all your crap out and realize
you have made mistakes.
Be ready beforehand.
If you don't make it out alive, you won't make it at all.
Stay safe out there folks.
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