Action4Canada - April 24, 2026


Ready for Anything


Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

197.22

Word count

497

Sentence count

33


Summary

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In case of a disaster, where do you go? What do you need? What should you bring? What items should you have? All of these questions and more will be answered in this episode of the flood survival guide.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 If there's a flood in my area, where do I go?
00:00:03.320 What do I do?
00:00:04.020 Who do I connect with?
00:00:05.000 Who do I contact?
00:00:05.940 Do I stay put?
00:00:07.120 Is there someplace safe I can go?
00:00:09.700 In the first photo on the left, you'll see there's things like lanterns.
00:00:13.580 I'll talk about lanterns in just a moment.
00:00:15.520 There's things like candles and utensils, a little French press there, a kettle that
00:00:24.360 you heat over a wood stove.
00:00:26.320 There's your little blue water bottle, hot water bottle, right?
00:00:29.280 There's bottles of wine in the bottom left corner.
00:00:31.500 Now, I've heard of people that go to the wine store and get those wine kits for like $120
00:00:35.880 and get the wine store to make them, not so that they will have wine to drink, but they'll
00:00:40.780 have something to trade.
00:00:42.500 You know, it ends up that a bottle of wine made from the wine store costs you $4.
00:00:47.100 And if it all hits the fan, you can trade them for 20 bucks or whatever.
00:00:52.520 OK, something to consider.
00:00:54.340 The photo on the far right has a lot of the items we're going to talk about in the next
00:00:58.460 slide.
00:00:58.960 But the photo in the middle is what I want you to get your to get your attention.
00:01:04.320 Mike, one of my grandsons just turned 14 years old a couple of days ago.
00:01:08.300 And I said, so what are you doing for your birthday?
00:01:10.560 He says, well, I just came back from picking up 13 chainsaws.
00:01:14.920 And he said, just before Christmas, I picked up another eight or nine.
00:01:18.360 And he said, I fixed them up.
00:01:20.760 I cleaned them up.
00:01:21.940 I put a new bar and chain on them.
00:01:23.440 And then I trade him or I sell him.
00:01:25.180 He's into four wheelers as well.
00:01:26.740 and he learned himself. Well, my son helped him, but he taught himself how to repair small engines.
00:01:34.560 And, you know, in a case of a disaster, people will want or need chainsaws.
00:01:41.080 You know, trees are down. People will want firewood and it may be hard to come by.
00:01:45.720 So here's a 14 year old kid who just turned 14.
00:01:50.460 Who's got a collection of chainsaws. And so that's something you may want to consider, too.
00:01:56.020 You may say, I don't know a thing about chainsaws.
00:01:58.500 You know what?
00:01:58.880 You can learn a lot on YouTube these days while you still can.
00:02:02.560 And I wouldn't go out and buy a whole bunch of lawnmowers because people may not be so
00:02:06.680 worried about mowing their grass during a state of emergency.
00:02:10.420 But a chainsaw, maybe.
00:02:12.200 Or maybe you've got a grandchild or a grandson who may have interest in this.
00:02:16.780 Just something to consider.
00:02:18.620 OK, or if you have a chainsaw or two, you may want to consider picking up an extra,
00:02:23.360 you know, bar and chain and gear oil and all that,
00:02:28.080 because it may be hard to come by in case of an emergency.