Do you live in an Earthquake area? Has it happened there before? Are you ready? Is your home ready? Lets have a quick chat about what you can do to help make your situation a little bit better with a few key tips.
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[00:00:34] Eric Goranson: And of course, into this weekend show. Happy holidays. Happy Hanukkah. Merry Christmas to everybody out there. Can't believe that we are nearing the end of the year. Well, I wanted to talk today, kinda a little bit of a pivot here. You know, this morning, it's Tuesday here in, uh, my neck of the woods and, uh, this morning in, uh, north of San Francisco, in Ferndale, California, they had a [00:01:00] 6.4 Earth.
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[00:01:36] Eric Goranson: If you're in an area that has had an earthquake in the past, this is something you should pay attention to. I'm in Earthquakes area. I was actually living in Seattle in about what, 2001 during the Squali earthquake. That was that, uh, I think 6.9 that we had up there. And I was midspan on the Tacoma Narrows bridge, which was not the place I wanted to be.
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[00:02:21] Eric Goranson: So you're gonna have a tough time communicating. Second of all, natural gas, water things that are piped coming into your house can have problems. So if part of your plan is to have natural gas, heat, and if the power goes out, Hey, I'm cool. I'm gonna be running the generator, you might not have natural gas and especially if you.
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[00:03:07] Eric Goranson: That can take days to weeks for that to happen. So I want you to really kind of think about that in your backup plan for heat if you're in an area that you have natural gas or cooking for that matter. So think about that. If your plan was to have the natural gas, barbecue, natural gas oven, or even natural gas cooktop, make sure you've got another source for.
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[00:03:59] Eric Goranson: [00:04:00] So in the seventies, sometimes even in the mid seventies, it didn't happen. I've seen homes that were built in Portland, Oregon, here in earthquake country, where in the mid seventies there's some, there's some framing nails that are holding that thing on that seal plate. Cuz what happens is, is they build the foundation nowadays, there's bolts that come up through that foundation and bolt down that seal plate, which is the basis of your house to the foundation.
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[00:04:47] Eric Goranson: That would probably not have happened if it would've been tied down to the foundation. So that's one of those things you wanna make sure that you're, uh, pretty well dialed in. . Now, here's the other part that I'm concerned about with that [00:05:00] is that you can go through and have that done, but I really, if it's gonna be a DIY project, then my recommendation for going through and Simpson strong time makes some great brackets to do this.
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[00:05:30] Eric Goranson: Company comes around and they go, okay, we're just gonna tie the exterior of the house to the foundation. You know? That's great. That's cute. Awesome. They've only done part of the job because what I want to see is around there, that metal plate that holds the foundation concrete to the seal plate. I wanna see now brackets that hold.
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[00:06:17] Eric Goranson: with some, you know, strong brackets. So that whole thing needs to be one big attached system, and that's okay, but you need to get that done. So if you had a company come in and they just did around the perimeter and they didn't do the rest of it, take some time and do the rest of that project correctly and get that fastened together.
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[00:07:03] Eric Goranson: There is a really good chance that we're gonna see high winds and at least a quarter inch of rain that's gonna come. When it's 20 in the low twenties outside. So with our big fur trees and wind, um, I think we're gonna see widespread damage here in our area this week. And, uh, that's gonna be Thursday, Friday in Christmas Eve.
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[00:07:45] Eric Goranson: So any you out there listening, just, you know, take the time. I'm gonna go out and make sure I've got fresh gas. I've got some here for the, for the generator from last season. I've been kind of rotating through. And that's one thing if you've got a generator, make sure you've always got fresh gas. And what I do with that [00:08:00] is if I've got my gas cans for the gas that I'm already ready to go.
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[00:08:23] Eric Goranson: It's when it starts getting a year or two and you haven't put any of the, uh, treatment into it that you can have some serious issues and you want that thing. Perfectly. It also reduces emissions if it's running correctly. So you're gonna have less of that smell and that exhaust smell around the house, cuz I dunno about you, but in my neighborhood here, when we get the, uh, power outage like that, it just smells like somebody's running the old lawnmower outside from everybody's generators running, cuz the, uh, air out there's pretty bad.
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[00:09:10] Eric Goranson: I didn't wanna do a whole brand new show that, that, you know, Christmas Eve and, and New Year's Eve are not like the. The huge days of home improvement, but I wanted to get some in interesting stuff out there without having a guest, you know, lose a little bit of the audience out there. So what I did is here, coming up this weekend is part one of my favorite episode nuggets from 2022, where I went back and found great episodes and segments from those episodes that are great, that have jam-packed information.
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[00:10:05] Eric Goranson: That's gonna be fun talking about that. If you know, not seen Evolved Stone, what those guys do is they, uh, actually take this composite product that looks like brand. Stone, the stack stone that you installed, but you do it with a finish nailer. Then we're gonna dive into one of my favorite fun episodes that had nothing to do with home improvement, really unlimited hydroplane racing, was strong racing.
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[00:10:44] Eric Goranson: That had, uh, murdered people and she went in and cleaned up the house from a bad flip and helped make that right. So we've got a jam packed show this weekend of stuff that you probably missed, cuz you know, most people don't listen to every single episode. So I want, you knows, to the [00:11:00] end of the year, let's grab that stuff and put it together so we have some kind of a, uh, a fun deal.
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[00:11:24] Eric Goranson: Reach out to somebody to give you a hand. You know, you're not alone out there. So I don't wanna see anybody doing this by themselves over the holidays. This is something to reach out to a friend. There's no shame in that and say, Hey, I need some. We'd much rather have you around, out there as one of our friends and family.
