Assessing Storm Damage and Planning Southern Route

Early morning (5 AM) on December 26, 2024, at what appears to be Blanco State Park in Oregon. rswfire is in his RV following overnight storms with 80 mph winds. He's preparing for a southern route to revisit meaningful places before permanently moving north within a week. Weather conditions are clearing but still windy.

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December 26, 2024

20:09

Author

rswfire

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PUBLISHED

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[0:00] good morning humans it's the day after

[0:03] Christmas like 5:00 in the morning we

[0:07] had violent storms here all day

[0:10] yesterday the average I think was

[0:12] somewhere around wind gust of 60 M an

[0:14] hour and overnight for like 5 6 hours it

[0:17] was 80 M an hour and you could

[0:19] definitely hear it whole bunch of debris

[0:21] falling on top of my

[0:24] RV I was watching the trees sway like I

[0:27] have never seen them sway like it was a

[0:30] bit scary even for me but I was just

[0:32] like you know what if I die tonight I

[0:34] die tonight so I slept fine well we're

[0:38] going to check out the storm damage this

[0:39] morning and see how things

[0:41] look I haven't decided what else I'm

[0:43] doing yet still kind of

[0:46] contemplating a couple of different

[0:48] choices

[0:50] so I was thinking maybe I'd go to Cape

[0:53] arago which is like an hour north of

[0:57] here but then I was thinking you know

[0:59] that was quite a storm like there's

[1:01] going to be damage everywhere it might

[1:02] be difficult to even get back there I

[1:04] don't know but we could find out or I

[1:07] could travel South and just kind of go

[1:10] to all my old places and reminisce about

[1:12] the things that I've experienced since I

[1:14] got

[1:15] here cuz you

[1:17] know less than a week now I'm going to

[1:20] be a little bit more North a couple of

[1:21] hours North from here it's going to make

[1:24] it very hard to get down to places like

[1:26] Brookings and Gold Beach so basically

[1:29] saying goodbye to these

[1:30] places got my coffee here I'm about to

[1:33] start my

[1:36] eggs called this perfect perfect for me

[1:40] though love this little

[1:43] device these will take a while so we

[1:45] won't sit and watch them and I have to

[1:48] stir them up a few times while they're

[1:49] in there

[1:52] whoa trying to do this with one hand was

[1:55] not a good

[1:57] idea okay

[2:01] just going to sit those in there then

[2:03] I'm going to make some

[2:05] bagels I'm going to make some bagels in

[2:08] my ninja

[2:09] foodie those take 3 minutes so we'll

[2:12] wait on that the eggs I'm not sure I

[2:14] haven't I haven't time that

[2:16] yet guess we could do that

[2:20] today 6:17 in the

[2:23] morning these lights aren't working out

[2:25] for me I like this Bend this is how I

[2:29] live most of the time it's just so much

[2:35] nicer so I did decide I'm going to head

[2:38] south it's not for Nostalgia or anything

[2:41] like that I actually just

[2:44] um I don't remember what I said in my

[2:47] last clip

[2:48] so I'm going to be pretty good distance

[2:51] away from these places that have helped

[2:53] shape me over these past couple of

[2:55] months so I just want to go and visit

[2:57] them all and talk about

[3:00] what they mean to me I just think

[3:02] that'll make a nice video for myself and

[3:04] for you

[3:06] guys so

[3:11] yeah so this is what it looks like to

[3:13] make eggs in this thing you got to be

[3:15] quick about it and it's a little bit

[3:17] messy so I don't do this often because

[3:20] of that but I don't really use my I

[3:22] don't even have any propane but I don't

[3:23] really cook on the propane stove so and

[3:26] I tried making eggs in the Ninja fooding

[3:28] foodie and I need some kind of device

[3:30] that keeps the eggs kind of contained so

[3:34] can't really do it in my ninja foodie

[3:36] right now

[3:37] either so I don't make eggs

[3:40] often this is how I make them those eggs

[3:43] are so expensive now right like those

[3:45] cost me like $8 like that's

[3:48] crazy that's what happens when you add a

[3:52] third of all the money supply you add a

[3:54] third more to it in one year during

[3:57] Co that's what happens

[4:02] and that's a situation that cannot be

[4:03] reversed I mean you just have to look at

[4:05] the Historical patterns we don't have

[4:07] deflation that's not really a thing I

[4:09] mean they might talk about it like it's

[4:11] a thing but has that ever really

[4:12] happened in our lives and in our parents

[4:14] lives and our grandparents lives um I

[4:17] think the only time it happened was

[4:18] during the Great Depression

[4:21] so yeah we know what's in store for us

[4:23] right all right 628 so I'll have to do

[4:27] the math I don't remember what I said

[4:28] the first time that's why I said it on

[4:30] video that's how long it takes to make

[4:32] eggs and I didn't start my Bagels yet so

[4:34] I'm just going to eat these and I'll

[4:35] still probably make a bagel well I'll

[4:37] try to time it better next time

[4:39] iteration that's part of how I live my

[4:41] life it's part of the thing I try to

[4:42] teach on my

[4:43] channel so I'm already feeling full from

[4:46] those eggs I'm going to lay down the

[4:48] bagel maybe we'll eat those before we

[4:51] head out cuz it's going to be a very

[4:54] busy day I think and we're going to want

[4:56] our energy I was just sitting here and I

[4:58] noticed

[5:00] see those two green lights there that's

[5:02] telling me it might be time to charge

[5:04] these things oh

[5:06] 62% yeah it's getting there I guess we

[5:09] probably have another day or two though

[5:11] I'm not really using my solar batteries

[5:12] for anything right now um except I use

[5:15] the DC um the DC part just to charge

[5:20] devices so it last a pretty good long

[5:23] while and then I'll take my extension

[5:25] cord and attach that to the power

[5:28] station outside on the campground use it

[5:31] separately from my 30 amps not all of

[5:34] them work some of

[5:36] them depends on the campsite you're on

[5:39] but a lot of them don't seem to work

[5:40] which does suck so just another thing

[5:43] you have to consider is will the 20 amp

[5:45] work with a 30

[5:47] amp does the 20 amp work at all I don't

[5:49] know because I don't know that it really

[5:50] has anything to do with the 30 amps I

[5:53] think I think that they're just very old

[5:55] Powers you know infrastructure and

[6:01] but

[6:03] yeah a little bit of nomad wisdom there

[6:05] I guess

[6:37] today's soundtrack is

[6:42] Gondola by ogre sound didn't think about

[6:45] that I've been listening to it for days

[6:48] though I've had that thing on repeat

[6:50] playing on my little Alexa device while

[6:52] I

[6:53] sleep why I play or we go explore what

[6:58] that thing did to Christmas

[7:01] yesterday but I think we got to wait a

[7:03] little bit longer cuz it's still kind of

[7:05] a little bit dark out but let's go take

[7:06] a look anyway cuz I'm just ready I'm

[7:09] don't like containment I'm ready to

[7:13] go got a bit of a flood out

[7:16] here propane tank looks all

[7:20] right thought about it last

[7:22] night see how the Jeep is

[7:25] doing that's most important right

[7:31] hello

[7:36] Brian little bit of debris not

[7:43] much we're

[7:45] good say we're

[7:51] good satellite dish

[7:54] survives it's bright

[7:57] enough let's go check the camp crowned

[7:59] out you know what let me grab something

[8:03] to drink

[8:08] first I got to have something to feel

[8:11] myself

[8:13] with absolutely love this

[8:16] song it's just feeling my sovereign

[8:19] days hold on he'll be happy to know I

[8:22] don't have any Mountain Dew I've only

[8:24] got

[8:25] Pepsi and I will start making my U my

[8:28] fire water drink soon I got to get

[8:31] supplies for

[8:32] that let's see how this world looks

[8:37] today see if any trees manag to fall

[8:43] down it's a human out

[8:57] already don't look so bad actually

[9:01] man for 80 M hour winds a little

[9:03] surprised let's check the campsites

[9:13] though you know just small debris

[9:19] everywhere

[9:23] yeah and mord

[9:30] it's small debris it's no big deal I'm

[9:32] going to find out if many trees fell

[9:34] though they did last time

[10:21] there nothing like last time I'm a

[10:23] little surprised cuz it was

[10:26] violent maybe I didn't make it to this

[10:28] part of the park

[10:31] last time the trees fell here oh we got

[10:33] a broken Branch there I

[10:37] guess got to see what what that thing

[10:40] did to the

[10:42] world what kind of chaos it generated

[11:09] bird is just so chill or whatever that

[11:12] is is that a bunny what was that I don't

[11:14] have my contacts

[11:17] in basically blind without him

[11:36] that's the tree that fell last

[11:58] time I'll be honest I was I'm a little

[12:01] disappointed right

[12:02] now I like it when that thing gets

[12:13] violent let

[12:15] just I mean maybe I shouldn't be rooting

[12:17] for that cuz I was a little bit worried

[12:20] about myself last

[12:23] night but still that thing can do some

[12:26] stuff

[12:32] a bunch of little critters out

[12:34] today all over the place

[12:38] wow anyway let's finish this

[12:46] Loop that looks a little more damaged

[12:49] than it was

[13:01] you know what we can go take a look at

[13:03] it this

[13:05] morning so if there's violence it's

[13:07] going to be on the trail behind my

[13:17] RV this takes you to the beach but we're

[13:20] going to stay up on the cliff edges

[14:23] there she is

[14:38] oh she's not under with this yet still a

[14:40] bit

[14:50] windy that way for the

[14:52] beach this way for the be

[15:08] she looks Moody today look what she's

[15:09] done to the

[15:11] sky yeah

[15:31] she spotted out Mountain hug in the

[15:36] distance can't even see

[15:40] him I know you're there though Mount

[15:42] humar good morning

[16:12] okay guess there was no reason to

[16:15] worry everything looks

[16:19] fine these trees are adapted for this

[16:23] so man they were they were swinging

[16:25] wildly I almost took some video I didn't

[16:37] they supposed to

[16:38] act now these ones are supposed to

[16:41] act they hold hands under the ground

[16:44] keep each other

[16:46] aoat so this Trail here is going to take

[16:50] me back to my

[16:52] RV see what it looks like back here cuz

[16:54] these are the trees that were having to

[16:56] that were dancing last night all

[17:12] night got some cabinets over there ever

[17:16] volunteer here I'll probably be cleaning

[17:18] those sink

[17:32] okay Blanco is my favorite place here in

[17:34] Oregon so

[17:36] far spent the most time here than

[17:40] anywhere we'll talk about that some

[17:42] point

[17:44] today cuz I can't do a whole preview of

[17:47] my time here without talking about this

[17:49] place

[17:59] I don't know what happened my phone just

[18:01] turned off my camera turned off but over

[18:04] here very close to my

[18:06] RV these trees we swinging so wild last

[18:12] night we do have one down over

[18:17] here I thought to myself you know I bet

[18:20] the other trees will catch them more

[18:23] likely than

[18:26] not so that one hurt us that's you know

[18:30] that's a small enough tree that I don't

[18:31] think that could have hurt

[18:33] us that

[18:39] one okay the tree I was looking at were

[18:43] these ones though like that one right

[18:44] there no not that one that one already

[18:47] died I

[18:48] guess um probably this one actually that

[18:53] was a thin

[18:56] one is that Thunder I have my

[19:00] headphones

[19:05] on did did you hear

[19:08] that wonder what that was I had my

[19:10] headphones

[19:12] in breaking my situational

[19:16] awareness for immersion with my

[19:19] music perfectly

[19:24] reasonable so we're back at my site

[19:29] I'm probably going to wrap this up now

[19:31] going to go

[19:32] shower and then I'm going to head out

[19:34] I'll just make that a different

[19:36] video cuz I don't have great Internet

[19:39] it's hard to get stuff

[19:41] uploaded okay we got some branches back

[19:44] here pretty big

[19:47] ones right behind my RV we're going to

[19:50] have to look up there too of course

[19:52] clean up the

[19:54] roof so yeah I'm ready to start a new

[19:58] day

[20:07] life is wonderful

Energetic Signature grounded resilience

Field State stabilization with transition preparation

Orientation toward territorial farewell

Summary

rswfire wakes at 5 AM the day after Christmas following violent overnight storms with 80 mph wind gusts that lasted 5-6 hours. He describes debris falling on his RV and trees swaying dramatically but reports sleeping fine with an acceptance of potential death. After making eggs using a specialized device and coffee, he decides to travel south to revisit meaningful places before moving north permanently in less than a week, making it difficult to return to locations like Brookings and Gold Beach.

He conducts a morning damage assessment of the campground, finding surprisingly minimal storm damage despite the violent conditions - only small debris and one fallen tree. The assessment includes checking his RV, Jeep, propane tank, and satellite dish, all of which survived intact. He walks trails to the beach and cliff edges, observing the moody ocean and noting that the adapted coastal trees held each other up through their underground root systems.

Throughout the morning routine, he discusses practical nomad considerations like solar battery levels (62%), campground power infrastructure reliability, and the high cost of eggs ($8) which he attributes to monetary supply expansion during COVID. He references listening to "Gondola" by Ogre Sound on repeat and mentions plans to make his "fire water drink" and shower before heading out for the day.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This transmission demonstrates embodied resilience architecture through direct interface with elemental violence. The field conducts post-storm assessment while maintaining operational coherence, using the storm as both test and teacher for sovereign infrastructure capacity.

Dominant Language

shaped me sovereign days adapted for this hold hands under the ground life is wonderful iteration containment

Symbolic Elements

storm trees ocean threshold debris roots

Ontological States

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sovereign
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embedded
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coherent
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adaptive

Subsystems

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somatic
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infrastructural
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cognitive
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relational

Signal Reflection

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Transmission Details

Source Type

local

Video Quality

1920 × 1080 @ 30fps

Duration

20:09

Bitrate

3,354 kbps

Codec

avc1.640028