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Season 3 - Episode 264 - Hurricane Helene was here. · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the Good Morning from the Chicken Coop podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and mastermindset
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  coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
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  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
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  of yourself you could ever imagine.
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  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
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  her chicken coop, along with all her chickens.
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  Hey everybody, good morning from the very quiet dark porch this
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  morning. I'm shooting out here early
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  because we are the day after the storm and we have so much.
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  There's just crap everywhere, to be honest, all around the
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  property, girls are still locked up.
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  It's dark and nice and quiet. So I'm out here because I think
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  that I, I, this yesterday was a very interesting day to say the
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  least. And when we were dealing with
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  all of the morning, we missed yesterday's podcast.
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  So we couldn't, I couldn't. There was no way that I was
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  going to be able to get anything up yesterday and it was insane.
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  We had 44 tornado warnings in a very short period of time for
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  that many over the course of four, roughly 4 hours here.
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  And it was by far the scariest thing that I have lived through
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  weather wise in a very long time.
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  I didn't grow up in an area where there are tornadoes and I,
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  the area I grew up in north, the Northeast.
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  So the weather there is very you, you know, when it's coming,
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  they tell you it's going to be a hurricane, it's going to be a
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  snowstorm. We don't have mud slides and
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  fires and you know, a tornado warnings, I mean, it doesn't
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  happen. So I didn't grow up with it and
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  I'm not used to it. And here we have the propensity
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  every so often to have tornadoes.
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  We have hurricanes and I'm used to it because we can prepare for
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  it. We understand what we're going
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  into and my certainty girl loves that.
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  But tornadoes, not so much. We knew it was going to happen.
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  We knew it could happen. We knew there was a high, high
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  probability of it happening. And it was scary as you can
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  imagine. The alarm started going off in
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  the middle of the night on our phones.
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  Waking up, we were huddled in the bathroom.
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  The dogs could not get the cat to come in the room with the
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  dogs. And I was so upset because I
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  could not get the cat to come in the room with us and she just,
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  you know, cats. Need I say anymore?
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  I'm trying to chase her around and I've got.
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  Strangely enough, we did not lose our power at that point.
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  And I could see the news on the television and could see that
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  these tornadoes were dropping all all around us like they were
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  coming off the water and they were dropping off all around us,
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  2 streets away, one St. away. And it was insane.
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  They were moving fast and furious.
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  And for someone who is very certainty driven, and that's
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  what this is about today, having no control and not being able to
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  know how to do this, this thing in in tornado world, not having
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  a basement in our house, it is extremely unnerving.
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  And I found myself physically shaking.
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  And my son actually said to me, are you OK?
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  And I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  I was I but I was physically shaking.
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  There was so much energy in my body because I was so nervous
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  about what to do and how to go through it.
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  And just getting in there and actually sitting down on the
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  bathroom floor and then waiting and listening, it is so scary
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  because you're waiting to hear the sound and all you can hear
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  is the driving rain coming so hard.
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  And it's a complete, you have to just surrender to the process.
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  And in, in that moment, in that moment of sitting on the floor
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  worrying that I couldn't get the cat, that the Tornadoes are all
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  around us, that I'm shaking from head to toe, that my certainty
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  girl is flipping out in my head because I don't know.
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  And, and I can't tell my daughter does not.
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  My daughter is married and does not live with us.
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  And I'm trying to figure out if she's OK.
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  She's about 20 minutes from me. And I'm trying to figure this
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  all out. And I can feel the energy in my
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  body and I, I tried very hard to control that energy at that
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  moment, bringing it back down and focusing on we are OK, we
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  are OK, we are OK. Not sitting there saying I hope
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  we're OK with panic. And that's what I really wanted
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  to emphasize today was the key to me settling myself down was
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  not saying I hope we are OK, I hope we are OK.
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  It was going into an energy of deep prayer knowing we were OK
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  and as soon as I started to go into that and get out of my
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  certainty girl head, everything started to change and I started
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  to feel better. Now, maybe it would have been a
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  false outcome if we had been hit, but we were not hit.
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  And I was able to control my emotion in the moment much
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  better by doing it that way. So I thought, you know, this is
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  a worthy share today to let everybody know about a real
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  world event where I had to put my own tactics to a test and a
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  deep test. And boy does it work.
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  So again, it's not about saying we are going to be OK because
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  that is in that emotion of trying to control.
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  That is in that emotion of panic or desperation.
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  Instead, I went to seeing it as if it was done, knowing we were
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  OK, we are OK, we are OK. And all of a sudden everything
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  melted away and it was. I was able to get contained.
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  Now, was I still shaky? Yes, because my body had so much
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  energy in it and I was shaking like a leaf.
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  But I was able to pull it back together.
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  So luckily they're out of here and we are praying for all our
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  friends up this entire corridor that this beast of a storm
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  Helene just ran through. Our friends in North Carolina
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  who are cut off from the world in Asheville right now.
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  And say prayers for everybody, my friends, because they need it
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  right now. The mountains are not used to
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  getting this much water and this is really, really rough.
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  So send blessings and I hope you have a blessed day as well.
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  Bye.