How do you know when it is time for a cataclysm?

When you see the animals, birds and insects dying.

The real cataclysm is the immense numbers of people who are so beaten by life that they crave doom.

The answer is simple: Go to a store soon where you can purchase a top-quality magnetic compass, one wherein you can lock the free north-south indicating needle in any position you desire. The bigger it is, the better off you are. Then purchase an accurate stopwatch. Take them home and put them by your bedside. Have a paper under the compass with two diameters marked off at 90 degrees to each other in a circle larger than the diameter of your compass. Put your compass on the paper, centered within the circle. Unlock the compass needle and set it on north. Set the compass case so that its north coincides with the compass needle, and place the paper underneath so that one of its diameters is on the compass case. Tape the paper in place. Put the compass back so that its needle is pointed north, along the north-south line on the paper underneath. Then go to bed and have a good night's sleep. In the morning, hold the compass steadily as it is positioned in the circle beneath it, and lock the needle in place. Then turn the compass case left or right 90 degrees; use the 90-degree line on the paper underneath as a guide. Hold the case absolutely still, then release the needle. The needle will then swing toward north, and oscillate back and forth, diminishing in its swing a little each time. With the stopwatch, observe the time necessary for the compass needle to stop oscillating from its release time to first quiet settled-down time.

There will come the day, if indeed we are going to enter the galaxy's magnetic null zone as soon as the mathematics tables indicate we will, that you will find the settling down time increasing, as the needles oscillations will become sluggish. It could be that the time for settling down will stay nearly the same, but the number of oscillations required for the needle to settle down will decrease. So, perhaps in addition to recording the stopwatch time duration, also record the number of oscillations required for the needle to settle down. Either way, you will discern by your data that indeed, the Earth's magnetic field strength has decreased to a critical level. NOW! Take your family and your entire survival storage to your secret retreat. I hope you will not have waited this long to pack it and get it ready to go. Leave behind everything you can do without.

The north magnetic pole crosses over the top of the planet in 2018. First time we've witnessed this event.

227.166 85.020 2010
222.596 85.370 2011
217.521 85.676 2012
211.982 85.933 2013
206.059 86.138 2014
199.975 86.289 2015
193.710 86.395 2016
187.413 86.455 2017
181.245 86.471 2018
175.346 86.448 2019
169.818 86.391 2020

[link to www.ngdc.noaa.gov]

[link to www.staff.uni-bayreuth.de]

How to read the numbers:

They recently changed (this year) the way they are labeling the longitude. They aren't using negative numbers now. What was once -170 is now 190.

Take the longitude from 2015 for example (199.975). The old system as shown on the map above would have it located near -160. (-160 is now called 200)

The bottom of the map is the 180 degree line. According to ngdc.noaa.gov, our planet's magnetic pole will cross over the 180 degree longitude line between the years 2018 and 2019.

They are predicting the north magnetic pole to be over 10 degrees past the 180 line in 2020. That will be a very significant change for our planet.

go where. im in va.


how much time to evacuate and is hiding in the sky a better alternative to moving west?

The winds were strong enough last time to move the Sahara Desert west over the ocean and make deposits along our lower east coast and Bahamas, so that rules out the air. If you choose to go all-out with your survival preparation, do decide to indulge in some heavy work pouring concrete - with walls and ceiling up to four feet thick, with extremely heavy steel reinforcing, on the eastern side of the peak of a top-high mountain.