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Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to the host of Home

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Speaker 1: on KFI. It's our very own house, whisper Dean Sharp Dean.

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Speaker 1: We got a super El Nino on the way.

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Speaker 2: Maybe yeah, very likely, very likely, and that's a serious

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Speaker 2: thing for homeowners in southern California. I was talking to

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Speaker 2: Tim Conway about it last night. You know, he's not

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Speaker 2: a big believer in weather predicting and forecasts, and I

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Speaker 2: had to tell him listen. But here's the thing I

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Speaker 2: do not. You know, we don't deal in fear mongering

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Speaker 2: on our show. If anything, we do the exact opposite.

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Speaker 2: We just try and put people's concerns about their homes

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Speaker 2: at ease. But the facts about El Nino, and the

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Speaker 2: recent ones especially are serious and should be taken seriously.

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Speaker 2: The last Al Nino in twenty three to twenty four

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Speaker 2: cost southern California homeowners almost five billion dollars in flood

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Speaker 2: damage and various other forms of dam image. And just

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Speaker 2: this week, the National Oceanic and Atmosphereic Climate Prediction Center

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Speaker 2: said there is a real potential for the strongest El

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Speaker 2: Nino event in one hundred and forty years, and so

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Speaker 2: not to freak anybody out, but we've got a serious

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Speaker 2: al Ninho coming. We're definitely in an l Nino year.

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Speaker 2: That is not a question. That means that we're going

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Speaker 2: to have a very high chance of a hot summer

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Speaker 2: and a wet winter, but a powerful El Nino, especially

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Speaker 2: once winter rolls in as far as moisture is concerned,

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Speaker 2: can cause all sorts of flooding drainage issues. We've got

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Speaker 2: two areas of la that have burn scars that are

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Speaker 2: very vulnerable. So it's something to take serious, and it's

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Speaker 2: something that homeowners now have six months. You got six

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Speaker 2: months to think about this. Flooding, drainage areas, landslide, hill

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Speaker 2: side erosion, roofing issues, checking your insurance coverage and the like.

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Speaker 1: So those are things that you're you'll dig into a

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Speaker 1: little deeper on your show this weekend.

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Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am, I love that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, there have been six people have been bitten by rattlesnakes.

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Speaker 1: Gary Hoffman had a rattlesnake in his front yard.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: There. They seem to be everywhere this year. So what

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Speaker 1: are some things that we can do to protect ourselves

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Speaker 1: aside from listening for the rattle?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just think, think, and the advice I've been giving

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Speaker 2: because we two of those bites took place out here

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Speaker 2: in Thousand Oaks in our area where we live, including

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Speaker 2: one of the deaths you know we got that we

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Speaker 2: kind of skipped right over the gentle spring rolling. And

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Speaker 2: that's really the issue with the rattlesnakes is we've had

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Speaker 2: these high temperatures in the nineties and it shook them

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Speaker 2: out of their dormant state and it made them very vulnerable.

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Speaker 2: And when an animal feels vulnerable, it gets scared, and

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Speaker 2: when it gets scared, it gets dangerous. So the key

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Speaker 2: with rattlesnakes, they're not hard to avoid. You just have

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Speaker 2: to be aware. It constantly amazes me how many folks

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Speaker 2: around us we've got these big open spaces out here

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Speaker 2: just kind of trapes out into the wild open lands

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Speaker 2: as if they're in their backyard or in a public park,

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Speaker 2: and you're not. So you stay on the trails, you

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Speaker 2: don't go off into the brush. You stay in the

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Speaker 2: center of the trail as much as possible. Avoid shadow

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Speaker 2: areas because they're trying to regulate their body temperature, and

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Speaker 2: you're likely going to find a snake relaxing or chilling

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Speaker 2: out just outside of the sunlight zone. And you know,

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Speaker 2: if you're listening to music, or you're talking on the

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Speaker 2: phone or something, or you've got your earbuds in, don't

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Speaker 2: have it in noise cancelation mode. Why do you have

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Speaker 2: it in noise cancelation when you're out in nature anyway?

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Speaker 2: Be aware? Okay, try I hate the sound of those birds.

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Speaker 2: Keep it on passive so that you can hear because

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Speaker 2: you know, hey, thankfully, California's only venomous snake has an

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Speaker 2: alarm system built in. And when you hear a rattle,

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Speaker 2: that is not a snake that's planning on attacking you.

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Speaker 2: That's a snake that's basically saying, I'm nervous that you're here.

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Speaker 2: Back away, so nothing bad happens.

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Speaker 1: Okay. And then you have a very special guest on

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Speaker 1: Sunday's show who we all missed terribly, and she's going

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Speaker 1: to be on to talk about, you know, the food

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Speaker 1: chain basically and not poisoning people.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. You know we're leading with these headlines, but Sunday

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Speaker 2: show is about pets and pests and how to best

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Speaker 2: deal with both of them. We have the founder of

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Speaker 2: poison Free Canajo, who just happens to be our very

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Speaker 2: own Robin Bertolucci, and she'll be on the show talking

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Speaker 2: about her passion and the movement that they're doing in

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Speaker 2: regards to getting rid of rodenticides, which is a very

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Speaker 2: very dangerous thing, a dangerous way to take care of

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Speaker 2: rodent issues because those poisons travel through their bodies and

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Speaker 2: go right on up the food chain into a wildlife concern.

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Speaker 2: So we'll be talking with her, and we'll be talking

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Speaker 2: with how to handle your pestious pests and how to

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Speaker 2: take care of your favorite pets.

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Speaker 1: Sounds great. You can listen to Dean this weekend six

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Speaker 1: to eight tomorrow morning and nine to noon on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: The show is called Home. You can follow Dean at

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Speaker 1: Home with Dean. Thank you so much, Dean Sharp.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Amy