This hurricane season has been mild, to say the least. This is the first year I can remember when we have gotten into October without a hurricane. Maybe that is about to change, as we are watching a storm that everyone is convinced will soon organize into something bigger. The tracks I've seen has it coming ashore this weekend, somewhere between southeast Louisiana and Pensacola, FL.
At this point, everything is subject to change and we will have to keep an eye on it. If this thing organizes, it will become Cristobal.
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On Oct. 1, a Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet that flew from the USS Abraham Lincoln on combat missions in the Iran war was spotted returning home to California with an unusual kill marking. Above rows of other icons representing bombs the plane had dropped was a submarine split in half, embossed with the words “Sub Buster.”
Three adults — two men and a woman — were held for questioning. Police said two of them, a man and a woman, came home that night and found Jones in a bed upstairs. A third man was already inside the home when they arrived and said he had not noticed anything unusual before Jones was found.
An argument broke out between the three men, and Jones was shot, police said. Jones did not appear to know any of the three adults involved, according to investigators.
On Friday afternoon, NOPD officials confirmed that the man who opened fire did so because the person was trying to break into his house. Officers believe he was defending himself and others during the incident.
They said the man who fired shots will not face charges and that he is cooperating with officers.
Robert Loesch, 52, was arrested on one count of attempted second-degree murder and one count of first-degree assault, according to a Lafayette news release updated Saturday. Lafayette Police and the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office reviewed video footage and talked to witnesses before arresting him, the release says.
On Thursday, police responded to the 1500 block of Sidon Circle after learning that someone may have been shot. When officers got there, they learned that a resident, later identified as Loesch, shot a boy who Loesch said was trying to break into his home, the release says.
This Week in History: On October 4, 1535, The Coverdale Bible — the first complete Bible to be published in English — was printed in Antwerp, Belgium, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale. Pictured above is a Coverdale Bible on display at the Museum of the Bible, in Washington, D.C. — October 5, 1274: Around 1,000 soldiers of the Mongol army landed on the Japanese island of Tsushima in the first attack of Kublai Khan‘s Mongol invasion of Japan / — October 5, 1908: Bulgaria declared independence from the Ottoman Empire, and Ferdinand I (Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold …
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I have always had an active interest in survival. I have always tried to look at the big picture without bias. Previously, I prepared for vague, generalized threats. Within the last year, however, the world situation has dramatically changed – threats have become more specific, easily identifiable, significant, and realistic. In other words, the present world situation makes prepping more meaningful, practical, and necessary than ever before. We need to cast off our “Normality Bias” complacency of “everything is going to be okay, just like it’s always been” and take measured actions to prepare for what is probably coming. I’m …
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The following recipe for Crockpot Venison Stew is from SurvivalBlog reader Tony D. Ingredients 3 lb venison stew meat cut into 1-inch or smaller cubes. (You can substitute elk meat or beef chuck roast.) Salt (quantity to suit your taste) black pepper, ground (quantity to suit your taste) garlic powder (quantity to suit your taste) onion powder (quantity to suit your taste) garlic powder (quantity to suit your taste) paprika (quantity to suit your taste) 1/2 cup flour 2 tbsp butter 1 cup red wine (I use and inexpensive Cabernet Sauvignon) 1 1/2 cups celery, chopped 2 cups carrots, chopped …
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Today’s graphic shows the metropolitan areas in the United States projected to reach 1 million people within the next decade, if current growth rates continue. Also shown are those that recently crossed the 1 million mark. (Graphic courtesy of Reddit.) The thumbnail image below is click-expandable. — If any SurvivalBlog readers have personally taken or otherwise hold the copyright to a particularly nice landscape photo or other photo of particular interest to preppers that is in a wide horizontal format (to match our blog template) then please send it in as an e-mail attachment, and I will consider posting it …
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In Economics & Investing Media of the Week we feature photos, charts, graphs, maps, video links, and news items of interest to preppers. This week, a map showing GDP Per Capita of the US and Canada (in US Dollars in the calendar year 2025.) The thumbnail below is click-expandable. (Graphic courtesy of Reddit.) Economics & Investing News Links 10-year Treasury yield slides after hitting highest levels in 24 years. Michael Burry believes the AI bubble ‘may burst’ sooner than he first believed. Fortune: Stocks are in a late-stage bubble and poised to crash 21% next year, while Treasury yields …
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SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods. This column is a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from JWR. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats, and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk. In today’s column, renewed war drums, in Europe. A NATO-Russia Hot War Could Be Coming? I found this Independent Sentinel article linked over at the Whatfinger.com news aggregation site: A NATO-Russia Hot …
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Our weekly Snippets column is a collection of short items: responses to posted articles, practical self-sufficiency items, how-tos, lessons learned, tips and tricks, and news items — both from readers and from SurvivalBlog’s editors. Note that we may select some long e-mails for posting as separate letters. — The night sky is getting 10% brighter every year. We’re forgetting what darkness feels like. JWR’s Comments: It is easy to forget just how blessed I am to live in a place where I have a view of the Milky Way so often. I commend my readers: Find yourself a dark patch, …
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This weekly column features media from around the American Redoubt region. (Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and Wyoming.) Much of the region is also more commonly known as The Inland Northwest. REDOUBT NEWS LINKS Massive ‘stud’ elk snarls traffic at Yellowstone entrance. Officials euthanize 14 black bears after alleged feeding near Bozeman. Spokane: Fireworks go off during downtown Spokane apartment fire, man taken into custody. Boise police say driver topped 100 mph before Meridian officer made stop, Fly-in Hot Springs Adventure – Badlands Traveler @ Warm Springs, Idaho. Lewiston man arrested for stealing boat, pickup truck from business Saturday …
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To be prepared for a crisis, every Prepper must establish goals and make both long-term and short-term plans. In this column, the SurvivalBlog editors review their week’s prep activities and planned prep activities for the coming week. These range from healthcare and gear purchases to gardening, ranch improvements, bug-out bag fine-tuning, and food storage. This is something akin to our Retreat Owner Profiles, but written incrementally and in detail, throughout the year. We always welcome you to share your own successes and wisdom in your e-mailed letters. We post many of those — or excerpts thereof — in the Odds …
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The latest meme created by JWR, adding to a recently-circulated meme: Meme Text: It Isn’t A Cappuccino It Is A Catpuccino Notes From JWR: Do you have a meme idea? Just e-mail me the concept, and I’ll try to assemble it. And if it is posted then I’ll give you credit. Thanks! Permission to repost memes that I’ve created is granted, provided that credit to SurvivalBlog.com is included.
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“Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts. But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap: And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they …
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By Dave Workman The U.S. Supreme Court returned Monday for the October 2026 session, but in the Second Amendment community, all eyes are focused on Wednesday, Dec. 2 for the long-awaited oral arguments in a pair of cases challenging bans on so-called “assault weapons,” Viramontes v. Cook County (Illinois) and Grant v. Higgins (Connecticut). Both cases involve the […]
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CANCON Las Vegas 2026 tickets are on sale now and VIP tickets are coming JULY 4th!Several hospitals in Siberia have been placed under quarantine after the death of a woman who worked at an anti-plague institute.
Darya Shipilova, an employee at an institute in the eastern city of Irkutsk, died on the night of 2 October at a regional hospital in the nearby town of Shelekhov two days after falling ill.
Before you get paranoid, plaugue is not unknown in remote parts of Russia just like the American West. It is a legitimate non-bioweapon area of research.
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10/3/26 Reuters describes how the Iranian rial has reached historic lows, which is what Trump is trying to do: crash their economy:
Mehdi Darabi, an aide to the central bank's governor on foreign exchange affairs, blamed the decline of the rial partly on what he said were false predictions by US officials of the collapse of the Iranian economy."It is suggested that the Iranian economy is about to crash... The enemy is using this to affect the exchange rate of our currency," Darabi told state TV, adding that the current fall of the rial was temporary.
We didn't get as much rain as expected this weekend, but it is cooling off. Overcast this morning with drizzle before daylight.
Shortly after daylight, I watched a teal make a low pass over the pond. He decided against it and headed toward Catahoula lake. Teal are a harbinger, being the first ducks to make the trip.
The shop is cool this morning, with one A/C unit running, and it has cycled off.
A lot less hummingbird traffic around the feeders this morning. The smart ones left yesterday, riding the northerly breeze southward.
It's not time to break the flannel out, quite yet, but it won't be long.
** UPDATE TO ADD: After a few minutes, I decided to make a test run on the propane heaters in the shop. Both Belle's big heater and my small one passed the initial start-up.
Best-selling author, commercial airline pilot, and retired air crash investigator L.B. Johnson knows exactly how she got here. She just never expected to arrive quite so soon.
In The Serenity Chronicles, Johnson turns her attention from wreckage to reflection. A bout of septic shock and its lasting consequences forced her to reconsider not only the future she had imagined after retirement, but the very meaning of time. Rather than measure life by what remained, she chose to live more deliberately in the days she had.
Written as a series of candid, sometimes irreverent vignettes, this literary memoir wanders through subjects that initially seem wonderfully random, yet gradually reveal an unexpected coherence. Johnson considers the changing landscapes of the body, the ghosts of family history, the persistence of faith, the enduring gifts of love, and the peculiar indignities that aging so generously provides.
There is grief here, and an honest reckoning with mortality. But there is also laughter, gratitude, and the recognition that even an imperfect life can contain extraordinary beauty.
Johnson writes frankly about what aging takes away—and what it gives in return. Readers may wince in recognition, laugh at life’s absurdities, and find some part of their own journey reflected in these pages. Because being alive is an exercise in enduring surprise.
Sometimes, serenity is not found in knowing what comes next.
Sometimes, it is found in being willing to find out.
In armed self-defense training, “get off the X” means don’t be standing still in a gunfight. The theory is that a static target is easier for your opponent to hit. True enough, but the totality of the circumstances is sometimes such that “standing your ground” and shooting from a solid stance is the defender’s best […]As Love continued to assault her, the victim’s daughter tried to stop him, before he also struck the teen.
The 28-year-old man was shopping in the store when he saw the assault. He grabbed his firearm and attempted to stop Love from further assaulting the victim, according to VPD. The victim was then able to get away from Love.
The bystander attempted to hold Love at gunpoint when Love charged at him and began to hit him. The man discharged his firearm once and struck Love, according to the press release.
Around 10:14 p.m. Thursday, police responded to the 1500 block of Sidon Circle to a report of someone being shot, according to a Lafayette Police news release. When police arrived, the man, who was not identified in the release, told police that he got his gun and shot a boy after noticing the boy trying to get inside.
Police believe Vantrell had forced his way into an apartment when he was shot. He was reportedly armed with a knife.
Vantrell is facing charges of home invasion, terroristic threats and three counts of criminal damage.
Two intruders entered through an upstairs balcony and exchanged gunfire with the person living there. The resident was not injured.
CPD says shortly after the incident, 20-year-old Brian Baker Jr. arrived at Augusta Health with a gunshot wound. He has been identified as one of the suspects and charges of breaking and entering while armed are pending.
Authorities are still searching for the second suspect.
Does a Different Rimfire Suppressor Change Pistol Accuracy – Fibonacci57 Ti? The first DayAtTheRange pistol suppressor accuracy test left me with more questions than answers. And that’s exactly what I wanted. We took my 6-inch Volquartsen Black Mamba, established its accuracy with the muzzle brake installed, and then tested the Anechoic Pip Squeak with four […]
The post Anechoic Fibonacci 57 Ti + Volquartsen Black Mamba Accuracy Test first appeared on Day At The Range.State police said a man tried to break into a home in the 25000 block of Chapel Road, but the homeowner caught the attempted burglary in action. The homeowner reportedly shot the would-be burglar, who was identified as an adult male.
Police said the suspect was taken to a Cincinnati-area hospital and is expected to survive his injuries.
ISP said the two people involved in this incident knew each other.
The shooting occurred around 2:45 p.m. Tuesday near 845 S. Figueroa St. when a suspect or suspects exited a vehicle and shot at a man standing behind a Smart & Final. The victim pulled out a gun and fired back at the suspects, the LAPD said.
The victim was injured and transported to a hospital in critical condition, police said.