You haven’t heard much from me lately because I’ve been on my August recess and mostly using that time to read and actively prepare.

In the course of my research I have spent some time reading blogs for preppers, and wow, what an interesting world that is.  I know some of you are asking, ‘Ann where have you been?’  Well, not reading things like Modern Survival Blog and checking the prepper news aggregator Survival Pulse, but I am now.

These sites are a mix of how-to tips on everything a self-respecting survivalist needs to know and commentary on our present political scene.

I found this news (below) from Louisiana there, and I suggest strongly that you have a look at an older post at More than Just Surviving about what not to do if you experience (God forbid) a home invasion.

From Fox News:

Louisiana AG warns violent crime in US will reach ‘epidemic’ levels: ‘There’s a tipping point that’s coming in this country’

(as if we couldn’t tell!)

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry believes that it was inevitable that violent crime in the U.S. will get worse and warns that given the current state of affairs in cities across the country, the worst is yet to come.

In a phone interview with Fox News, Landry said that while he has tried to be tough on crime in his state, he realized years ago that in other parts of the country there were signs that crime would reach “epidemic” levels.

“When I became attorney general back in 2016, one of the first things that we tackled was we took a very proactive fight against crime,” Landry said. “I predicted four and five years ago that this country was headed towards an extreme violent crime outbreak, that it was going to become an epidemic.”

With homicides and gun violence on the rise in cities across the country, Landry said he is not surprised.

“I called that.

More here.

How is your prepping going?