Thoughts on zombie preparedness. Actually, though the Great Lakes do freeze, it’s unusual for Lake Superior to do so thoroughly enough to allow zombie access to Isle Royale, so that might be a solution for a few years, until you get a really hard winter.
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More thoughts on zombies walking the ocean floor, and freezing.
It’s irresistible to comment on this story. My luck would be that I get myself a small island in deep ocean, then a hivemind of thousands of undead zombies walks out there to mess up my vibe.
Why would water stop zombies? Do they need to breathe? Or is the assumption that they would be eaten by fish before they could get to your island compound?
I was going to bring up the scene from PotC.
If a fish snacked on a zombie, would it become a zombie itself?
“World War Z”, even post-victory, has something like 20 million undersea zombies wandering around, occasionally surfacing and posing a danger to inattentive beach goers. If they’re undead, they don’t need to breathe and come ashore.
“…and this time we ain’t trusting no friggin snakes!”
Wait,wait, Anthony Zerb wasn’t exactly a zombie, he was just pissed off and photophobic. And I’m with Jonah, I’m too much a “Boy Scout” to NOT be prepared. I let my family down once through not being prepared during a minor weather event.
Hurricane Floyd in 1999.
To paraphrase Scarlet O’Hara, as God is my witness, I shall never be un-prepared again!!
(I guess the zombie movie thing made me go all TCM in my head)
I’ve been watching the TV series Jericho on Netflix on demand lately. I guess there is one up side to living in Kansas.
If the zompocalypse strikes you never now where you might be. You will likely have to fight your way to a safe house of some kind. Team up with other plucky survivors and find plently of shotguns and empty bottles for molotov cocktails. Zombie think fire bad! Never underestimate a good chainsaw though in a pinch. Though is a little slow going if a zombie horde is upon you.
Now traditionally a zombie was imagined to be under the control of some kind of chaotic cleric or lich king. These would orchestrate attacks of mindless zombie that ramble about in packs and use shear numbers to overwhelm. Then, you have Ju-ju zombie which are freak zombie that still posses a great deal of intelligence and problem solving ability to penetrate simple barricades and lead attacks for the horde. There are also sea zombies which wander the oceans and pull unwary sailors down to the depths. A monster zombie would be some mutation that takes over an animal of sorts and so you then have a entirely different threat in terms of crazed killers dogs or even perhaps undead rabbits with great big teeth! Know your enemy and you will find the will and the know how to survive in the face of putrid horror. Walk softly and carry a 12 gauge.
Josh, and don’t forget the composite zombie, made of bits and pieces of lots of animals and people. Could be the size of a house. I guess you burn those.
“I guess you burn those.”
Or, a pipe bomb or stick of dynamite shoved into its chest makes for a nice giblet effect.
I’m questioning the ability of zombies to walk the ocean floor. We know that shotguns, baseball bats and swords are physically destructive to zombie tissue. Well, there is one heck of a lot of physically destructive water pressure on the ocean floor.
One would think that on a blog frequented by rocket engineers one of the software guys should not be the first to bring up a physics question.
Yours,
Tom DeGisi