"There's a storm coming."
Preppers’ PING!!
Who says being a zombie is so bad? Hell, you got no pain, you got no worries and you got plenty of food around aka non-zombies...and their terrified screams are probably pretty cool right before you devour them—like violin music during a gourmet feast.
It is the height of hubris to assume an Apocalypse is a bad thing...I mean from whose POV?!?!
The trouble is, there is no such thing as *a* zombie apocalypse. You have to be clear as to which type of zombie apocalypse you are talking about. Just off the top of my head, here are some classes of zombie.
1) Traditional or “voodoo” zombie. A person who is either given a zombie drug, hypnotized, has had their brain damaged chemically or surgically, or is a freshly reanimated corpse. They are a mindless slave to whoever orders them around. Typically we call them “Democrats”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWpU8sX10_4
2) Reanimated corpse, type II. These are zombies that are recently deceased but are fully controlled by a parasitic force within them. They only follow the prerogatives of their controller, and may or may not retain any humanity. They are usually distinguishable by rapidly decaying.
3) Romero zombies. These are the ponderous, shuffling zombies that crave human brains, likely because they are starved for the specific fatty tissues called myelin, mostly found in quantity in the brain, to support their unusual metabolism.
4) Post-Romero, or “fast” zombies. Kind of new on the scene, these are much harder to defend against because there is little or no time to prepare before they attack.
5) Skeletal zombies. Very difficult to fight, as they are somehow animate without muscle tissue or even physical brains. While they are still hazardous, they do not crave to eat humans, generally only to attack them, or defend something from them.
6) Various other types of zombie, in the minority. These include zombies that have retained their intellect, and are either decaying or not; “near” zombies that require artificial means to keep functioning; and “liberals”, who appear almost human, except have no brain at all, no taste, no morals, no ethics, no religion, no patriotism, and often defective sexual urges.
Too bad Freepers can’t agree to meet up and band together at certain pre-defined locations after the apocalypse. There’s safety in numbers. Depending on how bad it gets, I don’t see much hope for small groups or family units that are determined to go it alone.
If cell towers are down, he's outta luck. Better to have battery operated walkie-talkies. One for every member of the family and teach the kid how to use it. Expensive ones have 30+ mile range which might be good to get the wife home from work but the cheap shorter range ones would be better to communicate within your group's smaller listening range.
Excuse me, but 99% of us don't have the ways or means to have such a compound as that guy. What should the rest of us do? Kart, what if we had a "What would you do in XYZ situation" discussions... what would you do within the first hours of elections being cancelled? what would you do if you knew electricity was being shut off in 24 hours? Banks were closing that day? Terrorists hit within our borders?
