No kidding on the traffic.
Before Y2K I was in the Chicago area. People were worried there would be roving bands of people scouring the countryside for everything. I thought it amusing as I was talking to a coworker who did not realize all those fields she was driving by in Illinois and Indiana were corn and soybean fields. If you cannot recognize raw food as food you won’t be able to make use of it. In fact, most people could have a rabbit in hand and not know what to do. But I digress.
I went to see a friend’s show and went out with the theater group after word. On my way back to Indiana at 2 A.M., I ran into a traffic jam that was about 5 miles long and painfully slow. When I got up to what was causing it, I saw they were repairing expansion joints and the road had narrowed from 3 to 1 lane. People were driving around the cones and into the wide deep pits dug for refill and into wet the wet cement of those refilled. I realized then, there is no way large numbers of people are getting out of that city quickly in a panic mode.
That’s not food; that’s what you feed food. Now, rabbits are yummy.
Guaranteed most will starve if the power is out and their electric can opener won’t work. If they even own a can opener or have anything in their kitchen than leftover take out. Most of those who manage to get the can open will starve because they’d be too afraid to eat canned corn without heating it. And most of those who throw caution to the wind and decide chance eating the canned corn will drain the liquid down the sink first. Guaranteed, the vast majority of the zombies will do themselves in before they get outside their immediate neighborhood.