Let’s be frank, Zombiephiles. Your collective spouses, loved ones and family members probably think you’re a little bit off the deep end, stockpiling food, water and blunt weapons in your basement against the eventual likelihood of a zombie outbreak and subsequent zombie apocalypse. This zombiephile understands – he’s had more than a few eyebrows raised in his general direction over the course of his life in general, and since starting this blog in particular.
But here’s the thing – Zombie outbreak prevention may not be as crazy as it sounds. Think about it.
When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, it took the government and FEMA days to bring help to the survivors huddled in the Superdome. When the New York power outage happened, some people didn’t have basic services restored for three days. Even this year’s winter storms left Americans huddled around makeshift heating sources while the government struggled to bring power back online.
In every one of those cases, if people had been prepared for a zombie outbreak, they would have been prepared for what befell them. The thing about zombie outbreak survival preparation is that it’s a blanket that falls over all disaster readiness. If you’re prepared for Zombies, if you’re prepared for a global outbreak of epic proportions, then you’re ready for most of what nature can throw at you.
You’ll have food and water stockpiled, enough to last through the initial wave of a zombie outbreak, or a more mundane outbreak of SARS or Avian Flu. You’ll have a small stockpile of essential survival items, in case you need to bug out fast – meaning that if flood waters come, you’ll have everything sitting in a bag, ready to get out of dodge. If, god forbid, the government should fall and anarchy were to sweep over us, you’d have a small stockpile of weapons to protect your home and your family.
The truth is, NOT being prepared for a disaster is FAR more insane than being prepared for a zombie outbreak. At least the latter means you’re prepared – and we all know what they say about an ounce of preparation.
Zombiephiles of the world, prepare!
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I agree completely! Zombie preparation is essentially an amalgamation of riot and disaster preparation which are common occurrences globally if not nationally. Lately it seems, the problems that typically hit other countries have been affecting richer and supposedly more equipped nations as well… Making zombie prep a very reasonable if unconventional hobby.
Thank you Thank you I am printing this out to show every one next time they laugh when at my supply shopping.
Would Zombiephiles manage to counter the triffid threat? Remember zombies eventually die; triffids just keep on reproducing.
I agree. I’m starting today to stockpile for this very purpose.
Iv been preparing my whole life for a large scale apocalypse of some sort.. (zombie’s) people around me just do not understand how relevent and easy it could accure srry bout the spelling its been 28 hours since i last got sleep. and Im to lazy to fix it.
if they can make a whole sheep out of nothing…why can’t we accept what they could do with a dead body? i just think it is ridiculous not to accept that it’s just a matter of time until something bad happens, in the meantime i will still go to work in the morning but…i won’t stand around going, ‘what is happening?’ when it goes down….
Great posting, Zombiephile!
Wow,thats true dude…
do you think h1n1 can mutate in to some kind of virus that has zombie like symptoms.
I want to just remind everyone, it is human nature to go into shock and try to come up with “reasonable explanations” for why the Henderson’s have just broken through the front window of the Nelson house and are eating them on the front lawn. It is a natural reaction, but the more “drills” you run on how to react, the more likely you are to snap out of it and protect yourself (and loved ones) from becoming desert. Do not stock pile and forget, practice and prepare! Oh, also, storing water in plastic bottles is a bad idea. If you must, then you need to add a tiny amount of non-scented liquid bleach (about 2 drops per gallon) to prevent the growth of any bacteria. Do not store your supplies in an area with fluctuating temperature (like under the house).