Normally I try to make a conscious
effort to make the Saturday entries a little more upbeat or funny if I can. But
after yesterday, it was like all the air was let out of our emotional balloon.
The sight of a shamble of zombies that was big enough to fill a football
stadium changed our opinion of everything. I want you to keep this in mind.
The town of Langley had a population
of about 800 people. I cannot tell you how many zoms we have put down in the
last six months. Not all of them were dropped within sight of the store. Many
have been put down within the town of Langley while doing our scavenging runs.
Some zoms could have migrated off and moved on to Adair, Spavinaw, Disney, or
Vinita. So let’s just say that we dropped 100 zombies a month.
If every single person in Langley and
the outlying areas was transformed and then came within striking distance of
the store, it would be a drop in the bucket compared to the horde that we saw.
800 versus 100,000. The population of Langley versus the capacity of Cowboys
Stadium.
Quite
frankly, no one wanted to engage this horde because we were afraid that they
would turn on us. We didn’t want to do anything that would stop their progress.
They marched in and we didn’t want to stop that progression in any way but we
could have just started popping them off and I think we could have run out of
ammo before we ran out of targets. I don’t think we even would have had to aim.
I think you could have just popped shots into that crowd and some zom would
have dropped. That is how clustered they were.
Before,
we honestly thought that we had a chance to ride this thing out. But what if
you were out and exposed and you could ran across the path of this horde? There is no outrunning them. There is no
outflanking them.
Honestly, I have no idea how you
would stop these things aside from an old school F-4 Phantom bombing run,
dropping napalm on them like in an ‘80s action movie, and lighting them all on
fire. I just don’t see how you could possibly deal with something like that. I
cannot even think about it…
