After seeing the shambling horde on
Friday, everyone spent the majority of the weekend shoring up the defenses of
the store. There are certain areas of the store – the steel doors where the
only weak points are the steel hinges and the large, security locks – that are
iron clad. As long as we keep those doors shut, there is zero chance of those
doors being breached. It is just not going to happen.
However, with the weak spots like
the garage roll up doors and the front entrances, we spent a lot of extra time
reinforcing those areas. Even though I never took a class in high school or
college to back up this theory, I still don’t think the physics are there.
Much like the Persians trying to
funnel into the Hot Gates to take on the Spartans, I don’t think it matters if
there are 1,000 zombies or 100,000 zombies. They do not coordinate their
efforts and I don’t think there would be enough zombies that could make actual
contact with a roll-up door to be able to smash it down, especially with four
thousand pounds of pig iron or dog food propped up against it.
The only way I could see it working is
if they went all “worker ant” mode and the ones in the back started pushing
against the zoms that were pushing against the door. But I don’t think they are
that smart. Could they all impact against one of the store walls and start
climbing over the top of each other, forming a pyramid of bodies to reach the
roof? It is possible but highly improbable.
I don’t see them having that kind of
coordination. Granted, they don’t eat each other but they don’t work together
either. They just do not have that kind of cognitive brain function. Now, I
could see them all banging up against the concrete walls of the building like
concert goers with their hands stretched out towards the roof if they could
actually see a living person. If that was the case, then I could see them
cramming against each other to a point where there was no daylight between
them. But to actually start climbing over the top of each other? No, not enough
coordination, motor skills, or cognitive brain function to pull that off.
Now what is my real fear? That
somehow, a door does get breached. If a group like that flooded inside. Step 1)
Reseal the door. Step 2) Kill all the zombies inside without getting bitten. If
you cannot accomplish Step 1, everything else is pointless because I think they
would all just start streaming inside. Even if you managed to get to the top of
the ice cream freezers and to the roof, I don’t think they would be smart
enough to make it back outside and they would just remain in the store, lost
amongst the aisles. There are too many nooks and crannies to explore and get
lost in.
The whole store would be lost. This is
why I would be nervous to investigate a place like a Walmart or a Bass Pro Shop.
Maybe places like that would turn into traps where zoms can stumble in, chasing
after that meat, but once inside, they would not be smart enough to figure out
how to get back out, unless they witnessed enough meat outside to lure them out
of the building.
Yeah, so because of this, where we
barricaded with two pallets before? Now we are barricading with six. Better to
be safe than sorry…
