When Tommy left to go find his family,
he took a pretty large contingent of the zombies with him that were mulling
around in the parking lot. I thank goodness for that because I did not want to
have to take down that entire horde that was loitering around outside.
Looking back on the series of events,
this is what I believe happened. A horde came through traveling north to south
to escape the cold weather. When they came across our parking lot, they must
have had one or two “evolved” zombies within their contingent that started
exploring the other avenues.
We have commented over and over again
in this blog about horde mentality but I honestly have to believe that there
are scouts and certain zoms that realize the importance of breaking from the
group if you want to get first dibs on the meat. Perhaps one scout was a little
more perceptive that the others and went after the meat scraps in the trash
compactor and had enough physical skills to climb up the chute. When it came
across Janet, it issued the “I found flesh” scream and that sent the others
pouring in.
Once we were compromised, we did
everything I could to put all of these things down. This meant lots of gunfire.
And once that gunfire started ringing out, this riled up all the zombies on the
outside. This naturally meant that they were going to hang around a lot longer
and look for ways to get inside the store.
Without a second source to draw them
off, there is no telling how long they were going to hang around in the parking
lot. So we might have had to take all of
things out from sniper position on the roof. Tommy helped us out considerably
by pulling them out like a pied piper. Granted, the slower and more degenerated
ones did not follow the horde but we have since dispatched those.
I think when we can start to implement
the Carbone Initiative, I think we should consider somehow barricading the
property. I honestly have no idea how we can do that but maybe if we could
barricade off the store, it would have prevented the loss of our four. So, I
guess we need to put the brain trust together and see what we can come up with.
