It feels like a warm front has finally
crept back in. We are back above freezing during the day and the snow is
already going away. I have mentioned this more than a few times but in Oklahoma,
snow rarely lasts long. Now, much the same way that I am not certain how long
it takes to make ice in the freezer, it is also hard to say how long it would
take for a zombie to thaw.
I know leaving a package of hamburger
meat out on the counter of a room temperature house takes about four to five
hours. But I don’t know how that compares to a zombie in frigid conditions at
night and how much sun we get during the day. For all I know they are thawing
out in the morning, roaming around in the afternoon, and then refreezing at
night.
If you jump in your Way Back Machine
and scroll back to July, I postulated theories that zoms do get “full.” We have
seen on multiple occasions where a zombie will eat what they perceive to be
their limit and then get up and walk away.
Based on these observations, one has
to assume that eventually their bodies somehow process this food and then they
get hungry again. So here is my real fear. What if these things are like bears
or other animals that choose to hibernate during the winter months. If these
things are frozen for a month, once this meat sacks thaw, they are going to
want to eat.
And we have seen different zombie
levels. Those that have recently feasted to their limits become slow and
sluggish. It goes back to that lion/antelope analogy. But a lone zom that has
been wandering by himself and is desperate for food, they come at an open door and
bang against it with a fervor that you would not believe. Stuffed zombie who
has recently fed? Threat Level 1. Emaciated zombie who hasn’t eaten in weeks?
Threat Level 10.
The cold has been our advantage and I
feel like we have used it to our advantage. Now, I am afraid that pendulum is
about to swing back the other way. And when all these gross nasties get all
thawed out, you have to assume that they are going to effing ravenous. They may
test our defenses in ways we have not anticipated and we cannot afford another
breach again.
I feel like we are more than secure
inside but I said that before and they found a way in through the trash
compactor. And since there are so many variables (how many are out there, are
they thawed out yet, do they know we are here?) it is hard to get hyped and
stay on high alert. You can only do that for so long before you lose you edge
and start getting sloppy. And I don’t want to drain us to a point where we get
fatigued and miss the real threat. But I also don’t want us missing something
pretty obvious and then losing more members.
So, once again, we play that most
dangerous game…
