Yesterday, I was asking for a change. Now
I think I know what that is because, for us, the game is changing… When Zero
Hour first hit us, we were very lucky to get locked down as quickly as we did.
I think our two biggest saving graces were the speed with which we locked
everything down and the availability of other food sources.
I know what I am about to type is
going to seem cold-blooded but these are the hardcore facts. When the first
wave of Zero Hour Zoms came rap-tap-tapping on our chamber doors, they found
them locked and not easily opened. Now, the steel security doors and the
garage-style doors were barricaded pretty quickly and featured no windows to
see in.
The floor to ceiling glass doors could
have been smashed in with some considerable effort. Granted, in that first day,
we worked very hard to get those doors barricaded and impenetrable. But what
saved us in that zero hour was the fact that the Sonic Drive-In, the bank
across the street, the convenience store we share a parking lot with… Those
areas were considerably less secure.
Let me reiterate an old point. Zoms
like a quick and easy meal. Since there were people running around screaming
while they were being chased down, the zoms in our parking lot were more apt to
go after the quick meal than try to force their way through our glass doors. It
sucks to say it but it is the truth. And because there were human happy meals
running around in the parking lot, it gave us the time we needed to armor up
and lock down. Yeah… well, that was Day 1.
Welcome to Day 319. The zoms that are
still staggering around are the ones that have managed to 1) avoid damage to
their body before they turned, 2) survived the freezing effects of the winter,
and 3) managed to consume enough flesh to sustain their systems. In short, the
winter has culled the chaff. What has survived is the wheat.
These surviving zoms are going to be
tough. They are not going to give up easily. And they are going to be ravenous.
That, in and of itself, is frightening enough. But there is another factor that
you need to seriously consider.
Before, when people were all running
around screaming, there were lots of meals for a zom to choose from. You might
be the only meat in five miles so there is going to be less to draw away their
attention. Before, you might be able to hunker down somewhere and wait for them
to lose interest. But if there is no other meat out there to draw them away…
they may just keep pounding and pounding at your door.
Given the aggressive nature that we have seen, waiting
them out might no longer be an option. Which means you are going to have to go
on the offensive…
