Imagine waking up on a spring Saturday morning with the sun shining and birds chirping. In the distance you can hear a sprinklers machine-gun-like distribution of water over someone’s well-kept lawn. After a long stretch, you rise up from bed and turn on the television to frantic reports of attacks on people taking place around your city. You pick up the phone to call loved ones but after dialing their number, you immediately hear a recording telling you to stay indoors and wait for further direction. If you choose to stay and wait for help, you risk running out of food and water while becoming surrounded by the undead, who will eventually overwhelm your position.
The first thing you need to do if you decide to stay within your home is to locate and barricade all ground level entrances. If you have a second floor, you can move upstairs and either destroy or clutter up the staircase with large pieces of furniture.
In order to give yourself some time to work indoors, you can break up any chairs or tables you have within your domicile and use them as material for boarding up windows and doors. Be careful when deconstructing any wooden or metallic items because any minor wounds could potentially end up becoming infected. After securing the lower floor, you should move upstairs and enter the attic where you can break through the roof and signal to any rescue helicopters.
If you decide to leave your city, which is the proper thing to do, you will need to gather your provisions in one bag. If it can’t fit in one bag, you do not bring it. Considering the potential for contamination, bottled water is one of the most important items a person could possess in this situation. Load your bag up with bottled water, crackers, extra socks, gloves, a knit hat, jacket, tree hammock, passport, lighter, hatchet, and a weapon or blunt cudgel. Once you have these items, you are ready to look for transportation.
Keep moving.
If you don’t have a car of your own, you’ll find yourself struggling to get out of the infected area at the same speed as people who do have a car. It’s mainly because mass hysteria will cause more mayhem and chaos. The roads will be jam packed with frantic motorists trying to escape. Even though you are forced to walk, you will still make better time than the guy in his land rover waiting for traffic to let up. Many experts say that you should always avoid cities and other heavily populated areas because of the amount of people that inhabit the area could carry and spread the infection at a faster rate. Never attempt to go to a hospital, fire department, Police Station or Church for help. Most likely, many people have already gone to these places for answers, only to have spread the infection there as well. Keep moving.
So now you have made it from your suburban home, past the infected city and find yourself at a cross road in the middle of the American plains.
What do you do now? Where do you go? Turn north and walk as far as your legs will carry you. It is believed that the slowly deteriorating muscle tissue and lack of blood flow in the walking undead will cramp up and freeze much easier than their living counterparts. But in order for this method to work, you need to be prepared for the cold temperatures of Canada or Alaska. Without any preparation, you would be in as much trouble as those zombies you were attempting to avoid. Keep moving.
Let’s say you’ve almost made it to the Canadian border. Chances are, the Canadian government is not going to let people stroll across the border with the health concerns floating around the world. So when you are a few miles away from the border, you will need to veer diagonally off of the main road in hopes to sneak across the border. I know I told you to pack your passport and you are probably wondering why if you were just going to sneak across the border. The passport is your identification in case you get caught. Remember, it is easier to apologize rather than ask permission in a situation like this.
Keep moving.
Your next step will be to find a location to set up a home base for a long period of time until the infection and outbreak diminishes. The woodlands of Canada and Alaska have an abundance of wildlife to hunt and fish to catch for food. Not to mention the new animal species that might have migrated north to escape the infection.
As far as shelter, you can use your hatchet to cut down small trees, which could be used to start building a tree house that you can expand on as time progresses. Tree houses are your best chance of long-term survival considering the undead can’t climb. Their limbs at those temperatures will not be able to carry the load of their full weight.
If a person was to follow these directions and found themselves sitting in their own large tree house during a light snow storm, with bottles of spring water sitting next to them and salmon cooking on a fire; it’s important to understand that their survival really came down to two words:
Keep moving.
