Zombie Apocalypse Preparedness You Going?

[hatidua]

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[SuperiorDG]

Who thinks this shit up I wonder?

[hatidua]

Who thinks this shit up I wonder?

REI accountants or the director of marketing...or some regional manager angling for a promotion based on "that zombie thing we held that sold so much merchandise back in Oct'13". I think it's fairly obvious that REI is not going to be talking about actual 'zombies' but our weather last month rightly has the masses ripe for such an event.

Truth be told, aside from the cheesy name the presentation has been given, I suspect a great many people, even on this site, would benefit from shoring up their emergency preparations, much of which is available at REI. How many people actually have adequate rations put away, regardless of it be 100* or -10*, and could go without outside food/water/shelter support, right now? If the utility company shut off the power/water/sewer/gas system 90 seconds from now...? I've met enough people from this site to know that some have their act together but a great many would be up fecal creek if the local city government didn't hold their hand 72 hours after the supermarket locked it's doors and the faucet quit dripping. If REI (regardless of their motivations, which are fairly obvious), wants to help people be even slightly more independent, I think it's a good thing.

Some of the people that I've spoken with that lived in Lyons and other areas severely hit last month already have a list of things they will have next time that they didn't have six weeks ago. While learning from direct experience is invaluable, albeit uncomfortable, having someone who knows more about disaster preparedness speak on the topic to those who are clueless, of which there are many, is a good thing. I'm just surprised at how many people have an attitude of "nothing bad will ever happen, the lights will never go out". Granted, living in Boulder I may be surrounded by that mindset more than other areas.

[Dave]

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This is what I was thinking. Nothing about how to kill a zombie, just how to camp out in the woods while others do the hard work for you.