Fear The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: Prepare for disaster
By Liam O'Leary
As we saw in the midseason finale of Fear The Walking Dead, disasters happen. To deal with those disasters, you need to PREPARE for them.
Last week, I talked about rising to the occasion in a zombie apocalypse, specifically when something really bad happens, like losing a member of your group. That can prove difficult, especially when you’re unprepared for said bad thing.
This week, I thought it would be nice to go over a few tips for being prepared in case the worst kind of a disaster, the kind involving zombies, occurs, as well as some of the other disasters that can occur within such a disaster.
Preparation #1: Have a plan.
Preparation is the key to survival, and the heart of good preparation is a good plan.
Think about where you’d go in the event of a zombie apocalypse. I don’t just mean saying to yourself “Oh, well, I’ll just go to this place.”
How will you get there?
Will you take the highway?
What if it’s blocked? Where will you go, then?
What if you can’t get to wherever you’re planning to go?
Do you have an alternative place you’d go to?
What if you’re somewhere else when the outbreak begins? Will you go home? How will you get there?
These are the kinds of questions you need to start asking yourself and coming up with answers for. If you neglect to have a plan when the zombie outbreak begins, you’ll probably find yourself stuck in a situation that’s much more vulnerable than if you had a plan in place.
This doesn’t simply apply to the onset of the zombie apocalypse, but also, to disastrous situations that can happen well after the apocalypse has begun. Going back to my earlier example of losing someone important to you, you need to plan ahead for what you’ll do in the event of that loss.
Things like where you’ll go (Assuming you’re on the move), who may take the reigns of your group (If the fallen was your group’s leader), and generally what you intend to do are all things you should plan ahead for.
While you can’t be too rigid with your plans, the fact is you need to have them. When the zombies come, you don’t want to be left confused and scrambling, you need to know what you’re going to do.