Fear The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: Plan for the future

There’s always a future, even in a zombie apocalypse, and if there’s one takeaway from this week’s Fear the Walking Dead, it’s that you need to PLAN for it.

No matter what, there’s always tomorrow. Even in a zombie apocalypse (So long as you don’t get bitten, of course), there’s going to be a tomorrow. The problem is, it’s also going to be tough…because it’s a zombie apocalypse.

Between getting supplies, keeping yourself fed, keeping a roof over your head, and dealing with threats to your safety, trying to just “wing it” isn’t going to get you very far. In fact, not only will it not get you very far, but, if you try to rely on it, you’ll eventually run into at least one of the aforementioned problems, and…just not be able to answer it.

Let’s take getting supplies, for example. When zombies start disrupting society, one of the first things disrupted will be supply lines. If highways are clogged with wreckage, abandoned cars, or zombies, how are trucks supposed to get anything anywhere? They won’t.

Why is this important? Well, just think about it: If there are no new deliveries of goods and supplies, that means whatever is around in your immediate area is all of the supplies you’ll have access to. That’s it. Not only that, but, those supplies will also be all of the supplies every other survivor will have access to.

If you don’t plan for this eventuality, when it happens, you’re going to be screwed, because you will run out of supplies, and, most likely, starve to death.

How do you plan for this? Well, since the biggest threat is running out of food and water, you need to ensure that you provide yourself with a constant supply of both. Make sure your base is near a steady source of clean fresh water, make sure you can grow fruits and vegetables, make sure you know how to hunt, make sure you know how to fish, if possible, learn how to raise chickens or pigs. Anything that you can do to provide yourself with food, you need to learn.

Knowledge is your friend. Learn what the usual weather patterns are in your area, and the extremes.

If you know that your region is especially prone to hurricanes or droughts at certain times of the year, you can prepare accordingly. All it takes is one long drought or one bad hurricane to deprive you of precious things like water for days, maybe even weeks. You won’t last long in those conditions without preparing for them.

Also, you remember how I told you that, without people delivering fresh goods, what you’ve got in your immediate area is all that everyone in your area will have access to?

Yeah, well, with those supplies being so finite, it means that you and every other survivor in the area are going to have to compete for those supplies.

If you don’t plan for this problem, you’re probably going to wind up either being outcompeted by another group for those supplies, or…getting attacked by that other group for those supplies.

And, that last one is the big one, because, if you have to fight another group, you’re going to need to be ready for that. You need to be ready to fight with everything you have to survive against hostiles. You need to be able to outthink them, outmaneuver them, and, if worst comes to worst, outgun them. You’ll need to prepare for this possibility well ahead of time, because, if you’re preparing for war after it’s already started…you may have already lost.

And, last but not least, you need to plan for the day you inevitably run into the dead.

Sure, you’ll probably have already run into a bunch pretty early, but, eventually, you’re going to run into zombies numbering in the triple digits. You can’t just fly by the seat of your pants in that situation, you need to have a strategy for how to deal with them. Set up means of distracting and/or dispersing them. Find ways to trap them or even means of wiping out mass numbers of zombies in one fell swoop. Trust me, planning ahead for this eventuality will make dealing with it a hell of a lot easier.

We all have a future, even if we’re in a zombie apocalypse, but, to make it to that future, you gotta have a plan. Without one, you’re just riding on luck, and that won’t last forever.

This is why you follow…The Rules.

And that’s our Survival Rule Of The Week! Hopefully, you’ve gained a little insight into all the various things you’ll need to look out for and do. If you like this and want to find out more rules to survive the zombie apocalypse, why not pick up a copy of my book, The Rules: A Guide To Surviving The Zombie Apocalypse! You can also get it at Amazon here, on iTunes here!