The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: 7 Tips for surviving
By Liam O'Leary
3) If you’re going to hunker down, plan for it
In the fifth season of The Walking Dead, we were introduced to the Alexandria Safe Zone, and its inhabitants…who were completely clueless.
They knew the rest of the world was full of walkers (I mean…that’s why they established the Safe Zone in the first place), and, yet, they did little to prepare themselves, in fact, just the presence of a few walkers got them to give up on trying to expand the walls. They were as unprepared as you could be while still having lived that far along in the apocalypse. It was, frankly, amazing they survived that long.
If you look at it, what the Alexandrians were (Essentially) doing was staying in their homes and hunkering down, hoping the dead would just…not show up, but…what was their plan? What on Earth would they have done if the quarry herd broke loose a week before Rick’s group arrived? They would have gotten slaughtered! Hell, Rick told them as much when found out about the herd!
It took Rick’s group showing up and finding the quarry herd to force the Alexandrians to get off their asses and really prepare themselves for the world they were living in. He was the one who got them to build the path to corral the herd, and he was the one who told them to reinforce the walls. If it wasn’t for Rick and his group, the Alexandrians would not have survived.
My point with all of this is, if you think that what you’re going to do in a zombie apocalypse is hunker down in your house and try to wait it out, that’s fine, but, that can’t be the extent of your plan. Your plan can NOT just be “Oh, well, I’m just gonna go to the pub and wait for all of this to just blow over!” NO. That is not good enough.
You need a real plan. You need to set up defenses, set up traps, build an arsenal, build up your supplies, prepare a garden, maybe set up an area for a generator or a chicken coop, know how to prevent enemies from surrounding you, know what to do if they do surround you, things like that. If you don’t have a plan for hunkering down, all you’re doing is sitting around, waiting for the disaster to land on you.