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By: Claire in CA, USA

Claire in CA, USA — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:03:13 +0000

Living here in earthquake country, I have contingency plans for getting off the freeway, finding my family, surviving the actual shake, rattle & roll, and then getting the hell out of Southern California. Zombies don’t scare me. Don’t know why.

By: Ann N

Ann N — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 03:02:16 +0000

I have contingency plans for all kinds of things and my husband and I know where we would meet in an emergency. This summer, when wild fires were literally threatening to burn down our entire town, all that planning really did come in handy.

While I was at work and he was at home, he had to evacuate himself, three cats, and two crazy labradors and he did it. He grabbed all the stuff I had talked about in my apocalyptic contingency planning and headed out of town. It isn’t that I didn’t have five minutes of mini meltdown – I mean, there was only one road out of town and it was surrounded by fire and full of every other evacuated resident – a 20 minute drive that took two hours and the celltowers had burned. But I didn’t end up running around waving my arms in the air in total panic.

My husband no longer rolls his eyes at me when he sees me count the number of rows between us and the exits on an airplane. He just asks “got it?” Of course I do.

So yeah, I’m pretty sure I can survive the alien invasion or the rise of the living dead…

By: Pagooey

Pagooey — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:25:07 +0000

I am fascinated and petrified by apocalyptic-dystopia fantasies in about equal measure…but my strategies for coping really don’t amount to much beyond rolling around on the floor in an agony of horror unless and until my skin is flayed off/I am incinerated/the bank forecloses on my house/the bus completes its plunge off the bridge. Into the acid lake populated with aquatic zombies.

Years ago my then-boyfriend agreed to meet me after work at my express bus stop, which was part of a cloverleaf of ramps and exits from a major highway. I arrived at the appointed time, and: no BF. After waiting for 45 minutes or so I walked up to a higher parking area…and found his car. Empty.

It turned out that he had walked down to the wrong lobe of the cloverleaf and was standing around at a completely different bus stop, wondering where I was; this was before cell phones, so we each had more than an hour to wonder where the hell the other was before he finally retraced his steps. But in the meantime, I had worked up my entire Dateline episode of how he had been kidnapped and murdered–the Case of the Vanished Boyfriend. I was close to hysterics, which of course made him think that I was a complete loon.

By: nolafwug

nolafwug — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:16:43 +0000

Wow, I actually love to picture myself battling zombies a la Mila Jovavich in the Resident Evil movies. Kicks and flips and Matrix-type moves. Just plain outrunning them would hopefully be good enough in most cases.

My son and I discuss what the best weapon would be. He always says a sword but I think that’s just because he thinks it would look cool. I think a two-handed, two-bladed axe would be perfect. You really can’t assume you’ll be able to get bullets reliably so you’ll have to master running and axe-swinging. At least that’s my plan. I’d love to build a bunker as well. Just joking. But zombies are so fun.

By: AJ

AJ — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:22:32 +0000

I have contingency plans in case we lose the physics of electric current. I know, I know – but it could happen.

I’m glad to hear that I’m not the only who races through the options and outcomes after a half-sentence of bad or medium-bad news.

By: jen fu

jen fu — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:43:00 +0000

I love you guys.

By: Beth

Beth — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:45:44 +0000

Even though I am married and nearly forty and have a job and stuff, I still have a plan for what to do when I become an unwed teenage mother. So, yeah, I’ve been doing this for a long, long time.

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By: Fool

Fool — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:04:11 +0000

Actually, my current motivation for being in shape is so that I can escape the zombie epidemic. I swear. In a non pimptastic way and (rather scary coincidence way), the last entry in my blog is about my worries about tripping or not being able to outrun zombies.