alabaster
1st Member Of DPF
I have been razzed over and over about prepping for the "Zombies". Like it's real or something. Make no mistake, I DO NOT BELIEVE IN ZOMBIES. I do enjoy the craze, but it's all just good fun. There is another point to it all though.
I look at the zombie thing as a true "Worst case scenario". We all know the zombies are not coming. We don't know who is though. Will it be the govt? Will it be local gangs and bandits looking for food? Will it not even be a DD situation? Will it be a rapist sneaking into your home while you're at work only to surprise you with your own gun? Will it be a carjacker in the rich folks neighborhood that you never thought would happen?
The skinny of it is that I think of "The zombies coming" as a way of thinking, "You'd better be prepared." You never know what's coming and you'll never be able to prep for everything, but planning for ONE SCENARIO is obviously a poor idea and not in keeping with true DDPing. While living on a fault line obviously increases your likely hood of an earthquake, you can't rule out civil unrest or random acts of violence. We never in a million years would have thought we'd see a hurricane bust up the mid-atlantic and northeast, then here comes Sandy.
Anyways, that's a not-so-short explanation for what I mean when talking about zombies. Not real zombies, but anyone or anything that could wreck your day. Not including DC Metro traffic.
I look at the zombie thing as a true "Worst case scenario". We all know the zombies are not coming. We don't know who is though. Will it be the govt? Will it be local gangs and bandits looking for food? Will it not even be a DD situation? Will it be a rapist sneaking into your home while you're at work only to surprise you with your own gun? Will it be a carjacker in the rich folks neighborhood that you never thought would happen?
The skinny of it is that I think of "The zombies coming" as a way of thinking, "You'd better be prepared." You never know what's coming and you'll never be able to prep for everything, but planning for ONE SCENARIO is obviously a poor idea and not in keeping with true DDPing. While living on a fault line obviously increases your likely hood of an earthquake, you can't rule out civil unrest or random acts of violence. We never in a million years would have thought we'd see a hurricane bust up the mid-atlantic and northeast, then here comes Sandy.
Anyways, that's a not-so-short explanation for what I mean when talking about zombies. Not real zombies, but anyone or anything that could wreck your day. Not including DC Metro traffic.