» Mon Jan 04, 2010 6:24 am
As far as Water Purification goes, does anyone know if the Brita Water containers with the filter can filter salt water? I know that filter is strong, living on top of a mountain I have well water which is virtually undrinkable(you can, it's not unhealthy, it's just disgusting tasting because of extra iron n stuff), just don't know if it's strong enough to filter the salt out of sea water. If it does, all survival groups should target a wal-mart at least one and grab every single one of them plus filters that you can. It will be dangerous most likely, but short of a large water filtration unit(which is unlikely for most of the strongholds except the Dry Tortugas, I imagine something on there has one), it will be our best bet for clean water. Hell, it'll certainly filter river water for us Texas Stronghold people if our wells go dry.
Now, to try my hand at the Week stuff
Week 1
I was sitting at my computer reading random stuff while bored when I stumbled across a series of articles describing several vicious attacks in multiple locations throughout the world, most of them around small communities, but some in larger areas such as Chicago, Tokyo, Berlin & Italy. Being a zombie fanatic, owning nearly every generic and non-generic zombie flick every produced, I instantly read between the lines of the attacks: Multiple bite wounds appearing to be from large animals that used tearing techniques, most noticeably the wounds involved stomach wounds with much of the insides of the victims gone or mutilated, and indeed, even several victims with their skulls cracked open. It could only mean one thing: A zombie outbreak was occuring, and not only that, but it had already managed to spread across the globe with little to no fanfare from the press at large. I quickly informed my skeptical, but not totally disbelieving wife, who agreed that we should go buy lots of supplies; Bottled water, water filters, Dry Food, canned food with long shelf life, ammunition for our rifles and handguns, several whetstones to sharpen our two axes, several extra-long bladed hunting knives for in-close combat where we don't have our crowbars. We also bought several cases of MREs for after our regular food ran out. We reasoned that if this is indeed a zombie outbreak, it's not like we'll have to actually pay off our credit cards, and if it's not, we can return most of the stuff we bought excluding regular non-MRE food. We also searched for a decent truck that we could steal once [censored] hit the fan. After several car lots, we finally found one: A dodge Ram, Dualie, 4v4, and absolutely massive. It even already has a custom front-guard built onto it that will prevent major damage from running over large groups of zombies. Then, we returned home, fortified our trailer, helped my parents next door do the same, even though they refused to believe, I asked them to humor me. Finally, we sat back and waited.
A few days after I found those Online articles, our local news station aired news describing horrific animal attacks in and around the nearest major population Center, Hagerstown. Thats only half an hour away, and there isn't much wildlife there. Our worst fears are officially confirmed. Even my parents are starting to believe. They go and buy their own supplies from the nearest town(thankfully, nothing has popped up there yet), then my dad helps me make a few more modifications to our places, and also clears away the brush from the Antenna Tower next to our house so I can climb up on the roof. "Just in case" he says "that there really are zombies, you're a good shot son, you can get up on the roof and take them out if they get anywhere near us".
It's the end of the first week, and our town has it's first casualty. The authorities are still going with the "animal attack" idea, but many people are starting to whisper that it's something else. Then, finally, at 10 minutes to Midnight, CNN officially announces that there appears to be a worldwide pandemic on our hands. They refuse to call it a zombie outbreak, but most intelligent people will quickly realize thats exactly what it is. CNN goes on to give details of many of the attacks, and that it appears to be perpetuated by dissidents of all governments, anarchists that are trying to launch massive attacks all around the world. Anarchists...what bull-honkey. Oh well, I'm prepared
