Assignment 10 - Elizabeth Moore - Genuinely Going to Be a Prepper

Since I have prepped for an event like this - I really do plan to have canned goods, flint and steel, water treatment kits, medical emergency kits, axes, knives, and guns ready to go in the event of a sun spot that takes out the electricity or a nuclear threat - my zombie-apocalypse survival plan will run very smoothly. I gather my supplies quickly, get my dog and family into the largest car we own, a Chevy truck, and high-tail it out to Jessamine county to the cabin by the Kentucky river that my family owns. The river provides a constant source of water and fish, and we can treat the water for consumption with the kits I packed. Not unlike the valley in Z is for Zachariah, the Kentucky river valley is highly defensible since the palisades on either side are sheer cliff-faces, and there is only one road coming down to our cabin. As an added bonus, the people who live at the top of our road are trigger-happy and likely have an army’s worth of weaponry, a perfect line of defense against walkers or hostile groups of humans. Although highly unlikely, should any walkers make it down to our cabin, we will dispatch them with arrows, blades, and axes as opposed to attention-drawing gunshots. We will reserve the guns and ammo for defense against the violence that will inevitably ensue after humans are left in anarchy. If an undefeatable herd of walkers stampede the valley, my family and I would load warm clothes and supplies into canoes, kayaks, and my paddleboard, and retreat to the opposite side of the river where there is no road or even an even path down the palisades for walkers to take. If I’m being honest, I’ve developed this plan over MANY years because it’s just so darn entertaining, and I’m definitely going to survive.