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Does Your State Have What it Takes to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse?

posted by cmn32480 on Sunday July 24 2016, @08:29PM   Printer-friendly
from the been-fun-knowing-you dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

There are so many factors to consider when choosing where to buy a home—average home price, proximity to work, and obviously the odds of surviving a zombie apocalypse. That's why Estately Real Estate Search mapped out which states are the safest to live in if an army of the undead were to suddenly rise from their graves in search of brains to eat. To do this, we ranked each U.S. state from 1-50 using the following five criteria, and then averaged the results to create our final ranking.

  • Fewest people per square mile
  • Gun owners per capita
  • Percentage who are cremated instead of buried
  • Percentage of population that is physically active
  • Interest in the zombie media genre

Source: http://blog.estately.com/2016/07/does-your-state-have-what-it-takes-to-survive-a-zombie-apocalypse/

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @09:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @09:32PM (#379525)

    Yeah, I had gone through about a week of the utilities being out during a bad winter storm. Turns out the house is reasonably well insulted. Harvested ice to keep the food from perishing. And an old transistor radio ended up being my lifeline to the outside world.

    The one thing I didn't not expect was how crucial communication was. You hear from friends which places were still open for business in neighboring towns, people would pile in one guy's pickup to get around, and most people weren't dicks buying out a store's supply. Most people only took what they needed.

    And someone could at least get word to someone else to notify your family that you were okay.

    And there was an actual caravan of people huffing booze in shopping carts down the street. Good times.

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @09:40PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @09:40PM (#379527)

    Turns out the house is reasonably well insulted.

    I don't see how swearing at it helps during a winter storm, but whatever keeps you warm, I guess.

    • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Monday July 25 2016, @02:20AM

      by mhajicek (51) on Monday July 25 2016, @02:20AM (#379627)

      To be fair I'd feel insulted too if I were a house and my utilities had been out for a week.

      --
      The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @10:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @10:38PM (#379538)

    Yes, communication. Look to ham radio operators to be coordinating if something major happens.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 25 2016, @12:30AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 25 2016, @12:30AM (#379587)

      And in turn, ham operators will look to the postal services to deliver the inevitable QSL cards. Never mind the zombies, the mail will get through.