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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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Eighty percent of all people consider themselves to be above
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 25 2016, @12:05AM
Gun sales in the state?
I'd have to say I would much rather be here than in Alaska should the infrastructure fail.
Been there. The cockroaches will eat your charred corpse when the A/C fails.
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Monday July 25 2016, @04:00AM
That is why the house has solar panels, if the power fails the A/C keeps running, what we do lack is water beyond 2 weeks but there is the Colorado river with a few miles. The cockroaches don't stand a chance here, the scorpions, roadrunners, Gila monsters, and snakes stand in line to snack on cockroaches. Nothing benign survives in the desert.
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(Score: 1) by anubi on Monday July 25 2016, @05:37AM
Can you get condensate from your A/C?
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by Alfred on Monday July 25 2016, @01:29PM
(Score: 3, Informative) by archfeld on Monday July 25 2016, @05:42PM
No actually ours will function as a swamp cooler which is the exact opposite. What we can do is filter the pool water for consumption in the event of a 'long' term outage, and with the Colorado river nearby we would haul in barrels of water and store in the pool. We keep about 2 weeks supply of drinking water and with the 14000 gallon pool we would be okay. Refrigeration is our long term issue as the solar won't drive both refrigerator/freezer and the AC, we do have a root cellar and the AC is sort of crucial to survival during the summer months. Folks survive just over the border in Algodones with out AC so in theory us pampered gringos should be able to do the same, but the prospect is grim.
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(Score: 1) by anubi on Tuesday July 26 2016, @04:00AM
I wonder if the Colorado river is nearby, is it possible to sink a well and get to the underground water? There are submersible brushless pumps that run on DC.
( It probably would not be legal, but what "they" don't know won't hurt them. You could not make as much of an impact to the Colorado River as a mosquito makes on my blood supply ).
Besides, a supply of water coming up at 60 deg F makes a good heat sink to transfer thermal energy to. Simple pipe-in-pipe heat exchangers. Your plants will not mind being watered with 90 deg F water. Thermodynamically speaking, its a helluva lot more efficient to transfer unwanted heat to 60 deg water than 100 deg air - and besides, if you have liquid water, you can also get its latent heat by evaporative cooling, as it looks like you are already doing.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]