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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: 2) by archfeld on Monday July 25 2016, @06:45PM

    by archfeld (4650) <treboreel@live.com> on Monday July 25 2016, @06:45PM (#379966) Journal

    In the event of a systemic failure I doubt anyone will have the equipment or the skill to cut off the supply of the Colorado river, and if it does happen you can count on quite a few pissed off survivalist with lots of firepower coming upriver to see what happened :)

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Tuesday July 26 2016, @12:53AM

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday July 26 2016, @12:53AM (#380122)

    If someone temporarily cuts off the Colorado, it will be back soon, and fast. At that point, the odds are that no-one will cut it off again for a really long long time...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 26 2016, @12:19PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 26 2016, @12:19PM (#380262)

    In the event of a systemic failure, we'll see how long the SRP repair crews last before moving elsewhere.

    Or, phrased differently, you have no seem to have little clue about how much infrastructure is needed to water the desert and how fragile that infrastructure is.

    And my bet is that I'll see a lot of dead dehydrated survivalists who never get out of the desert basin, coupled with a bunch of survivalists who shoot each other.

    • (Score: 2) by archfeld on Tuesday July 26 2016, @04:40PM

      by archfeld (4650) <treboreel@live.com> on Tuesday July 26 2016, @04:40PM (#380350) Journal

      I think you'll see a lot of survivalists moving north up the river, and of course a lot of very desiccated zombies in the Phoenix and Tucson area. A lot of folks will head east into the valley areas of California as well, and the border between AZ and Mexico will get overwhelmed quickly and violently by hordes or spicy zombies.

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