Zombie Q & A

Some very interesting comments came about after the last posting in which I detailed how one might use household bleach to purify drinking water in the event of a long term zombie invasion. I thought it might be helpful to respond to a few of these.

In no particular order:

Mel: Well done! You will most certainly be on the short-list when I recruit my squadron of zombie fighters. You are correct in stating that we will have significant problems once the zombies begin munching on the maintenance workers. This will, in fact, be the main issue with the utilities. However there are also some secondary concerns. Zombies, when whipped into a feeding frenzy, are known to fling themselves at generators and transformers. They will also attempt to climb electrical fences, thus causing major shorts that will blow out the power in many areas.

Annie: Yes, I have seen the pattern for the I Heart Zombies motif. My initial response was going to be something along the lines of, " But I don't heart zombies. I am afraid of zombies. Very, very afraid. Thus, I probably would not knit this pattern." However, upon consideration, I have rethought this. If some of the zombies are capable of retaining any of their higher order thinking skills, it might be a useful entrapment strategy to wear a sweater that leads them to believe I heart them. They might wander over thinking that I am willing to offer them a little nibble and then I can cut their heads off. (this is the preferred method of zombie extermination) I'm not all that good with color work, but I suspect that, under the circumstances, no one will be too fussy about my having used duplicate stitch.

Beth: I can certainly see how having a cold during the zombie invasion might impair your ability to detect the slight odor of bleach that tells you the water has been correctly decontaminated. However, I strongly discourage your approaching a zombie for their assistance with the sniffing. First, zombies do not smell all that great. It is highly unlikely that you will be able to detect the bleach smell over the stench of decaying zombie flesh. Secondly, and I cannot stress this strongly enough, the zombies want to eat you!!!!! In the earlier films, they tended to eat the whole person. Later flicks had them in search of just the brains. Either way, I find it hard to believe that you will fare well. Frankly, I think that the water is going to be the least of your problems at that point. But, if you are concerned, simply have one of your hardy band of survivors do the sniffing for you.


Thank you all for your comments and questions. I am glad to see that we are all starting to take this a little more seriously. I am proud to call you my zombie warrior clan!!!

Now for some knitting content as it pertains to my soon-to-be-unmanageable schedule. Tomorrow afternoon I will begin a class. Not a good class that will teach me about interesting things like sheep shearing or spinning straw into gold. No. This one will be on the fascinating subject of Administrative Supervision. I have absolutely no interest in this topic whatsoever. None. But it seems that my teaching certificate is soon to expire and I need to pull down some credits to add to my portfolio if I want to continue in the glamorous life of a public school teacher. The class is free and worth 4 graduate credits. Hard to argue with that... So, I'll be feigning massive amounts of interest in this subject from now until May.

However, there is hope for my sanity. I'm thinking that such a dry topic might lend itself to knitting. I'll be bringing along my new little sockie and hope that the professor is one of those who likes to lecture and doesn't much care how we all stay awake. God help me if this is one of those group interaction type classes...I really need the credits! And the socks, for that matter.

Sadly the state of Maine does not grant recertification credits for Zombie Invasion Preparedness Training.

SA