Follow these tips to save yourself:Identify the types of emergencies that are possible in your area. Besides a zombie apocalypse, this may include floods, tornadoes, or earthquakes. If you are unsure contact your local Red Cross chapter for more information. Pick a meeting place for your family to regroup in case zombies invade your home…or your town evacuates because of a hurricane. Pick one place right outside your home for sudden emergencies and one place outside of your neighborhood in case you are unable to return home right away. Identify your emergency contacts. Make a list of local contacts like the police, fire department, and your local zombie response team. Also identify an out-of-state contact that you can call during an emergency to let the rest of your family know you are ok. Plan your evacuation route. When zombies are hungry they won’t stop until they get food (i.e., brains), which means you need to get out of town fast! Plan where you would go and multiple routes you would take ahead of time so that the flesh eaters don’t have a chance! This is also helpful when natural disasters strike and you have to take shelter fast.These helpful zombie tips come courtesy of bt.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp

Zombie Preparedness

Zombie Survival KitsIt’s important in any disaster to have a readily available and full emergency kit. Such a kit should be light and convenient enough to carry, but still well stocked for any situation. Such a kit should contain the following:

1. Water (1 Gallon per person)2. First Aid Kit3. Medications (both prescription and non-prescription)4. Tools such as swiss army knives and multitools5. Flashlights6. Batteries7. Identification and any vital paperwork8. Cell phone and other chargers9. Changes of clothes10.Changes of sheets and/or sleeping bags

Why not bring weapons?

Most weapons today are not zombie apocalypse ready. Even some of the largest side arms today can only carry as many as ten or twelve bullets. In a real zombie apocalypse, your weapons are all around you, in the form of bricks, sticks, cars, and generally anything you can pick up. Ultimately, the disadvantages of being restricted in where you keep your Zombie Survival Kit by storing weapons with it greatly outweigh the benefits of having said weapons.

A basic overview of how to keep yourself and others safe in the event of a zombie apocalypse

tntech.edu/safety/emergency-preparedness

Pack an emergency kit. Learn your evacuation routes. Memorize your emergency contact numbers. Be Zombie Apocalypse ready.

Where to go for more on preparing yourself against Zombie Attacks

Handy books on Zombie Preparedness

The Zombie Survival Guideby Max Brooks

The Zombie Combat Manualby Roger Ma

CDC.gov/phpr/zombies.html

tntech.edu/safety/responseplan