Military Prepares For Zombie Apocalypse!

Just a month after the Department of Homeland Security urged citizens to prepare for a zombie apocalypse as part of their emergency/disaster preparedness campaign, Halo Corp. announces that they are putting together a zombie apocalypse training event for roughly 1000 Marines, law enforcement, and medical personnel. The event will be on October 31th at Paradise Point Resort in San Diego. 
Do I think the zombies are coming?... probably not.  This training exercise is suppose to prepare the participants for any kind of biological, natural, or terrorist threat.  The theory is that if you are prepared for a zombie attack, the same preparations will help during a hurricane, pandemic, earthquake, or terrorist attack.  I don't know about you guys but I don't think bullets work to well against hurricanes, but them seem to work really well on zombie heads.  The CDC had this same plan to prepare the public for such disasters back in May 2011 with their Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse.

http://www.app.com/viewart/20121028/NJNEWS18/310280048/Marines-police-prepare-mock-zombie-apocalypse?odyssey=nav%7Chead

http://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthmatters/2011/05/preparedness-101-zombie-apocalypse/

The Undead Horde Takes Over Downtown!

If you were able to make it to downtown Fayetteville, NC last night then you were fortunate enough to be able to bear witness to the spectacle known as the Zombie Walk.  According to the local paper thousands of people showed up for the event and from what I saw, it had to be about that many.  It was shoulder to shoulder zombies across the majority of the Hay street area.  However, people dressed up like zombies wasn't the only attraction.  The Army Ground Forces Band was putting on a live show, The Cameo Art House had a showing of the Dead Alive movie, and the Rock Shop had their Zombie Prom after the walk.  Most people were eager to get in front of a camera and get their picture taken.  Here are a few I thought were pretty good, mostly zombies but there are a few others that I thought were pretty creepy.

2012 Fayetteville, NC Zombie Walk

It's that time of the year again.  The Rock Shop and The Downtown Alliance are preparing for their annual Zombie Walk.  So basically what you need to do is head down to the Spirit (or wherever you get your zombie makeup from) and get yourself to the library on Maiden Street at 7pm, Friday October 26.  At 8, everyone is going to "zombie" their way across downtown Fayetteville.  Stick around afterwards, there will be several live bands performing at The Rock Shop.  I'll be there taking a few snap shots.  Who knows, maybe you'll catch yourself on the Zomblog.


See the pictures here.