>>2806458>How would you survive a Walking Dead apocalypse?It's simple logistics:
Store food - 600 lbs per person per year of dry goods (average)
So lets just be reasonable and go for 6 months for starters
Of course I have 6 people to save, so that's 1800 lbs of buckets of beans and rice in my garage. (I would like to have the full two tons but the wife is already going to have me committed. Grok is wonderful for calculating all of this, including cost and space)
Then just hunker down and keep a low profile and wait for everyone, zombie or otherwise, to starve to death. +95% of the humans will be gone after 3 months tops. The zombies will take longer.
But then you have the real problem: long term survival. I have to look at the biological carrying capacity in my region for wild homo sapiens. In my instance farming is not a great option, Central Oregon (Bend).
Grok is excellent for calculating this: # dear / sq mile, # elk, rabbit, trout, etc. Only harvest 10% per year. Factor in 4 months of snow. Calories per killed critter? Annual calories to feed a human?
Out of a current population of 100,000 people, Grok figured a carrying capacity of 75 to 175 humans, which tracks with the number of Paiute Indians here prior to 1880. (and this is before you count on 100,000 people eating all the deer before starving to death anyway)
So only 1 in 1000 would have a slim hope of surviving.
It would be pretty fucking tough here. Currently learning to become Jeremiah Johnson.
