Surviving The Evacuation (Book 1): London by Frank Tayell Page A
Authors: Frank Tayell
Tags: Zombies
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access. I watched some of them. All in all I don't think my fellow Brits missed out on much. Most of it was camera phone and web cam stuff that could be split into two categories; the forlorn goodbyes of those about to leave whatever safety they'd found and the bloggers who saw it as their duty to chronicle the end of the world. I didn’t see much point in either of those, but there were a few genuinely interesting pieces that stand as a final testament to the macabre marvel of the Internet.
My favourite has to be the pseudo-scientific pieces. I found them oddly reassuring despite their content. It was these videos that I was thinking of when I was trying to recall whether or not They can swim, though I’m not sure I ever saw a piece where they covered this. In some they dissected living zombies, in others they catalogued how to turn household objects into weapons, or categorically proved things like holy water, for instance, had no effect. Even I know it's from the wrong mythology, but it was clear from the blogs that others didn't. Then again, what has myth to do with this harsh reality?
There was footage from the space station where the last astronauts set the cameras to automatic before evacuating, or of the disastrous attempts made again and again of refugee ships trying to dock on the Antarctic ice. And then there was the blog from The American Free Army.
The group, if you were to believe their own site, was based in Texas, but based on the exterior shots I'd say they were somewhere in Colorado. According to their hour long vitriolic propaganda piece, they'd been preparing for the UN-Zionist backed invasion for decades, they'd tried to warn the world, that this apocalypse was the result of us ignoring them, it was our fault. They had declared themselves the natural successors to the United States government and they commanded all citizens… and so on. After a half hour or so of the worst kind of vitriolic paranoia the cameraman took us on a tour of their bunker. I have to say that it was a good thing the zombies came, because there was no way the Feds would have ever dug them out of there.
They had concrete bunkers with three feet thick walls, fall out points, underground tunnels, a storeroom with enough food for a thousand people for twenty years (which I guess is why they lied about their location), with the largest chamber kept for the armoury.
The video finished with footage of them killing what they claimed were a handful of zombies in the woods outside, but to me they looked like refugees. That footage was uploaded on the 24 th February and I'd initially only watched it in the hope that there might be something useful. I stayed on their site afterwards because after that video finished there was another, a live stream.
I don't know whether they were just technically incompetent, or whether some hacker decided to embarrass them in front of the world, but the web cams they'd set up inside and out were broadcasting over the web. It was like reality TV when you really didn’t care what happened to any of the contestants, and it was compelling, just as long as you kept the sound off.
There were about sixty of them in that bunker, split into four firing teams and a command and supply unit. Seriously, that's what they called it. Each day more zombies would appear and each day they'd kill more and yet more and more would take their place, drawn in from miles around by the sound of gunfire.
Each day the number of full boxes of ammunition in the armoury got smaller and smaller. On the third day the leader told them to start making the shots count. “Aim for the head”, he said, “one shot, one kill” he said, and he took to marching around the compound hitting the younger ones who were “wasting rounds”. They tried, but they just weren't that good.
On the fourth day, at 16:04 GMT, I made a note, someone went into the armoury and found it was empty. They were overrun thirty minutes later.
What got me
My favourite has to be the pseudo-scientific pieces. I found them oddly reassuring despite their content. It was these videos that I was thinking of when I was trying to recall whether or not They can swim, though I’m not sure I ever saw a piece where they covered this. In some they dissected living zombies, in others they catalogued how to turn household objects into weapons, or categorically proved things like holy water, for instance, had no effect. Even I know it's from the wrong mythology, but it was clear from the blogs that others didn't. Then again, what has myth to do with this harsh reality?
There was footage from the space station where the last astronauts set the cameras to automatic before evacuating, or of the disastrous attempts made again and again of refugee ships trying to dock on the Antarctic ice. And then there was the blog from The American Free Army.
The group, if you were to believe their own site, was based in Texas, but based on the exterior shots I'd say they were somewhere in Colorado. According to their hour long vitriolic propaganda piece, they'd been preparing for the UN-Zionist backed invasion for decades, they'd tried to warn the world, that this apocalypse was the result of us ignoring them, it was our fault. They had declared themselves the natural successors to the United States government and they commanded all citizens… and so on. After a half hour or so of the worst kind of vitriolic paranoia the cameraman took us on a tour of their bunker. I have to say that it was a good thing the zombies came, because there was no way the Feds would have ever dug them out of there.
They had concrete bunkers with three feet thick walls, fall out points, underground tunnels, a storeroom with enough food for a thousand people for twenty years (which I guess is why they lied about their location), with the largest chamber kept for the armoury.
The video finished with footage of them killing what they claimed were a handful of zombies in the woods outside, but to me they looked like refugees. That footage was uploaded on the 24 th February and I'd initially only watched it in the hope that there might be something useful. I stayed on their site afterwards because after that video finished there was another, a live stream.
I don't know whether they were just technically incompetent, or whether some hacker decided to embarrass them in front of the world, but the web cams they'd set up inside and out were broadcasting over the web. It was like reality TV when you really didn’t care what happened to any of the contestants, and it was compelling, just as long as you kept the sound off.
There were about sixty of them in that bunker, split into four firing teams and a command and supply unit. Seriously, that's what they called it. Each day more zombies would appear and each day they'd kill more and yet more and more would take their place, drawn in from miles around by the sound of gunfire.
Each day the number of full boxes of ammunition in the armoury got smaller and smaller. On the third day the leader told them to start making the shots count. “Aim for the head”, he said, “one shot, one kill” he said, and he took to marching around the compound hitting the younger ones who were “wasting rounds”. They tried, but they just weren't that good.
On the fourth day, at 16:04 GMT, I made a note, someone went into the armoury and found it was empty. They were overrun thirty minutes later.
What got me
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