POV: You Survive Every Stage Of A Zombie Apocalypse

You can hear nine of them on the stairs. You've got a couch against the door, a neighbour with a bicycle pump, and about fifty seconds. This is you, from the first news report to year fifty. The night the power goes out. The forty-mile walk to your mum's. The first winter in a church hall. The strangers at the gate. And what the world looks like when you're old. It's an animated story and we made it up. These parts are real: After people left Chernobyl in 1986, a 2015 study in Current Biology found elk, deer and wild boar in the same numbers as in nearby nature reserves, and wolves more than seven times as common. Alan Weisman (The World Without Us) worked out that New York's subway would flood in about 36 hours without its pumps. Emergency advice is to keep one gallon of water per person per day (Ready.gov). 0:00 Nine of them on the stairs 0:53 Day one 1:53 Day three 3:11 Week two 4:25 Month one 6:11 Month six 7:46 Year one 8:53 Year five 10:05 Year ten 11:19 Year twenty-five 12:12 Year fifty