Zombie Outbreak: 30 Days Locked Inside the White House

11:50, Thursday night. You're the night engineer in the White House sub-basement when Officer Dale knocks for coffee, two knocks, like every night for six years. Tonight there are two knocks. Then two more. At 11:52 the helicopter lifts off the South Lawn with everyone important on it. You are not important. The last order you get is four words: hold the house, barriers up. We follow you day by day through 30 days locked inside the White House during a zombie outbreak: a bunker that won't open, a 1941 tunnel under the street, dead Secret Service officers who still rotate posts every 30 minutes, a whole empty house that's suddenly yours, a boy in the hotel window across the square, a very large dog called Moose, and five men who want the bunker. Real facts in this story: the Resolute desk is made from the timbers of HMS Resolute; the White House has 132 rooms, 35 bathrooms, 412 doors and 147 windows; Nixon's one-lane bowling alley sits under the North Portico; there's a pastry kitchen, a flower shop and a carpenters' shop in the basement; the press briefing room is built over FDR's indoor pool, which is still under the floor; the Easter Egg Roll has been held on the South Lawn since 1878; Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House has been closed to cars since 1995; the Lincoln Bed is over 8 feet long and Lincoln never slept in it; FDR's dog Fala is the only presidential pet with a statue at the FDR Memorial. A rolling boil for one minute kills germs in water, but boiling does not remove chemicals. 0:00 - Day 0: The Knock 1:24 - Day 0: Hold the House 2:26 - Day 1: The Count 3:25 - Day 1: The Piano and the Tunnel 4:41 - Day 3: The Dead Keep Their Posts 6:00 - Day 5: Water 6:21 - Day 6: The House Is Yours 7:32 - The Bunker Feed 8:14 - Day 7: Through the Tunnel 9:39 - Day 10: The Lights 10:45 - Day 11: The Second Wall 11:39 - Night 14: The Living Knock 12:23 - Day 15: Trading at the Fence 12:49 - Day 18: The Line at 2 AM 13:21 - Day 22: The Note 13:51 - Day 22: Theo and Moose 14:57 - 11:30 PM 15:56 - 11:52 16:25 - Day 30 What would you have done differently? Tell me in the comments. This is a fictional animated story. No real president or real people appear in it. The survival facts are general knowledge, not professional safety advice. #zombie #survival #apocalypse