Journal Entry #2
The internet, television shows, annoying spam emails, social media...They are all still here. Electricity is still active here. Well it's the zoo. I think Suzanne mentioned that it has back up to ensure that the animals can be taken care of. But on our few trips out in to Tacoma we found that energy abounds. It's weird and even creepier than if it were all off. So many of those movies and shows I watched about the end of times depicted this waterless, black, technology void. Instead, it's lush and green. Plant life seems to have been waiting for the day for humans to drop in numbers. Maybe zombie flesh is good fertilizer because it's like a jungle out there. Vegetation eagerly reclaimed areas where humans were no longer treading. And stores are still lit up. Music still plays in grocery store aisles. Websites still work. I can still watch my favorite kid's cartoons online. Or rewatch the last season of all my favorite television shows. When I'm bored and desperate for hope I check my phone in hopes that someday a notification will show up letting me know that people are out there. Instead, I see Facebook with no posts. Like an epitaph of all of its users. Emails from spam bots. But no real contact. News sites are still showing the same crap they were when the last of their employees stopped updating. Many of them now just reel please for help or share information about what little we knew about the zombies at that time. Others switched off and left notes to loved ones with addresses to meet up. The more resilient sites posted addresses for government noted safe zones or protection camps. Protection camps. That is a story all it's own.
-Adam