Grandpa Can't Climb the Ladder: 30 Days in a Treehouse (Zombie Outbreak)

Your grandpa can't climb the ladder. The dead are forty steps behind him. So he shoves it up at you, limps to his cabin and bolts the door, and for the next thirty days the two of you live forty steps apart: you twenty feet up the oak he built a treehouse in, him in the cabin, the dead in between. Every night, his window blinks three times. In your family, that means I love you. Every night, a light on the ridge, where nobody lives, blinks three times back. This is a fictional survival story. The practical details in it are real: - Three of anything (whistle blasts, fires, flashes of light) is a recognised distress signal (Be Ready Utah). - Emergency planners count at least a gallon of water per person per day (Ready.gov). - To disinfect clear water with regular unscented household bleach: 1/8 teaspoon per gallon, stir, wait 30 minutes (Ready.gov; CDC gives about 8 drops). - Count a cricket's chirps for 15 seconds and add 40 for a rough temperature in °F (NOAA). - Never shelter under an isolated tree in a thunderstorm; there is no safe place outside (National Weather Service). - Hypothermia can happen above 40 °F if you're wet, so get out of wet clothes (CDC). - Each rope strand holding a load takes a share of it: three strands, about a third (OpenStax physics). Chapters 0:00 Forty Steps 1:11 The Line 3:07 Sixty-Eight 4:50 The Tallest Tree 5:54 Forty Steps Down 7:52 Maggie, Nine 10:05 Three #zombie #survival #animation