zomibe invasion?

[wormwood]

I'd lead the zombies into the pinebeetle killed forest east of town and burn it down when they were well into it. That tinder box has been threatening to go up for a few years now, and I'm sure a road flare or two would do it. The forest has turned mostly red with dead standing trees. When that kind of forest burns, everything is reduced to white ash. I saw it happen in 2000 a little way north from here. This is how the trees look now.

[Captain Malachi]

Burning zombies? Are you insane?!

Zombies don't stop until they're dead or you are, and fire doesn't kill them fast enough.

[Alice]

Sept 13, 2010 15:17:32 GMT wormwood said:

I'd lead the zombies into the pinebeetle killed forest east of town and burn it down when they were well into it. That tinder box has been threatening to go up for a few years now, and I'm sure a road flare or two would do it. The forest has turned mostly red with dead standing trees. When that kind of forest burns, everything is reduced to white ash. I saw it happen in 2000 a little way north from here. This is how the trees look now.

Woah... zombie trees

[Psychichobo]

Fire's hit and miss against zombies. Sometimes they get immolated straight away, sometimes they just burn and carry on chasing you.

[KIROV]

they wouldn't last long, being that they would be like a Hot dog dropped in a campfire. it would play hell on their joints, presumably slowing them down after a while.

[Alice]

^Hotdogs have joints?

I just realised we're way off topic. This thread isn't about zombies. It's called the 'zomibe' invasion thread.

[wormwood]

There'd be now way that anyone not part of a concerted firefighting effort would stagger out of that sort of conflagration. The fire would spread crown to crown through the trees, and then burn down to the ground very rapidly. The heat would be of sufficient intensity to reduce the zombies to piles of charred bones in minutes.

Big forest fires actually create their own weather patterns, that synergize the burn. In 2000 we had columns of fire that would rise over 1000 feet and then slap down horizontally with such energy that the trees in their path would instantly explode when touched by the flame. The natural fuels situation was bad in 2000, but not as bad as it has become in the wake of the pinebeetles since then.
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