The cause of a zombie apocalypse

The beginning of a zombie apocalypse will be the result of losing electricity. At the time of the apocalypse, the majority of people will be dependent on electricity for heat, refrigeration, communication, financial base, transportation, manufacturing, food processing, water distribution, identification, and a number of other things for life and social order sustainment. When the electricity goes out resources will start to diminish. People who are solely dependent on the government for sustainment services will be out of luck. A vast majority of unprepared people won’t be able to get food, and they won’t be able to keep warm. Those people will begin by robbing super markets and convenience stores. The police will offer some resistance, and many people will die from gun battles over things like Twinkies. These people will begin to have a mob like mentality and be called zombies for the rest of this discussion. They will be so tired, and cold, and starving that there is nothing they won’t do for a small morsel of sustenance. They will eat bugs, grass, family pets, rodents and any other thing that might possibly keep them alive. Initially those who were most dependant on electricity will remain close to their homes. They will invade neighbor’s homes and devour their food and resources until there is nothing left to eat, then they will spread to other’s homes. Some smart families are prepared to survive for a long period of time without electricity and they will not be part of the initial mayhem. But as life for the zombies begins to get more dire, the zombies will invade the homes of those who were smart and prepared and take any food or water available. Some people will resist with guns and makeshift weapons, but the zombies will overtake them and leave them to either die or integrate into their growing numbers. When the zombies first take all of the food from the people with brains, the food will go into a storage area and be rationed in small amounts, but the zombies won’t like it. They will claim class warfare, saying that a small amount of people have all of the food when it should belong to everyone. Reason of rationing will not appease their minds. They will attack. Which will end with all of the resources destroyed, because a zombie thinks “if we can’t have it, why should they.” Many more people will die. All that are left will not have any food resources. Some will begin eating other humans, if they haven’t already. Diseases will spread among them. They won’t have enough water to cure themselves from common diseases like dysentery, and they won’t have medicine to stop colds from turning into pneumonia. The longer they remain in large groups the more likely the zombies will die. They will spread out to the country and find people who still use water wells, build fires, use candles for light, and read the bible because they know that even if they lose everything, their soul will be protected by God. Gun battles and rage will ensue until the last few men are living in the presence of a self sustaining food source. Maybe near an apple orchard, or near berry bushes where there are a lot of rabbits. And the earth will rebuild itself from those few remaining murderers and vagabonds to become again what it is today.