Did you survive the June 13 Zombie Attacks?

The following is a post from the American National Red Cross blog.

During the week of June 15, 2007, bloggers from around the country staged a fictitious Zombie Attack, and the American Red Cross found themselves “hip deep” in it. Please enjoy our national headquarter’s take on this fake (but impending??) disaster.

-Lindsay

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June 15

Zombie invasion - A bloggy lesson in Preparedness

There was a mysterious zombie invasion all over the internet this week. More than 150 bloggers (probably way more, we lost count!) fictitiously and creatively posted about the aftermath of a zombie invasion on June 13.

Since we scour the blogosphere for talk about the Red Cross everyday, we found several mentions of these disastrous zombie events and were fooled for a number of minutes that a real disaster was unfolding!

This massive meme is a lot of fun and it has a good message.

Read, Shred and Then Burn couldn’t have said it better when she posted today:
Interactive fiction can be fun; but that was not the whole of it. Thinking about any disaster and how prepared we are for it is difficult, but put it in the frame of a zombie uprising, and the drill is fun! Zombies make everything better!

That’s right! We have an online tutorial that can get you Red Cross Ready right here!

3 participating bloggers even mentioned the Red Cross in their posts:

Roseseule said: Kind of glad I bought one of those Red Cross radios, but I don’t want to fire it up yet. Most of the local radio is out as is the satellite radio. Glad I got out of the city.

Seborn said: Hey, I have a job for you. Yeah, you. Previous volunteer experience NOT needed. So we’re (Red Cross) opening shelters now for evacuees from heavily zombied areas. According to MEMA there aren’t really any unaffected areas, but people are leaving their homes and we’ve been told to activate our shelter plans, so bear with me. Yes, they are waiving “no weapons in the shelter.”

and Seraphim777 was fooled just like we were: “is it funnier that I work at the red cross and would be hip deep in this [...], or that I had no idea what you clowns were on about?’”