So the flakes haven’t started really coming down yet, but my thoughts have shifted to the walking dead and the question of a questions: would a zombie apocalypse be put on pause, or even extinguished during the winter months?

If we are talking about Russo zombies then the answer would be no. Those zombies seemed to want to eat brains regardless of the score whether their bodies are fueled by blood, formaldehyde, or even dust. The only thing that stopped them was a nuclear blast. With Romero zombies, I would think the winter might be the chance for humanity to overcome the apocalypse.

Think about this for a second. In the Romero universe, a zombie is a partly functioning brain inside a dead body. Romero never really explains how this works. We just accept the fact that there is some brain activity which controls the rotting husk. Since the brain can be destroyed by a bullet, it would logically suggest that zombies would be equally vulnerable to the cold.

I don’t need to live Minnesota to know it gets balls-to-the-wall cold there. Here in New England, sometimes it feels as if the cold were reaching into your gut and freezing the very essence of you. Unprotected zombies would freeze and while the thawing be irrelevant to the already dead body, it would be curtains for the gray matter.

What do you think? Would we have a chance to survive during the snow days and if so, would there be a chance to recover come the spring thaw?