Re: weeds: If I'm not misremembering (which I may be), I think both Forrest Gump and Slingblade indicated neglect by showing weeds. In Forrest Gump, when they went back and visited the house in which Jenny grew up and she started throwing rocks at it, the house had some weeds grown up around it. They didn't seem big enough, though. Maybe it was just dead shrubbery. Then in Slingblade, I thought (can't find the scene online) when Karl went to visit his father, there were weeds all grown up around the outside.
As others have noted, deer swim.
I was wondering whether lions swim, and, not being all that familiar with the geography of New York City, I wondered if there might have been ice they could have crossed. Since I didn't know, I looked at a map, and it appears that the only thing that makes Manhatten Island an island at all is the Harlem River. By the looks of it, I'm not sure it could keep a hungry, enterprising cat from getting on the island. Especially around either the Madison Ave. Bridge or the 145th Street Bridge, there are big foundations for the bridge supports that stick up just a little above the water in the middle of the river. Particularly at the Madison Ave. Bridge, the river is pretty narrow. I went to street view on Google Maps right on the shore at that point, and it looks like, especially with a collapsed bridge in the water, it could ice up enough to cross. If so, the lions could have come from anywhere in the eastern US or Canada.
I'd imagine the lady and her son (was it her son?) got on and off the island the way humans usually do when there aren't bridges: find something that floats. Of course, that makes me question the value of destroying the bridges in the first place, assuming the zombies could have made rafts. Since they managed to duplicate Will Smith's snare, it would seem they'd be capable.
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As others have noted, deer swim.
I was wondering whether lions swim, and, not being all that familiar with the geography of New York City, I wondered if there might have been ice they could have crossed. Since I didn't know, I looked at a map, and it appears that the only thing that makes Manhatten Island an island at all is the Harlem River.
By the looks of it, I'm not sure it could keep a hungry, enterprising cat from getting on the island. Especially around either the Madison Ave. Bridge or the 145th Street Bridge, there are big foundations for the bridge supports that stick up just a little above the water in the middle of the river. Particularly at the Madison Ave. Bridge, the river is pretty narrow. I went to street view on Google Maps right on the shore at that point, and it looks like, especially with a collapsed bridge in the water, it could ice up enough to cross. If so, the lions could have come from anywhere in the eastern US or Canada.
I'd imagine the lady and her son (was it her son?) got on and off the island the way humans usually do when there aren't bridges: find something that floats. Of course, that makes me question the value of destroying the bridges in the first place, assuming the zombies could have made rafts. Since they managed to duplicate Will Smith's snare, it would seem they'd be capable.