Well, we hope. Things are slowly returning to normal here. To be honest, the numbers in this week’s report are a little sketchy. There was really more activity than we will show here, but we ran and re-ran the update protocols numerous times over the last week as we brought servers and back-ups back on line, so really these numbers more likely demonstrate the activity just since the weekend.
A few items of note:
– Intermittent reports of new ZTBs from over the last few weeks have been collated, and all are now represented on the site. We are up to 342 individual cachers turned zombie now, and vast areas of the planet have been affected. If it seems like there has been a surge there has. Ever since the second wave, the numbers just seem to keep growing.
– We have fielded a few questions about ZTB discovery. You should know that we treat discovery reports as rumor. Only verified drop, retrieval or visit logs count against the numbers, as these logs have verifiable geolocation data associated with them. Discovery and grab logs do not have geolocation data associated, so we can’t verify the location of the ZTB through them.
Here’s this week’s gouge:
We had reports on 112 of 342 ZTBs, in 31 states and 15 countries. 227 reports in the U.S., and 71 reports overseas. Hot spots included the U.S mid-Atlantic coast, Virginia, California and Florida here, and Canada and Germany overseas. We did have one report each from Alaska, Hawaii and South Africa, and one report in New Zealand.
Geowoodstock is coming up in Denver, Colorado in a couple of weeks, and we’ve heard rumors of an imminent outbreak there, but have yet to receive any confirmed reports. Be careful out there!