[Edward64]

Pretty funny. Don't know how I missed this when it happened May 2018.

Florida isn't actually being invaded by zombies, despite emergency alert

Thankfully, there are no real zombies lurking in Florida. Rather, it was a false alert sent during a power outage that alerted the citizens of Lake Worth to zombies in the area.

According to the Palm Beach Post, the alert sent Sunday reads:



FYI, "Terminus" is a location from the AMC zombie hit TV series, The Walking Dead.

In a statement shared to the Lake Worth Live Facebook page, the city's Public Information Officer Ben Kerr made it clear that, no, zombies aren't roaming the Florida community.

"I want to reiterate that Lake Worth does not have any zombie activity currently and apologize for the system message," reads the statement.

In a chat with Gizmodo, Kerr said that the city's been dealing with fake zombie alerts since Hurricane Irma hit the state back in 2017. He told the site that though someone broke into the city's messaging system and added undead references to some pre-written alerts, the city has since removed those messages.