5 Hours to Barricade your home.
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that's about a /thread.blackshark121 said:
seriously, everybody knows zombies can't climb! It won't stop them from trying though, so just stay quiet and out of their way. Make sure to dispose of any corpses in the house first though, you don't want to knock out your means of escape just to find out your wife wasn't just sick.
Also this.Old Trailmix said:
that's what I love about the escapist, I can feel proud to have read the zombie survival guide!
I would destroy the rest of my home and barricade myself into the kitchen. All I need is food and water, the TV and radio is movable.
(most) zombies dont like the cold, so I would only have to hold out til winter. I would push my couch onto the stairs and just live upstairs. I wonder if I could load my paintballgun with rocks. otherwise Im using a melee wepon.
I live in a terrible home when it comes to a zombie attack >.< No second floor, no attic, several large entry points, relatively weak walls, middle of suburbia ... I would try to break down the shed in the back yard so I would have some scrap metal to use as a barricade. I would likely completely block off my bedroom door and bedroom window, drilling scrap metal into place over doors and windows with my step dad's power tools. I have one window about 8-9ft up which I would leave open so I could toss out garbage and check on progress of zombie removal/takeover ... or probably not xD
Anyway: my room is right next to the bathroom so I could bust a hole through the wall, barricade the bathroom door and have access to a sink, shower and, toilet but I would likely avoid using the loud shower and be paranoid as hell about flushing the toilet.
I'll probably run out of food before the week is out but I won't starve to death. Once that week is over, I'll gather up as much jerky as I can and begin to travel north
Anyway: my room is right next to the bathroom so I could bust a hole through the wall, barricade the bathroom door and have access to a sink, shower and, toilet but I would likely avoid using the loud shower and be paranoid as hell about flushing the toilet.
I'll probably run out of food before the week is out but I won't starve to death. Once that week is over, I'll gather up as much jerky as I can and begin to travel north
Well the "you can't leave it's chaos" bit sort of plays havoc with it, because if it's chaos and your one of the few people who knows what is going on well enough to barracade that's the perfect time to start trying to rescue people and/or get what you need.
Though personally I don't rate my chances that well due to limited food and water, and what amounts to a fairly accessible house for something like zombies once they showed up in large enough numbers.
While I won't die without it, there are also medication related issues for me .
That said, if I had to made a stand I'd grab what supplies I could, get into my attic, and close the door. It's not a great attic since if you step off the boards you can pretty much go crashing through the floor/celling to the lower level (once a stumble/foot off the path knocked a whole in the plaste). Still there is room up there since it's a big path and in a last ditch I could pull up the boards and send any zombies that got through the door plummeting back down to the first floor.
This is of course assuming we're dealing with what are functionally endless hordes, and of course ommitting the possibility of simply trying to kill them in vast numbers.
Zombie movies tend to forget that there are a finite number of people/bodies in any given area. Taking out 500-600 people in your typical area is going to have an effect, same with zombies. Unless your in like a major metropolis, I figure that if you can get your wits about you enough to barracade, you can probably start piling up the bodies with a bit of creativity because even the running zombies/infected are more or less mindless.
One of the major problems I had with the remake of Dawn Of The Dead (the one in the mall, I think I have the title right) was the fact that they had a guy with limited food and water accross the street but access to an entire guns and ammo shop. I wasn't quite buying that he could keep shooting them and "not be able to thin out the numbers".
Though personally I don't rate my chances that well due to limited food and water, and what amounts to a fairly accessible house for something like zombies once they showed up in large enough numbers.
While I won't die without it, there are also medication related issues for me .
That said, if I had to made a stand I'd grab what supplies I could, get into my attic, and close the door. It's not a great attic since if you step off the boards you can pretty much go crashing through the floor/celling to the lower level (once a stumble/foot off the path knocked a whole in the plaste). Still there is room up there since it's a big path and in a last ditch I could pull up the boards and send any zombies that got through the door plummeting back down to the first floor.
This is of course assuming we're dealing with what are functionally endless hordes, and of course ommitting the possibility of simply trying to kill them in vast numbers.
Zombie movies tend to forget that there are a finite number of people/bodies in any given area. Taking out 500-600 people in your typical area is going to have an effect, same with zombies. Unless your in like a major metropolis, I figure that if you can get your wits about you enough to barracade, you can probably start piling up the bodies with a bit of creativity because even the running zombies/infected are more or less mindless.
One of the major problems I had with the remake of Dawn Of The Dead (the one in the mall, I think I have the title right) was the fact that they had a guy with limited food and water accross the street but access to an entire guns and ammo shop. I wasn't quite buying that he could keep shooting them and "not be able to thin out the numbers".
Right now: Stockpile food and several smashing weapons. My actual dorm room couldn't be barricaded for shit, so instead I'd go out the window at the end of the hall onto the roof. it's two stories up, so the zombies can't climb and get me, and the window is so small only one zombie could crawl through at a time, and even then you first have to stick your head out. and when they do... hello, smashy weapon!
At home: like most people, food, water, smash staircase. If that's not possible, attic.
At home: like most people, food, water, smash staircase. If that's not possible, attic.
LOL. Don't ask. I'm fine with zombie films and zombie games but I had the misfortune of playing Resident Evil 2 and watching some scary zombie films when I was far younger and the fear of zombies has dug into an area I can't dig it out. My logical mind is certain zombies won't exist (until 2050, at least) and there's nothing to be afraid of but it's like my being an arachnophobe. The tiny little eight-legged buggers in my house can't even hurt the flies, what could they do to me? The primative part of my mind just won't listen though. I guess the zombies can be explained away as a fear of being eaten alive. That would really suck...TheSeventhLoneWolf said:
I would like to say that I have an amicable solution.
I have a small horde of non-perishables. Enough for two people, for a week, easily.
I live in an apartment style university dormitory.
I would shuttle my food supplies up to the third floor along with anyone else smart enough to come and all of THEIR food.
We could, thereafter, pile all of the cheap furniture into the narrow stairwells, and fend off the zombieness.
Problems that arise:
College students, despite my preferred reality, are quite stupid.
Someone would try to leave and break our barricades.
MOST students wouldn't have their own food stashes.
If the barricades were lost, someone would go onto the roof, and lock the door, so no one else could follow.
Lack of weapons. The best I could do with what I have is form a rough shield, and a frying pan.
I know enough girls in this dorm...a few hairspray cans and a stolen lighter or two from the smokers would make a handy improvised flamethrower/bomb.
In any case,
Without the option to relocate - I would likely be screwed.
EDIT:
My dorm has metal doors and frames but massive front facing windows *rolls his eyes* The designers of this map had no forethought of zombie apocalypse.
EDIT 2:
I just remembered that MY room has a floor hatch that leads UNDER the dorm, with no other access points...
>.>
*wonders who he should tell*
I have a small horde of non-perishables. Enough for two people, for a week, easily.
I live in an apartment style university dormitory.
I would shuttle my food supplies up to the third floor along with anyone else smart enough to come and all of THEIR food.
We could, thereafter, pile all of the cheap furniture into the narrow stairwells, and fend off the zombieness.
Problems that arise:
College students, despite my preferred reality, are quite stupid.
Someone would try to leave and break our barricades.
MOST students wouldn't have their own food stashes.
If the barricades were lost, someone would go onto the roof, and lock the door, so no one else could follow.
Lack of weapons. The best I could do with what I have is form a rough shield, and a frying pan.
I know enough girls in this dorm...a few hairspray cans and a stolen lighter or two from the smokers would make a handy improvised flamethrower/bomb.
In any case,
Without the option to relocate - I would likely be screwed.
EDIT:
My dorm has metal doors and frames but massive front facing windows *rolls his eyes* The designers of this map had no forethought of zombie apocalypse.
EDIT 2:
I just remembered that MY room has a floor hatch that leads UNDER the dorm, with no other access points...
>.>
*wonders who he should tell*
Hmmm... my house does have a lot of windows and doors, but it wouldn't be too hard. My garage is almost full of stuff that I could use (couches, a couple really heavy bookcases, several dozen boxes, not to mention tool chests, chairs, etc). What would probably end up happening is I would send my dog out, and he would get eaten. He's kinda sick, so zombies would get his disease, die, and then starving zombies who haven't had anything to eat because everyone's barricaded would eat that zombie, so they would all die in a few weeks anyway.
Any intrudes would be dealt with swiftly with one or more of my many bladed weapons. Or my dad's cricket bat.
Any intrudes would be dealt with swiftly with one or more of my many bladed weapons. Or my dad's cricket bat.