5 Hours to Barricade your home.

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sms_117b

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Maneuver spare bed down stairs and wedge front door shut witht he help of the stairs and maybe some other smaller piece of furniture and the doors dead bolt lock and slide lock, the back door locked, the mechanism should be solid and windows are double glazed. Bottom floor lounge, break up furniture, board up windows. Bottom floor back room, same.
 

Insanum

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I wouldnt barricade myself in, I'd use those 5 hours to get to safety.

Barricade = Trapped.
 

Yumi_and_Erea

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My house can only be accessed by a single door immediately followed by a single staircase going up. I'd throw my seven book-cabinets down the stairs in order to block it, then start throwing meat through the windows to lure them away, before killing them by dropping heavy equipment on their skulls from the second floor.
 

GrinningManiac

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I'd hide on the roof with a cricket bat and some supplies. I reckon the Zombies can't get up, and I can easily roof-hop (semidetached, after all) up to some local shops, or to the top of the street. My area is surrounded in farms, walking areas, cycling paths and a park, so I'm hopefully protected by a sea of unpopulated green, what with Zombies having short attention spans and desperate hunger and all.

I had a dream last night where I was IN a L4D-like scenario. At one point I was guarding a fort, and I discoverd that the zombies were being led by clones of me and other guys from school.

Then I was in a forest, and I was attacked by three spitters. I bumped into some other Zombies, and discovered that they were sentient and could talk. They were bumpkins, however, and stupidly mistook me for another zombie. They befriended me and invited me to come with them. They took me to a zombie Glastonbury/Woodstock. I realised that smarter zombies would call me out, and I fled.

It was WEIRD
 

Shamgarr

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I'm thinking I would have to chop down a couple of the humongo trees in my yard to create makeshift barricades that I could use to block the entrance to my house. Then I'd probably use the excesss wood and parts from the three family cars to cover windows and glass. Also use the fencing around my backyard to cover weak points. Damn large glass windows, it's gonna take alot of wood. But this is assuming we've already stocked up on lots of canned goods, water bottles, and pringles. If these are the old-age zombies, will the really be able to break through glass? I mean they can barely walk without stumbling, how effective are their motor skills/ predatorial instincts?
 

Knaas

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take over the appartment above, an remove the staircase, after having taken all the assets that are needed (the canned food, and such) in my new living quarters. Wait a week, and make a roofbreak from the place, finding an easily defendable place to live for the rest of my remaining life or till the outbreak is over... quite simple actually...
 
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Well seeing as I have one of them attics that has no way to get up there save for ONE little hatch in the ceiling just big enough to squeeze through I'd send most of my time taking batteries, food, lanterns/candles, and weapons up there, then smash the stairs and open the laundry closet door and push the washer/dryer behind it to block off any way for a zombie getting to the small hatch.
 

Kajt

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I'd move as much furniture as possible in front of the door to the closet, get all the food and water in the closet and then get an axe and camp in there for a few days.
 

MalloryHartevelt

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roof, with with food, blankets and tent to last me for a few weeks...then...i suppose i would starve and start rotting away... :(
 

JWAN

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I would just use shelving from my basement and board everything up and keep slots open for me to fire out of

I have plenty of everything

I would leave a hole in the wall that leads into a wood box with an open top and smash them one at a time,
pneumatic car jack/ wood splitter ftw
 

Skeleon

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Lock all doors leading to my living room, push the cupboards in front of the windows, the bed in front of the innermost door. I'd put the desks where they are needed to improve those two barricades.
Furthermore, I would move all the stuff I'll need for the next days (blunt objects and other weapons, food and drinks, books and handheld consoles, toilet paper and whatnot) near my sink/cooking area and build a small secondary enclosure there. Hopefully, water and electricity will keep working even after the zombie apocalypse (thank automating).
 

Nomad

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Aug 3, 2008
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I wouldn't really barricade it at all, but simply lock the door. I live in an apartment on the 3rd floor, with a perpetually locked front door to the complex and a steel-reinforced door to my specific apartment. And zombies aren't really famous for getting through solid steel barricades.

For economic reasons I also buy large amounts of food every time I shop for it, so the overall price will decrease. So I estimate I have enough food to last me a month or two without me needing to exit the apartment. I'm rather fond of sword replicas as well, so I could probably defend myself against a small number of potential intruders.

... Running down into the basement of the complex (where I have my repository) would also be a potential solution, I guess, since it's built sort of like a bunker. But there are too many corridors and other people who have keys for me to feel really safe down there.
 

Halceon

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I'll just close the door. Windowless stairwell + metal doors with a code lock = win. And before you ask, no there is no other way zombies could get in - i live on the 4th floor an all first floor windows are quite a way above ground anyway.
 

RetiarySword

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I live in a house with four other people, and a spare roon. In total we have 6 metal bed frames, and 4 huge wooden cabinets, along with doors what can easily be detached. These all go on the stairs, along with the washing machine and the front room furniture.

We only need matresses to sleep on. We can all stay in the top two levels of the house, there is a window on the 3rd floor what drops onto the roof of the bathroom and the houses are realy close together so we can climb down (With some ninja skills, which I can teach them).

The fridge and cooker can be moved upstairs where we sleep/live.

All in all I'm pretty confident we can make this place into a fortress.
 

metza

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Oct 8, 2009
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Same as everyone else with an attic and some sense: heave everything worthwhile into the attic, pull up the hatch, sit back and relax. if I run out of food, I can roof jump to the massive 24 hr supermarket at the end of the road. Easy.
 

flare09

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Couches go up against my two door-windows. Mattresses go up against the windows. I make sure they're steady, then I wait with my cheap guitar for any zombie that happens to wander in.