The zombie apocalypse has just hit, where do you go?

[DJ_DEnM]

I've always had my little plan that I would go to the nearby storage facility units place, park a car in front of the door (So you'd have to get in through the driver door, then out the passenger's door to get to the front door) and live there pretty well. Those units are pretty big so it'd be good to use those as rooms. Plus this place is right in front of a supermarket, and a few minutes away from another Supermarket and a Home Depot. From gathering tools and food around, we could do pretty well. Plus with what we scavenge emptying the units, we could place an emergency signal on the roof.

 

[BaronUberstein]

Well, I've got a bottle of water, a tube of Pringels, and I live on the 2nd floor of a building with only stairs.

Assuming the well armed campus security can't deal with the scenario, I guess I'd scout out my friend's houses and see what their plans are, probably make a makeshift weapon out of metal bars and such for bashing.

Like hell I'm going to one of the nearby gun stores or walmart or anything, because people are going to be stockpiling and trampling people there.

And since they're slow zombies, it would be ABSURD to think that the US military couldn't clean them up in a few months. Last I checked bullets, tanks, and missiles worked just fine on zombies, and zombies don't try to hide.

 

[Dragonclaw]

I'm minutes away from a Costco. I'll grab my game binders (yeah, I KNOW they have some games...I have more...and we don't know just how long we'll need to be holed up) Ideally I get there before lots of others and we drop the doors and seal the place shut. I have friends who are the managers there so I think we got this Plenty of food, entertainment, portable generators if the power is out...

 

[I Max95]

well with all the Volumes of the Walking Dead i've read and the zombie movies/video games/tvshows i've seen, one things seems to be constant

other people

i see people talk about their own survival, where they would hole up, but if you don't have friendly people by your side you will either be dead very soon or you will lose your mind

i say the best way to survive is to find people to trust, so i would begin with family members, friends, try to find them, form a group, and go to the most remote, securable place we can find, which in my case would be the farmland just 45 minutes away. the wide open spaces would be great for defense, cause the slow zombies are much more dangerous in close quarters, and crowded areas. plus not many people lived there to begin with, so it's only logical that the zombies are less of a threat there

plus, at this moment in time that area might be full of crops that are still growing, and if it's this early in the outbreak the owners of the farms might still be alive to tend the crops.

it's not a perfect plan, but i think it's a better plan than holing up in a city that would most likely be full of zombies by this point

 

[RoonMian]

I'm fucked anyway... More than 80,000,000 people crammed into a country the size of Montana. It doesn't really matter where I run. If the Zombie Apocalypse starts in my country the chances of survival are very very very slim.

 

[warrcry13]

I'm good where I'm at my cousin who is currently living with us has quite a few guns. So we wait for a few days till everyone evacuates, and start looting neighboring houses for all our supplies. If the neighbors are still there we either avoid them or take it by force. And to keep vehicles from getting on our road we just barricade the entrance of our road. We live a steep slope so the only easy vehicle access in the street.

Why is my captcha making me type Choose DISH? I had dish once I didn't like it. Rain or random cloud=goodbye signal.

 

[alik44]

To the bar to drink my troubles away Duh

 

[Shinsei-J]

Keeping in mind that I live rurally I have some time to prepare for this, two days minimum.
First thing after stashing supply's is to secure a car, make it small zippy one that's doesn't use much fuel.
I have one already and with the things around my house I can bulk it up a little with reinforced windows and a plow.
After finishing the car I make it my base of operation,stuff it full of all the meds, canned food and other goods I can find.
Next is weapons, I have swords,axes and a spear on hand but that's not enough. To get around this problem I'll trade some stuff for a gun and some bullets from a good friend I know.
My ally have already been decided, my two best friends who aren't necessarily strong but have a lot of will power.
From here we work together and isolate ourselves.

 

[KINGBeerZ]

I have access to a ride on lawnmower and if that fails...
STEP 1- get lots of water
STEP 2- get bunch of potted fruit trees and plenty of canned food
STEP 3- steal a nice boat
STEP 4- sail to New Zealand (too cold for the zombies ( 10 points for anyone who gets the reference))

 

[TakeyB0y2]

After playing episode 2 of The Walking Dead game, I'm not afraid of zombies at all... It's the still living humans I'd be more afraid of.

Now, I live in Canada, and to this date I've never seen a zombie movie/game where zombies were exposed to true winter conditions (blizzards and snow). Part of me has a feeling the apocalypse would end once winter hits here. After all, they're rotting corpses that are falling apart and I doubt their circulatory system will be working very well = zombie popsicles!

Only problem is, since humanity will definitely take a nose-dive until winter hits, I'd be more worried about being able to find food, shelter and warmth. Finding a place with a working heat, water and electricity won't be easy.

 

[Twilight_guy]

I stay where I am. I'm out in the desert countryside surrounded by red-necks. The zombies were all liquify before reaching me and the neighbors would have more then enough firepower anyways.

 

[A3sir]

28 days later zombies

There are no zombies in 28 days later. I think you should leave.

 

[viranimus]

Hrm..I would rather not have to write this again... but I cant find the prior answer.

Spoiler: personal prep - Stage 1

I selected my home with practical tactical advantages. I live in a second floor duplex which is adjacent to an retrofitted brick school building into a church.

I have ample stockpiles that would last 4 people upwards of 4 months, and 1 person roughly a year give or take. Pre prepped bug out trailer that would only take 5 min to hitch to 4x4 dodge dakota, loaded with setup supplies like gas powered jenny, Hydropump,and water filtration system

Fully stocked with ample melee weapons and a small selection of personal firearms. Adequate ammo to hold off inital siege and potentially for restocking runs.

Now, the plan initially would be, hole up in the duplex, with the brick school/church as a fallback position, and would likely be where the local community would first gather. With the buildings 3 story height, large yard, array of installed outdoor lighting, its a logical defensive position for about a 5 block radius or so. The church also has the added advantage of being one of the highest elevated points in town potentially giving a fairly wide view from roof tops as well as strong open sky for radio/transmission reception.

Spoiler: Stage 2- Initial assembly, stockpiling and route establishment

Now, from this locale, there is a major watershed/state park area less than 2 miles away down the mountain. Clean water, nominal population at most times of the year, would be ideal for quick access hunting grounds less than 2 miles away from city limits. On that route there is a fully stocked grocery store, discount department store, radio shack, scrap/junk yard, Several gas stations for the initial scavenging. This route also grants access to the city airport roughly 5 miles out.

Now, in the opposite direction there is the quickest access to the interstate in less than a mile. However there would be a much more logical target. The national guard armory complex. Domed igloo structure, some military hardware on storage, though most of it is for show or antiquated infantry hardware. However, this is another logical locale that some of the smarter locals will likely set out for. So as for help from other people this would likely be a major staging point as the Armory could likely protect 500-1000 people or so. Along the route toward the Armory, there is two hunting centric shops. One is a game tagging station, another is a pawn shop. Both house ample amounts of weaponry between firearms, bows, crossbows, and ammo. Also other likely tools like jennys and passing another gas station full of wells for the scavenging.

Spoiler: Stage 3- Defensive community and Siege prep

Now in all likelihood, from the Armory, to the state park/airport would be a major staging area as it is one main strip running roughly 6 miles between point A, and C, along with a secondary route via the interstate to get to the airport in case of road blocks. Between these two points there are ample protective areas with the advantage of the Armory being almost on the edge of the begining of a sheer slope down the mountain that winds around the mount, and comes back up the next major ridge over at the airport. The physical terrain between the two points essentially creates one primary path in, two secondary paths out and protected by steep sheer faces in between. With such, It would not take much effort to roadblock secondary streets off this main drag to keep the primary route open. Access to what is essentially a rudimentary military barracks, airport, interstates, food supplies, gas reserves, electronics, scrap metal, junk parts would give the means to form a strong base of operations on the south eastern slope of this mountain town.

Spoiler: Stage 4- Siege and defense

The problems would likely come from the western heart of the old town with there being several residential centers and major tracts of housing. As well as the commercial district which is just north of the Armory complete with a wal-mart and Kroger within an eye shot and strip malls on top of strip malls. The problem comes in the fact that many of the average survivors will likely end up headed in the direction of walmart and the heart of this commercial district for the bounty of supplies, which even in day to day non disaster traffic stops at a paved bottleneck of the two largest arteries in the city. So people will end up flooding this spot and it will likely be a massive breeding ground for infected. So again, the poor traffic layout actually becomes advantageous making it much easier to roadblock side streets and create a defendable defensive perimeter that would have to be manned and defended as the waves of infected push south east out of the commercial district toward the armory. So realistically at this point with a community built defensive perimeter its mostly a matter of staging along the North western perimeter outside of the Armory... keeping a clean route back to stockpiles and supplies from down the mountain, and retaining emergency evacuation access either by interstate or airport. From there, the community holds the outer perimeter, thins out the hoards numbers while keeping a safe open route to supplies and holds out for months in siege mode.

Spoiler: Stage 5- Territory expansion and resupply

Once clear inroads have been maintained, scouting parties would begin pushing out to the northern commercial district to gain a foothold. This would grant access to picked through, but still fairly abundant levels of supplies to restock. Supplies come because of the risk of still ample amount of remaining infected. First primary target to establish a foothold on would be the first of 3 city hospitals. Although the smallest, its by far the closest to the armory and will end up being the most defensible attempt at an expansion. Now once the hospital is secured, the next logical attempt is to push north and secure the commercial district up to the bottleneck of the two main city arteries. This potentially gives ample access to abundant supplies of all sorts and up to this point it essentially represents the southern half of the eastern boundary of the city. Following the second main artery back up the mountain gives access to a secondary hospital as well.

Spoiler: Potential personal agenda

Now honestly as for me personally I dont know if I would have stuck around quite this long. While this would be representative of the ideal route and community deployment to combat the horde, I likely would have set off away from the city anywhere between stages 1 and 3 as I have family land roughly 15 miles or so due west of the city. The family land is semi hilled, heavily wooded areas for hunting with nearby sheer rock faces, open flat lands on plateaued hills to allow for farming, Natural water springs and already existing spring capture boxes. With this being a fairly rural and wooded area it lends itself to low population, so much less overall thread from infected. Also being a southern state with cultural traditions of hunting a very well armed local populous that would likely clear out any sort of infected threat very quickly. This 30 or so acre plot could easily support the 15-30 members of the family who would seek it out, and realistically the most difficult thing, would be replenishing recently neglected livestock such as chickens, geese, turkeys, goats etc. That would simply be the first personal target goal... however dependent on the the actual scenario and how events progressed it might call for change of plans that could potentially involve dangerous cross state trek via winding mountain state routes to reach another cluster of family roughly 100 miles north west.

None the less, I have a pretty solid and developed plan of action with several standby contingency plans at the ready. So as far as being prepped, likely as prepped as I can be with what my personal budget allows for.

 

[Stasisesque]

Now, I live in Canada, and to this date I've never seen a zombie movie/game where zombies were exposed to true winter conditions (blizzards and snow). Part of me has a feeling the apocalypse would end once winter hits here. After all, they're rotting corpses that are falling apart and I doubt their circulatory system will be working very well = zombie popsicles!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1278340/

I'm not sure if it's just Nazi zombies that can survive freezing conditions, or all zombies, but I wouldn't be too sure of winter taking care of them.

 

[Judgement101]

I live out in the country, everyone has a gun, also, there is one of the largest military bases on the east coast near by so my area is pretty much safe as can be.

 

[Corax_1990]

28 days later zombies

There are no zombies in 28 days later. I think you should leave.

And there are no trolls on these forums, oh wait.

 

[A3sir]

28 days later zombies

There are no zombies in 28 days later. I think you should leave.

And there are no trolls on these forums, oh wait.

I wasn't trolling. You can't say "are the zombies like things that aren't zombies".