Where not to go in a(n zombie) apocalypse

[Easton Dark]

I know where I would go. The hardware store. Axes and sledgehammers and chainsaws galore.

Not just that!


It'd be best to go to an office building's second floor. LOTS of barricade material. The problem is food... hmph, instant-coffee should be enough.

 

[niknar266]

I'd stay at home got enough tinned and frozen food to last a good while if rationed well also got portable gas cooker if gas line goes down. closet full of tools to use as melee weapons (hatchets, mallets/hammers, etc). Provided electric/gas stays on which I think military would secure on the initial outbreak. then just ride out the infection as the military clean up every zombie. Zombies just wouldn't last that long (especially if they're the slow moving kind). military units are trained to take on armed fully functioning humans, slow moving unarmed unthinking zombies would be nothing even though the fast ones wouldn't be much of a threat if the soldiers were in a fortified postion or used a armoured vehicle or helicopter.

I just don't think a real zombie apocalypse would last that long, a few weeks to few months at the longest the causalities would be probably still be high though. Sort of influenced by a cracked video I saw while back you can watch it here if you want http://www.cracked.com/video_18461_why-its-time-to-stop-pretending-zombies-are-scary.html

 

[uzo]

So much dead meat in this thread.

Everyone seems to presume that nobody else in the whole world has ever considered: gun shop, police station, hardware store, blah blah blah. These places would be the first to be overrun not only by flesh hungry monsters but by other morons thinking they're the only ones who thought of the bleedingly obvious. The most dangerous thing in a zombie outbreak would be other people. People are stupid and will do whatever it takes to survive - especially if the freakin' WALKING DEAD are right behind them.

If you're not prepared now, you're dead. Thankfully for myself and my family, I'm prepared. Everything I need is stored at my home; and I work within 5 mins from said home; maybe 25 mins on foot at a walking pace.

 

[ServebotFrank]

I'm in Alaska so I will be safe from zombies. First of all, if the outbreak occurs in the summer all we have to do is hold out for about five months until it starts getting deadly cold. Also Alaskans have a shit ton of guns and not a lot of people. Our most populated city is Anchorage with 300,000 people. So I just have to avoid that place until winter. Though I can totally see the Government coming up to Alaska to settle there. It'll take zombies forever to get here. They can't exactly walk here since we have a bunch of mountains, they can't come from the ocean because of how far it is and how quickly they will decay/get caught by the current/water log.

Yeah, so I'm pretty safe up here. We'll hold out for a few years and then come down to the Lower 48 to clear out any remaining zombies and re-establish society.

 

[The Salty Vulcan]

So much dead meat in this thread.

Everyone seems to presume that nobody else in the whole world has ever considered: gun shop, police station, hardware store, blah blah blah. These places would be the first to be overrun not only by flesh hungry monsters but by other morons thinking they're the only ones who thought of the bleedingly obvious. The most dangerous thing in a zombie outbreak would be other people. People are stupid and will do whatever it takes to survive - especially if the freakin' WALKING DEAD are right behind them.

If you're not prepared now, you're dead. Thankfully for myself and my family, I'm prepared. Everything I need is stored at my home; and I work within 5 mins from said home; maybe 25 mins on foot at a walking pace.

...I really don't know how to respond to this.

Actually, my girlfriend and I have always said that our plan, if a zombie apocalypse were to occur, would be to get a boat and just wait things out. We're operating under the assumptions that the zombies would not be like the ones in Pirate of the Carribean and that they can't walk on the ocean floor.

 

[Jacco]

So much dead meat in this thread.

Everyone seems to presume that nobody else in the whole world has ever considered: gun shop, police station, hardware store, blah blah blah. These places would be the first to be overrun not only by flesh hungry monsters but by other morons thinking they're the only ones who thought of the bleedingly obvious. The most dangerous thing in a zombie outbreak would be other people. People are stupid and will do whatever it takes to survive - especially if the freakin' WALKING DEAD are right behind them.

If you're not prepared now, you're dead. Thankfully for myself and my family, I'm prepared. Everything I need is stored at my home; and I work within 5 mins from said home; maybe 25 mins on foot at a walking pace.

...I really don't know how to respond to this.

Actually, my girlfriend and I have always said that our plan, if a zombie apocalypse were to occur, would be to get a boat and just wait things out. We're operating under the assumptions that the zombies would not be like the ones in Pirate of the Carribean and that they can't walk on the ocean floor.

Humans float. We're naturally less dense than water. So unless they had weights in their shoes, they would just float around, drifting with the currents.

 

[The Salty Vulcan]

So much dead meat in this thread.

Everyone seems to presume that nobody else in the whole world has ever considered: gun shop, police station, hardware store, blah blah blah. These places would be the first to be overrun not only by flesh hungry monsters but by other morons thinking they're the only ones who thought of the bleedingly obvious. The most dangerous thing in a zombie outbreak would be other people. People are stupid and will do whatever it takes to survive - especially if the freakin' WALKING DEAD are right behind them.

If you're not prepared now, you're dead. Thankfully for myself and my family, I'm prepared. Everything I need is stored at my home; and I work within 5 mins from said home; maybe 25 mins on foot at a walking pace.

...I really don't know how to respond to this.

Actually, my girlfriend and I have always said that our plan, if a zombie apocalypse were to occur, would be to get a boat and just wait things out. We're operating under the assumptions that the zombies would not be like the ones in Pirate of the Carribean and that they can't walk on the ocean floor.

Humans float. We're naturally less dense than water. So unless they had weights in their shoes, they would just float around, drifting with the currents.

And would thus be easier to pick off and would make for an interesting way to past the time.

 

[Pharsalus]

I know a friend who has a big ass house in the country that could be secured. Jusst gotta say in any case it's "an apocalypse", perhaps (with zombies), been doing alot of proofreading lately, style is everything.

 

[Braedan]

First to my shed to get my camping equiptment, then to my garage to get my month supply of frozen meat, then to Kananaskis where I will live the rest of my life hunting bears with my 5 inch bowie knife.

Yall suckas in the cities are gunna die REAL fast.

 

[MANIFESTER]

I would first go to my storage locker to get about the 6 months of well preserved food (for 2 people) I have stored in there. Then I would go to my Uncle's house about 15 minutes away and get him to fly me on his twin engine plane to Alaska where another relative lives, and either stay there for the long term or get on his fishing boat. I wish I could say I would go back for the rest of my family, but I live too far from them now to really have any hope of reaching them after this apocalypse hits.

 

[Jacco]

I know a friend who has a big ass house in the country that could be secured. Jusst gotta say in any case it's "an apocalypse", perhaps (with zombies), been doing alot of proofreading lately, style is everything.

I know. As I said to someone else. Lazy punctuation on my part. I didn't think anyone would care. lol

 

[Jacco]

First to my shed to get my camping equiptment, then to my garage to get my month supply of frozen meat, then to Kananaskis where I will live the rest of my life hunting bears with my 5 inch bowie knife.

Yall suckas in the cities are gunna die REAL fast.

I actually was just playing Red Dead Redemption and one of the challenges is to kill 5 wolves with your knife. lmao. If the game is any indication of how that works in real life, you won't have to worry about turning into a zombie. That's for damn sure.

 

[geK0]

Id probably go to my Uncles cottage in Muskoka, it's pretty much in the middle of nowhere and far from any significant city, so there wouldn't be much other than the odd straggler limping by.

 

[aba1]

A place nobody thinks about but is a good choice is a slightly off beat restaurant. Lots of food and heat so you can stay for a whiles and once things calm down a bit you can work on heading to live in a more remote area north for me as I am Canadian.

 

[RJ 17]

I'd likely become one of the crazy survivors and see how many fires I could start before I got eaten. Not that I'd try to get eaten, mind you, but I'd definitely see about burning down every building I could. I'd travel relatively light. Nothing but cigarette lighters and cans of hairspray. :3

 

[Angie7F]

I actually would surrender... I always think its a matter of time before we die one way or another, so if there was a zombie outbreak with the chance of power, water and food running out as the humans decrease in number, i would just choose to be a zombie.

 

[IndomitableSam]

Head off to a farmhouse somewhere, probably. Or lake country. Dunno about food as the growing season is only a few months here, but I guess you don't need to worry about Zombies at -40.

I do have a standing invitation if I can make it out west to the Rockies. However, best bet would probably be lake country, cabin on an island. Raid other cabins for food/weapons, and get a lot of flower pots so you can grow stuff inside by the windows.

... I've been meaning to take Archery back up again. My sister and I have always considered making a survival kit.. but if it hits in winter (or just before winter), things might get rough because you don't have time to explore/barricade and such.

Or we just off each other. That's an option, too.

... Now I want to play ProjectZomboid or something.

... I'll just go check and see if State of Decay has any news updates.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

I would go to a farm. Farms are one of the few places in my area with firearms.

Yall suckas in the cities are gunna die REAL fast.

Not really. Cities have apartments, which are easily defended, supplies, weapons, cars and they're full of predators (dogs, humans, zoo animals).

Basically, we have absolutely nothing to fear from a zombie apocalypse because we're creatures who got to where we are through a combination of killing things and coming up with ways to stop other things killing us. And then killing those things too.

 

[DugMachine]

Well currently reading World War Z and if that's any indication, unless you're military, you're screwed either way.

I guess try to go as far north as I can with as many supplies as I can hold. Freezing weather = Frozen zombies.

But hardware stores, gun shops, wal-marts etc are awful places to go. You and thousands of other people are going to want to go there and once panic sets in not only do you worry about zombies, but crazed gunmen as well.