Zombie Apocolypse

[Humble Grapefruit]

What would you do in the case of a mass infection? Arm up and fight? Hoard food and find a stronghold? Pray with your friends and family waiting for it to end? A mixture?

I would start by finding some sort of weapons. I would prefer to find some sort of handguns with easy-to-find ammunition, a melee weapon of sorts, and some non-perishable food (peanut butter, spam, etc.) Then I would go somewhere with few windows but a good vantage point for a retreated stronghold.

 

[Eisenfaust]

I live in Australia... just drive for 5 hours into the country

if the weather doesn't kill them, the kangaroos will claw their guts out. problem solved

 

[Lazy Kitty]

Wait a few months while the zombies soften up the armies.
Take advantage of the chaos to take over the world with my army of robots.

Well, that is of course if it's a random zombie apocalypse and not my own zombie apocalypse whic I would also use to take over the world before replacing the zombies with robots.

 

[demoman_chaos]

I have quite an arsenal built up already, any flesh rotting freaks come my way they'll see why the axe was among the most feared weapons on the battlefield. They'll meet the same fate as many samurai, and they'll learn why the bowie knife was so popular in the wild west.

 

[LFC Scouser]

Run away get chased down become zombie

I would fail at survival

 

[blue heartless]

Run away get chased down become zombie

I would fail at survival

The Zombie Survival Guide. Max Brooks. Might help you out some.

 

[Humble Grapefruit]

Run away get chased down become zombie

I would fail at survival

The Zombie Survival Guide. Max Brooks. Might help you out some.

Good book. It repeats a lot of the same stuff, though.

 

[LFC Scouser]

Run away get chased down become zombie

I would fail at survival

The Zombie Survival Guide. Max Brooks. Might help you out some.

Try remembering something you read in a book when under severe life threatening danger let me know how that works for you

 

[loc978]

basically:

Oh good. An elaboration on the post I made in the other thread (which was about zombie survival weapon choice... with a maximum of three):

This [http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n182/loc978/Photos/DSC01160.jpg], this [http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n182/loc978/Photos/DSC01162.jpg], and this [http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n182/loc978/Photos/0603081544.jpg]. All within easy reach right now.

...on top of that would be my bug-out bag. It's a fair sized rucksack with two 1qt canteens (so, a little under 2L of water), 6 MREs, a change of outerwear and several changes of underwear, 200 rounds (4 unopened boxes) of .45ACP, 100 shells of 12gauge buckshot (5 unopened boxes), some gun oil, a small cleaning kit and a few rags. It's actually a little lighter than the ruck I used to carry on active duty. I'd take that to my local national guard base. Hopefully they'd be in a state of emergency and taking experienced volunteers.
(I'm about 30 miles from the nearest urban area, by the way... and a little better than 10 miles out from the nearest suburb)

If they were in a state of disarray, I'd just steal one of their 5-ton trucks, chuck all the supplies i could find into it (more MREs, water, blankets, et cetera) and head for the mountains via country roads (If I knew I had time, I'd also take the truck home first and get the rest of my arsenal, ammo and camping gear). Hopefully I'd be able to steal supplies from convenience stores and gas stations along the way... and hopefully I'd be able to operate the pumps at said gas stations to refill my big ol' diesel hog. If not, that's why I rode my bicycle to the Guard base and threw it in the truck with the rest of the supplies.

Oh, and my destination is a ski lodge on the summit of a nearby(ish) mountain. Another place I hope already has active survivors to join up with. Hopefully we (or just I) would be able to raid nearby towns for more food supplies and diesel... and we'd(I'd) be able to utilize the place's solar panels and greenhouse rooms to keep ourselves (myself) warm and fed for a few months at least... after that, if there's no rescue forthcoming (I'd be keeping tabs on TV and radio broadcasts), I'd take my truck and anyone who wanted to come with me and head northeast into rural Washington. Hopefully the estate I've had my eyes on for being a fair-sized subsistence farm with 10-foot wrought-iron fencing is available...

 

[blue heartless]

It's a guide not a bible. A lot of what is in it I admit is coy and deluded but there are bits where even I can put into practice. Shooting (archery perhaps), I can ride a bicycle and I do live near a mountainous environment. I can always get a boating license and since I live on an island off the main coast my main problem would be taking care of the population there and just waiting on stragglers. Although, you are right, I may not remember details laid out for me in a book but I also have military training in my arsenal of weapons. Keeping calm during duress is what I do.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

I live in the country now, so we would most likely not get any massive mobs attacking for several days at least. I would go with others to our local police station (In Northern Ireland the local police station for a small village has the same protection as a military base.) Hoard up food, take as much livestock, food, building materials, create a large supply of water, petrol, etc. etc. and wait out any hordes that come. We'd probably dig ditches and trenches around a few fields nearby, grow crops, and try to become as self-sustainable as possible.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Wait a few days while the sun solves the problem for me.

 

[tkmedic]

Well if it happened any time after next month.....
I live on campus at a state university. My dorm has approximately 50 people living in it, and no more than about 70 at any given time(I live in the Early entry to college dorm) it is made of one foot thick limestone blocks, after stealing the keys from my RA and locking everything up, i disarm the security system and head downstairs(where campus security is housed) and raid their weapons locker. After making temporary baricades i take my truck and make a speed run down to the local hardware store with approximately 3 or four other people. We steal as much cement as we can and anything that can be converted into a weapon(hardware store, pretty much anything. After that we seal every window and entrance on the first floor with a foot of concrete, bar all the windows on the second and make the only entrance a pully lift to the second floor. Once that is done I would clear the whole building, holding up the entire of the population into two halls, and quarenteening those who have been exposed. After that I take a team and run approximately 200 meters across to the campus cafiteria. We secure the whole base floor and take back all the food we can. Once that is accomplished we'll secure as many chemicals from the chemistry department as we can, and begin securing the buildings around us in much the same way we secured the first. when all buildings on campus have been secured and reinforced, approximately 14 buildings, all constructed from solid limestone, then we put up a fence around the area, clear the area, and prioritize the back up power in one location, along with all the food, cooking supplies and people. Then we set all the ag students to start growing crops in the areas we have free. Set up 24 hour patrols and a system of alerting everyone when security is breached. Hold up, take in any survivers who show no signs of infection and try to keep the human race alive.
thats the abridged version, as we get bored easily our dorm full of nerds has a zombie emergancy action plan.

 

[Phlakes]

Fuck, I thought we were done with these threads...

Anyway, I'd meet up with the people I like who also survived, head to the gun store and a grocery store and get everything I can, then to a nice, big house near another store.

Why not a mall or an air traffic control tower? Showers.

 

[Rancid0ffspring]

I live in Australia... just drive for 5 hours into the country

if the weather doesn't kill them, the kangaroos will claw their guts out. problem solved

I am suddenly terrified of the idea of zombie kangaroos

 

[Scrubiii]

Go to the SAS training camp 10 minutes from my house. Then sit safely behind an 8 foot electrified razor wire fence protected by the Special Forces.

 

[SamtheDeathclaw]

I have two rifles within twenty feet of me, enough ammunition to take on a small army, and plenty of way to get away. I'd prolli just run like hell, keep on the move. Perks of living in Texas, I guess.

 

[Th37thTrump3t]

Well, I can tell you what I wouldn't do. I definitely wouldn't seek refuge in a mall. There are way too many entrances and windows to secure without having an entire platoons worth of people. If you do happen to have a platoons worth of people the chances of mutiny are very high, given the high stress of the situation. If any one of those entrances or windows are compromised, the entire mall would be overrun in a matter of minutes, if not seconds. There will always be looters and raiders who would continuously try to attack the mall, which means that not only will be be dealing with an entire cities worth of zombies but also raider bands.

All of this can be applied to any large structure, such as a large school or corporate building, and this list of dangers only touches the surface of what could possibly go wrong. Your best bet for surviving would be to gather a group of 3 or 4 trustworthy people (Neighbors, close friends, etc.), grabbing a means of transportation (Preferably a diesel engine vehicle because they tend to be more fuel efficient and are easier to find fuel for), and heading to a less densely populated area. If you have a family, take them instead.

 

[Sinoda]

Okay. I just spent a few minutes typing up my plan...Most of it was in my head for a while, but it was difficult 'cause I have maps and everything of the area drawn out...And no scanner. So bear with me, as you read this. Any advice on how to solve some of the flaws I have would be awesome. I know my biggest concern right now would be the driveway, but I'm gonna spend a bit thinking about it.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rxFAa8L_bRQQYnhMM0iZ-LIbi7_-XcKJHfyjPdxoSJA/edit?hl=en_US

 

[theironbat46]

I live in a gated community so I'm screwed. BUT! I have a friend, whose house is semi secluded [as in no other houses around for a few miles and you can see everything around.] It would be fairly easy to make a perimeter and farm land within that. With seven or eight people, we would wait it out. I have another friend who lives in a HUGE house, a manor i think, in a place that is completely secluded. No houses for miles, acres upon acres of land. Preferably, I would go with the former. The bigger the place, the harder it is to keep it in check. Wouldn't it suck to know there's a zombie in the huge house, but you don't know where?

Moving around within the first or second years is a terrible idea. Tons of people trying to run away, cities swelling with infected. Just hold down. Eventually, the bugs will do a lot of damage. After year two, it should be safe to start extending your perimeter, or start recruiting survivors and branching of to other places. Close enough for safety, but farther enough that you can make an actual community.