So many of us watch the Walking Dead and a poster brought up that he would rather be at the airport than in the suburbs during a Zombie Outbreak. So if the unthinkable were to occur where would you run to and holdup? What would be your short and long term plans?
For the record these would be Walking Dead zombies. Not too fast, can't swim, herd mentality.
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Scott stadium end zone....they'll never find you there!
I'd suggest the Scott Stadium stands --- except on the Saturday after Thanksgiving.
Give me an army of bourbon-fueled Hokies and we'll put down that zombie apocalypse in no time.
Or Bud's defense.
Either one.
I've always thought if you can manage to build some sort of moat around your base, you would be much better off. Do the whole castle thing with a lowering bridge and the zombies cannot get to you and build a wall in addition to deter hostile survivors. Would be a lot of work though.
Treadmill factory.
Holy cow. It's perfect...
Holy Zombie on a treadmill...
My "plan" ( did this for an emergency management course) is this:
Use the Grand Strand SC area and the IntraCoastal waterway and it's bridges as a natural barrier with mandmade enhancements. First demo all but two bridges leading into the Grand Strand. Then use the numerous amounts of construction equipment to build two redoubts on both sides of he leftover bridges to defend from people and zombies. Having the full Grand Steand would provide amble land for farming, fishing, power and water generation, amble living space with hotels in area.
This exactly, except I'd use Pawleys Island with its two causeways and its small bridges. You could cultivate the land, fish in the creek and ocean and use cisterns for water.
Low tide zombies and people could potential cross at the inlets and across the marsh mud. Also high tide and king tide have been wrecking havoc there. By using the entire Grand Strand you get Pawleys and the Garden City Neck as fallbacks and the ports in Murrells Inlet and Little River.
Walking Dead zombies sure seemed to float and attack real well in this latest episode when Rick was trying to get to the canoe so maybe technically they cant swim but they dont seem to sink either. I think I would prefer to find what was once a sparsely populated island, exterminate the zombie population, stockpile weapons, find the most defensible structure on the island and continuously improve it. If the island came with anti ship cannons and ammo all the better.
I mentioned the Airport because it already has some built in measures of security and defense, and if you operated in a secluded set of buildings with long lines of sight due to runways and open clear ground it gives you better response ability to approaching humans. For the zombies, come up with some ingenious use of the conveyor belt systems in airports to attract and dismantle them.
No way Zombies are hitting those. I will just have to make sure that drinking is confined to the treehouse.
Seems like a great idea.
I guess then you'll be distilling sap.
Rural Midwest would work too. Not much population and great visibility would be benefits. In the book World War Z that was one of the strategies/keys to turning the momentum of the outbreak. The book is better than the movie by the way, and not in the "books are always better" sense, but it's a bunch of interviews from around the world with people that had varying degrees of success.
I am STILL pissed we didn't get an HBO series, with each episode being a different interview subject. Then over the course of the season, the story slowly comes together.
That would have been perfect way to do it
I'm not much of a book reader, so I never made it all the way through it, but the first half I did make it through was unreal. It felt like I was living those stories.
The book is so much better than the movie. In fact, the author of the book recommended people stay away from the movie.
Since i'm already tainted by the show, i'm going to have to read this after the series is over.
Skyline drive would work. Zombies wouldn't wander uphill, no population on top, big meadows provide room for crops, high ground against humans but roads that can take you out to scavenge. Also, built in living quarters at the lodges with generators.
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Gotta take out the big guy first. Seduce him just right. Wait...
The steam tunnels.
I got dibs:
I've always thought you could make slusher pretty self sufficient if it was just you or you and a couple other people. Throw all the dorm furniture down all the stairwells essentially clogging the first three or four floors. Stick all the other rooms with any canned food you can pillage from the dining halls. Rooftop garden and zip line to Burruss for an emergency escape. Water may be the only issue I can think of
Rig up water collection like they used to have in a lot of cities on the roof and a sand filtration system powered by a solar generator. Bingo bango
South Dakota in the winter. They'd literally fucking freeze to a stand still.
- guy getting -30 to -40 wind chill and snow this weekend.
F**k everything.
I thought the same thing about here in Russia. All you have to do is survive until winter. After that, the zombie apocalypse would be over. Not even a zombie could survive being outside during the winters here.
Got two words for you: Dead Snow
I was in Sioux Falls sometime in the early spring of last year and I'm very glad the weather was mild because I would not have been ready for that nonsense.
ill start at walmart super distro center, like the one off 460 first ... then go from there.
The problem is that an obvious place like that is going to be overrun by people, and therefore zombies, immediately.
Head on down to the Winchester, grab a pint, and wait for the whole thing to blow over. How's that for a slice of fried gold?
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Can zombies swim? If not,
Then all you have to do is fend off pirates.
And possibly zombie pirates.
And find fresh food and water.
Maybe head for a place in the Caribbean and find somewhere where the zombies haven't found yet. Or my boat could be like an Army aircraft carrier - they carry shit tons of gear, food, water, etc.
That being said - let's say I was at sea and a zombie did come out - if a shark attacked the zombie because sharks would be drawn to the blood in the water from said zombie, would the shark become a shark zombie?
BRUH
I.....I think you just laid out the plot for the next Sharknado movie.
Would a zombie shark behave differently than a regular shark?
I suppose it would turn you into a zombie if it bit you.
Fishing with Sam Rogers
I have a friend that was in the Marine Corps, and another who was a Green Beret.
Step 1 of my plan: find them
Step 2: Profit.
From where I currently live? I head to the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
There are enough firearms, 4 wheelers, and walmarts to keep us going out there for a long, long time.
I would probably convince a bunch of dumbasses that I knew the cure, lead them on a wild goose chase, buddy up with a smarter group, admit I was lying, watch a couple of them get killed, and continue living my pointless life as someone who the others seem to only keep around because they need me for mild comedic relief in an otherwise bleak existence.
All of a sudden, I feel like I've actually watched the last few seasons. Thanks for the TLDR.
I have a serious love/hate relationship with this show. I tell myself I'll stop watching at the end of each half-season, only to get pulled back in by spoilers after skipping the first two or three episodes
I bet you've got some sweet hair.
I also enjoy watching.........
Just change the channel...POOF...crisis averted.
Anywhere - zombies are no threat. They're just like people, but worse in every way (no tools, unable to work doors, tripping on every curb, no planning, etc). Furthermore, you can never get the critical mass for them to overcome us, because for a zombie to make another zombie, they have to attack and defeat a person. It's like if you had to wrestle a bear every time you wanted to screw.
So my zombie survival strategy - stick around other people, and we'll kill the crap out of any zombies, because that's what people do. Kill stuff. Very well.
Walking Dead zombies, for sure. But too be fair, in WD, its only necessary that someone die, not that a zombie kill them, so that would make things a little more interesting. Although World War Z (the awesome book, not the butchered movie) does a fairly plausible job of explaining how the slow shambling type could achieve crit. mass. Mostly through its social/political satire and people not simply being able to believe when something bad is happening regardless of the evidence presented to them.
Now 28 Days later type "zombies", that I could see, although as stated directly in the movie the disease spreads too fast for it to be able to get much further past defined geographical borders. For another great example (and a really really good read) there is a book out there called "The Passage" about a viral apocalypse.
Moral dilemma... do you kill zombies? What if there could be a cure?
Me? Imma slaughter any threat. From the top of my mountain.
Me:
Has vulnerable exhaust ports.
No one wants that.
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I feel like you'd have to find somewhere that meets the following criteria:
-Somewhat secluded to where hoards of zombie's wouldn't stumble their way to you.
-Limited access points, or access to materials for heavy walls.
-On a well and septic system in order for your water resources to last.
-The ability to power your house via solar for power generation without the reliance of scavenging.
-Climate suitable for growing a vast array of crops.
Personally, I'd lean towards the less popular Florida keys or rural Northern California.
yeah, the keys would be great. I'm sure hurricane season is a blast without the benefit of modern weather tracking technology to tell you when to hunker down...
Tough to worry about hurricanes when you're worried about getting eaten by ex-humans but fair point. Come to think of it I don't think the keys have the ability for fresh-water wells so it would be off the list anyways.
Gonna just stay home in Richmond
Baltimore is fourth on that list.
I do not trust it.
Baltimore is regularly in the top fifteen for Murders, why wouldnt they make the top five for surviving zombies then? Open license to kill combined with one of the highest concentrations of firearms (legal or illegal) in the country seems to me Baltimore would have a high probability of surviving zombies, Surviving each other on the other hand, that one is still in doubt. If you look at their scores, Defense is their highest ranking and the third highest on that list.
Way too much population density north of Richmond all the way to Boston. The beards would overwhelm you.
Having a lot of guns that are pointing at each other does not make a strong defense.
They might go back to pointing at each other after while, but having an available target population would band them together initially. Baltimoreans are strange in that regard. Also see National Bohemian beer, Old Bay flavored cheese curls, etc.
I mean, I live in Baltimore. My life is covered in a dusting of Old Bay and I shower in Natty Boh.
My wife and I have discussed this before (we are avid WD fans).
First we would grab the dog and stop at the Dicks Sporting Goods near our apartment, which is convienently connected to a SuperTarget, where we would load up as much stuff as we could into my truck. Then we would go down to her parents house and load up some of their stuff and caravan the next hour down to her grandmas place.
Her mom is one of 10 children, and 7 of the others still live on her grandmas 220 acre farm in the middle of nowhere in SW Va. they are avid hunters and one of the uncles is a game warden, so we would have all the ammo and weapons we need, and the family raises cattle, pigs, goats, and horses, and grows corn and hay and have several apple and pear trees.
Speaking of SW VA, Burke's garden would be a hell of a place to weather a zombie apocalypse. 3 or 4 springs gushing enough water to feed some large springs, about 10,000 acres of growing land and a good bit of wildlife to hunt. Only two roads come in and both are fairly imposing and easy to defend. My brother-in-law's family used to own a very well armed farm up there and his grandfather put in an airstrip and would fly down there on occasion so you could have an emergency exit if necessary. Only real problem is surviving winters and initially supplying your outpost.
Seems to be a third access point in the top right of your circle on Round Mountain Road. Better plan for a third checkpoint. Especially since at the end of Round Mountain Road as well as Burkes Garden Rd(there appear to be two roads with this name that dont connect)/Railroad Trail is a quick access point to Interstate 77. I would likely do a huge cratering charge where those two roads come together so that someone would be forced to build a bridge to come in that way.
I would probably also scout the ends of West End Rd and Spring Station Rd to make sure no one has made any driveable trails between the ends of those roads and other nearby roads. Spring Station to Beartown Rd. West End Rd to Poor Valley Rd.
Otherwise you are right, its a pretty locked in piece of property.
Not really a fan of TWD. I wanted to like it, really I did, and I gave it 3 seasons worth of Netflix binging but I just couldn't get into it for some reason.
That said, short term I'm finding a tank, preferably a British one (this doesn't actually need to be plausible right?). Screw the main gun ammunition, stock it up with MREs (hence the British preference, I want that boiling vessel on the interior). I suppose fuel could be a problem but meh live free, die young, right?
One of the islands in Oregon Inlet. Plentiful food sources, generally mild climate, enough space for gardens, currents too stiff for swimming zombies (if such a thing as a swimming zombie exists).
I'd have to say that I am pretty much screwed. Traffic in NOVA is bad on a good day, throw in Zombies and I am living off of Mac and Cheese until my jetboil runs out. I have no firearms, have rudimentary building skills, can't McGuyver any electronics or solar panels.
I would just try to protect my family as best I could. Use the resources we have to try to flee the suburbs, maybe head West to some open area and trade my knowledge of VT football and recruiting rumors for food and shelter.
I'm essentially dying in the second season. Can probably outwit, outlast, and outlive the initial wave, but run out of utility and quickly become a burden.
Note to self: become more useful.
Traffic would likely be improved as last I checked, Zombies cant drive. Lot less cars on the road that way.
Here in Maryland, they issue them driver's licenses. Explains a lot.
Their standards aren't high. In theory, you're supposed to have a pulse, but that's more of a guideline than a rule.
Your best bet might be a baseball bat with some barbed wire. If you name it after the love of your life that the zombies took, it gives it more killing power.
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Ha ha ha. Nice try ISIS. You're not getting my prepping plans!!!
BTW, I really love this discussion. Back before TWD blew up, i was really into zombie stuff. I'd recommend that everyone read Max Brooks Zombie Survival Guide and, of course, World War Z (a million times better than the movie).
Also, watch Doomsday Preppers.
I have come to grips with the fact that World War Z in book form would have been nearly impossible to film as a 2 hour movie. The narrative structure just doesn't lend well to a movie, frankly because I don't think audiences would have the attention span to keep all the different intertwined plot points together (which, ironically, is one of the satirical targets in the book)
Now as a TV show it could have been excellent. Was kind of hoping Fear the Walking Dead would have gone that direction, but alas.
Would've been perfect for a Netflix series
Too much work... bridge demo and construction equipment?
I got a lot of scores to settle. I'd just assume be a zombie and eat some motherfuckers that need to be eaten.
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Virginia Tech campus as secure and large enough to support large numbers of survivors.
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