The Zombie Survival Thread
 

This is an extension of the other zombie thread, only way more than what weapon you would use.

Assuming that, right this very second, a small zombie outbreak occured about an hour from where you live. You hear it, literally, right this second, without warning. What do you do?

In my story, i'm going to pretend that I don't have parents or grandparents because they would just make me go to a shelter or something and become a buffet.

*Anyways: The first thing I would do is grab my keys and speed off, with nothing else, not even shoes, just get the hell out before everyone on the planet realizes what happened. I drive to lowes hardware, and literally steal everything there, or... if I have my dad's credit card, buy it... unless it's easy to steal or something, whatever. Either way, I FILL the car to the rim with supplies. Then I go to the gas station, and buy as many tubs of gas that the car can hold in the storage hidden compartment, tied to the roof, etc. Then I go to the grocery store and buy canned food and water, lots of it. ***At lowes, I would get lots of wood, nails and hammers, a small chainsaw, 2 generators, (screwdriver and other odds and ends tools), White, red, and yellow paint, repair kits, etc, a nail gun, all that stuff.

I buy about 5 machetes, 5 small hand axes/hatchets, 2 or 3 larger axes (fire escape style), a ladder, throwing knives (assuming I can find them of course :rolleyes: ) and other weaponry.

I then return home and park THAT car in the garage, leaving it full of stuff. I then take the OTHER car and go straight back out, no stopping or anything. I go to the nearest gun/ weaponry store, and buy/ steal 4 pistols, 2 or 3 with silencers, and a .44 magnum or something, a 12 gauge shot gun, maybe 2? A semi automatic rifle, assuming they sell them, (I don't know what all is legal and stuff, just assuming) A rifle, a powerful crossbow, hunting rifle, etc, and tons of shells/ shots/ bolts for each of them. Then I buy necessary cleaning/ repairs kits for them, then I leave. If there's a problem with me buying that stuff at age 17, which there 99.999% would be, then I would do SOMETHING, steal it most likely, although stealing from a GUN store is probably the dumbest idea ever, but I would get my hands on them. ***Also a small pocket gun, the kind people have for self defense a lot now, to keep holstered to my ankle or something.

I then, if time and traffic permits, go buy some more water and food, to be at the max at home, then run to target and buy board games, dvds, cds, etc, for entertainment, since it is necessary. I would try to find a treadmill or exercise bike to keep in good shape, then run back to the gas station, and grabs 6 or 7 more barrels of it. Then I go to the pharmacy, and buy a lot of medecine and essentials like tylenol, vitamins, eye drops, chap stick, basic stuff like that, as well as odds and ends like toilet paper (for 'no shit' ((lol)) reasons) and water purifiers. (one for faucets and the tablets that purify too). I'd buy candy of course, just... cause. I'd run by kohls (this is assuming that there's safety time remaining, and that there is no panic outbreaking yet of course) and buy clothes. Lot's of work jeans and long sleeve shirts, fashion being unimportant since the world is about to end, and boots/ running shoes/ etc.


If I left anything out and I remember i'll edit it and put *********** next to it, just in case anyone cares :) .

I then return home, grab my dog, and put her upstairs, and hopefully find my cat and do the same, and put them in the guest room and close the door. I then run rampantly around outside picking up ANYTHING. The garden hose, maybe to try and gather rainwater with it somehow later, the spare firewood, the only can of gas by the lawnmower, the push lawnmower just in case, then store those things on the main floor of my house. **note, while I was out, i'd have picked up some cement, quick drying, to barricade the sensitive doors**

I then get the small chainsaw and saw my longer back stairs down, and take the wood inside. I do this for the other smaller back stairs too. (we have a screen porch with 2 doors, one to the garage and one to the backyard) I then take anything useful from the porch inside. Next I make sure both cars are in the garage, and unload everything, most of the stuff to the upstairs. I then board up the screen porch, but not as heavily as other places of course. I coat the 2 back doors with cement, all up and down the door too, so they won't be able to break it down easily. I board the screen windows that are reachable by man (about 4 or 5 out of 10.) I then lock the main back door, which has windows. I line it with cement on the rim of it, and across the windows in a * shape. I then board it up heavily. I go out to the front door, move the brick stairs that can be pushed, then repeat the cement and board process. I close the garage doors, get everything together, turn on the bathtub and all sinks to fill them with water just in case the line gets cut, then go to the basement, block all doors and windows, take the tools down there upstairs, yeah. I basically seal the entire basement, including the door to it from upstairs. Then I ration the food, lay everything out accordingly, yadayadayada, and cover the upstairs windows with blankets as makeshift curtains. I open the attic passageway ladder, and leave it down. I climb on the roof and paint "ALIVE INSIDE" on it in white paint. I get on here and say " whoa it happened! HDC PARTY!" I board all the downstairs windows, (you get the gyst, fortress, completely) I, assuming nothing (doubt it) was left out, kick back and relax. I'd definently invite my best friends to come and make a safegroup with me, if they bring extra food and supplies. I get everything electric charged up just in case power is cut or something, then relax. I would always be quiet, especially at night, basic stuff. That's the new life!:D

so you think the gas fumes will kill you before you fire the firt shot from the high powered rife that will throw you back through one of the windows. and how do you cover a door with cement? then you will be deaf when you start using guns in doors forgot the ear protection and you need some women up there man got to get the freak on while battling zombies maybe Ada Wong can come

I didn't ask for your criticism. Random gas fumes, out of nowhere? Right, that ALWAYS happens. I've shot the rifle i'm thinking of, and I didn't fly out any windows. Plus, why would I shoot AWAY from a window? If there was a zombie behind me while facing one i'd use a hand gun. You can coat anything with cement, it isn't hard. Try it with your throat lining soon please. Ear protection? What you think I was going to mention every single small item I would have? No. Women? I said i would call my friends over. No, sex is not as important to me as survival.

http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/zombiesurvivalguide/

Has anyone here NOT read this yet? If not, buy it, it could be the difference between life and death:eek:

My 9 year-old has even gone cover-to-cover through it.

Yes! I own it, it's very entertaining. I like the lists of supplies it gives you, very useful.

now if I could just get my hands on a Shaolin Spade:D

Haha! Now, if we're ever in zombie combat and you see me with one of those, PLEASE, by ANY means, KILL me before I slash my own arm off, because it would be inevitable!

you said you were going to put the gas in the house
and the gun would have enough kick to knock you from one side of the house to the other
and if they were an hour away you couldn't do all that stuff and 2 gemeraters won't fit in the car it needs logic don't you see just trying to help you.

Great book. Any zombie fan should consider it a "must own" or at the very least, a "must read".

-Raises hand- I haven't...:(

Mmm, Posher, I think that by the time you would have done everything on your list, everyone in your neighborhood would be a zombie and waiting for your sorry ass to get back home ;)

I haven't read it but I just ordered it, has anyone read World War Z by the same author ?

i almost picked it up in hard cover but thought i would wait for the paperback..i got a good review on NPR

Yeah, it's entertaining, but not as much fun as the survival guide. It's going to be a HUGE budget film. Brad Pitt bought the rights to it before it was available in stores.

I'm waiting for paperback too, but looking forward to it. Hey Rod, any word on anyone making an adaptation of Zombie Survival Guide?

I read that in fangoria right around the time it was released, but haven't heard anything else on it.

if one of them looked like a clown i would hide under the bed, otherwise i would dig holes and set mines all over the woods by me and blow them up and put there heads on sticks or hang them from trees with there guts hanging out

Oh mines, yeah, from Wal-Mart right?

I really would like to design a zombie proof fortress to spend the apocalypse in. **Despare, you're number 1 on the invite list, commander! Bwahaha.

It would be awesome if we pulled it off. And I suppose I could handle living with 10 or 15 SELECT members from here, coooool.

I don't know how easy it would be to sustain such a big group. The BEST thing to do if you had groups that big would probably be to break into small cells of no more than 4 and keep yourselves distanced enough but conncted and in constant communication. I suppose with the fortress you have in mind the numbers wouldn't be bad but there would have to be more supply runs.

Probably, but this is assumed over about a year of preparation. The year itself would be much harder than life when it's done. defending the territory, etc.

The location I would like is probably a beach or cliffs over the ocean, so you would have to defend only one side. Plus, cliffs could have makeshift elevators out of rope, etc, and beaches would have boat escapes if the disaster ever became unbearable.

Food? I think we'd manage. By the ocean we could fish a lot obviously, and... Can salt water be purified into drinking water? That's probably a stupid question, but i'm not sure. Defense would be easy too, i'll describe it after this topic's done.

Yes, salt water can be turned into drinking water but in quantities it would be questionable.

http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/graphic...ionprocess.gif

Ok, I see. Well, rainwater of course. By the ocean that isn't too difficult usually.

Snipers, electricity, and cleverly constructed walls and forts would be the defense mainly. For example, the main gate would be about 20 feet concave with the walls, so shooting zombies close to it would be extremely easy.

It would be easy to gather materials for solar power as well, not only that but generators and possible turbines controlled by wind or water too.

Great ideas! Wind and solar by the ocean is PERFECT. I like bike powered generators too, good way to stay fit and gain power.

soon every thing will be solar powered (more like 20 years or so)

Not everything no. There's tons of natural ways that are very effective, like wind turbines, mentioned above. Hydro electric could work in this situation too.

Um...they'll come out of the oceans too. No need for air, they'll walk along the bottom of the sea.

There is no surviving. That's why the zombie Armageddon is so scary. Death will win, it's winning right now, we are all the walking dead...every microsecond is a step toward your inevitable doom.

Of course we'll have to try to survive, it's hard wired into us. But there can be no victory over death.

Comforting, isn't it.

Yes this is true, it showed this in Zombi 2, and Land of the Dead.
You just crushed my hopes and dreams of defeating zombies! You sonofab! Way to ruin this thread ROD! :D

Edit:

My Zombie Surival Guide:

If an outbreak were to happen right now, I would take the gun I own with me get in my truck and fill it up, and fill my extra gas cans up. I would my closest friends, mom, and fiance, and tell them to get to my house. Have my friends swing by the store to get food, and beverages. I would then swing by the gun store and pick up more weapons and ammo. When I got home I would back the truck up as close to the roof of my porch as I could. I don’t think I would have the time to make a fort.

Some tools to gather up that are in the basement, air compressor, nail gun, drill, axe, nails, crow bar, a gas colemens(sp) grill(too cook) .

Since I have plywood, 2x4’s at the house already, I would start to board up the windows on the bottom the floor, and finish the door when the last person came through. I then would have everyone work together to move all of the furniture against the windows, and doors. I would leave the windows on the top floor open as that is easy access to shoot out of and escape to the truck if needed. After this is all done, I would have everybody move upstairs and I then would block off the stair case by building a wall with the 2x4’s and plywood. Hopefully with the weapons that we have, food and beverages, we could stop them, if not and I know I’m going down, taking a gun and inserting it into my mouth.

*wonders what renob would do*

that was my favorit part of the movie when they walked across the bottom of the ocean

just watch that the water doesn't get contaminated with zombie life. you eat the fish you may be a zombie too, because you know the stupid zombies will try and cross that dam and fall in either from you shooting them or just falling in from lack of balance.

yeah right you want to risk it. But if you are cooking the fish i think that might be ok.

oh so that might work out for you then

Yeah cause I eat raw fish when I have the ability to cook them just for fun ALL the time :rolleyes:


Xperiment- multiple guns= variety, and I like variety.

ok posher we will cook the fish



i like the gun idea but how to get them can't take from the store unless they are closed but most have a roll down door maybe take from the nieghbors house they won't be needing them anyway they are zombie chow

he was writing about robbing a gun store in the beginning get his chest blown out most likely

posher says ..."i am not going to rob a gun store i know i will be killed.... gosh
i will find a way to get them ..eye of the tiger eye of the tiger"

The ones who criticize are always the first to go.

Don't forget the funny guys to! for some reason they are always the firsts as well!

so are all the bad ones!!! the guy who is an ass and treats girls like shit. i love when they get it

The skanks always get it, don't forget skanks!