What's Your Zombie Survival Plan

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#1

Oooookkaaay. It’s been forever since I’ve started a new thread and I am waaaay to lazy to look through all the old threads. :oops:

So what is your plan if a zombie outbreak hits? These can be off the wall fun or dead serious like you would really frakkin’ do it.

Mine? It would depend where I am at when it hits. If I’m at school I’d try and get the hell out and load up as much as I can and find a police station or something I guess. If I’m in LA visting family I’m making a break across the desert for the first military base I find. Area 51 here I come!

So have at it guys and girls.

#2

Take off and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

#3

That’s one way. lol

#4

When I can get a gun I plan on taking shooting lessons. I live in the country so I have a bit of space to buffer me. I live next to my inlaws and we have a restaurant on the property so we have food. My plan is to try and hold out the initial wave then work on connecting with survivors.

#5

My girlfriend and I have always said that we’ll hole up at the nearest Cracker Barrel. it has everything:

Food.
Defensible perimeter.
Fireplace.
Plenty of beheadding weapons on the walls.

That last one was the inspiration. After that we just started adding stuff.

#6

There is a Cabella’s a few miles north of where I live and I am heading there first. The second floor is defensible, plus there is a restaurant on the second floor and all the jerky I could ever want. Plus enough guns, bows, and knives to start a small war with.

#7

You and everyone else in a 15 mile radius.

#8

I suppose I’d pop on down to The Winchester Pub for a pint :slight_smile:

#9

The husband and I were talking about this a couple of weeks ago. Our agreed-upon plan is to kill Batman, Christian Bale, and Christopher Eccleston first.

  1. You don’t want zombie Batman. He can come out of anywhere and kill you with anything.
  2. You don’t want zombie Christian Bale. He might think he’s Batman, and then you’re right back at square 1.
  3. We both saw 28 Days Later and Christopher Eccleston was the scariest part of the movie.

After that, my plan is to find a building with rooftop access, live on the top floor with some goats and chickens and plants and weapons, and have a self-sustaining little easily defensible place.

#10

I’m not gonna stay there long but it is incredibly defensible. No windows, the doors have roll down steel security doors, and there is nothing around it for miles. After the initial panic when the majority of the population turns into zombie food I’ll have my posse of hunting enthusiasts loaded up on supplies and guns and ammo and we can head up into the Estrella mountains

#11

Now we bring you THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE…with pancakes! :slight_smile:

But seriously a very good plan.

#12

Oh man, I’ve devoted more time to my survival plan than I’ve ever dedicated to school. I’ll have to break this down into parts, or else I’ll break the server when I hit the reply button.

I live one city over from Vancouver Canada. About a 1 hour drive into the farm land is something special. Canada’s second level 5 lab. The first one is in Winnipeg Manitoba. I have friends from high school who have worked in Canada’s level 5 labs and the stuff they mess with is scary. I’m fairly sure they’re messing around with zombie virus engineering, though they won’t admit it to me. If there is an outbreak, it will likely happen very close to me.

I have a rotating stash of about 4 weeks of food and water, 6 weeks with hard rationing. This is important here anyways because of the earthquake possibility. I also have 4 main weapons. Primary is a Ruger .22 rifle. Sounds lame, but a festering half rotten undead corpse is squishy and doesn’t require much stopping power to get a solid brain melting headshot. .22s are also a very quite weapon. Backup weapons are a Remington 870, and a Glock. These are more for the initial looters, and later for close quarters fighting. I also have a nice compound bow, for when I need things to die quietly.

Escaping the urbanized area and hiding in the mountains sounds appealing, but there’s no way to drive, the roads are jammed with cars, and there’s military checkpoints going up to contain the outbreak. The border to the USA will be closed at first word of the outbreak. Escaping via boat sounds like a good idea as well, except it’s probably the worst idea. The oceans of the world, without a large scale apocalypse, are full of pirates and danger, now with a full collapse of civilization, they’ll be even more dangerous.

Zero Hour, to 7 days, initial outbreak survival:

Lock down the apartment. Door is locked and boarded. I’m on the 3rd floor, escape and entry will happen via rope ladder off the balcony but only if absolutely neccessary in the first week. The initial problems are mass hysteria, looting, rioting, and of course, the initial wave of zombies. I stay quiet, and in my apartment. Hopefully the mess avoids me, if not, I defend my ground. The first week requires intense observation, not only of the new found, and unfamiliar threat of zombies, but the world we live in requires constant attention. Someone dies while cooking bacon? The apartment burns down. If it looks like there’s going to be a fire, I pack what I can and make the 3 block run for my Brother’s house. Hopefully he’s locked it down, if not, I go for the 3rd floor and break the stairs behind me.

After this initial week, the hysteria should be over. The military and police have been exhausted and overrun, leaving the city for dead, the citizens are mostly all turned, and the intial wave of fresh, fast and scary zombies will be mostly festered and now mainly shambling hordes. This is when phase two starts, which I’ll continue in a later post.

#13

This reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend of mine way back in 86, we came to the conclusion that the people best equipped to survive an Alien Invasion were Geeks. Because we were the ones who would first notice the early signs and be prepared because of all the TV and movies we have watched on the subject as well as the books we have read. As well as the in depth arguing and discussing that Geeks always have on such subjects. Admit it, we do… This forum is evidence of said Geek Matchs and discussions.

That said, I believe this would fit in with Zombie Apocalypses as well… Geeks will survive! :smiley:

#14

Week 1 survived, things should be settled down. Phase 2 is building my recovery vehicle, AKA the A-Team phase. Projected timeline is 3 weeks. This is a critical phase as I’ll be running out of food by the end of it, and if it doesn’t work out, I’ll be done at this point.

The apartment will continue to be my safe house. My next target is a custom car shop, it’s about half way between the safe house, and where I used to work. This will be dangerous because of the noise level involved, and the amount of time I’ll have to spend outside of secured compounds and vehicles. First I’ll have to drive to the custom shop and clear the garage. Make it as secure as possible for the work ahead. Next, I have to get to work, and grab one of the forklifts, either by driving the forklift back to the shop, or using one of our beefy flatbed delivery trucks. Once it’s there, I armour plate this thing to a sweet montage with the A Team theme music. Forklift might seem like a funny pick for a vehicle, but it’s perfect for clearing the roadways so I’ll have a quick path to and from the closest mall and grocery store.

Hopefully this will be doable before I run out of supplies. Once I have a clear path, I can make an easy routine of resupplying my safe house. If I happen to find survivors in this time, I’ll help them clear out a unit at the apartment building, and they’ll join me on reconstructing civilization. The next phase will be building my stronghold…

#15

Final Phase: Stronghold.

This last part is pretty straight forward. Now that I have an armoured forklift that’d make BA Baracus proud, It’s just a matter of driving down the highway (I live right off an on-ramp) and collecting those cement blocks they line the road with. I’ll use these to stack up around my apartment complex. Once the perimetre is secure, I’ll do a room to room clear and bingo, stronghold is done. Hopefully I have teamed up with some fellow survivors, and we can start running extra forklifts and supply runs.

As survivors trickle in, we’ll expand our perimetre, set up guards, start farming, then it’s only a matter of time before we rebuild society. Now, after a while, there will be large, nomadic gangs and I have an ace up my sleeve to defend against this. I’ll send out special stealth teams, and using noisemakers we’ll kite the zombies around so their position is advantageous to our use. We should even be able to lure them into attacking bandits as they come to attack our fortress. Aggro managment skills are important in a zombie apocalypse.

Anyways, This is really just the main plan. I have many contingency plans as well, for multiple types of zombies, or if the outbreak happens locally, or off shore, or on the east coast.

#16

Now that your plan is done I have a few critiques: Meh to shotgun. A forklift? Really? And finally you plan to live in an apartment building WITHOUT doing a room to room sweep for weeks at a time? No bueno

#17

Shotgun is handy for the first phase, and for room clearing. It’s not the main armament because it’s short range and loud, but against manic looters it’ll do a better trick than my compound bow, or .22.

Forklift sounds like a crumby vehicle, but its really not. They run for almost a whole day on tank of propane. The tanks are quick to swap, maybe a minute or 2 if you don’t have to run and find one. The tanks are everywhere. Anywhere that has a forklift is probably going to have a week or 2 of fuel, in standardized tanks. They’re useless on anything other than paved roads, but all I plan to use it for is on roadways, to pickup and move cars out of my way, and to move highway blocks. They’re manoueverable, so getting between all the abandoned cars, and debris will be much easier with a forklift. They’re not fast, but you don’t need a fast vehicle to run from shambling hordes.

Doing a room to room clearing of my apartment building isn’t effective or neccessary till a perimetre has been secured. Once my door is sealed, I have no worries about zombies coming into my apartment. If I pick up other survivors, I’ll leave it to them if they want to do a daily sweep of the apartment, but it’d be of little concern of mine. As long as I have my secure work space, I’m not concerned about the other 200 units. I’m betting, based on the type of housing, and the type of tenants, most of them will have run away in the panic, and a handful will be too old to escape. Old people don’t make for the most dangerous zombies; I doubt they’ll even bother trying to go up stairs.

#18

Welcome aboard. Having read that post, I’d say your forum name is appropriate.

#19

Find an easily defensible building, collect ammo, stockpile food, and wait it out. Other people are of course optional in order to slow down zombies if they are chasing you.

#20

I’d rather carry 2 guns and not 3 and a bow personally. It’s all about the short stroke gas piston M4 for me. 5.56 is common, light, accurate, and effective against both zombies and humans. If this was a perfect world I’d have a conversion kit for 9mm that uses Glock magazines to match a Glock 19 sidearm. Also suppressors would be nice but what can you do.

I feel like you’d get surrounded in a fork lift really easily, and it could EASILY get stuck. I’m not a fan of that part of your plan at all despite the pros you listed.

You secure the building right away to A. secure perishable goods, B. get rid of disease/smell from dead bodies and zombies that may be inside, C. To secure a larger area to have it be safe, one apartment is small and boring, and D. probably most important it allows you to turn off stuff to prevent a fire/put out any fires from people leaving stuff on if they died/left/committed suicide. Plus it makes you way safer in the longer run than one room.