New Zombie Survival Plan: Be wherever Default Prophet is at.
I wouldn’t plan on packing my complete armament everywhere at all times. If I needed to be extra stealthy I’d pack my glock and my bow, if I was going out for the day, I’d bring the .22 and my sidearm. I can’t believe you don’t see a place for a shotgun in a world filled with zombies. It’s not the first one I’d grab, but it’s definitely in the top 10 (maybe top 5) for armaments.
Forklift may get easily stuck, or surrounded? I’m not sure you’re really seeing the same forklift I’m seeing. I’m thinking like mini Killdozer. A couple more benefits to the forklift. Forklifts generally outweight most cars, they’re very dense vehicles. I doubt I’d have much problem with running down half rotten corpses. The engines are all really simple, they work more like generators than engines, so they’re easy to service. Most advanced engine we have at work still uses a throttle body, so there’s very little computery stuff to deal with. They’re also built to drive around with way more weight than they have, so you can really bulk up the armour. The tires are solid rubber, so you don’t have to worry about blowing a bead, or getting a nail in them. They’re just all around a rugged vehicle, built to be abused. Is there an alternative I should look at?
I personally have food and supplies in good stock for myself. Everyone else can fend for themselves. I wouldn’t need to bother securing other peoples perishable food, plus, by the time all the looters and hysterical people are gone, any perishable food has already perished (especially because I doubt refridgerators and freezers are all without power. The smell of death and decay will be everywhere. The amount of blood and death in the streets will be much smellier than dead bodies behind locked doors in the apartments. I’ve already figured out how I can shut off the gas to the building from outside so first chance I get, I’ll be doing that.
All this is contingent on the apartment surviving. In the event someone burns down this apartment, I have to make a 3 block run over to my brother’s house, and operations will resume from there. The house is also well stocked with supplies and non perishable food. Like I said, I live in an earthquake zone, and so we’re constantly prepped for that (admittedly more likely) disaster. House I feel is a more likely target for looters/bandits, because the apartments I live in are ghetto, whereas the neighbourhood the house is in is fancy, so there’s more shiny stuff to steal.
I think Forklift I think that. No ground clearance small tires, etc. I’d just be worried about getting stuck on terrain or what if there’s something in the road you can’t lift? Like a big rig or something, probably don’t want to go around into the dirt with a fork lift.
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Shotguns have one purpose and one purpose only in a zombie apocalypse: Opening doors with breaching rounds. That’s it.
I dunno I still think just locking your door and hoping for the best is fool hardy at best, straight up asking to die at worst. Shutting gas off to the building from the outside is a good plan but it shuts of gas to you too. And you’re gonna want that as long as you can have it before infrastructure breaks down and you’re fully off the grid. If I lived in an apartment building my immediate actions would be to secure the lobby and then the stairs/elevators. Then sweep the place.
I do live in an apartment building and I have to tell you right now–come the zombie apocalypse I am getting the frak out of here. Beyond the whole “hellish warren tiny rooms to clear, blind corners and thousands of places for the undead to lurk” problem of a large apartment building, the simple population density of cities is a problem. Pretty much the only time in my life I plan to head for the suburbs is during the zombie apocalypse.
That smaller Clark forklift is closer to what I’m talking about. You’d be amazed at how manoeuverable, and rugged they are. I drive them a good 6 hours a day. They can weave through the streets like a motor cycle, they’re able to lift about 5000 lbs, a bit more probably once I load it up with some armour. They would probably get stuck on anything but solid ground, but as long as they’re on pavement they’re unstoppable. You should see me clear the parking lot in the winter, when all the delivery vans get stuck spinning tires on ice, I have to go out and shunt them around. I’ve basically already done this, minus shambling hordes. That big forklift looks like it’d be awesome, but they’re super slow, not nearly as manoeuverable, less so than a standard car for sure, and they consume way more fuel.
I also imagine that because a forklift can basically spin 360 degrees on the spot, if you were to get into a situation, you would just spin circles with some flails attached to the back end and break everything coming towards you.
And now advice from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) on how to survive a zombie apocalypse…and other disasters, heh.
Zombie proof house…originally Tweeted by TheAaronDouglas:
http://all-that-is-interesting.com/post/4956385434/the-first-zombie-proof-house
Would work a lot better than the plan I would probably be following: Mooch off my friends for a while, then have a little cry.
Yeah, it beats my choice of pub to hide out in too.