There are two types of people. Those who have Zombie plans and fodder for the coming evil.


I would like some opinions on your own zombie plans.

I've been ready for the zoombies since 02. I've got bear-*cough* i mean zoombie traps set up in the woods around my house, a plethora of firearms (and human arms for that matter(in case i need bait)) stockpiled in the attic, and a bomb-*cough cough* s'cuse me, i mean zoombie shelter thats packed with enough provisions to support me and my great, great, great, great grandchildren. I've also trained some platypusses that inhabit the creek behind my house to kill zoombies on sight.

*rubs hands in anticipation*

I like him. Hes silly.

My plan is to hid in a school. No one likes schoo and after its been raided of food Ill slip in. Modify a school bus. And bingo. Zombie killing machine.

Leik dood, thats ingenious. If I was i zoombie i wouldn't want to gehe in die Schule.

I have so many strategies that I'm actually writing a journal on ways to prepare (Zombies for Dopes b/c everything else was taken). My first line of defense, if I'm given days in advance to set everything up would be a base in an old grocery store called Lunardis that closed down a couple months ago. I'm sure it was built with defense in mind, because the shelves could be used to barricade the front door and the other entrance has a stairwell and an elevator, blow out the stairs and the zombies can't reach us. However we can use the lockable elevator to get people in and out, all we need are weapons and training.

Wow, you've actually put thought into this.

*is impressed*

wouldnt the elevator just release u into the zombies at the bottom of the stairs if u got the power for it to run

Personally I'm hidin out in a tech school Lots 0f potential weopens and bomb material plus food that most people wouldnt think of and rush to

I'm hiding on some roof top with a barrett 50 cal, a lawn chair, an ipod, and my friends with a big truck with lots of lights to lead them that school

Me and my buddy Andy will gather all the weapons and non-perishables in both our houses (10-15 guns + 1k rounds total, 1 months food for 4 people approx) and head off to an area of empty tundra in Canada we bought. We will have a square bunker-like building with a single entrance. With the exception of a small path to the entrance, the entire boundary will be covered in caltrops which will shred the tendons in the zombies feet, hopefully paralyzing the entire legs of the zombie. We would have no windows in the place, and a raised tower dead center in the building with overlooks over the entire building. Searchlights, cots, etc will be in the tower as an escape area, and all openings will be sealable with noise proof glass in case of a break in in the main building, allowing backup living quarters. Tower access requires climbing a ladder from the roof, and there is a small lift usable only by someone inside the tower already, for supplies etc. Naturally, for the caltrops to be safe from humans, we'd have a small string fence about 2 feet off the ground bearing signs warning them to the path. No blue-prints yet, need to raid our school-drafting class for paper again. If i remember anything or receive questions, ill add more in a reply.

yo thts good. Anyone think Prison. Or maybe that island with the prison on it? That seems pretty solid enough.

Alcatraz? 1930 style prisons are great, high stone walls with barbed wire and searchlight towers. Modern prisons are all about technology. Electric fences, cameras, and sirens. Not as useful, although they will be stocked already. Depends on if they release the prisoners.

The elevator would only be open to use 2-3 times a week and after a vote on whether it is safe to go out (depending on recent zombie activity) and on who will do the deed, since there's only so much people inside can do to save them. This is all very reliant on the fact that once found by a group of zombies, we won't be hounded by them for enough time for their moans to bring on another wave of attacks. The exponential growth would mean an average of 1/4 the area's zombie population out doorstep in 20 minutes, since we would be positioned at a high-population density zone and probably the only zombie food for miles.
Basically, we won't do it if it puts someone's life in danger.

Also, Bloodharp, what is a caltrop? I'll need plenty of those.

Ok so my plan is to be courier for messages between the several surviving towns. these zombies dont stand a chance against our brilliance i mean come.... ohh look at the penny *points to a shiny spot in the distance*

A caltrop is a small steel ball with 4 spikes jutting out of it at different angles so that no matter what way it is tossed on the ground, a spike is pointing straight up. Id make the spikes big enough to make the foot tendons useless, so that its feet wont work enough to stand on them. Also, a good make-shift caltrop is taking 2 long nails, bending them around each other with a heating iron, then sharpening the flat ends.

OUR ECONOMY IS .... look at the kitty

Remember to see if the zombies eat animals or not. Might be useful knowledge.

Resourceful, creative, destructive, Macguyver-esque. Any zombie stumbling into one of those will have a hard time doing any structural damage crawling around on its arms.

On the topic of animals, if the zombies don't eat them, you can make pens for goats/cows/chickens you might find if the zombies aren't interested. Otherwise, people will be forced to live with their livestock. Good news is that is zombies enjoy live animal dinners, you can use a caged and fed dog or cat positioned a couple meters away from your front gate, preferably on an elevated surface (above shoulder height or it's just pointless) as bait to keep the hordes from clawing your barricades down. Warning: Always keep the animal within seeing distance so you can pop a zombie in the head if it's close to catching it's meal, since it's probably someone's pet.

Umm lets say for now they dont. What would you train your pets to do?

Well, animals would naturally be fearful of undead, as they seem to have a weird 6th sense for that kinda thing. Although it may be the sensitivity to air currents and electricity build up in the atmosphere. At the least, a dog might be good for killing them, since they arent smart enough to fight back. But you must not allow the dog to swallow any undead flesh, depending on the strain it may be lethal, or even worse, turning upon consumption. Cats might make good messengers incase of breeches in the building between rooms, or buildings in general. Note attatched to back or somethin.

Fully trained fully equipped attle Chinchillas

Dont you mock me

Wouldnt dream of it. Heres a question: What weaponry would you prefer, how would you get it, and why?

I generally prefer the weaponry I don't have to use, but if i was given a choice, it would be mechanical and otherwise trap weaponry. The kind that when triggered either kills the zombie or severely hinders their attack. Pit falls, electric wire, machetes attached to elastic, things that would be good for one use, but either replaceable or resettable (when the coast is clear). Those kinds of things could be lethal to zombies without there being any humans in the vicinity. No chance of casualties, and no further reason for the zombies to pursue a building which looks completely abandoned. Again, I would only use traps if 1. it's remotely realistic to find the materials, 2. if there is plenty of zero-risk preparation time to position and set the traps, and 3. if what we do have in the way of stealth or conventional weaponry (guns, explosives, melee weapons [knives, hammers, axes and the knowledge to use them]) leaves us with no other option.

I like his aproach. it amuses me. head chopping blades like half life. wondeba. but i have one thought to kee in mind. Blades dont need reloading.

I pretty much live in the middle of no where. So I could probably just stay where I am and fortify my house. I'd start by calling up my friends (all are experienced hunters and two are in the Marine Corp.) to help me hold the fort. We'd then start boarding up the windows, barricading the doors, setting traps, (barbed wire, bear traps, and anything else we can find) getting anything and everything we can use as weapons, and raiding the local mini-marts for food (there are three close to my house). From there we'd just wait it out.

zombies may be in the store and what if your friends are zombies did ya think that

I have only recently begun praparing for Z-Day. I bought an armored ice cream truck with all the ice cream you can eat during the war, I also bought two sawed-off shotguns and ray-ban glasses.

im actually not jokingabout trying to make mutated pets that zombies will think are zombies so if there intrested in normal ya

I was describing a best case scenario. If any of my friends had been infected by the time I got to them, unlikely since we all basically live in the woods, as I said, and as a result it would take some time for any infected to reach us, I would put them out of their misery. As for zombies at the stores, again my home town has a very sparse population. There would be very few zombies at the mini-marts, if any. Clearing them out wouldn't be much of a problem.

actually the stores would have lots of zombies from them being attracted to that area because of a human stech there or somthing i forgot

Areas with Hills are obvious safe spots, also one's with cliffs and or sharp inclines. The undead may have an ulimited supply of energy, but they just plain suck at climbing.

actually there really good at climbing things like pipes and other crap

I was unanimously voted "Most Likely To Survive The Zombie Apocolypse" by my 10th grade geometry class
and I've been prepareing since about two years ago when I inherited my grandfathers old police gear. also, my friends father is a reverend and my other friend is good with explosives, holy water hand grenades anyone?

All the preparation is in my head.
I know off all the stuff around my house how it would be usefull during a zombie attack.
But the question will always be: Will they be the run and jumpy kind of zombies or the shuffle shuffle braaaains kinda zombies.

I prepared for the runny jumpy ones. Always hope for the worst.

and to prepare for evolving ones too you never know if mabe one immune to someting you use lets say fire for an example

It all depends where I am, If I'm at my house I'm gonna grab some weapons and raid a nearby convenience store for food, and batteries for my electronics, head up to my school, which is positioned high atop a hill and lock all the doors and at night, try and get out and rescue as many people as possible. After this is all done, we'd set up a system of patrols to check for sounds at the doors and windows, both of which are break-in-proof anyway. And if our weapons broke, or we couldn't fill a demand for everyone to have a weapon, we'd break table legs and use them as clubs.

According to The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks, one of the best places to go during a serious outbreak is an offshore oil rig, if you can find one. They're nigh on impossible to reach for zombies, unlikely to be looted, and stocked with food. They'll have radios and TVs as well. But of course, they're ideal. Prisons (particularly older ones) and schools aren't bad at all.

Of course, I have a very low survival chance because I can't run for walnuts, and am a total cynic who would never take the threat of a zombie outbreak seriously in a million years. To be frank, it's best to become a zombie early on if you've no other alternative - more brains to eat than later, after all.

I've been reading everyone's replies and I find them hilarious... in a good way of course!

What I'd do:

1) Find a farm up in the mountains because:
A ) Mountains are not always heavily populated because zombies are attracted to people, right?
B ) Farms, when taken care of properly, can yield plenty of food for years.

2) Find books on survival, preserving, and various other texts so that you can make your own weapons after your own aresenal runs out, can your own food, etc. etc.
3) Become a mountain man/woman. (This is essential)
4) Have your own kennel of attack dogs. Rottweilers are good, so are huskies. (They are big enough to bring down their own food.
5) Raid a local Wal-mart or other such "roundabout" store so that you have random essentials such as kerosene lamps.
6) If available, get a book on solar panels, as well as solar panels.
7) Protect your surrounding area with ditches, barbed wire, and good old fashioned stake pits! (They really don't need much maintenece, especially barbed wire!)
8) Raid the local farms for their animals, you'll need the produce.
9) Sit back and enjoy the apocolpse!


I have too much time on my hands

~~Kitty~~

I gotta admit the solar panals are a good idea, altough a good river/waterfall and a wheel is sligthly more reliable (what if the zombies acidentaly blow something up and the ash obscures the sun for days?). Wooded areas are also good for weapons, and infinite supply of lumber for torches, arrows, spears, and clubs.

I have to agree with that, the river/waterfall idea is good too. Let's compromise- do both! LOL. Also, trees are good for the good ol' fashioned stake pits. Oh yea...

First, I'm gathering intelligence on where people plan to hide and how they plan on defending themselves. Second, I'm going to direct my zombie hordes around their pitiful defenses for kicks and giggles.

What?

If there is a zombie apocalypse I will probably be stuck in my home. However, if I can I will try to get to rather well fortified grocery store nearby. It has very few windows and has bars over windows and doors. If I am trapped in my home I will block all ground level doors and windows (most windows are too high for zombies to reach) with furniture, will destroy the stairs, and stay on upper floors. By the way, does anyone know how you destroy the stairs? I'v heard it mentioned but it's never really been explaind. Most staircases are pretty sturdy and explosives would attract too much attention. Any answers?

Yeah, but think. A grocery store is like a hospital or police station, it's going to be full of people, and those people are probably going to be idiots. Stay away from obvious places.

It's a small family grocery store, not a big flashy one like Giant Eagle, so it probably won't attract as much attention.

Regardless, whom ever needs food is going to head there, if it's that small it will probably have been raided already.

I do believe I would stay away from grocery stores, but if I know a zombie apocolypse is coming, I'll just go to a small town- most people there are self-sufficient and might (MIGHT) stay away from the local grocery store. Also, if you read my ideas above, if you are self sufficient for a bit, you won't have to go into town for a bit... long enough for the zombies to move on.

@PhiKnight- Why? You can come stay at my farm, and I'll make you cookies! *Barely tries to hide the bribe behind this*

Explosives like frag grenades or pipe bombs (except sometimes napalm, but that is dangerous stuff) don't always kill the zombies it hits. I'm thinking heavy blunt weapons for defenses, like a wrecking ball harvested off a crane and mounted on a wall or something. Just jerryrig a release system and it's guaranteed to decimate them, seeing as it's momentum would instantly break all the bones in it's body on impact, pick a few up and fling them into the rest. If positioned correctly, it could reduce a horde to a few crippled stragglers. Even if the chain or string breaks mid swing, it'll keep going and wreak havoc as it tumbles down the infested streets (make sure to aim it away from the fortifications, it might blow out a wall and doom everyone), just go and scavenge it after the danger is done.

You know what this made me think about, someone should really make a book about how to survive in the Zombie Apocalypse.

Anyway, my plan is to get out as fast as I can and hop on the first evacuation truck. Ill be doing this while you guys are all fighting off the zombies and I'm relaxing at a Military Base. You have to agree that's the smartest thing to do.

No we don't, how many of those military grade weapons do you know how to clean, maintain, and un-jam, let alone use properly. Also don't you think the people in the surrounding area would have raided and or inhabited it, therefore leading to the same situation as with the grocery store. I'm going where no one would want to because honestly, it's the Zompocalypse, who the hell wants to go to school?