Being Prepared for a Zombie Attack?

[GrayDragon]

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I live next to a river, within walking distance of a lake, on a well, near an artisan well.

Granted, almost all zombie flicks chronicle the tale of disparate survivors banding together to embody all that's good about humanity -- with the occasional self-serving jerk who ultimately gets killed, of course, serving to warn us against being selfish -- but frankly, I find that scenario HIGHLY unlikely.. I tend to think a carload of people might just show up at my door if they see smoke from a woodstove or a nice garden in full production, and they might not be interested in sharing so much as TAKING.

It may be necessary to turn them away for lack of supplies and accomodations, but what if they won't take no for an answer....do you start killing survivors who won't leave you alone? Do you camoflouge everything and hide the gardens to make it look like nobody lives there? Do you set up perimeters and just start sniping anything that crosses the line?

Might end up with a scenario more out of The Stand rather than out of a zombie flick.

Though I'm confident we will be smarter than those folks. I mean, come on? Boulder Colorado and Las Vegas, Nevada? How about some place that has fresh water, doesn't have to difficult rocky terrain, and has fertile, arable landscape?


I wouldn't turn folks away for lack of supplies and accomodations. I'd go raid the local Cabela's and Menards, hand them a shovel, a tent, and a sleeping bag and point them towards a non-tilled area. I would turn them away for violence and laziness. This bit o' land has only one room for a lazy individual prone to violence, and I was here first.​

 

[GrayDragon]

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But I already have a cabana boy.

 

[cmjust0]

If we're talking about "I am Legend"-esque vampire/zombie crosses that can't go out in the daylight, then yeah...raid that Cabela's for all it's worth at high noon -- just watch the dark corners..

If they're daylight-tolerant, though, would you risk getting mauled or eaten to get supplies?

Speaking of "I am Legend," the protagonist was a doctor, which would be SUPER handy.. I know lots of us have guns and ammo and water and room to garden and raise animals and whatnot, but how about medicine and the know-how to use it?

We've got a pretty good medicine cabinet with a lot of different animal meds, and I think most all would work perfectly well on humans in a pinch.. A bag of terramycin powder isn't exactly gonna get you by, though....so do you raid a Walgreens, too, if you don't have many meds? Would you know what to grab and what to leave? Would you know how to use it once you had it?

And, hey...if you had the ability to raid a Cabela's, wouldn't you also have the ability to raid a Wal-Mart and save yourself the trouble and risk of relying on your own food animals and gardens?

I hardly think I'd care much whether I was drinking organic goats' milk or fricken powdered milk if there are fricken ZOMBIES on the loose.. That's all I'd need....you're merrily milking your goat and in walks a zombie.

Super.

Now I gotta slay this zombie, wash my hands, probably toss the milk and bleach some zombie blood out of the bucket........

 

[LarryPQ]

I hardly think I'd care much whether I was drinking organic goats' milk or fricken powdered milk if there are fricken ZOMBIES on the loose.. That's all I'd need....you're merrily milking your goat and in walks a zombie.

EVERYONE knows goats are the natural enemy of the Zombie.

You should always have a goat around to sound the alarm. They can totally smell them a mile off. They make this little "meep meep bmaah" sound. Very reliable.

Duh.​

 

[foweler]

.do you start killing survivors who won't leave you alone?

What would you rather eat.. zombies or survivors?


I'm just sayin.... cause I'm not eating the chickens!​

 

[GrayDragon]

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Quick death versus death from exposure for myself and my family?

But that's why you should do it early on, before the infestation gets too bad. And make a garlic necklace.

I'd also wear my brigandine.

Would you know what to grab and what to leave? Would you know how to use it once you had it?

I've got aspirin, band-aids, whiskey, duct-tape, and WD40. What else do I need?

We've got a pretty good medicine cabinet with a lot of different animal meds, and I think most all would work perfectly well on humans in a pinch..

I'm actually a fair herbalist, and would supplement heavily with those in a pinch.

And, hey...if you had the ability to raid a Cabela's, wouldn't you also have the ability to raid a Wal-Mart and save yourself the trouble and risk of relying on your own food animals and gardens?

Probably. But you'd run out of fresh food pretty fast that way, and shovels are reusable while a can of corned beef isn't.

I would raid walmart for clothes and the like. Probably hit JoAnns fabric counter too at some point.​

 

[Boyd]

Raiding a grocery store and loading up my 15 passenger van would be priority one as soon as it's safe. Then I'd liberate as much ammo from every wal mart, police station as I could....... Then if the government fails, I know of many ammo dumps within an hours drive from my house. It's easy to envision me loading the van with 6-8 people all heavily armed with plywood reinforced windows with slots to shoot out of. Lock the doors, push any stragglers out of the way with the heavy duty brush guard and drive right through those big beautiful glass doors till you are close to what you need.

As far as survivors go........... It wouldn't be hard to setup a large stronghold for survivors. The basics? Everyone works for the greater good. The young, sick and elderly would be put to work doing whatever they were capable of doing, mending clothes, cleaning fixing weapons, and of course teaching the younger generation. Those in fighting age and condition would post guard at night, be in charge of foraging and sweep the grounds for any intruders. It'd be easy to use basic alarm systems since I'm assuming the power is off so any sort of noise making device.

As far as medical care goes, I'd also be raiding the pharmacies for antibiotics and any painkillers I could find. I'd also go through their booze department and liberate as much as I could stagger out with.

I probably have a WWII understanding of medicine, being I can't run an x ray machine or know how to process the film, but basic illnesses I do know what meds to use. I can set bones and I can cast them, but what scares the crap out of me is dental care. You know how bad it hurts when you have a rotten tooth? WWII methods out the window here, you give them a few shots of 'shine and get a pair of pliers.......

Shudders

Then you have a staggered watch. I liked the setup in 28 days later at the compound, but I like the one they had in zombie diaries much better. The survivors utilized an old water tower with one entrance, one exit and no way for the deadheads to get inside.

 

[BoiseBubba]

Well, it's quiet simple to get rid of a zombie infestation, 1: dig 3 moats, fill first with gasoline, put a fuse running from the inside of the house ( which has cement road blocks and all doors and windows boarded, turned into a bunker)and blow the first wave to bits, for the second moat, take sharpened sticks and sharp fragments of metal and drive them into the ground, so the zombies fall in and, well, you know. for the third moat, put boiling tar in it and keep it boiling, that will weaken their ranks, and then sit in the house with ak-47s and machine guns and grenades and take out as many as possible through your peep/ shooting holes in the house, then when you run to your reinforced concrete bunker in the basement ( its stuffed with food and water) and ou blow up the entire house ( which was loaded with dynamite, C-4, gunpowder, and other explosives, destroy the remains of the zombies.

 

[redhen]

Hurry up and write it, Boyd! I want to read it..

 

[cmjust0]

See, I don't think I'd feel compelled to be around other people in a situation like that. Then again, I don't feel compelled to be around other people now, so...not really that surprising.

Put it this way.....if the world suddenly became infested with zombies and society collapsed, the last thing I'd want to do is go and create a whole new society.

Talk about looking a gift horse in the mouth.....