Do you have a zombie apocalypse survival plan?

[Vesayen]

You go to sleep tonight very, very tired and wake up 5 days later. You turn on the TV and discover it is the fifth day of a zombie apocalypse, oh noes!

We are talking classic slow zombies, not fast 28 days later zombies.

Most major cities are infected but not anywhere near overrun, it has only been 5 days. Civilization has not collapsed, yet.

What do you do?

Things to consider: Is your home secure? Is it stocked with food? If not, what place nearby is? Are there lots of people(potential zombies!) there?


My apartment has little food and is near many people. It is not possible to secure at all. I live near a major city and a major airport. This is bad. People will be fleeing the cities.

I have two options as I see it.

1. Try to barricade myself in a highrise and hope for the best.

2. Try to flee the region.

I doubt I could get away in the mass migration, I wouldnt make it on foot or a bike and there will be too much traffic to get out by car. Boat and airtravel won't be viable.

By day 5, I doubt most office workers are going to work.

I'll scavenge what food I can quickly and try to find an abandoned office building.

I'll try to barricade the first level and second level and cut it off from the third story by destroying the stairs etc and then scavenge the building for food. I not only want to stop zombies, I want to discourage others from using this hiding place, I want to make it very difficult to get to the third story. Office buildings have vending machines, food in peoples desks etc. If I am lucky I can last for a few weeks.

[DirtyMartini]

Is the zombie-ism airborne, or do you need to be bitten? I'm guessing you need to be bitten. In that case, I'd head for the countryside, assuming that LA or Tokyo or Paris is the epicenter, it would probably take a while to get here and I'd have some time to prepare. I'd find a nice place with good lines of sight a source of fresh water and hope for the best.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

I'd log on to see if internet is still on, and if so check my fav sites to see who is still alive or not... next try to barricade, fill in the bath and available bottles/buckets with water to have something to drink and than learn how to hibernate like a bear to sleep this off..., go to the attic and sleep... in three months it is bound to be better... I have enough reserves as it is... and that be THE opportunity to use them up

[Kuciwalker]

Re: Do you have a zombie apocalypse survival plan?

No, but obviously you didn't either.

[Aeson]

I would look up all the brains recipes I could find on the internet, and publish a compilation of the best of the best. It would be the #1 best seller for the rest of eternity!

[Vesayen]

Originally posted by DirtyMartini
Is the zombie-ism airborne, or do you need to be bitten? I'm guessing you need to be bitten. In that case, I'd head for the countryside, assuming that LA or Tokyo or Paris is the epicenter, it would probably take a while to get here and I'd have some time to prepare. I'd find a nice place with good lines of sight a source of fresh water and hope for the best.

You need to be bitten. Classic movie zombies.

[DaShi]

I guess I'd have to resort to cannibalism for food, if necessary.

[Lancer]

There are a few decent sailboats around where I live and a buddy of mine knows sailing. I'd pack up the family and all the food/water and fishing gear I can get hold of and start heading for the Phils via Hawaii and the Marianas. I think I'd have time for this because it would take time for it to get to Oregon, everything does. Likewise Hawaii and the Marianas should be very delayed in the infection getting there if it arrives at all. By the time we arrive in the Phils the worst would be over and most of the zombies would have started to decompose. Good fertilizer I'd imagine. If they needed more decomposing time I'd head for Australia and the Great Barrier Reef for fishing and hunt Great White sharks in retaliation for the eating of a veteranarian off San Diego.

[Vesayen]

The philipines is pretty heavily populated, at least as far as pacific islands go. If you actually have an ocean capable boat, I think you'd be better off on the Marianas then the philipines. Perhaps some island devoid of any human settlement at all?

[Lancer]

Not many of those around. Having the boat might be enough. Spy a grove of bananas with no zombies around and go get a bunch or three. I presume the zombies wouldn't be harvesting them. Food should be plentiful.

[DaShi]

Zombies can walk under water. As soon as you let your guard down. CHOMP!

[Lancer]

Maybe in the next flick, but not classic zombies. With classic zombies give me an ax and a boat which I can use for escape and through repeated surprise incursions I'll clear a small island in a week or so, say a hundred zombies. Almost no chance of those slow buggers getting me. Look at the old movies. Those people all panicked and tripped or were stupid and let them get in behind. I'd fight them on the shore...say a rocky outcropping where only one or a very few could come at once, always straight on. I'd chop em and push em off into the ocean and wait for the next. I believe it would be more boring and yucky than scary. Clear the island and you've got a home.

[DaShi]

Never sleep!

[Krill]

YOu need a bunch of friends/family and leave a set number on guard at all times.

[DRoseDARs]

28 Days zombies aren't zombies at all. They were rage-ragers (remember, the monkeys that were "infected" were in hyper-aggressive mode, not dead) and were subject to the usual Human survivability without food or water (though presumably with their hormones out of whack, they could survive a bit longer). They didn't kill to feed, they killed to kill and did nothing else, including eating. Eventually, they perish from lack of food and water. Assuming you could keep them out, you can wait them out.

Walking-dead zombies are not something you can wait out. They're already dead and eventually you will be too.