how would you survive a zombie epidemic?

Has it ever been thorougly discussed what the source of their power is?
I would find that source and turn it off. Like a light switch then they all would crumble to dust.

I would be preemptive and find it before the zombies attacked.

 

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In regards to a .357 special, you've got six rounds, five if there's none in the chamber the hammer's on. (Or does a special only hold five rounds? I can't remember.)

That's good for six undead, granted you hit all in the head.

Shooting straight at any sort of range with a pistol doesn't come naturally, especially for non-military, non-hunters, non-gun nuts. Which happens to be a great deal of the population.

Reloading takes time as well.

 

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If there was a zombie epidemic this one would be the one I'd prefer:

One city over everyone turns to zombies and they start to slowly over run my city. I happen to see this, get all my friends and start stockpiling food and stuff (looting, because no one would care by then). Then find a bus driver or a bus driver's keys and a couple of cops with bags of weapons to help in exchange for us rescuing their families on the bus too. Drive out just in time to have to shoot a few zombies off and dramtic music playing (getting carried away). My basics are these: Drive around in a big vehicle with lots of supplies, rescuing people, and putting many miles between us and the epidemic. Find a boat like a few have suggested (or rescue Hugh Hefner so we can borrow his) and float around until the zombies naw each other to death. Then have an empty world to ourselves: watch free movies, eat free food and drink free liquor yadi tadi yada. Of coarse doing only that would be a waste. Try to make a better society?

 

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I would try to organize a group armed with shotguns, steal some NBC suits and other military hardware/equipment, Mainly I would go for tanks, I know how to drive a M1 Abrams (no hands on expierience) but the National guard probably has more than one sitting around. I would like to rig loudspeakers to the tanks/APC's and drive around saying "Oh know! Don't run I'm your friend" while I run the Zombies over and shoot them.
I currently have several combat knives in my room,not to mention a Flail and a shotgun, So I think I'm good to go at the start.

 

What if you run out of ammo?

Hmm lets see.

I would prolly run to the attic and grab the one sided fire axe since we don't have any guns and make my way to my g/fs house, then make love and make her pregnant, then engage in a voodoo ritual to speed up the process. In 10 days the child would be a fully grown man and because I enhanced him in a voodoo ritual he can now transform into a superhuman, with green hair and lasers from his eyes and the ability to fly. He would then use his powers to warp us to the source only to find out that he is a mutant transformed from a mad scientist with equal powers as my son. Then I would run and the evil scientist would hold me with his kinetic powers. But then a meteor struck the mad scientist and he was squashed, making all zombies melt.

 

Something strikes me as 'not realistic' about this. I can't think why.

 

i'd let them bite me.zombies dont seem to judge each other and then maybe i'd fit into society.and plus walking slowly at people in large numbers has a lot going for it.

 

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hmm, well from what ronvolk said, i got the idea; i go hotwire a car(2 minutes maximum, i can do most in about 40 seconds) then drive to burnham and borrow an LAV from the army camp, or just grab a gun and join up with the army

 

Oh does it. Do you think that a zombie epidemic is realistic?

 

Besides the zombies, which in this thread must be taken as a given.

 

well i live on an army camp(LINTON) and proerbly can drive a LAV from all my extensive videogaming ( shouldnt be hard right?) and then totally dust some zombies! 25mm cannon styles!

 

i would weild lawn mower blades to my wipersniper and mowe them down corse i could just drive to the airforce base 5 min down the road but where would the fun be in that

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driving them is easy enough, but you would need a crew to fire the guns, you cant even reach the pedals when your on the guns of those things.

 

i would first of all put on my full ninja uniform, arm up with my blackened steel straight sword shuriken and a handgun, (only gun i have 9 mm pistol) i have many swords and martial art weapons ive prctised many forms of martial arts for the past 17 years, i consider myself a survivalist aswell, anyways when i am fully equiped i would head out at the dead of night scaling buildings with my ninja boots claws and grappling hook, to stay out of harms way then i would access the nearest military base, and take a tank out to play after practising using it in the yard for awhile, then go blast some zombies, probably go to a high tech defence lab after that with the tank, then design the most powerfull full body armour with the defence bases ideas and details around the lab, then i would craft this suite of armour (that cannot be penatrated by the zombies infectious bite, then get the most advanced guns i can think of and shove them in the biggest armourd truck then go on a mission to find humans left, to fight with me against the zombies, then have some big ass war guns tanks and firepower blazing, even if i died that would be a hell of an ending.

 

I'd get in a riot-squad suit with a chainsaw, a pancor jackhammer, an m4 with a 100round drum clip, sig sauer p228. Then! i'd get into an office building that still had power and block the stairs.. smash a window and leave a sign saying that people are here. If i were bitten i'd take a grenade in my hand and dive out the window at the swarm of zombies but no sympathy if someone is bitten, they are shot immediatley.

 

I have lurked around here for quite a long time, but this thread calls for a post...

This post assumes that you have at least three hours notice, a readily available Wal-Mart/Hunting store/Tool shop, and at least three other able-bodied people. Note: I have experience in fabrication work and own a multitude of shotguns, rifles, and pistols as do those who would accompany me.

I will speak to finding shelter, as I feel that is the most important way to stay uninfected. (Remember, we'd be working with three hours notice, plenty of time for the wife to take my son to the store to get supplies, especially if i gave them each a shotgun and a 9mm.)

Securing Shelter

I don't think a small city is a viable way to stay safe due to the large fence-line coupled with the increased number of people. More people means more food/water to secure. Also, you need to deal with the social issues that entail high-stress senarios - Who will run the show? How do you divide supplies? Etc.

That said, I feel that the best shelter would be found in a suburban city. I would look for a three-story building made of brick or concrete with a flat roof, independent of other buildings surrounding it by a distance of at least 100 feet with access to a two-lane street. Funny enough, there's a building just like that about two minutes away...

All of the windows (sans one on the second floor, which would be covered by layered sheet metal that could be raised and lowered on the third floor via pulley system) would be boarded and the doors would be heavily secured. The first floor of the building would not be used, its doors and windows would recieve the heaviest amount of securing. The second floor would also recieve heavy securing - it would be completely seperated from the first floor by welding all metal fire doors that access the first floor. The third floor would be utilized for habitation.

To gain access to the third floor, one would be required to yell a password up from the ground. Upon receipt of the correct password a 1-story step-ladder would be lowered via pulley to the ground allowing the person access to the second floor through the open window. (To open the window and lower the ladder would require a two-person team, one opening the window and one lowering the ladder.) The person would then be required to walk to a designated room, close the door, dead-bolt it, and sit in a chair. This person would remain seated for two hours holding conversation with those on the third floor via a 2" metal pipe drilled and fitted between the third and second floors, with 2 L bends including wire mesh at 3" intervals. Upon completing the conversation (thus verifying that no infestation can take place through the person gaining entry) a person on the third floor would slide away a sheet-metal floor/ceiling and lower a step-ladder. The person would then climb the ladder, which would lead to a final room, three feet square. This final room would be made of 3" plexiglass reinforced with a 1" steel pipe cage. Two 2" holes would be drilled into the plexiglass and two shotguns would be inserted into each hole. Upon verifying that the person should gain access, the sheet metal floor would be replaced and one side of the plexiglass room would be hinged open. (Again, this would require a two-man team, one shutting the floor and one opening the door.) The windows on the third floor would be barred with 1" steel pipe.

In the center of the roof would be a fabricated room 5'x5'x7' made with a wooden frame reinforced with sheet metal. Going from the roof to the third floor would entail using a step-ladder leading to a simililar caged plexiglass room. Same password verification, two hour conversation, visual verification would apply.

The idea is that the third floor is the central hub where all habitation would take place. All access to the third floor would require three points of entry: 1. through the window on the second floor via step ladder, 2. through the floor of the third floor via step ladder, 3. through the door of the plexiglass cage on the third floor. At the first and third points of entry visual and verbal verification are required, while the second point of entry requires prolonged verbal verification through conversation. All points of entry also require those inside the third floor to either open or lower devices to gain further access. Furthermore, the first and third points require two people to allow access, thereby ensuring that no one person could solely allow access to the third floor.

That all said, this will never happen, but ohhhh what fun it would be!

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well... i don't really see how there could be zombies [i.e. the walking dead]. i figure when the heart and brain stop functioning, that is that. if, however, these zombies were both dead and capable of functioning, i really don't see how one could kill them. once you're dead you're dead after all. i guess i just haven't watched enough bullshit zombie movies.

however, ignoring the implausiblity of the situation, i would need a couple of automatic weapons and plenty of ammunition. with these i would proceed to mow down every person i could find. i am currently living in a rather small town and so i could probably kill whomever the zombies don't get. then i would need to quickly retreat to my room, which is on the eigth floor of a building with cinder block walls a half a foot thick, and wait for the zombies to move on to the next town. and since i don't believe bullets will "kill" zombies, i would be most comfortable with a two sided axe with which to dismember them.

by the way, what is so funny about NoS? it's the first i've heard of port injection making people laugh.

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