Zombie Survival: Do's and Dont's

Every channel on tv is saying the same thing. Some weird form of rabies or something is causing people to attack each other. The infected look like they died and got back up again. They've even announced that people should leave the area. I'm getting my heavy motorcycle leathers on. My truck's still busted, so I'm going to have to ride the bike out of the zone. It limits what I can carry, but I've still got that little .22 pistol I can put in my shoulder rig. That and the knuckle dusters ought to serve me well. After all, it's just down fourth street, over main, then up onto the interstate right? Oh yeah, I better take second or third ave. I hear there's some kind of riot going on at the hospital. I'll bring some extra smokes, and maybe a soda pop or two. Better bring a change of shirt as well, I might not be home for a few days...
 
Malefic23 said:
Today's question: A Romero/Solanum outbreak has started in your area. Three days ago, there was a dramatic increase in missing persons. Today, the hospital was over run from the inside out. People are evacuating your area in panic. You are told to leave the area as well... How do you evacuate? What vehicle? Be realistic in both what you can acess, and what you can drive. On foot? Do you take the highway or substreets? How do you dress for the occasion? What provisions can you realisticly bring?
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I would stay off the highway you'll be trapped in a traffic jam, i would stick to side roads as much as possible. my choice of transportation is my brothers truck. a 4wd ford ranger lifted a couple feet with all terrain tires. Perfect for off roading and running over zombies. i would also take my brothers shotgun, a small hand gun and 2 cases of bullets. i wouldn't take any food or anything that would weigh me down. My brother has the best toys, and if he survives i want him on my team, he is a better shot and a better driver.
 
Interstate's out. I barely made it home from that slaughterhouse. The cars had stopped for a wreck or something up ahead and those things were all over the road. People were getting pulled out, or those things were pulling themselves into stopped cars. The traffic had jammed so solid, people could'nt open their doors to run. You could see the numbers grow as they worked both ways up and down the line of cars. I saw one guy shoot right through the windshield at the creature on his hood. Three more pulled the hole open and crawled in. They were coming back towards town by the time I got my motorcycle turned. I think the house will be ok. I've boarded up the doors and windows at ground level, and demolished the steps that lead up to the deck. The tub is filled with water and I've got food for a while. I pulled tools out of the shed too. If I have to, I'll go up to the attic and cut a hole in the roof.


How about a running diary? Start your own and add a little each day!
 
I can't drive, I mean, I have a learner's permit but I need someone in the passenger seat to guide me. I'd find someone who can drive then ride shotgun. Australia doesn't have many guns, the best things we can procure are hockey sticks, cricket bats, axes and nail-guns. I only have the former three so I'd stock up with as many of them as possible. I'd also take a can of petrol to set the b***ards alight. If I couldn't find anyone alive who can drive I'd take a bike. I could travel faster than romeros and the maneouverability/able to be ditched to go on foot would do well.

I live in a suburban area, I know the backstreets well so I'd take them to the dock, take a boat and find the nearest oil-rig. Or head to Tasmania, as it's isolated and the invasion is unlikely to spread. Unfortunately three major hospitals in my area may make it hard to avoid the infected, I think I'd be swamped before I could make it by foot unless I was in a car.
 
i would say that i know my city well..and in the event of a zombie outbreak..there would be no way to to travel downtown, and the closest bridges would be jammed or shut down, there would be no way to get out of the city, and the idiots who run it would put it on lockdown, no one leaves, no one gets in.

i would take to foot...i would stock up with whatever may be needed, i would have someone with me carry two sacks full of food and water, mainly peanut butter and bread. i would then find anything i could use for armor, bullet proof vest..thick leather, steel toed boots, chain mail..anything that would stop a zombies teeth from penetrating my skin.
i would get a group going, maybe 5-6 people, there easy ways to get weapons around here, so i would stock up everyone with a nice shotgun, a 9mm and a 45, maybe a machete, a few hunting knifes, and a can of hairspray, rigged with a lighter under the nozzle, fire would be my last resort. we would move through alley ways and avoid open spaces, there are tons of abandoned buldings we could stay in without being noticed, this is where i would go for a nights rest, then i would probably take to rooftops and hopefully stay there until we are rescued. the NYPD would send it all of its SWAT and ESU teams, which may do well if they are trained for this sort of enemy, if they know they need to destroy the brain, then humanity in new york MAY be restored, if they dont, then we would have to rely on either military, or civilians-with-guns.
 
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KingOfTheDeep said:
and a can of hairspray, rigged with a lighter under the nozzle, fire would be my last resort.
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My thoughts exactly, I tried it out on the weekend, seeing how large a flame I could get with an ordinary lighter and a can of spray deoderant, call it pyromania, I call it "Experimenting-all-possible-weapons-in-the-case-of-zombie-outbreak" and everyone calls ME crazy. My friends think that I smoke now because I carry a lighter with me :nono: .

A small question however, a decaying zombie corpse will release methane gas, which is highly combustible, but how long will it take for the zombie to fully burn? If you're running from the thing it won't feel the pain of the fire and will continue charging/lumbering and then you've got twice the problem FLAMING ZOMBIES. I estimate that if you spray at the head it will probably take at least two-to-three minutes to fully burn :flamed: .

Some of the situations I can see this lighter working are:
You're barricading yourself behind a large fence, you coat the ground with methylated spirits/oil etc. and light it so any zombies attempting to climb over will burn before they do;
You're escaping from a barn/abandoned house/other building and you torch it to take out all of the zombies within the complex, get some off your back;
Lighting signal fires or causing intentional bush-fires (if there's a HUGE pack of romero following) while stranded or in the bush respectively.
 
I'm holed up in my local super-walmart. I made sure to pack the climbing gear (harnesses, rope, heavy-duty carabiners, grapple, etc) before throwing on my armor (home-made chainmail under my motorcycle leathers) and was able to cross the interstate to the wal-mart. I had to leave my bike along the way, but I need to pick up a dirtbike somewhere anyway, the roads aren't usable right now. Walmart's infested, but I was able to make it onto the roof using the grapple to get above the fence on the ladder.
I used a rock to break a skylight to get in, making sure it was one over the door so weather won't ruin everything as quickly. I'm currently strapped to the underside of the roof, it has a convenient exposed rebar structure all over it. The Z's remember I'm here every once in a while, but they can't reach me. I'm going to try and get some sleep since the power is out and the sun's going down. Tomorrow I'm heading across the ceiling to the sporting goods section, I need to get into the gun case somehow...
 
Fungi said:
Animals such as monkeys that are closely related to humans genetically should be able to be infected. Dogs? Zombies can starve just as human cans, and if they don't cannibilise upon other zombies (how do they recognise living from undead? Thermal vision?) they would probably see dogs as a snack-on-legs.

If you think about it zombie birds are unlikely 'cos the zombies would neither be able to catch them nor pass on the zombification without seriously harming the bird (e.g. biting through a wing)

unless of course you mean zombie turkeys...
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Scent... RotlD, those canned zombies could smell brains. They eat t he brains because it helps take the edge off being dead.... being dead hurts man.

Madcrawdad said:
to all those who would doubt a zombie's intelligence, I can only say:

"SEND MORE COPS"
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LMFAO..... I was waiting for that.

Malefic23 said:
C.H.U.D. Stood for Cannabalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller, and reffered to a project to store toxic waste in the sewer system below a city. The homeless population resident mutated as a result of exposure and developed a taste for human flesh. This could be considered a form of chemical outbreak, but the afflicted were not truely reanimated corpses. More like mutant monsters.


Today's question: A Romero/Solanum outbreak has started in your area. Three days ago, there was a dramatic increase in missing persons. Today, the hospital was over run from the inside out. People are evacuating your area in panic. You are told to leave the area as well... How do you evacuate? What vehicle? Be realistic in both what you can acess, and what you can drive. On foot? Do you take the highway or substreets? How do you dress for the occasion? What provisions can you realisticly bring?
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This is a tough one... ill come back and answer it later... i just read all 7 pages man.... killed like 30 mins.
 
lol why was tht guy wearing a cape, and i would think zombies wouldn't produce heat
 
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