Zombie Apocalypse scenario: What will you do?

[rickthetrick]

Be really pissed that I never finished that book.

Die horribly.

 

[jdun]

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Wow, that is a lot of thought you've put in there. Shame you've forgotten the most important aspect of preparation: Mass. Even when you don't consider all the ancillary gear and backup weapons that you'd have to load in the FED (which might not even fit in it), the main armament you'd be carrying about (plus extra ammunition and tools) would weigh between 25-50 pounds, which makes moving around not only difficult but uncomfortable as well. You'd pass out trying to lug all that around should things go belly up, even if you try to minimize what you carry and stick to your vehicle for most travel.

-I have no intention of carrying everything around with me, only having it available if a situation calls for it. The riot gear for example would only be donned if poking into a close quarters area. I'm also a big strong guy used to lugging crap around to little purpose.
-I've packed for major outdoor trips using a vehicle roughly the size of the FED before, the guns, armor, and compact generators being the only items I haven't had to account for before. Somehow I think I can get them to fit into the roughly 40 cubic feet of space I normally leave empty (to be later filled by other campers and their personal stuff)
-When push comes to shove, that list is what I would take if all preparations go perfectly (a somewhat unlikely scenario all things considered), fully intending to leave some behind if and when necessary. If forced to pare that list down only to the absolute bare essentials, I could still make the plan work with a little extra luck while bringing only a hiking bag filled with 60 lbs of gear. Of course, I would be stealing a few cars from the dead on the way, and scavenging quite a bit more than intended in that case, both actions increase the risk substantially. Also, if that occurs, I might actually change gears and head south, hot weather gear has less mass and bulk to them, and heat can do the same job cold will, although not nearly as cleanly.

You need to go to a survival board. Your scenario gears are base on movies and games. It's not realistic.

http://www.survivalistboards.com/

From experience, humping 70-100lds of gears is not fun. In fact it's back breaking. In an apocalypse scenario you won't have a vehicle. If you do you won't get far because of blocked roads and lack of fuel.

A typical survival person travel light. He only needs the tools that allow him to live off the land. For examples: fish line and hook, lighter, knife, paracord, trauma kit, compass, map, small eating utensils, thin light weight compact plastic sheet that can keep you dry, water bottle, etc. All these will be put in a 3 day backpack.

http://www.lapolicegear.com/diplomat-3-day-backpack1.html

For weapons, survival people will only carrier .22lr light weight rifles like the Papoose.

http://youtu.be/32FgaIb66bM

And yes I do have my survival 3 days backpack gears ready to bug out if needed.

 

[jdun]

I'd barricade my house (in a medium-populated suburb) with the rest of my family, get in the attic and pull up the stairs after piling up food/ loads of water/ lights/ batteries/ etc (hopefully the internet will be up long enough for me to do some quick research on survival essentials), and hope that the government takes care of it. If not, I'd wait until our supplies run out and hope that our Ruger Mark III .22 pistol is powerful enough to commit suicide with...

edit: If I was feeling especially courageous, I'd try to book a private flight to some small, obscure island nation that has civilization and enough agriculture to sustain itself.

First thing the government will do shit. They have other things to deal with than rescuing your family and you. In an Apocalypse scenario order breaks down. Government breaks down. Everybody is on their own.

The best way to survival an Apocalypse scenario is to run to the hills. Live off the land. Avoid other groups because they might be hostile or will be extra burden if you allow them in.

 

[jdun]

btw, why is it always shotguns are the weapons of choice during a zombie apocalypse?

Because most bullets have about as much affect on a corpse as they would a pile of dirt, and almost all melee weapons require getting within biting reach (the ones that don't take years of training to use properly). Most guns are only as effective as they are normally because the person hit can quickly bleed to death, not really a problem for the undead, or for a living person blinded by something like the "rage virus" in that one movie.

A shotgun on the other hand is easy to use and aim, usable in close to midrange quarters, and spreads the kinetic force over a large enough area to knock the target back and down. It is also capable of pulping flesh to the point that it is physically unusable.

Shotgun and other firearms doesn't knock people back and down. That only happen in the movies.

 

[jdun]

Mostly likely for me:
run down to the gun shop.
grab some guns and ammo
turns out i made too much noise and now im surrounded
hopefully i get a couple before im overwhelmed
pop myself in the head(zombies aren't getting me!)

You know what the problem with your scenario? Everybody will do the same thing. If the owner or employees isn't at the shop, whoever get there first will get all the guns and ammo. For the people that disagree with him, they'll get shot.

 

[jdun]

finally get some use out of my Zombie Survival guide!
1.store water
2.move food to second floor
3.destroy the stairs
4.hang up sign,s on the roof asking for help
5.wait it out.

It going to be a long wait. If the zombie don't get you, you probably shoot yourself in the head to end your suffering. No one going to come and help you in an Apocalypse scenario. They have their own problems to deal with.

 

[Ghaleon640]

Well, I wooooouuuuuld plant myself an artillery force in my lawn, but whether its the dead rocky dirt from my home in Texas, or the concrete outside my apartment in Chicago, I will meet nothing but horrible failure.

You can save me Gloom Shroom! .... damn, forgot the coffee bean.

 

[jdun]

Any gun will just attract more zombies than it kills, so i would have to go with baseball bat and hand axes, and then get on a ferry or cruise liner, raiding coastal towns like a pirate.

hahaha

You know what wrong with your scenario? First you need to find a boat. Second if you do the person that owns it will not let you in. In fact he will be leaving your ass behind for the zombie to feed on. If the boat is occupied do you know how to operate it? Do you know how to navigate?

Remember pirates rob other pirates on the high sea and unlike you they have guns.

As a rule of thumb in any Apocalypse scenario you'll be on your own. No one going to help you. There no one to complain to about bad services. No 911. Nothing.

 

[Akytalusia]

humans are so silly, but i'll play along. in this scenario, i'd be on cleanup. you don't have to worry, once everyone is a zombie, you'll be set free to finaly rest. you'll only have to endure that pain as long as there are survivers. everyone who prolongs the apocalypse by resisting are antagonists. the zombies have every right to be angry and hunt them down; poor souls. of course, this isn't how it goes down, so the whole thing is a moot point.

 

[Jopoho]

I would try to live in a warehouse store and eat peanut-butter-filled pretzels for the rest of my days, and I probably would have too many days left at that point.

 

[Lupus80]

I would negotiate with the zombies, because if Captain Janeway can negotiate with the Borg Collective, I can negotiate with brain-craving living-impaired corpses.

 

[columbianbacon]

Get a small bite somehwere on me, infiltrate other survivors, bring others down with me.

 

[Wintermoot]

finally get some use out of my Zombie Survival guide!
1.store water
2.move food to second floor
3.destroy the stairs
4.hang up sign,s on the roof asking for help
5.wait it out.

It going to be a long wait. If the zombie don't get you, you probably shoot yourself in the head to end your suffering. No one going to come and help you in an Apocalypse scenario. They have their own problems to deal with.

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in that case I would sneak out and hope the zombies don,t get to me (considering firearms are forbidden in Europe I can only defend myself with melee weapons) I would probably head to the country side (there are allot of farms in my area)

 

[Whitbane]

Cry a little and throw myself off the nearest cliff.
Just like a real man.

 

[Heronblade]

You need to go to a survival board. Your scenario gears are base on movies and games. It's not realistic.

http://www.survivalistboards.com/

From experience, humping 70-100lds of gears is not fun. In fact it's back breaking. In an apocalypse scenario you won't have a vehicle. If you do you won't get far because of blocked roads and lack of fuel.

A typical survival person travel light. He only needs the tools that allow him to live off the land. For examples: fish line and hook, lighter, knife, paracord, trauma kit, compass, map, small eating utensils, thin light weight compact plastic sheet that can keep you dry, water bottle, etc. All these will be put in a 3 day backpack.

http://www.lapolicegear.com/diplomat-3-day-backpack1.html

For weapons, survival people will only carrier .22lr light weight rifles like the Papoose.

http://youtu.be/32FgaIb66bM

And yes I do have my survival 3 days backpack gears ready to bug out if needed.

Thank you very much for calling me a liar, twice in a row, really appreciate that.

I've carried a 60 pound pack over a thousand miles during the course of several trips, much of it rough mountainous terrain. I wasn't moving very quickly at all on those occasions, but I can certainly carry that same pack down a flat road for a few miles while looking for a suitable car to jack. And yes, I will be able to find both vehicles and fuel as needed. Most cars will be abandoned one way or another, and most regions will not have the time or the means to drain the fuel reserves stored under the hundreds of thousands of gas stations across the nation, much less out of the fuel tanks of the aforementioned abandoned vehicles. Local bands of survivors can, but they will be quite occupied for a good while after outbreak, and I intend to go to ground long before they would have a chance to lock more than very small regions down and consolidate resources.

Road blocks are also no issue given the right vehicle, I mentioned taking country roads for good reason, there is always a way around, even if it means driving off road for a time.

I am not a survivalist, never have been, probably never will be. I don't at present have the skills needed to pull off an extended stay using only the minimalist equipment you mention. The overextended list of crap I mentioned is a reflection of this, a purist can find a way to get around a lack of equipment, someone like me prefers to over-prepare so that they don't have to, or at the very least has enough time to learn to do so on the fly.

 

[jdun]

I doubt you carry 60 pounds for "over a thousands mile." I really doubt that. Even military people don't carried 70-100lbs for "over a thousands mile" in their career. No one are stupid enough to do that unless you are in the military. Military people carrier that much weight because they have too not because they want enjoy it.

I bet you never been to the country. There something called tree when you enter off road. Tree vs. Car 10 out 10 of times trees win.

You need power to pump gas out of gas station. Electric power. There won't be any electric power in an Apocalypse scenario.

Modern car prevent people from using hose to steal gas. Really old cars you can do it but not cars that were produce in the past 20 years. In order to steal gas from cars you need to go under the car and drill a hole in the gas tank. That require power tools. That's not going to happen in post Apocalyspe.

Like I've previously posted you don't want to make contacts with other groups of humans. The different between a zombie and normal Apocalypse is that in a zombie apocalypse there is an extra threat, ie Zombie. The main threat in any Apocalypse scenario are other humans even in a zombie Apocalypse scenario.

Humans can be hostile or they could be a burden to you if you let them in. My brother worked in the waste management sector. He was the very first people that enter New Orleans when Katrina hit the city. His job was to make sure the area was safe for clean up. His group carry guns for protections. There were many many times that he encountered hostile citizens or citizens that were asking for food. Many times his group had to draw their guns out for protection. They didn't shoot anyone but letting them know they were armed.

You're right you're not a survivalist. A real survivalist will know what a post Apocalypse world will look like. A survivalist is a realistic person base on logic. Your version of post Apocalypse is squarely base on what you watched on TV and played games. Real world post apocalypse is totally different from that.

 

[jdun]

finally get some use out of my Zombie Survival guide!
1.store water
2.move food to second floor
3.destroy the stairs
4.hang up sign,s on the roof asking for help
5.wait it out.

It going to be a long wait. If the zombie don't get you, you probably shoot yourself in the head to end your suffering. No one going to come and help you in an Apocalypse scenario. They have their own problems to deal with.

\
in that case I would sneak out and hope the zombies don,t get to me (considering firearms are forbidden in Europe I can only defend myself with melee weapons) I would probably head to the country side (there are allot of farms in my area)

In almost all Apocalypse scenarios including the zombie version the real threat isn't zombies or wild animals. The real threat is other humans.

It is best to get out of the city or high population area because people will be killing each other for whatever supplies are left.

 

[Optiluiz]

Whatever weapon you may find will be useless. Killing a man is not easy, even an undead one. Melee is out of the question, and fire-arms would attract too much attention, not to mention that bullets would eventually run out, and no one will be making more any time soon. Your only shot is to get out of the big cities and find a farm. Fortify it and hopefully have other people to help you maintain it. Scavenging will only help you for so long. The real trick is to survive the initial infection, and leave densely populated areas.

Also, don't have a pregnant adulteress wife and an idiot son walking around with you. Nothing but trouble I tells you.

 

[Meight08]

Wait inside while the Millitary sends attack choppers to clear the streets,deploys snipers in tall buildings,firebombs large basses of them outside the cities.
Seriously the military can just use a single chopper to clear an entire town.
Just get a single gunner it will probably even be fun for the guy They can even throw dynamite from them if they are feeling fancy.

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

Rob the gun shop? Raid the school armoury?

What?

OT: Probably die. I'd try and hold out as long as I could but all I have to defend myself with is a baseball bat and I probably wouldn't last too long with just that.