Zombie Outbreak - where to hide?

[TheLe]

Of course, it does lead to a really amusing consequence... Shark attacks zombie, zombie bites shark...

CRAP! I had not thought of this. Assuming the Zombie plague only infects humans, it is safe to assume that many corpses would end up eaten by animals and fish.

Would that mean that humans would become infected by eating fish and meat?

Geez.

`Le

 

[Tal Rasha]

If I had the money to build it...

Large tower, stores of food, fuel and weapons, many gun emplacements. A 30 foot ditch all around the tower, build with straight, smooth walls. You conceal the ditch in some simple way and put up the sign saying "Free live human buffet inside, help your undead selves." Zombies come, you wait until they're above the ditch, you let the false floor drop, sprinkle with gasoline, and light up. Clean, rinse, repeat.

 

[ivocaliban]

If you have ever watched Night of the Living Dead, you would see that your above complaints don't hold much water with regard to zombie survival. Barbara, The "heroine" of the story was essentially a spastic nerfbag for the entirety of the film. the only thing she did was scream. and she survived.
You see, zombie survival is pure random chance.

But wasn't Barbara the "svelte beauty" of the film? I think the original post was pointing out that certain iconic characters tend to survive zombie attacks...and the rest of us are simply extras that have to sit through several hours of special effects make-up before we die.

 

[Klaus]

Sure they can. The pressure difference doesn't mean much to them - they aren't victim to the pressure problems - their lungs can fill with water, and they can equilibrate to the sea-floor pressure without the ill effects felt by humans. And I, at least, would expect zombie flesh to be deadly poisonous, so they wouldn't get eaten by fish quickly.

And zombies are beyond patient, and into relentless. It being really difficult is not a problem for them - they don't give up whining that it is too hard to walk cross the sea floor. They don't run out of air. They don't need food. They don't get tired. They don't have anything better to do with their time. They just keep coming.

"Can't" isn't in the zombie vocabulary. Not that anything is, of course, but "can't" really, really isn't.

Yes, a major sea floor trench will slow them down, but it won't stop them forever - in fact, sea floor trenches are probably a source of new zombie outbreaks. A few find their way in there, and find their way out decades later.

But if the sea floor pressure can smash a human body into jelly, why not a zombie one?


As for TheLe's expanded question:

Slow Zombies - Prison
Fast Zombies - Compound in the middle of an endless plain, where they can be seen coming from miles away, so measures can be taken to take them out in advance. Ideally, booby traps should be built miles away with materials that will slow the zombies down to "true zombie" pace, like anti-riot foam.

Both havens must have replenishable sources of water, food, power and ammo (well, crops, solar panels and raidable Army base within a secure distance.

 

[smootrk]

Cheyene Mountain... home of NORAD. It has its own power, water (and water treatment), stockpiled food, etc. And really big doors that no mindless zombie type could open, unless they figure out bunker-buster bombs or nuclear strikes.

But that would be a boring story... the survivors inside all survive; the end.

 

[Nadaka]

Having just watched 28 weeks later on DVD, I would just like to say that the US army got some things right and some things horribly wrong. They had prior knowledge of the existance and infection methods of the zombie plague.

The good
Their method was to contain, kill infected, kill everything if things go from bad to worse.
When things go FUBAR they firebomb and nerve gas the place. It is probably the best way to deal with that kind of situation.

The bad
Horrific preparations.
They heard civilians into a parking garage
they do not compartmentalize the city.
The do not use armored infantry.

What they should have done?
Preparations
*Set up the second floor of every inhabited skyscraper as a military stockpile and palisade. *Build "air lock" style kill zones on the second floor in the stairwells. Only one of the 3 doors (from the first floor, to the 3rd and to the military section) can physically be opened at the same time.
*Fill the streets with Bradley or Striker fighting vehicles. Zombies cant to jack against a few inches of steel plate.

Operations
At first alarm shut down the elevators. Evacuate civilians up, into the buildings above the air-lock kill-zones. Begin civilian evac by helicopter from the roofs. Mobilize the armored infantry to patrol the streets, killing all infected sighted. The exception to this is if the alarm can be identified to originate within your building. In that case evacuate the civilians down and into nearby buildings.

When the infected are sighted at an airlock shut down the door to the lower floor. If infected manage to get inside the airlock, gas em.

In a worst case scenario, you loose the civilian population of a single building. And that is only likely if the outbreak occurs within an inhabited building.


Where would I go? to the local wal-mart / generic superstore. They have food, guns, ammo, other supplies. I would gank the forklift and pile empty steel containers in front main doors and garden center. That should be enough to stop the initial wave of zombies.

Access to the interior of the building is handled from the rooftop by ladder and winch.

Use potting soil to create rooftop gardens.

In times of low zombie activity, use the forklift to arrange empty containers to block off larger parts of the parking lot. Use this space for additional gardening and the preparation of expeditions.

 

[Asmor]

Cheyene Mountain... home of NORAD. It has its own power, water (and water treatment), stockpiled food, etc. And really big doors that no mindless zombie type could open, unless they figure out bunker-buster bombs or nuclear strikes.

But that would be a boring story... the survivors inside all survive; the end.

Plus, if the unthinkable DID happen and zombies breached it, you could just use the stargate and evacuate to the Alpha Site (or Beta Site, depending on which alternate universe in which you reside).

 

[TGryph]

Again, for the sake of completeness, I would like to point out that the "zombies" of 28 Days Later are not actually zombies, but infected humans. Big Difference. Sure they are fast, but they CAN starve to death, so anyplace where you could hole up until they starve to death would work.

TGryph

 

[cmrscorpio]

Best place to be at the onset of the zombie apocalypse? Out to sea on an aircraft carrier. Why? Guns and ammo? check. Food? check. Plenty of people trained in the use of firearms? MAJOR CHECK. Isolated from millions of zombies? check. Ability to quarantine any localized outbreaks? all those bulkheads will be mighty useful so, check. Ability to go far enough into the remote north or south so that any zombies will freeze before they reach your location? check. Escape routes in case the zombie menace on board becomes overwhelming? hmm, airplanes, helicopters, and lifeboats, so again, check.

Best place to go after the apocalypse is in full swing: maximum security prison with the caveat that there aren't already people holed up inside. You can never know just by looking if the people inside are the prison guards who have maintained control, inmates who have seized control, or some other group who has invaded from the outside. In which case, if you find that a prison already has the living inside, best steer clear and find another.

Now, if the zombie apocalypse were to happen, who would be the most likely to survive? My vote is the eskimos and other Inuit peoples of the north.

 

[Shroomy]

Call me old-fashioned, but I'm heading to the mall.