If an actual Zombie Apocalypse hits, what are you first going to do? Let's say it hits fast so you hear about zombies taking over a major city one day and have 24 hours to get ready.....GO!
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Well, i would go to some market, get water and food.Get some truck, weapons, a lot of all of them, and also fuel for later. Then i would find some hot girl and tell her that i am the only living man on earth (well, even if not, i am still a good looking guy anyways :) )and go with her to some island
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Here's a good acronym for any survival situation
(I'm lucky enough to own a book entitled the SAS Survival Handbook - How to survive in the wild, in any climate, on land or at sea, written by John Lofty Wiseman) Highly recommended anyway, even without the threat of zombies!:
P - Protection
L - Location
A - Aquisition
N - Navigation
Here's what I'd do (based on the above principles).
Since I live in the UK there wouldn't be much chance of getting firearms so I'd try to get my hands on a crossbow and molotov cocktails for long-range work, and a baseball bat for any hand-to-hand fighting. Other than that I'd pack a backpack full of warm and waterproof clothes, plus enough food and water to last at least 3 or 4 days (I can re-supply myself with both when necessary). I even have a tent! I'd also try to get hold of a bicycle (I don't drive), that way I could make a quick (or gentle) getaway into the closest thing resembling wilderness in the UK, namely Wales, or ideally Scotland. As for friends and family, I'd try to convince as many of them to come with me, however if they don't then I'd stick to my plan unless they have a better idea than mine. I'd live in the mountains with my tent, or built structure, with plenty of pits and traps for mindless zombies (as well as breakfast, lunch and dinner) to trigger...
"My name's Brian and so's my wife!"
Take car.
Go to Mum's.
Kill Phil.
Grab Liz.
Go to the Winchester.
Have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over.
How's that for a slice of fried gold?
Thank my lucky stars that I already live in a brick home with a salvagable metal building nearby, the tools and supplies to barricade the few windows I do have and the fact that the three doors to the outside are ALL made of metal to begin with. lol With a quickly secured location, I can focus on my next most immediate concerns in order of importance: food/water, medicine and firearms/ammo(and, I put guns as last as I'd prefer to use melee weapons anyway because they have "infinite ammo" lol). After that, I can sit back and relax a little and safely figure out more long-term plans like acquiring generators/solar cells(prefer the cells as I won't have to continually collect fuel for them) and other larger equipment and supplies or perhaps scouting out an even better location to move to.
I'm sorry. If you were right, I'd agree with you. -Dr. Malcolm Sayer("Awakenings")
I'd go get hockey equipment, lightweight, manouvreable, easy to find and nobody can bite through it, not impervious to danger but not too bad, then I'd fortify at the top of water tower (would last years for a group, a lifetime for one) bring a rope ladder, destroy the original ladder. Drills and other tools to access the water and anchor my shelter for winds, simple pulley system attached anchors or the top of the ladder and a truck to hoist the goods to the top little by little. Have a zipline for escape if something does somehow start making it's way up. Only real danger would be lightning, they have lightning rods and the towers are grounded but I still wouldn't wnat to be near that in storm. And eventually, replenishing food stock would become a danger but that goes for just about anywhere. My food of choice... honey, it never goes bad and is high calorie and dense more energy per pound than most foods (Obviously need other food but main reserve, honey.) Maybe as much whey powder as possible for muscle retention....and of course lot's of meds, guns etc. It'd be a rough 24hours but doable plus you just need to get the stuff up there, then you'd have all the time in the world to build shelter and whatnot.
If time allows, generators, gas tanker with manual siphon pump and needed length of hosing, quad runner or truck ( at base of zipline), a few laptops w/ a couple hundred extra batteries, kobo ereader with the 200 books pre-loaded (gotta think it'd get boring after a while) and grease the entire bottom of the tower just in case, even squirrels can't climb on grease. A bunch of microfiber blankets... man they're warm. And a short wave radio if possible, and or Walkie...if not a pencil, a digital wristwatch, speaker and some copper wire to make a simple radio (can get most of that from any vehicle) Although it only works for listening.
And if time really allowed... conduction suit from the local municipal electric company to be safe(er) in case of storms. And I'll add a solar generator as per others suggestions (If I could find one).
Gawd, I'd hate honey so much after a while but starvation supercedes taste everytime.
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