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Hello Dakkanauts im wondering if any of you prepare for have thought about or just dont care for the zombie apocalypse. explain to me your plans also we are talking max brooks zombies which is destroying the brain is the only thing that works to kill them they cant really run but can shuffle fairly speedily.

I knew before I clicked the thread...

Don't people ever get sick of this zombie apocalypse gak?

I have a bug out bag, and a bit of a plan, but it needs reworking as I would have to take care of my parents, who are both over 60 and in frail health (they're not the healthiest people). I would probably change for defense rather than escape or attack.

I just recently picked up a rifle, but I would like a small caliber carbine and a .22 pistol, which I've been practicing with at least once a week for the past few months. (my former house mate had one, and would let me use it as long as I cleaned it and bought ammo for it

This is an OT thread and will be moved to the OT Forum.

I am just as prepared for a zombie apocalypse as I am for a vampire attack, or a trip to Hogwarts.

 angel of ecstasy wrote:
I knew before I clicked the thread...

Don't people ever get sick of this zombie apocalypse gak?

No of course not. This is important!

IIRC, there's Zombie Apoc survival courses funded by the government. The idea behind it is if you are prepared for zombies, you're prepared for most anything else and more people would rather prepare for zombies than a Hurricane.

It mostly goes over the basics, Food, Water, other supplies.

That's pretty much my plan, food, water, shelter, other supplies, ammo for walkers/other looting parties. Same plan for Hurricanes and other disasters.

 Iur_tae_mont wrote:
IIRC, there's Zombie Apoc survival courses funded by the government. The idea behind it is if you are prepared for zombies, you're prepared for most anything else and more people would rather prepare for zombies than a Hurricane.

It mostly goes over the basics, Food, Water, other supplies.

That's pretty much my plan, food, water, shelter, other supplies, ammo for walkers/other looting parties. Same plan for Hurricanes and other disasters.

Someone on here has a link to it as their sig, don't they?

I'm in England. If zombies existed, they wouldn't come here because it's just not the kind of place where you find zombies. They'd just get bored, so they'd all stay over in America instead.

 htj wrote:
I am just as prepared for a zombie apocalypse as I am for a vampire attack, or a trip to Hogwarts.

If I was as prepared for a zombie apocalypse as I am for a trip to Hogwarts, I'd be the safest place to be when it all goes down.

The Frazzled plan has two options:
1. Join up with the posse. You turkeys are worried about the Zombie Apocalypse. In Texas its the great Zombie Roundup. We'll clear em out tout sweet.

2. If thats a no go then Go Time. And by Go time it means the Frazzleds form a band of raiders and loot the surrounding neighborhoods. Yee HAAA!!!!

 Avatar 720 wrote:

 htj wrote:
I am just as prepared for a zombie apocalypse as I am for a vampire attack, or a trip to Hogwarts.

If I was as prepared for a zombie apocalypse as I am for a trip to Hogwarts, I'd be the safest place to be when it all goes down.

Exactly. Basically I'm saying I can take on anything, because I'm a wizard.

Not really prepared in the slightest. I have a vague idea of legging it to RAF Brize Norton, it's only 6 miles away from where I live, and because it's a proper RAF base they have guns and large stockpiles of stuff. Not too mention a 12 ft razor wire topped chain linked fence and armed guards on duty 24/7...... If that's not possible then it's a case of hiding in my attic until its safe to come out!

Not another one of these. . .

 htj wrote:

 Iur_tae_mont wrote:
IIRC, there's Zombie Apoc survival courses funded by the government. The idea behind it is if you are prepared for zombies, you're prepared for most anything else and more people would rather prepare for zombies than a Hurricane.

It mostly goes over the basics, Food, Water, other supplies.

That's pretty much my plan, food, water, shelter, other supplies, ammo for walkers/other looting parties. Same plan for Hurricanes and other disasters.

Someone on here has a link to it as their sig, don't they?

Someone did at one point, but I don't remember who or if they still do. It's also been brought up in other similar threads in the past, by that various people.

angel of ecstasy wrote:I knew before I clicked the thread...

Don't people ever get sick of this zombie apocalypse gak?

Nope

p_gray99 wrote:I'm in England. If zombies existed, they wouldn't come here because it's just not the kind of place where you find zombies. They'd just get bored, so they'd all stay over in America instead.

28 days later

What is this fascination with zombies as of late? It's impractical, improbable, and not going to happen. Frankly, you have a bigger chance of some kind of My Little Pony apocalypse than you do a zombie apocalypse. I mean, don't get me wrong, we're all just a major disaster away from eating each other like savages anyway, so it will be _like_ zombies, but just no.

Seems like we just had this thread last month.

I have a hurricane kit that will last me about a month if I'm cautious and panels that will cover my windows and ~60% of my front and back doors, which would make leveraging them open difficult. By then, most people will be taken or dead. Not sure after that.

I dont, because zombies aren't real.

 daedalus wrote:
What is this fascination with zombies as of late? .

Pop culture man. Zombies andSurvivalist are the new Cowboys and Indians.

I suppose it really depends on how you define prepared.
Sure I have guns, ammo, know how to fish and hunt and what have you and having experianced Katrina up close and personal have developed a sort of parinoid version of the Boy Scout Motto to live by...but...
I'm accutely aware that ( in a hypothetical zombie appoc) there are many people that I care about ( even love) that wouldn't be able to hack it...and I wonder how mentaly prepared anyone can ever be to accept that..
I mean you may be able to " survive", but it's a good bet that Grandma or your little cousins or that nice obese fellow down at the FLGS that you enjoy BSing with will more than likely end up as zombie chow.

BTW, here is a little article for all those non believers out there!

http://www.cracked.com/article_15643_5-scientific-reasons-zombie-apocalypse-could-actually-happen_p2.html

I don't really bother with the idea of a zombie apocalypse because a zombie apocalypse is scientifically impossible. Especially with actual reanimated dead

That cracked article is flawed because it relies on anecdotal evidence or scientific trials that are massive exaggerations of what they actually did.

 Iur_tae_mont wrote:

 daedalus wrote:
What is this fascination with zombies as of late? .

Pop culture man. Zombies andSurvivalist are the new Cowboys and Indians.

Don't forget geek-chic, people who would rag on geeks in high school now talk about how 'nerdy' they are for wearing lensless horn rimmed glasses in instagram photos.

 sarpedons-right-hand wrote:
BTW, here is a little article for all those non believers out there!

http://www.cracked.com/article_15643_5-scientific-reasons-zombie-apocalypse-could-actually-happen_p2.html

http://www.cracked.com/article_18683_7-scientific-reasons-zombie-outbreak-would-fail-quickly.html
Lawyered.

After being somewhat forced to watch cockneys vs zombies, I no longer fear the zombie apocalypse. If a guy with a walker can get away from them, they'll be more or less a minor annoyance.

Damn you hotsauceman!!

Still, dreaming up ways to escape an apocalypse helps the hours at work fly-by.....

Try a feasible one, like an animal uprising.

 sarpedons-right-hand wrote:
Damn you hotsauceman!!

Still, dreaming up ways to escape an apocalypse helps the hours at work fly-by.....

Well, there's that too...hell if given the choice between having to deal with an irate and often highly emotional customer pitching a fit over some minor fixable detail or facing a horde of flesh hungry dead...I'll pick the zombies every time.

Fortress DakkaDakka is nicely set up for location and already building supplies...2 weeks worth....1K ammo assorted....so need to do abit more shopping. Eventually Ft Lewis probaly get over run but I'm sure to get a Stryker at one of the Main Gates

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Try a feasible one, like an animal uprising.

Revenge of the Cows?

Night of the Living Bacon?