Thread: Zombie arrival imminent E.T.A 1 hour

You won't get me you zombie loving rapscallion!

Become a cannibal.
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You know, to blend in.

So I casually checked my email earlier and saw the message from the forum that someone replied to this thread.

Actually, to be clearer, I was kinda messed up and just saw the "Zombie arrival imminent E.T.A. 1 hour" part. I nearly shit myself before I realized what the email was really about.

i would shoot myself in the head

The ideal would be a home in the air - zombies can't fly!
However, hot air balloons and zeppelins are hard to come by.

Zombies do have a reaction to UV (sunlight), so if you had a reliable source of power you could "barricade" your house with UV floodlights.

Zombies probably need air to live, so if you had access to a submarine somehow, that would be good too.

None of which plans would work for me.

If I turned on my TV and saw that an outbreak of zombies were attacking cities then I would immediantly run to the lumber yard and steal as much wood as I could. Then I would steal as much food as I could (hopefully without getting in someone's way and starting a fight) and take it all home. I'd shut and lock all doors and start drilling the boards to the wall shut. I would have to buy some big planks of wood to cover my back sliding door (only way I'm really worried about) with lots of protection. I already have a gun cabnet in my basement so I would take all the guns and ammo I have and set them up in my living room. I would then break some holes in my windows to use them as sniping spots.
Once I set all this up I would make a way to get in and out of my house and find myself some fencing and barb wire. My aunt has some eletrical wire and lives just across the street from me so maybe I could get some from her...
Then I'd set up the fencing around my house and knock out the stairs to my deck.
Once I got all that set up I would find some kind of siren to make and put on my roof and place trip wires around my house so that when the zombies tripped a wire the siren would start to go off and everyone in the house could be immediantly aware.
If I got that all set up then I would tweak the trip wires and make 3 new sires. Each one would make a different sound for every direction. That way if any zombies come they would trip a wire and a certain siren would go off so that way we knew which spot to cover.

That's about all I can think about doing...

But of course this would span over acouple of days. The boarding up the house thing would come first during the 1 Hour time.

I would surely die.

Originally Posted by Kael Seoras

I would surely die.

That's the spirit.

I would bring everything important upstairs and promptly destroy the stairs.
Not sure what after that... maybe just throw stuff at the zombies or curse at them and hope they are easily offended.

Originally Posted by RedfishBluefish

Zombies do have a reaction to UV (sunlight), so if you had a reliable source of power you could "barricade" your house with UV floodlights.

Zombies probably need air to live, so if you had access to a submarine somehow, that would be good too.

Uhh.... A) since when do zombies have a reaction to UV? and B) they don't need oxygen.

Fail.

Yeah, zombies run on fotosynthesis!

Wait a minute...

I steal parents' car (unless I have my own car by then, in which case I use whichever has the most trunk space), drive into the local pawn shop and walgreens or the local wal-mart, to steal weaponry and food (not just guns, but machetes and archery stuff,) a solar-powered/crank powered generator, some fuel cells, solar-powered/crank powered radio, matches, etc. and depending on timing either
A. get back to my house and use my new hatchet to break down the back deck and front steps, or
B. go to the tower on campus (not a clock tower or bell tower, just decorative, so noone should notice it in the event of a zombie attack), then stay there until
--B1.the attack subsides, when I wati for the eradication teams to finish of f the zombies here, or
--B2. all other humans in the area, and all large groupings of mumans such as the military, are wiped out by the zombies, in which case I replinish my stocks every couple of days, maybe set up an electrical line to the tower if the power wasn;t out, so I could play video games at night, aside from just during daylight hours. (ironic, if o0ne of the games I grabbed was in the resident evil series). i would eventiually tery to find and relocate to a more advantageous spot. THere's a great place under one of the buildings on campus, entirely underground, only 2 entrances, surrounded by stone and concrete. Only problem would be if the air system shut off. ANyway, I would try to find the most advantageous place in town and wait to either die of old age, go stark raving mad, or be rescued, by some previously unknown group of survivors.

Originally Posted by Croneus

since when do zombies have a reaction to UV?

The ones in I Am Legend seem to...I think...

with regards to oxygen, zombies are still essentially humans, and they do need to power their brains.

I Am Legend was actually vampires. The movie was unclear about it being a vampire plague, especially since the bonus stories in the DVD special features made them seem like different types of zombies. If you read the book on which it was based, it has much better science, especially for having been written decades and decades ago.

With regards to oxygen, it really depends on which type of zombie you refer to. In solanum zombies, the infection feeds upon the flesh, rather than oxygen, which allows the body to decompose when other microorganiusms are driven off. They aren;t brain-powered, but rather powered by a system of microorganisms that has replaced their brains. For plague zombies, they have not technically died and are thus not zombies, they do need oxygen. For Half-Life zombies, I don;t even know that they were originally human, so while they probably need oxygen, It is possibly they wouldn;t. And as for voodoo zombies, they are comatosde to the point where they are legally dead, and get the way they are from a combination of neurotoxins and oxygen deprivation. To survive after reawakening, though, they would need oxygen. OPther types of zombies really depends on who you ask. Certain types can arbitrarilty survive underwater or drown, and there have been stories of shipwreck survivors walking out of the sea, bloated and rotting but stll trying to find land. (PS: Pirttes of the caribbean not withstanding. I don;t think they're zombies.)

As i live on an island, i would just destroy the bridge to the mainland.
If the zombies can walk under water, i would run to the next island, and destoy the bridge beind me. That island is pretty rocky so the zombies would eiter not be able to climb up, or theyll use some time on it. If they ever get to to land, ill run to one of the small, rocky islands surrounding the larger one, and stay there. That is the most logical plan, as i live in Norway, and they dont allow much guns here. Luckily, there is a militayr base on island number two, and i could "borrow" some guns there.

If they get on to island number three, i would go to the nearest lighthouse. Its a couple of kilometres out in he ocean, so ill be safe from zombies.
Second thought, i might as well go to the lighthouse first and be done with it.