How would you survive a zombie apocalypse?

[Cosmic Fury]

Sounds like a fair idea... However, where will the manpower come from? It will not do if you end up not being able to recruit help for it while you're in the middle of what could be nowhere.

[King Alboin]

true^.

yet I would think that there would be a remnant, those found in weekly forays. Also, now that you mentioned 'middle of nowhere', it could be possible to add a short wave radio, and a cb radio with skip, and tackle an am/fm station, power it up and broadcast a "safe haven" broadcast. So a commshack would be needed to be added to the list.

I have another idea of why there would be refugee remnants, and am working on that now. sure wish powerpoint would work here. =\

[Japengo]

Man you all have it wrong.

Give me a double barrel shotgun, cut off my right hand, attach a chainsaw to the stump, and send me at them.

Hail to the king baby, who wants some?

[Fresh420]

Man you all have it wrong.

Give me a double barrel shotgun, cut off my right hand, attach a chainsaw to the stump, and send me at them.

Hail to the king baby, who wants some?

lol going evil dead are we!! all you need is your boom stick...i like that

[SKARAOFJUZTICE]

We have ballistas and pults...who needs to fear zombies.

[Fresh420]

haven't been around a lot lately but how's it going everyone? lol pults and ballistas sweet jebish!!!!!!

[rasterbee]

Rasterbee, as good as your posts have been, arguments only result in head-bashing and gloating at the end, nothing else. I know I sound like a mini-mod here, but I enjoy the posts where you're being serious a lot more than the head-bashing ones.

Yeah, but I'm an ass hole. I don't even acknowledge when people agree with me and admit defeat. I'm sorry that you've never experienced one in the wild before but we make the world go round. Imagine the horror were me and my kind not present. That would be a world I have no interest existing in, that truly would be a zombie apocalypse.

[King Alboin]

Yeah, but I'm an ass hole. I don't even acknowledge when people agree with me and admit defeat. I'm sorry that you've never experienced one in the wild before but we make the world go round. Imagine the horror were me and my kind not present. That would be a world I have no interest existing in, that truly would be a zombie apocalypse.

I disagree, but that's another thread entirely.

So raster? did you go camping? practice survival skills? get bit by buggs? make a fire using only flint, steel, and charcloth? sharpen your sword swinging skills? fish? build a shelter out of sticks and leaves? roast marshmellows? grill hotdogs? bite the head off of a squirrel? eat squab? digg for eatable roots & worms? sleep in a tree? get drunk and dance to the goddesses?

in other words, did you have fun?

welcome back.

KA's Survival Tip #147

when looking for something to eat, in the wood, you may find that honey will suit your tastes. But how can you quickly find a beehive?

Simple, that is if you have but one packet of sugar, a lil water, and a plastic lid, like the ones off an oatmeal can.

Find a small clearing, to set your plastic lid on. Pour half the sugar, from the packet onto the lid, and add a lil water, just enough to make it a lil thinner than syrup. Walk back to a sitting down spot, and wait.

Eventually a bee, who is out hunting nom noms and flower pollen will lite upon said sugar syrup lid, take a taste, and desire to go and tell everone what she found.

If you watch closely, she will then spiral up in a withershins direction, until she gains her desired height and then make a bee-line straight to her hive.

All you have to do then is walk in the direction she flew, for she will head in a straight line to her hive, no departure from her path.

If you have lost your way of which way she flew, then set you lid down, making up your sugar syrup, and wait.

Another bee will lite upon said lid, and repeat what her sister did. Watch carefully and follow in the direction she went. Easy.

When you find the hive, there are some precautions to take, for one must know bees, to get at their honey.

One, bees dont like dark clothes, so wear something light

Two, dont wake bees up early in the morning, they are not happy early in the morning

Three, bees dont like smoke, and take off for a lil while if there is any

Four, bees get really pish'd off if you throw rocks at them. So dont throw rocks at them.

Five, most bees around the appalachian mountains, make their hives in the hollow of a black gum tree. If you are just surviving and expect rescue then dont cut down the tree, but if you are setting up something more permanant, there is a way to harvest the hive, and set it up not far from your camp. If you do this, remember. Bees must live through the winter, so dont take their honey after mid-late summer.

[rasterbee]

Why am I describing my weekend to you in this thread? But, yes camping. Land owned by a cousin where the black sheep of their side of the family lived rent & bill free for the past 5 years. They finally evicted her, she destroyed the 80 year old cabin she lived in, they might just tear it down and rebuild. Loony as they come, spoke to no one, never left her home, piles of trash to the ceiling with paths in between. In one corner we could coolers, 7 or 8 of them. She defected into plastic bags and put them in a cooler so they wouldn't smell. Guess who got to open that first cooler before we realized this? Me.

No, no real survival skills. Shot some guns, did some fishing, took a canoe out. But mostly we cleaned up. Gorgeous private lake front property and it was disgusting when we arrived. Only 7 other homes live on the lake, no public landings. Land passed down from two generations ago. A price tag so high it would be unimaginable to purchase today unless you were one of the ones that hit the Mega Millions this weekend.

So, now I have another place to escape. 100 miles from the nearest major road, 30 miles from the closet town through wooded rarely logged winding roads, and that's an Native American reservation. Cigarettes cost $3.25. Everyone is armed at all times. Semi feral dogs everywhere. Almost the absence of law.

[biggerjohn]

I'd find myself a boat and take my family out to sea... away from any population centers (zombie food sources).

My guess is zombies can't swim... no heart beat and no breathing means no air circulating throughout their bodies which means NO BOUINCY!!! They'd sink like rocks.

Eventually I would seek out some deserted island where we could hold out indefinately.