Yet another zombie survival quiz...

[sorrowmonkey]

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Well, kuzu_no_ha, you can rest assured that I will risk zombification to find you. This quiz penalizes me pretty badly for that. This is an excellent example, therefore, of a 90's movie-plot zombie attack.

In the case of real-life zombie outbreak, there's little hope that the cavalry are going to ride in to save you, or that the zombies are going to keel over from exposure to sunlight or water. They are zombies, fer chrissake, you can't bank on that sort of thing.

Therefore, I suggest this zombie-resistance strategy:

• The guns at your house do you little good if you're at work or if you don't have ammo in them. Can you really be sure that zombie outbreaks will only occur while you are conveniently located with your stash? There are many different viable approaches to solving this problem, but the key point is to have a reasonable plan to arm yourself.
• Canned goods are great, but anyone who's been to Pennsic recognizes that all the canned goods in the world aren't going to help you once the water runs out. Let's face it, if you're not sitting on top of a potable well, you're doomed. The lake outside won't be much help when it's full of drowned zombies.
• Fortification against zombies is tricky. There are only a handful of buildings I can think of that I would trust against concerted zombie assault. I can't think of a single residence I've ever been in that would qualify. Evasion and/or extermination of the two-legged vermin is really a better long term plan, in my mind.
• Trust. You have to sleep sometime, and even most fortified buildings have several exterior doors. So, you need a group of people you can trust (i.e. loved ones) not to fall asleep or leave the door open or whatever. Ideally, you need a fairly large group, so that you can have pairs at each entrance point in three or more shifts. To successfully withstand a long term siege of the building I work in (only two ground floor entrances facing each other, plus a fairly secure dock), you'd still need 8-10 competent people.

A lot of people chuckle about the zombie-attack scenarios, and they are silly and fun. However, many important lessons can be learned from these light-hearted horror flick examples which apply to slightly more likely real-life situations: armed invasion, civil unrest, gang violence, terrorism, and such.

Plus, as kuzu_no_ha points out... Zombies are scary.

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[nrawling.livejournal.com]

Yes, the move to West Haven definitely did not include a careful remove of the available zombie-resistent fortifications.

I'm wondering though...

I'm tempted by the IKEA in New Haven, suffers from a long class wall on the entrace side, but offers a large supply of raw material and close highway and ocean access. Also, it's relatively distant and inaccessible to the residential areas where presumably the large zombie populations would be.

After some thought though, I think the Sam's/Lowe's complex on the Boston Post Rd has some advantages. Something to think about.

Of course, it goes without saying that the best place to be, when a zombie outbreak occurs, is to be somewhere else.

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[nrawling.livejournal.com]

Apparently, deleting comments doesn't work anymore. Interesting to note.


"remove" should be "review" in the above.

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[ferriludant.livejournal.com]

Agreed about being somewhere else. But that's sometimes hard to schedule.