Could you survive?

[Miss Chicken]

Southwest Tasmania. Very low population, very remote and rugged country, plenty of water and ability to grow foods. Wildlife to eat, fuel to burn for cooking and heating. Very difficult for zombies to climb mountains and they would probably fall prey carrion birds and other animals. I would want to live high up in a rugged area hard to access and to have many packs of dogs to sniff out and attack approaching zombies, important in an area with potentially poor visibility. Negative would be getting there in the first place, I would need to find someone with a plane to fly me there as I'm sure the ports would be full of zombies.

You would have to be able to survive quite dangerous weather and rainfall which is up to about 3000mm per year.

I actually think that there would safer to choose one of the hundreds of Tasmanian off-shore islands. Probably the best would be Maria Island because of the facilities already there. However the tourists might be a problem if the outbreak happens in the summertime because some of them might be come zombies.

Any other season the only people on the island are a handful of rangers.

 

[KJbushway]

I guess it would depend on the circumstances. If I'm in the middle of a crowded theatre and 90% of the people suddenly turn into zombies I'd be pretty much fucked.

I laughed for a good two minutes. thank you for this.
I even cried.

 

[Admiral2]

Ok lets say something like the Walking Dead got out. Turned about 90% of the world into man-eaters, with 10% of course being immune. If you were part of the 10% could you survive?

No, I'd be f***ed.

What would you do first?

Cry and scream.

What would be your game plan?

Run to my mother's grave screaming MOOOOMMMMMMYYY!

What would you do to ensure your survival?

See above.

Would you help or travel with others?

How would you travel?

On the backs of the poor losers not fast enough to keep up.

 

[KJbushway]

Everyone has "the disease" in The Walking Dead. Even the living. If you die you zombify. If a zombie bites you, you die then you zombify.

This confuses me. Are you going by the comic book or the show?

 

[Candlelight]

BBBBBBBRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNSSSSSSSSS..........

 

[Tom Hendricks]

What I find funny is that people who have never shot a guy before think they can just pick up a gun and shoot zombies even at a short distance and still get a head shot. If you have this mentality, you are dead and will be a zombie yourself. Even with regular practice, in reality it is very hard to impossible to get a head shot. Forget it if your running and say shooting over your shoulder. Even running at the zombie, forget about it. Forget what you see in movies, its not practical.

 

[KJbushway]

Assuming they cannot drive I would head for either two places..

Center of Aus, somewhere with a water supply. I'm assuming I wouldn't be the only one headed there and there would be some kind of fortified town. Positive is I'm not sure how heavy zombie populations along the coast would survive crossing hundreds of kilometers of harsh desert--they would probably be feasted on by carrion birds and dingoes as they traveled. Negative to this would be disruption of food supplies and great difficulty in growing own food.

Southwest Tasmania. Very low population, very remote and rugged country, plenty of water and ability to grow foods. Wildlife to eat, fuel to burn for cooking and heating. Very difficult for zombies to climb mountains and they would probably fall prey carrion birds and other animals. I would want to live high up in a rugged area hard to access and to have many packs of dogs to sniff out and attack approaching zombies, important in an area with potentially poor visibility. Negative would be getting there in the first place, I would need to find someone with a plane to fly me there as I'm sure the ports would be full of zombies.

Because of food supplies issues I would take the second choice if possible. Once established hunting parties could begin eradicating zombies from Tasmania, being a low population place this would IMHO be doable from a position of strength and with planning.

Think about this way, this Zombie world is the worst of the worst possibilities. The outbreak was successful and that 90% of the population got the disease. So the 10% would go down in the beginning, by the time you get any of these plans in action your looking at about only 6% now. Theres hope but the situation wouldn't be that good to start out with. Its a mix between Walking dead and Dawn of the Dead.

I had the same Ideas as you for the most part.
Here's my plan for Zombie survival.

1) I would gather supplies in the Army bag that is in my house and along with the book bag that I own. Food, clothes, Socks, and reading material(survival books,medicine). There is this water bottle, it has a filter inside of it. this means provided no Zombies died in the water I can drink from any source.
2) I would then steal a 4x4vechile. I live in Georgia(a lot of gun shops around) and head over to a shop where I would see if I can get a P90, maybe even if there is silencers. I would pick out a sniper rifle, along with any glocks, I would also carry a lot of ammo.
3) Then I would begin moving about looking for any military bases, picking up people along the way and teaching how to survive like me. If I can't find any filled bases, I will then with my people secure the military bases with high fences and defenses all along the wall. I would with a team of trained people go out with silenced weapons go and pick up supplies like seed,soil, and any supplies to build green houses.
4) I would then see if there is a water source near by to tap into. If so I would use books I have to build up the base to one that could sustain a good size population.
5) once stable I would send out teams(kinda like SG teams) to then go out and clear the area, bleach and burn the dead bodies.
Thats it for now. I am bad at making lists on the spot. Theres more, but thats the Plan A.

 

[sojourner]

^You know in most zombie fiction you catch "the disease" by being bitten? Water supplies would be no more dangerous than any other water where something has died. Unless you are thinking of 28 Days Later, which weren't really zombies so much as hyper-rabid people.

Everyone has "the disease" in The Walking Dead. Even the living. If you die you zombify. If a zombie bites you, you die then you zombify.

This confuses me. Are you going by the comic book or the show?

Both. Though I haven't read the comic in about a year and a half. Something may have changed.

 

[SG-17]

What I find funny is that people who have never shot a guy before think they can just pick up a gun and shoot zombies even at a short distance and still get a head shot. If you have this mentality, you are dead and will be a zombie yourself. Even with regular practice, in reality it is very hard to impossible to get a head shot. Forget it if your running and say shooting over your shoulder. Even running at the zombie, forget about it. Forget what you see in movies, its not practical.

If you take out their legs they can't really chase you, or if you destroy enough of their body they, also, can't chase you.

Though it is best I suppose to use long-arms like swords/axes to do close range combat. We can't all be like Rick and pop headshot after headshot with a handgun.

I still like my idea of commandeering a Nimitz class aircraft carrier and starting a colony that stays seabound, only sending helicopters into land to gather supplies needed to start a self-sufficient colony.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

If they're slow moving, I could get off several shots at close range before they reach me. If they are quick moving, I'd have a lot of problems. I really need to just get to my car. I'd like to think that, even if I don't have gun skills, I have hitting things with my car skills.

 

[infinix]

^

In reality, I wonder how many human sized cadavers can a typical 4-door sedan hit without sustaining enough damage that it becomes inoperable. (Like either the shocks being destroyed or axles being bent)

Mythbusters should take this one on. Have Torre hit as many pig cadavers as possible while driving a Camery.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Well, you don't have to hit too many. You keep moving to avoid having a window smashed in and gain enough speed so, if you hit something, it'll be a clean hit. If you're on the open road, you can always try swerving around the zombies to protect your car.

 

[SG-17]

If you had a Hummer (or other large vehicle) you could jut slap some metal grating over the windows and add an extra gas tank and you are good to go.

 

[KJbushway]

^You know in most zombie fiction you catch "the disease" by being bitten? Water supplies would be no more dangerous than any other water where something has died. Unless you are thinking of 28 Days Later, which weren't really zombies so much as hyper-rabid people.

Everyone has "the disease" in The Walking Dead. Even the living. If you die you zombify. If a zombie bites you, you die then you zombify.

This confuses me. Are you going by the comic book or the show?

Both. Though I haven't read the comic in about a year and a half. Something may have changed.

Well you've seen the show you must remember the last two episodes. The CDC employee wanted to check the blood to make sure it was clean. Therefore meaning that not everyone has the disease. Unless its like Herpes, in which case everyone has it, but its wether or not its active.

 

[KJbushway]

If you had a Hummer (or other large vehicle) you could jut slap some metal grating over the windows and add an extra gas tank and you are good to go.

Yeah like one on top thats 100 galleons. Hummers get below 20mpg, not a car to survive in.
You could just take a mini-van or a SUV with good mileage, still add extra tank, which would create some mechanical issues, and slap on a snow plow. A good 50mph without metal protection should provide a clean hit with little damage. Most SUVs or trucks have 4X4 drive. So shocks or transmission wouldn't go so easy.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

Since this isn't zombies per se, I'm not sure how many of these reasons apply here, but:

Seven Scientific Reasons Zombie Outbreak Would Fail (Quickly).

I would need more information about this current situation to predict my survivability. If they are mindless and slow moving and I'm well-armed, I'd be fine. If they are mindless and fast moving, I'd have a bit bigger of a problem. If they were capable of reasoning, but simply like eating the flesh of others, I'd have lots of problems.

Reading this...it sure makes the I Am Legend brand of "zombies" a lot more terrifying, since most of these weaknesses are not problems for them...

Seriously, that movie gave me nightmares. Literally, not just the creeps. Nightmares.

 

[KJbushway]

Well those weren't zombies. more like 28 days more than anything.

 

[Subcommander R.]

Barricade the staircase. Drink beers until crisis is over. Occasionally fire shots from the balcony.

 

[Sephiroth]

thats the thing about Humvee's, diesel engines, you could convert them to run on rotting fat, needle getting close to the E? oh look, rotting zombies

 

[KJbushway]

Yeah and the amount of times you would have to stop to kill the let the corpse sit out in the sun for all the natural oils to come out of the skin and tissue, is to much for surivial. You'd be better off getting a truck or SVU with far better milage.