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1/23/2006 7:06:49 PM

Any type of moat wouldn't work as a defense, it would only slow down the inevitable. Even if it was running water, once the zombies find out there is food in the barricaded area, they will start pouring in and just try to walk through the water. Eventually they will just create a type of "zombie-bridge" and walk over each other to bang at the walls.

1/23/2006 7:24:15 PM

^.

1/23/2006 7:27:47 PM

hmm.

we should hire michael jackson to pretend to be a zombie. And he could dance the zombies over to chapel hill

1/23/2006 7:33:36 PM

^ ROFL

1/23/2006 7:43:59 PM

UTs top floor is a dining hall but the stairs don't go that high, and the elevators could be powered down I believe.

1/23/2006 7:56:46 PM

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"can zombies swim? "

they dont need to

they dont breathe anymore so they could just walk along the bottom and pop out the other side

now a fortified castle is an excellent choice, if you happen to have one lying around since there is no gently sloping banks to walk out of.......they would just walk into the castle wall

1/23/2006 7:59:07 PM

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"UTs top floor is a dining hall but the stairs don't go that high, and the elevators could be powered down I believe."

i'm pretty sure there is a stairwell in the dining hall.

actually, from earlier in the thread, it can be seen that UT is one of my personal favorite refuges.

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"they dont breathe anymore so they could just walk along the bottom and pop out the other side"

walking on the bottom is pretty hard... and if the water was sufficiently deep, the pressure would crush the zombies (which would make an island pretty far out a good choice.

1/23/2006 8:19:37 PM

http://www.privateislandsonline.com/




[Edited on January 23, 2006 at 8:38 PM. Reason : pic]

1/23/2006 8:37:02 PM

Blowing up the credit card buildings was just the begining, zombies are the true master plan of Project Mayhem

1/23/2006 10:07:14 PM

SEE! THEY ARE GETTING RID OF HIGH RISES SO HUMANS WILL HAVE LESS PLACES TO HIDE

1/23/2006 10:23:45 PM

good point...

1/23/2006 10:24:20 PM

The only member that ever died, Bob, was shot in the head

1/23/2006 10:26:24 PM

1/23/2006 10:27:08 PM

but i cant explain the whole cutting off your balls thing, i kinda look back on that one with shame

1/23/2006 10:28:46 PM

yeah what the hell were you thinking you fucking nutjob???


although did they ever actually take anyone's nuts?

1/23/2006 10:29:57 PM

get it? NUTjob?

1/23/2006 10:30:18 PM

it was because we didnt want Bob to feel left out, since he had no balls, but now he is dead anyway

1/23/2006 10:31:13 PM

that's good looking out for your boy.

1/23/2006 10:31:52 PM

why do you think I set up fight clubs in so many cities, when it happens, its gonna happen fast

1/23/2006 10:33:59 PM

whatever d00d. this thread is about zombies, not some fictional movie.

1/23/2006 10:34:50 PM

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"weapons are useless when THOUSANDS of zombies are attacking. "

napom

1/23/2006 10:34:57 PM

you'll see

1/23/2006 10:36:06 PM

yeah like that's pretty easy to find.

and if you incinerate zombies, you have to remember that they don't have any sense of touch or pain... they will continue to advance until their brains have been cooked, and that means you are risking burning down the structure you are taking refuge in.

1/23/2006 10:36:31 PM

I was giving an option to destroy a large volume of them. Possible a option the government would consider along with nuclear weapons. I t would cause a lose of innocent life but would save more people in the long run.

1/23/2006 10:41:47 PM

i dunno.. the government would want to preserve infrastructure. Assuming that the zombies will begin to die off as their brains decompose, the best course of action for the government would be containment and patience.

1/23/2006 10:43:02 PM

Napalm.

And as far as preserving infrastructure, napalm is a no-no in urban areas. The collateral damage would be extraordinary since no one would be around to put out the secondaries. If we're talking about involving the Air Force, though, Joint Standoff Weapons might be a slightly better choice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSOW

They use these to put swiss cheese holes in runways so enemy planes can't take off.

1/23/2006 11:00:07 PM

how the fuck have i missed this threaD??

if all else fails, grab some buckets, and hide out in a bank vault until youre ready to die

[Edited on January 23, 2006 at 11:13 PM. Reason : ...]

1/23/2006 11:11:29 PM

you must be blind and or a zombie i guess.

1/23/2006 11:12:37 PM

^ or both



I stand by the first reply

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"eat brains"

1/23/2006 11:29:57 PM

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"if we did like i said i'm sure they have some landmines at the reserve"

No, they wouldn't. Land mines aren't in much common use anymore, and only certain types of reserve centers have anything to speak of in the way of weapons.

Besides, as we've said a hundred times, military-grade weapons are of very limited utility. The goal is not to survive the zombie invasion by killing the zombies, it's to survive by outlasting them. You'll never shoot enough to make a difference, and to nuke enough would probably be to kill all life on Earth.

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"they dont breathe anymore so they could just walk along the bottom"

Probably not. I think it's safe to say that a zombie is no denser than a living human being, and how many human beings do you know that can simply walk when completely submerged? People don't sink terribly well.

1/24/2006 1:04:51 PM

exactly. you could theoretically survive a zombie attack without killing even one of them.

1/24/2006 1:06:17 PM

http://www.zombiedefense.org/

1/24/2006 1:07:41 PM

I think if a large city was so overrun they might consider taking it out with some sort of weapon of mass destruction. You loose a city but help neutralize thousands/million of the critters. What good is a large city with over 95% of the undead running it. This would be one concern I would have. I do believe that after a while the government or private individuals would start rescuing people from rooftops.It seems that a tall structure with a flat roof would be our best bet. The lessons from Katerina after math shows you are best prepared by being well stocked and on your own.

1/24/2006 11:05:52 PM

I'm sure one of these would be great

it's a shotgun based on the AK47. I'm gonna buy one within a couple weeks, assuming they're being imported again

1/24/2006 11:13:29 PM

^^I don't know, that would create a lot of zombie "dust/debris". In Return of the Living dead, they I think burned a bunch of zombies and the smoke/ash got into the clouds and made acid rain. The humans who got rained on turned into zombies.

1/24/2006 11:19:55 PM

would that mean the virus is air born? if thats the case we are screwed.

1/24/2006 11:45:24 PM

they wouldn't want to nuke a city because eventually the critters are going to decompose enough so their brains are no longer capable of sustaining reanimation. when that happens, the military will then be able to sweep through the cities, rescuing survivors, and destroying any lingering zombie threat.

1/26/2006 4:33:27 PM

I understand. I was going off the Independence day scenario but the enemy was a bigger threat. I do worry what kinds of decision making might be in the works in the government early on. Im sure it would be an option on the table but do feel after the Katrina response that after holding tight for a few days/weeks they would start some rescue mission.

I am staring to form the opinion that it is not mobility but location and supplies that needs to be the primary focus. This will be a big problem if this happens in the morning. Most of the structures will be compromised. That being the case what are the best structures for morning, day, night?

Based off these scenarios sounds like condos and town homes are your safe bet. Walls can be knocked down in between them. Condos offer an even better solution the lower floors can be taken out. WOW university woods might actually have something good about it!

An empty store in a shopping center might work as well in an early morning attack. You can barricade in and go through the roof of the other stores to get supplies by lowering people/buckets/etc... to get supplies form the compromised stores.

[Edited on January 28, 2006 at 1:08 AM. Reason : ]

1/28/2006 1:06:19 AM

I had the opportunity to scout around virtually the entire UT kitchen the other day, including the kitchen. There isn't quite as much food stocked up there as I had hoped, though I didn't check everything. Still, because what food they have is strategically located and the building itself is relatively defensible, it continues to get my vote.

As for time of day...I'm not sure how much difference it would make. People will probably leave their businesses once they get what's going on. Any type of residential/commercial venue will be crowded, either by, well, residents, or looters.

That's why it's so essential to spot the signs and move before the masses start to catch wind and panic.

1/31/2006 8:15:38 PM

so i hear yall got alito

1/31/2006 8:18:05 PM

so, i've thought of another place that might be good to assemble in...


The RBC Center.


i know, i know... it has a lot of glass doors, etc, but that glass is pretty strong. The reason I bring up RBC is that they have TONS of food stocked up there. Also, the area isn't THAT populated, so perhaps the hoardes of zombies would be attracted to other areas with a higher population density.

the RBC Center also has a room that is lines from wall to wall with kegs.
another room lined wall to wall with liquor.

2/16/2006 1:48:35 AM

Go to some of these abandoned ghost towns in northern wake county

people hardly go there now, so hardly any residual memory would bring zombies

but supplies would be the problem there

2/16/2006 1:53:48 AM

what abandoned ghost towns?

2/16/2006 2:02:42 AM

gold mines.

2/16/2006 2:14:09 AM

wait...

are you seriously implying that people should take refuge in gold mines?

2/16/2006 2:16:10 AM

because that would be moronic. First, gold would be of NO value during and after the chaos surrounding an all out zombie attack. Second, there would be no food for you at the gold mine. Third, the air would run out if you had to, say, collapse a mine tunnel to keep out the zombies. Fourth, you'd be a zombie.

2/16/2006 2:24:16 AM

My one concern with RBC is it would probe be an early staging area to house and shelter people. If the outbreak is spread by cuts wounds etc it would be risky b/c of all the triage units that would be set up on the main floor.

2/16/2006 10:26:56 AM

My parents live on a lake, and have pontoon boat. I'd probably load up a water filter, lots of food, weapons, and some womens and float out to the island in the middle of the lake.

2/16/2006 10:34:20 AM

If I was stuck on campus I would probably shelter in Tunnel CStore or the Wolves' Den. They seem most secure (fewer doors, less glass) of campus buildings that have food. I don't have resources to spend it out on the ocean or lake. If I was able to stockpile food, I'd barricade the steps to my apt floor and live at home.

2/16/2006 10:50:19 AM