Delaying the inevitable.Submitted by Szygani on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 20:11 |
So, first things first. The key to a good plan, is know your goal. Your goal is to stay alive as long and comfortable as possible. I know, you're going "Comfort!? There are undeads massing in the street! Why comfort!?". To that I say, try hanging out with your family with no warm water WITHOUT an apocalypse. I know, impossible!
Okay, so my plan is have a good plan. I've started this, already divided tasks. I'll go through them.
My sister lives near a small farm. She's very knowledgable about farming and butchering (for some reason, its been a hobby of hers) She'll go there, get fat chickens en as much seeds as she can get.
My cousin has no added value, except she's pretty smart, can run fast, and knows how to use a printer. Her task, when I call her, is print almost all "How-to" instructions out there. Mostly the usefull stuff, How to hotwire a car, how to make clean water, etc.
A friend of mine lives in the top floor of a flat. In fact, he owns the whole floor. A penthouse. Its huge. The building is hard to climb, and has no emergency fire escapes (which I am sure is pretty illegal, but whatevs). He also has solar-panels on his roof, and has a rediculously large balcony. So, his flat is essential, its the safe house.
My father is a truckdriver. He never drives very far (I live in The Netherlands, small country, always an hour or so away). All he needs to do is drive that big fat 18 wheeler of his, so we can pick everyone up.
So are the tasks I've delegated. Now for my own part. I myself have quite a stack of canned goods and preservables in a large freezer, together with a large jerrycan full of dieselfuel and an emergency generator. Also some flashlights with batteries, and one of those handpump flashlights. I have a crowbar, and an iron baseball bats, several throwing knives (I got a hobby, what can I say?)and a woodcutting axe.
So, this is how I envision it happening:
We first hear about some riots in africa, and we'll ignore it. What he didn't know is that china has been battling an infection for days already. Its slowly (for a pandemic) spreading through smuggling, organ trade, and down right blood-blood infection. Which means it'll take about a week before it'll hit Europe, which will mean its only a day or so away from The Netherlands. So lets say, I have about 3 days to get this done. I'll send a text to everyone, saying that Operation: Zombiegeddon has started. My sister will get the seeds and chickens, my father will grab the eighteen wheeler, my cousin will print the how to's, and my friend will just sit there and wait for us. I'll sneak out with my backpack full of foods and my improvised weapons and get to him quick. I'll have to do this a couple of times, like, 4 times, but I don't think it would take more than 1 hour. He lives about 50 meters away from me.
I'll wait together with my friend, until my father comes over. While I wait, we block the staircase off with furniture. We don't need that pantry anymore, chuck it. My father and I go pick up my sister and my cousin. Because of the 18 goddamn wheels om the thing, we don't really have to care about hordes of zombies, any cars along the way, cats or even grandma's.
*I haven't decided yet, but we might take something like a goat or something, for milk or meat. But it might take too much food from us*
We'll hole up until its safe outside, venturing out only for supplies. Thats where the diesel fuel and the truck work in quite well. Prefferably we won't kill any Zedheads, because thats not out job. Thats the military.
Right, thats all. I'd love to know what you think, some flaws or reason. Everything I said in this plan is true, I really have an axe and throwing knives, my sister really knows about butchering, my cousin can really print stuff out. :)
Sounds pretty good to me, I just have a couple questions Id like to throw at you.
What if the highways are blocked making driving a big rig nearly impossible and possibly even a liability to your plan?
Would you accept others into your safehouse if they could provide a skill or item that would make your stay easier/more comfortable? If so do you have any quarantine procedures?
Lets say the shit REALLY hits the fan, how would you handle bandits trying to get into your safehouse or a horde of zombies keeping you from getting much needed supplies?
Finally, why dont you already have a massive stack of how-to's? :P
Thanks.
Okay, what if highways are blocked. Blocked off how? If its blocked off because of abandoned cars, thats not much of a problem. I mean, this truck is like a monster truck, anything it can't push out of the way is doomed. If its blocked by, say, other 18 wheelers, than yeah, that would be a bit of a problem. The thing is, the route to the one place I really need to go to isn't a highway. Its all small town roads. I don't forsee any problems there.
Would you accept others? Depends what they bring to the table. If someone is like, an engineer and can fix our broken solar panels, hell yeah I would let him in. If they have like, large quantaties of food I would consider. They would have to strip down though, to check for bitemarks. If they're clean, they can come in. If they're not, or refuse to disrobe, they can "get off my property!"
Shit, fan, it just hit it. If things are looking like its going out of control (for a zombie apocalypse) then I know of some places to get some fire arms. There aren't any gun stores around, not even in 'the big city' Amsterdam. But, I know some people, who know some people, who sell them anyways. And I know where their stash is. So yeah, I'd go in and take the guns. I doubt they'd have a good plan to survive, except shoot everything you see. So yeah, that.
Why don't I have a bunch of how-to's? 'Cause, honestly, its not gonna be soon where I'll need to know how to make a snare-trap.
:)



