Your plan

[tg426]

My plan is simple get the mountain bikes out of the garage hook up the bike rack to the jeep. head 2 blocks away and meet my friends with there trucks. fill the trucks up and head west and keep going. staying in a group has its advantages and disadvantages but out on the road u dont want to be alone.

just remember...you dont have to be the fastest, just a little faster than the slowest guy! Just like if you were being chased by a bear or alligator.

[Cybergrunt]

Hey guys, Some real interesting strategies! Other than watching a couple of the “Dead” movies and playing LFD2 I’m not that knowledgeable of zombie tendencies and/or capabilities. However, I would like to point a few things out:

The key to anything in life is preparation.
If anyone went to Walmart on Black Friday then you know that in the case of a sudden Zombie crisis getting desired supplies might be downright difficult. Hence the key is to have supplies on hand, period. Whether it’s MRE’s, ammo, latex gloves, gasoline, or water you have to have a safety buffer. I’m not saying to have pallets of crap in your basement but to have enough to prime the effort you’re about to undertake.

Know where you are going- Laying low for a few days may be fine for some but that might just be your only window to escape if you live on an Island like many of us. If you do decide to stay put beware of barricading. Set your defense perimeter but leave yourself/group an out! If dealing with a hoard, you will not win a siege campaign. You will exhaust your supplies unless external factors aid you against the walkers like weather or anything else that may have a detrimental effect on them.

Transportation- It’s the old adage “shoving 10 lbs of s@#t into a 5 lb bag”. This may be hard for some but choose a ride that makes sense for you situation. This isn’t bringing a CJ5 out on the beach for a day with a couple a poles, sleeping bags, and a cooler full of beer (and that’s about all that would fit in my buddy’s old CJ). This is all you have in the world now and it’s gotta fit in or on top of your rig with whomever and whatever provisions you have. If a TJ’s your only ride then I guess that’s what you’re rolling with, and that’s kewl. For me, as much as I love my XJ or YJ I’m gonna opt for my pickup. Yeah, it doesn’t have the range or tight trail advantage but I can move the family and pack out an 8 foot bed with supplies up to the top of the cap. And it has the Death Race thing going for it as I’ve taken out a black bear and came out unscathed so a walker would be a piece of cake. As mentioned in an earlier post, a boat. A win-win situation, especially if it’s a larger size and fueled. A larger boat gives you a sturdy platform in some of the waterways that will not only get you off of the Island but to good fishing grounds that will hopefully sustain you for a while. Weather and time of the year could present hardships but this is a viable solution in getting you to other areas along the shoreline or up the Hudson. Be careful of Winter ice overs in the local bays and lakes as walkers could traverse the ice and overtake your boat.

Communication- Cell towers could go down within a couple of days so CB’s and good 2 way radios with a good stock of batteries should suffice for families or for those who will travel in groups.

It’s a good thing I haven’t given this thread much thought but onto the hardware.

Hardware- I loved the idea of carrying one type of ammo that would feed multiple weapons. As noted, choose something that is common and can be found everywhere i.e. 12 gauge, 5.56, 7.62, 9mm, etc. Now you might ask (because I know I am) what rounds are best at stopping walkers (preferably 1 shot). I have a good understanding of bullet ballistics but walker stopping power isn’t one of my fortes although you probably couldn’t go wrong with a semi-auto 12ga with 00 buck. I’ll leave that to the Zombie professionals to chime in on. Also, another good idea that was mentioned was a bow. A must have because of the stealth factor. Face it, you may be living in the stix for a while and you’re going to need food. As tempting as it would be to take a game animal with a rifle you don’t want to give away your position. I’ll leave it at that!

[Bandit1]

Bill, all good points to consider... also for your transportation factor, keep in mind fuel mileage as well as fuel type. I do like the idea of having the mountian bike for everyday use and the gas powered vehicle to get out of dodge with. Remember if cell towers go down, electricity will follow at some point, so gas pumps will be useless as well as anything electrical. when making your preperations, think about what you would do and how you would prepare with no electricity and plan for that.

[orangecrush4u]

I might just load all my vehicles, and a fuel truck and take the ferry north to a remote island.

[tg426]

I might just load all my vehicles, and a fuel truck and take the ferry north to a remote island.

Do the SI ferries run on cables???

[LI4x4TJ]

First of all, this is the best forum ever. A whole friggin section on Zombies?? I have definitely found my home. BIG BIG fan of the Zombie genre.

Second, a big reason for me going with the seemingly ridiculous choice of getting a gas-guzzling 4x4 as a daily driver when gasoline is predicted to go to $5 or $6 in the next year or two is because I wanted at least one go-anything vehicle in the family. Yes, we live on an island, and we're not going to ford the East River, but if there is some real emergency and the roads are totally jammed, I don't want a grassy divider to be a no-go-zone because of what car I decided to own.

Thought about a diesel truck (what? no gas stations? I'll just tap into my home heating oil tank), because I'm not going to be stockpiling gasoline, but I'm not THAT concerned about the apocalypse that I wanted to give up the convertible aspects of a Jeep Wrangler. If I'm going to get away from sporty cars and start driving a truck, I want to have SOME fun!

Most people think I'm just getting back into Jeeps because I grew up in them and learned to drive on them. At least that's what I usually tell people. Until now, only my wife knew that there was a little .001% in the back of my head saying, "you really want to have a 4x4 in the household..." And she thinks I'm crazy for even thinking that much about it.

You can only control what you can control, and I'm not going to be anywhere near as prepared as some of you here, but I have a month's worth of water and will soon have the same for food, and I'll have my Jeep. No guns. Would love to learn to shoot and if I could keep the gun locked up somewhere not at home, I'd probably get one. Don't want one in the home unless something major happens. Funny growing up in NH I never learned... Accident when I was a kid scared the $#%@ out of me and that was that.

Looking forward to hanging out here and hopefully get some ideas on how to be a little better prepared in case the zombies start roaming and the alarms start going off...

[Bandit1]

Looking forward to hanging out here and hopefully get some ideas on how to be a little better prepared in case the zombies start roaming and the alarms start going off...

I think you mean WHEN, Zombies are just the next step in the evolutionary chain, they are comming, we just dont know when they will start to appear, and when they do, we are no longer the top of the food chain.

[LI4x4TJ]

New part of the plan -- solar energy. Was looking through the Harbor Freight website and found this: Solar Panel Kit. Check the reviews -- one guy even says it's for his "Zombie Hideout." Cool.

I bought one of these a while back when I went camping for a few days and it works great, but it looks like full solar kits are coming way down in price. In fact, Amazon sells a 60-watt solar kit for under $300.

The mind reels....

[Cybergrunt]

Yeah, Harbor Freight always has the 45 watt panels on sale. I should say 45 watt kit as it's three 15 watt panels. 149 bucks isn't bad. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

[Bandit1]

Somebody needs to invent "lunar pannels" that way you can charge and run stuff at night tooo