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The Zomblog: Plans Change
Things change, people change, and thus plans must change. The whole point of having a contingency is so that when you are in a position in which you have to use it you don’t have to think on the fly. That is where I find myself today.
My initial plan for when the Zompocalypse came was to meet my buddy at the airport with our weaponry, fly to Catalina (island off the coast of California), eradicate the threat there and put a good distance of water between us and the dead. Even if the zombies can walk under water you figure that fish and scavengers would pick them apart and we would probably crash on a houseboat until we knew we were safe. Things change. I no longer talk to this person for various reasons and thus “the contingency” becomes “the plan.” So what happens now?
Very simple. Costco and the giant steel doors with my other buddy Matt. He has a plan that has always seemed about as perfect as anything else and the only real difference is that we will be safer sooner with more food and on the mainland. Things change and now I need a new contingency…
Should I cook up a plan with April and Norm even though they live quite the distance away (in terms of Zompocalypse distance)? Maybe I should just draw up some plans for the defense of my neighborhood? After all, I figure about twenty houses on my block, two-sided, equaling forty houses with adjacent fencing creates many places to fall back to in case one fortification collapses. Also the likelihood of actual structural damage at the initial onset of the virus is low and even post infection is small depending on the type of zombies you are facing. Besides, shouldn’t a contingency plan be simple?
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I DONT LIKE IT,STARTING ON THE SAME DAY WHEN THINGS CHANGE WE WILL ALSO HAVE TO CONTEND WITH THE CRIMINAL AND CRAZY POPULATION AND IN ALOT OF CASES MAY POSE A MORE SERIOUS THREAT THAN THE UNDEAD VARIETY.
I ENVISION SMALL TO MEDIUM GROUPS OF WELL ARMED CITIZENS ALMOST LIKE AN ARMY COLUMN WITH A FEW RVS SMALL JEEPS AND TRUCKS AND STAY OUT ON THE ROAD AND IN THE FOOTHILLS WITH MOTORCYCLES BEING SOMETHING LIKE SCOUTING PARTYS,NO MORE THAN 10 TO 15 PEOPLE.BARRICADING A STRUCTURE IS ONLY SAFE UNTIL SUPPLIES DWINDLE AND AT SOME POINT NO MATTER HOW WELL FORTIFIED,THE STRUCTURE WILL BE BREACHED BY THE LIVING AND THE NOT SO LIVING!
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the Costco Problem..
The Costco problem, is that Cost-Co is so obviously the best place to go.
Let’s assume you and your friends get there with guns and ammo, it will be short time before other survivors start collecting at your fence and gate, pounding, pleading, and threatening to get in.
And that’s where it gets sticky. There are plenty of food resources in a costco, but no ammo. You have what you have. And then there’s the human element.
The real problem during the zompocalypse isn’t the walking dead, but the panicking survivors. Scared, and armed. If you let strangers into your midst, be prepared for a power struggle, be prepared for wounded relatives, basically, be prepared to bring Hell into Eden.
So the real question, in securing a cost co, is.. Are you prepared to defend it from other survivors?
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Catalina
Oh, and here’s another problem. the benefit of Catalina is of course, it being an island. Separated by the mainland by 26 miles of open floor, and as you said, full of oceanic scavengers. But with 3000 citizens living on the island, and 2 small super markets, the existing food will not last long.
You can pretty much guarantee that the super markets will be cleaned out by the time that you get there, assuming they aren’t shooting all incoming pilots to preserve their own quarantine.
Once you get there, you should be prepared to fend for yourselves.
I assure you, the citizens will know you’re a mainlander, and they won’t tolerate you murdering residents to pick up squatters’ rights.
the plan is simple. offense, not defense. i like robby’s idea of ’small groups of well-armed citizens”out on the road’. i say, let the hunted become the hunter. unfortunately, thanks to ridiculous laws and an abbundance of drugs(the legal, illegal, and the prescribed kind), we live in a nation teeming with the criminal and/or crazy. but we also live in a country that has a right to bear arms. so if you have them, get out there and use them. yes, a lot of people(especially the innocent) will die. but the ‘zompocalypse’ life will be a difficult life. all i know for sure is; in a world full of zombies, i’ll be out there…hunting.
I FORGOT THAT WE HAVE TO GO TO THE GUNSHOP AND CLEAN IT OUT BEFORE OUR ADVENTURE,JUST LIKE EVERY FILM ABOUT ZOMBIES HAS THE EXPECTED GUN SHOP RAID!!!!
Re: Costco – You bet your ass I’m ready to take out survivors for my colony.
Re: Catalina – even though it is now null and void those Catalina folk are rich prisses. Wouldn’t be too hard to convince them with a gun in my hand. lol
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hey i like the cost co idead. altho i wuz thinkin more like sam’s club. actually there is this not so obvious place near where i live. it is a food distribution center. it is a big wearhouse in the middle of the boonies not even 40 miles away. it supplies all the nieghboring cities with food for places like walmart food lion and all that good stuff. and they are always full of food. hopefully i can get there with my 5 rockin buddies in one piece cuz they all live near me. and i have a big truck and lotsa guns. i’m not a redneck girl by the way. just prepared and hopin for it! (apocalypse)