Comments on: YOUR ZOMBIE SHELTER A DEATH TRAP?

By: Bradley R

Bradley R — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:18:24 +0000

finally somebody mentions raiders!! so many people think its just going to be humans versus zombies, bullshit.. as soon as prison gaurds and staff jump ship to find their families, BAM! all the prison are just going to flood out, maybe not every prison and maybe not immediately but it’ll happen. and as soon as it does, out’ll pour the insane, drug addicted, raping, sociopathic, shit stains into an already fucked up situation. so all you pro-melee people, think again. all you “lets find survivors”, BE CAUTIOUS! imagine an insane murderer whos just escaped and is “finally freeeee” only to find the world shot to shit.. what you thinks gonna be goin through his head. yep. he’s bout to kill some shit. zombie or not (you). hope i’ve given a little insight, like the poop guy

-Situation awareness is the key to survival-

By: EricJ

EricJ — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:50:48 +0000

You’ve overlooked a key detail in your plan, my friend.. and many make the same oversight. Where are you going to poop? Most cities have electrically operated water pumps.. once the power is cut off, running water will stop. Piling it up inside your hideout is not an option for obvious sanitary reasons. Piling it up outside a window will alert potential thieves/scavengers to your location. If you can, fill your bathtub at the first sign of the outbreak, you will be able to use it as drinking water and to flush your toilet. Because even a few flushes could prolong the use of your hideout by a week or two.

By: EricJ

EricJ — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:37:58 +0000

Keep in mind, cruise ships don’t “sail”. They run on diesel fuel. The average cruise ship goes through 600 litres of diesel fuel PER HOUR. They also require a crew of several dozen just to operate, and that crew has to be familiar with the operations of the ship, not to mention how to run the engines, and make necessary repairs. And sitting out in open water would make you vulnerable to pirates. That’s IF you’re lucky enough to find an empty cruise ship.. or any ship. My prediction is that anyone with a boat is going to use it to escape the zombies.

By: Lykos

Lykos — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:40:27 +0000

I have developed a three tier emergency system in my house. The Alpha plan is to hunker down in home for at least 6 weeks. The entire house is too big to fortify, so I have the master bedroom as our final fortress to live in during that time. Besides the main doorway, there are two large windows (That will be covered with my king size bed and furniture behind it) that I can escape out of, as well as a higher bathroom window that is high enough off the ground to stop Zeds from getting in but easily drop down to the ground from the inside.

There is also a walk-in closet that has a hidden back access to the laundry room, which exits to the backyard and the woods surrounding our home. The only problem there is only my kids could fit through it, but in an emergency, they could escape, leaving my wife and I to give them time to run.

After six weeks, my wife and I plan to use our minivan to get quickly to a storage facility nearby, the Beta Site. The storage room holds lots of extra survival equipment that I could not load quickly. Seeds, soil, water, gasoline, weapons.. all the thing I will need for long term survival.

If you are looking for a storage area, I recommend you find one with a security gate and fencing all the way around. Even better if it has indoor storage rooms, ones that can be accessed (and secured by) a metal entry door. This means when you arrive at the storage lockers, you will not only have access to your own locker, but all the other lockers that people use in that building. You can find some crazy stuff in storage lockers.

The storage facility I use also has a large parking lot to keep buses, trucks, an ambulance, and boats. If you know how to hotwire a vehicle, you could use these as escape transportation with larger amounts of equipment than you arrived with.

After 9 months to a year of living in the storage facility, it will have given all of my family and friends in the loop a chance to arrive if they are going to. After that time, if they haven’t made it, they are dead. Once the group is together, we will head out taking our remaining supplies with us to our Omega Site. This will be a larger facility, designed to be a fortress and a permanent site to start a community that can stand the onslaught of both Zombies and human raiders. We are looking at Prisons, as well as small islands in the Great Lakes as possibilities. We can not pre-support these sites for obvious reasons, so they will have to be reconned and possibly cleared and secured (Can you imagine a prison full of zombified convicts sitting in cells?).

Good Luck, Stay Safe!

By: ZRS Staff

ZRS Staff — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:37:19 +0000

Exactly! Horrible idea to go anywhere that others will gather – and big box stores like Wal-Mart and Costco are the last place you want to be.

By: Josh Carter

Josh Carter — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:05:15 +0000

The problem with stores (Wal-Mart/Malls, ect.) is- How many thousands of other people have the same idea?

By: shane

shane — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 02:37:40 +0000

my friends call me an expert at zombie survival because i always have a plan. if any of you have seen dawn of the dead. that is a great example of what to do. go to a mall with plenty of supplys. lock the main doors. and clean up. if you have a small crew a walmart like structure would be good. it has a decent amount of food, some entertainment, and plenty of things to use as weapons (power tools, ect.). thats all i have to say. instead of building you own. stand with a already standing building.

By: Daniel Pohaku Osorno

Daniel Pohaku Osorno — Fri, 20 May 2011 11:09:47 +0000

I just thought of the same Idea! Eating fish, somehow turning salt-water into Purified-water with a converter of somewhat. Never thought about the storm situation as you noted!

By: HappySlappyZombieKillerGuy

HappySlappyZombieKillerGuy — Mon, 09 May 2011 23:52:43 +0000

Why has no one thought of this? Find a house boat or a cruise ship, sail out to open water and live there. You have weapons and lots an lots of food on a cruise ship, though maybe you woudn’t be able to undock without crew. keep friends alive!!!!! Also on a house boat, you need only yourself, but the food supply is much smaller. When you run out of stuff, send some friends and yourself, but not your whole party, back to land in a long boat, and have them stock up The only thing I see wrong with this is storms…

By: Alli

Alli — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 04:58:52 +0000

While awaiting a safe passage to my safe house…I’m in a single story home…On the fly…a pull down attic will work as a temp hidout. Your supplies can be there already. Just make sure it won’t pull down once you are up. You will probably want to cut a small hole to the outside or just cut a hole and escape. Zip line would rock!!! Or just cut a hole near your transportation. I live in the south…after katrina…don’t forget the hole if you are hiding in the attic…you will be just plain dead.