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misterhamtastic
About Me: When I started thinking way too much about zombies: 2 years ago What started my zombie fixation:28 days later Favorite zombie book:World War Z Favorite zombie movie: 28 days later Favorite quote in any zombie movie:"Do you have any Faygo?" My Survival Plan: My “handle” should you look for you on the radio waves or web:misterhamtasticMy location:Aylett, VA Is my plan dependent on zombies in your home town, or anywhere?hometown Will I be staying in my home or headed somewhere else?staying home If I'm heading out, how do I plan to get there? Got anyone I want to take with me? How will I communicate with the outside world, or do I plan to go the hermit route?CB radio How am I planning to get food and water?My fenced in yard I can grow some vegetables, stockpile some shelf-stable foods between now and then What’s my weapon of choice? Do you need to reload that thing? Gotta plan for that?8 lb. sledgehammer or .22 rifle-1000 rounds of ammo in house now. Got a survival philosophy?Outlast Am I willing to hook up with other survivors?Sure Is my plan based on a book/movie/blog/scientist other survivors may have heard of? not really It's pretty simple, really. I live in a subdivision about 10 miles away from any kind of shopping and 20 miles away from any major population center. My plan is based on no support being available from any neighbor, and hopefully lasting at least one year. First-water. We have an artesian well. Unless a water line breaks, we have water. If one breaks... well, pray for rain, I guess. Second-sanitation. We have a septic tank and drainage field. It requires nothing but running water to work. Third-food. We'll stockpile shelf-stable stuff, canned goods mostly, between now and then. There's room in our backyard to grow vegetables, and last year we gave it a try. We know we need to work on the soil a bit, it's kind of sandy, but it should work. Finally-protection. I have enough plywood to board the front windows and door over, and there's a six-foot fence on the back yard that butts up to woods. At the first sign of zombies I'd start reinforcing the fence with wood from both the woods and the front porch. While the fence won't hold off thousands of zombies, it should be good for anything under a hundred. The lack of heavy population locally suggests to me that our threat should be limited to a few to a dozen at a time, which we can pick off with the rifle or hit with the sledge. My "basement" is half exposed, and made of 5000 psi concrete. It has one window and one door. This will be the backup position. I will have a plywood cover to quickly nail in place with a couple of firing holes cut into it. Hopefully we'll be able to use the rifle to reduce any numbers in the yard, until it can be reopened, If not, then we will be facing malnutrition, but should still last a year. All of this is based on the idea of zombies that will eventually break down. If these are "mystical" or something, then it won't work. If it's the infected like 28 days later, then it might get dicey at first, depending on the speed of the outbreak.
Latest page update: Oct 6 2011, 7:07 PM EDT
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