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The Professional: Make your plan around wherever you are currently living. Certain things you may have in your home that are not found here, feel free to add them. I just thought that we all have our survival plan, but many of us (including myself) involve things that we do not actually have. Things that we would acquire to protect ourselves during the outbreak. But what about if you were caught "with your pants around your ankles" so to speak. Completely off-guard and without your plan in place. How would you survive till you got what you needed in your survival plan. Granted with whatever you do you will make it that first week and you have a Bug Out Bag. How would you fight a zombie? Barricade or fortify your home? Maintain a standard of living so as to not lose your mind? Get creative and go nuts with these ideas.
I see what Spraymachine was talking about when I was approached about a template home. Living in a dorm spraymachine would have to leave in order to survive. So I'm calling off the petition for a template and will add it here. Template Home
Your List:
A bookshelf and 25 books (mostly hardback, about 15)
A musical instrument (Either what you already have or just choose one)
The_Professional
I live in a 3 bedroom 2 bath brick home about 1200 sq ft. Each bedroom is about 10x10 and has two windows save for one. One bathroom is located in the hallway while the other in the master bedroom. The windows sit roughly 5 feet off the ground with the exception of the living room which sits a few inches off the porch. The is only 2 feet off the ground with no fencing. The garage is completely sealed off currently as the door is broken an the only other door to the outside is blocked by a heavy cabinet used to store laundry detergent and such. This is also where the washer and dryer are located.
The fold out couch would be stripped of its bars to craft basic clubs to use to ward off zombies. Use them to knock'em around or place between myself and a zombie's maw. The rest of the couch becomes a barricade for the kitchen window since it and the living room window pose the greatest security threats. The standard couch would be placed in from of my living room window to cope with that threat. After consuming the soda they would be suspended off the ground on the twine with a few of the fold out couch bars to act as a early warning system. The coffee maker can be used to filter out rain water;caught with the 2 gallon bucket, of physical contaminates and heated to kill any bacteria. (Although I would probably still boil it on the stove) The brita filter will remove any elemental contaminates. All electronics will be used as intended till the power fails to maintain morale and contact with the outside world. Once they are no longer usable they may be turned into improvisational weapons or traded to people that still have power. (If we just don't bunk up with them for some reason) Once the power fails the coffee pot can be broken into glass shards for use as weapons. IN the event that the only accessible door is in danger of breach it can be boarded up with other doors with the hammer or drill. The blades of the mower can be removed to create make-shift machetes. The sledgehammer and gardening tools can be used as weapons as well as creating ditches or pits for the zombies to fall into. If someone is injured the fist aid kit and the sewing kit can be used to suture wounds. The zippo can be used to sterilize the needle and the cutco knife set can be used as scalpels.
These are just a few of my own ideas. Its not necessary to use all the items. That would eat up a lot of time and by all means go for it if you've got the inspiration.
Spraymachine
I'll use the 3 bedroom 2 bath that The Professional lives in as I currently live in dorms which I would flee at the first signs of panic. To secure the windows I would strip apart the fold out couch into cloth, padding, wood, bed frame, and the bed. I would then cover the actual window from the inside with tin foil and secure with tape, this would reflect sunlight back and not absorb much heat, keeping your house cooler in the daytime. I would then shut the curtains/blinds and depending on how wide and tall the windows are, I would use either the bed frame, computer desk top, stacked washer and dryer, dining room table top, or couch back part to cover the window. Secure the barrier with either weight from some other item or nail it into place, leaving at least two exits available, one for quick escape.
If there was a vulnerable place in my fortifications, I would place plates or bowls on the barricade so if someone was trying to get through, they would fall and alert me. You could also use a little tape to secure the plate to avoid any false alarms due to gravity.
Use the 2g bucket to fill up with tap water as soon as possible, fill bath tub with water, fill garbage bags/plastic baggies with water, fill condoms with water (you've all made balloons out of them), fill anything that is a container with water. Use Brita filter to filter out water. If filter won't work for some reason, make solar distiller using bathroom window for light.
Sharpen the wooden mop end into a spike, take off mop part. Use the two man technique to kill zombies with it, one positions spear, second hits spear with sledge hammer. Cutco blade can also be removed, cut a slit into broom handle end, put blade into slit, use drill to drill two/three small holes into handle/blade then use nails to fasten blade by putting them through and bending, or by nailing the nails through the holes in the blade, but at an angle so the nails will fasten in the undrilled part of the wood.
If I need something sticky like Elmer's glue but don't have any, use hair spray.
Circular saw can be use as a weapon on a stick like the makeshift spear. Make shift decapitator?
more to come...
Kelen_Moonhunter
I've got a fairly decent sized two-story house on a farm several miles from a town with a population just over 4,000. The area on and around the farm is partly wooded and partly open with hills, as a matter of fact my house sits on a hill. Attached to the house is a two-vehicle garage and then less than a five yards aways is another garage with a workshop attached to the back. My first floor has a living room that is over 30 ft. long and nearly as wide it has four windows facing East, three windows facing South, and two windows and the door facing West, the hallway leads North. The living room has a wood stove in it. There are two bedrooms both about 15-20 ft. wide and long one has two windows facing West and the other has two windows facing South and four facing East. The kitchen is on the first floor and it has no windows. There are two bathrooms on the first floor, one is in the living room and has no windows and just has a sink and toilet (plus mirror and such), the other is a full bathroom with a shower and has three windows facing East. The dining room has one mirror facing West and a door leading out to the attached garage and the stairs leading to the second floor. The garage has three windows facing East and has two doors one facing East and the other directly opposite facing West and both automatic car doors face West. All windows on the first floor are above chest level of a standard 6' tall human.
The second floor has only two windows and those are in one of the bathrooms. Immediately up the stairs it opens up into a room that is over 30 ft. both wide and long. This is the game room. It has a pool table, just on a half-guess I'd say about 10-12 pool sticks, about three or four different sets of pool balls, a refridgerator, a microwave, a cabinet that serves as a bar a small bathroom that is only about 5 ft. wide and long with just a toilet and sink (plus mirror and such), and double doors facing North that lead out onto a balcony. Overlooking the stairs is a half-wall. There is also a theatre room that is 15-20 ft. wide and long with six leather recliners, a projector, and a screen 8 ft. wide and 4 ft. tall. The third and last bedroom is the same size as the living room with a large bathroom (the one with two windows) with a sink, toilet, shower, and bath tub and a walk in closet the that is about 10 ft. wide and long. There is a wood pellet stove in the bedroom as well as a storage space that sits right over the living room which has a single walkway as flooring, the rest of that floor is open to where you can see the insulation and the top of the ceiling of the living room.
Be right back to finish this, that was the whole description of the house though...
Quickrace89: I live on the top floor of 5-storey flats, rather small. I run a gun shop from home, so I'm home almost all day, while everyone else leaves. There's about 15 flats in the whole thing, and I own two, joined together. All the people in the flats have rifles, and a couple of them are a good aim. We could block off the ground floor, and have rope ladders going up to the first floor, that can be rolled down and back up again. There's a lot of balconies, so sharpshooters can stay on the balconies. There aren't any buildings close enough to allow someone (or something) to jump onto our building, so we can control access. We are pretty close to a shopping village, so when Z-Day strikes we can send out two teams to loot the supermarkets, bottle shops, and gun shops. I own one of the gun shops, so I can roll up there and get everything onto my ute. It's built to cyclone code, so it is somewhat strong. The only danger is accessing the vehicles - between us we have three utes, a jeep, two land cruisers and a lot of normal cars. The jeep and utes could make a very good convoy/raid team, but we'd have to put down some sort of very strong gate keeping our vehicles safe. This is where I live most of the time, and as I said, I have access to a lot of guns and ammo.
This page should be merged with Barricades.
I see what Spraymachine was talking about when I was approached about a template home. Living in a dorm spraymachine would have to leave in order to survive. So I'm calling off the petition for a template and will add it here. Template Home
Your List:
Any common household cleaner Hammer
A 24" TV Box of 200 4" nails
DVD Player and 20 DVDs Circular Saw
Any common haircare product Electric drill
A Cutco Knife Set Box of 200 4" screws
Aluminum Foil Gas-powered Chainsaw Plastic baggies
A full cooking set (Pots, pans and such) Gas-powered Push Mower
12 Pack of cola/2 liter of cola x2 Basic Gardening Tools (shovels, rakes, hoes, trawls etc)
Sewing Kit Fire Extinguisher
A set of dishes for 3 First Aid Kit
A dresser Zippo and fluid 30ft Gardening Hose
A queen size mattress and box springs 8 Lbs Sledgehammer
An Xbox360/PS3/or Wii (Just one) and 10 games 20ft Twine,
Coffee maker tape
Washer and dryer A vacuum
A fold out couch and a standard couch A 2 gallon bucket
A broom and mop (wooden or plastic) Linen (blankets, towels, sheets etc)
Computer desk( Average sized ) A Brita faucet and pitcher filter (2 refills)
19" inch monitor with tower computer Wood-chopping axe
Dinning room table and 4 chairs
A 24" TV Box of 200 4" nails
DVD Player and 20 DVDs Circular Saw
Any common haircare product Electric drill
A Cutco Knife Set Box of 200 4" screws
Aluminum Foil Gas-powered Chainsaw Plastic baggies
A full cooking set (Pots, pans and such) Gas-powered Push Mower
12 Pack of cola/2 liter of cola x2 Basic Gardening Tools (shovels, rakes, hoes, trawls etc)
Sewing Kit Fire Extinguisher
A set of dishes for 3 First Aid Kit
A dresser Zippo and fluid 30ft Gardening Hose
A queen size mattress and box springs 8 Lbs Sledgehammer
An Xbox360/PS3/or Wii (Just one) and 10 games 20ft Twine,
Coffee maker tape
Washer and dryer A vacuum
A fold out couch and a standard couch A 2 gallon bucket
A broom and mop (wooden or plastic) Linen (blankets, towels, sheets etc)
Computer desk( Average sized ) A Brita faucet and pitcher filter (2 refills)
19" inch monitor with tower computer Wood-chopping axe
Dinning room table and 4 chairs
A musical instrument (Either what you already have or just choose one)
The_Professional
I live in a 3 bedroom 2 bath brick home about 1200 sq ft. Each bedroom is about 10x10 and has two windows save for one. One bathroom is located in the hallway while the other in the master bedroom. The windows sit roughly 5 feet off the ground with the exception of the living room which sits a few inches off the porch. The is only 2 feet off the ground with no fencing. The garage is completely sealed off currently as the door is broken an the only other door to the outside is blocked by a heavy cabinet used to store laundry detergent and such. This is also where the washer and dryer are located.
The fold out couch would be stripped of its bars to craft basic clubs to use to ward off zombies. Use them to knock'em around or place between myself and a zombie's maw. The rest of the couch becomes a barricade for the kitchen window since it and the living room window pose the greatest security threats. The standard couch would be placed in from of my living room window to cope with that threat. After consuming the soda they would be suspended off the ground on the twine with a few of the fold out couch bars to act as a early warning system. The coffee maker can be used to filter out rain water;caught with the 2 gallon bucket, of physical contaminates and heated to kill any bacteria. (Although I would probably still boil it on the stove) The brita filter will remove any elemental contaminates. All electronics will be used as intended till the power fails to maintain morale and contact with the outside world. Once they are no longer usable they may be turned into improvisational weapons or traded to people that still have power. (If we just don't bunk up with them for some reason) Once the power fails the coffee pot can be broken into glass shards for use as weapons. IN the event that the only accessible door is in danger of breach it can be boarded up with other doors with the hammer or drill. The blades of the mower can be removed to create make-shift machetes. The sledgehammer and gardening tools can be used as weapons as well as creating ditches or pits for the zombies to fall into. If someone is injured the fist aid kit and the sewing kit can be used to suture wounds. The zippo can be used to sterilize the needle and the cutco knife set can be used as scalpels.
These are just a few of my own ideas. Its not necessary to use all the items. That would eat up a lot of time and by all means go for it if you've got the inspiration.
Spraymachine
I'll use the 3 bedroom 2 bath that The Professional lives in as I currently live in dorms which I would flee at the first signs of panic. To secure the windows I would strip apart the fold out couch into cloth, padding, wood, bed frame, and the bed. I would then cover the actual window from the inside with tin foil and secure with tape, this would reflect sunlight back and not absorb much heat, keeping your house cooler in the daytime. I would then shut the curtains/blinds and depending on how wide and tall the windows are, I would use either the bed frame, computer desk top, stacked washer and dryer, dining room table top, or couch back part to cover the window. Secure the barrier with either weight from some other item or nail it into place, leaving at least two exits available, one for quick escape.
If there was a vulnerable place in my fortifications, I would place plates or bowls on the barricade so if someone was trying to get through, they would fall and alert me. You could also use a little tape to secure the plate to avoid any false alarms due to gravity.
Use the 2g bucket to fill up with tap water as soon as possible, fill bath tub with water, fill garbage bags/plastic baggies with water, fill condoms with water (you've all made balloons out of them), fill anything that is a container with water. Use Brita filter to filter out water. If filter won't work for some reason, make solar distiller using bathroom window for light.
Sharpen the wooden mop end into a spike, take off mop part. Use the two man technique to kill zombies with it, one positions spear, second hits spear with sledge hammer. Cutco blade can also be removed, cut a slit into broom handle end, put blade into slit, use drill to drill two/three small holes into handle/blade then use nails to fasten blade by putting them through and bending, or by nailing the nails through the holes in the blade, but at an angle so the nails will fasten in the undrilled part of the wood.
If I need something sticky like Elmer's glue but don't have any, use hair spray.
Circular saw can be use as a weapon on a stick like the makeshift spear. Make shift decapitator?
more to come...
Kelen_Moonhunter
I've got a fairly decent sized two-story house on a farm several miles from a town with a population just over 4,000. The area on and around the farm is partly wooded and partly open with hills, as a matter of fact my house sits on a hill. Attached to the house is a two-vehicle garage and then less than a five yards aways is another garage with a workshop attached to the back. My first floor has a living room that is over 30 ft. long and nearly as wide it has four windows facing East, three windows facing South, and two windows and the door facing West, the hallway leads North. The living room has a wood stove in it. There are two bedrooms both about 15-20 ft. wide and long one has two windows facing West and the other has two windows facing South and four facing East. The kitchen is on the first floor and it has no windows. There are two bathrooms on the first floor, one is in the living room and has no windows and just has a sink and toilet (plus mirror and such), the other is a full bathroom with a shower and has three windows facing East. The dining room has one mirror facing West and a door leading out to the attached garage and the stairs leading to the second floor. The garage has three windows facing East and has two doors one facing East and the other directly opposite facing West and both automatic car doors face West. All windows on the first floor are above chest level of a standard 6' tall human.
The second floor has only two windows and those are in one of the bathrooms. Immediately up the stairs it opens up into a room that is over 30 ft. both wide and long. This is the game room. It has a pool table, just on a half-guess I'd say about 10-12 pool sticks, about three or four different sets of pool balls, a refridgerator, a microwave, a cabinet that serves as a bar a small bathroom that is only about 5 ft. wide and long with just a toilet and sink (plus mirror and such), and double doors facing North that lead out onto a balcony. Overlooking the stairs is a half-wall. There is also a theatre room that is 15-20 ft. wide and long with six leather recliners, a projector, and a screen 8 ft. wide and 4 ft. tall. The third and last bedroom is the same size as the living room with a large bathroom (the one with two windows) with a sink, toilet, shower, and bath tub and a walk in closet the that is about 10 ft. wide and long. There is a wood pellet stove in the bedroom as well as a storage space that sits right over the living room which has a single walkway as flooring, the rest of that floor is open to where you can see the insulation and the top of the ceiling of the living room.
Be right back to finish this, that was the whole description of the house though...
Quickrace89: I live on the top floor of 5-storey flats, rather small. I run a gun shop from home, so I'm home almost all day, while everyone else leaves. There's about 15 flats in the whole thing, and I own two, joined together. All the people in the flats have rifles, and a couple of them are a good aim. We could block off the ground floor, and have rope ladders going up to the first floor, that can be rolled down and back up again. There's a lot of balconies, so sharpshooters can stay on the balconies. There aren't any buildings close enough to allow someone (or something) to jump onto our building, so we can control access. We are pretty close to a shopping village, so when Z-Day strikes we can send out two teams to loot the supermarkets, bottle shops, and gun shops. I own one of the gun shops, so I can roll up there and get everything onto my ute. It's built to cyclone code, so it is somewhat strong. The only danger is accessing the vehicles - between us we have three utes, a jeep, two land cruisers and a lot of normal cars. The jeep and utes could make a very good convoy/raid team, but we'd have to put down some sort of very strong gate keeping our vehicles safe. This is where I live most of the time, and as I said, I have access to a lot of guns and ammo.
This page should be merged with Barricades.
