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J.F. Elliott, San Jose, CA.
Your Name: James F. Elliott
Your "handle" should we look for you on the radio waves or web:
James F. Elliott or jfelliott
Your location: San Jose, CA
Is your plan dependent on zombies in your home town, or anywhere?
A good plan should be of use in multiple locations; this one should be useful for anyone living in large suburban sprawl or urban/exurban areas. Zombies -- like mad rioting bastards, rabid packs of capuchin monkeys, and occupying armies -- require their own tactics. However, the backbone of a good zombie survival plan is a disaster response strategy useful in the event of natural. man-made, and undead events.
Will you be staying in your home or headed somewhere else?
Phase 1 is "hunkering down" in place and preparing for siege. If this is impractical, or the situation does not look like it will improve within seven days, it will be essential to move to Phase 2 and proceed out of the area and to a more rural location. Don't be fooled by "big box" stores or shopping malls! These are likely to be the first places others think of to go, and the more tasty meat there, the more zombies such locations will attract.
If you're heading out, how do you plan to get there?
Vehicle, at first, in order to get some distance between us and the city. Plan on being unable to buy gasoline and have sturdy bicycles available with attached carriages for carting material.
Got anyone you want to take with you?
I'm taking my wife and my dog. Anyone else who wants to come had best be in shape, similarly prepared, and able to contribute in some meaningful fashion (soldiering skills, farming or maintenance skills, medical training, etc.).
How will you communicate with the outside world, or do you plan to go the hermit route?
Signal flares, strobes, signal mirrors, and portable radios.
How are you planning to get food and water?
We will have at minimum 10 days' field rations if leaving the home. The home is stocked with dry goods, water, and canned meals for two weeks.
What's your weapon of choice? Do you need to reload that thing? Gotta plan for that?
Weapons need to reflect the ability to have multiple utility. For example, my restored Kar98k has a bayonet and heavy stock, and can be used for melee as well as ranged combat. A tomahawk makes a handy weapon and useful tool. Do not neglect to carry one or more knives as both tools and back-up weapons.
Pistols and rifles are best with clips and in small calibers unless one is a practised firearms enthusiast. A Remington rifle with scope and a Ruger MKIII, both sharing .22LR ammunition, will set you back less than $1K and allow you to carry literally hundreds of rounds of ammunition (which can be bought cheaply). If you're trying to pull off a head-shot, you'd best be wielding a pistol you can use at close range, or firing something you can shoot reliably. For the average person, that's a .22.
Hand-to-hand weapons should reflect one's training. I am not a melee combat enthusiast, and so do not know how to use swords. I recommend crowbars, pickaxes, axes, or long hammers. Anything with enough weight and a good strong surface for penetrating the skull, but not so heavy it will tire you out.
But never forget the utility of simply bugging out. He who runs away lives to run away another day.
Got a survival philosophy?
Ruthless pragmatism. When was the last time you met un savauge noble? Remember: A paranoid is just someone in posession of all the facts.
Are you willing to hook up with other survivors?
If they display a sense of preparedness, come with supplies and/or needed skills, or can be easily outrun and I'm in dire need of cannon fodder, absolutely.
Is your plan based on a book/movie/blog/scientist we may have heard of?
The work of Max Brooks, S.M. Stirling, and various disaster preparedness manuals.
Your "handle" should we look for you on the radio waves or web:
James F. Elliott or jfelliott
Your location: San Jose, CA
Tell us:
Is your plan dependent on zombies in your home town, or anywhere?
A good plan should be of use in multiple locations; this one should be useful for anyone living in large suburban sprawl or urban/exurban areas. Zombies -- like mad rioting bastards, rabid packs of capuchin monkeys, and occupying armies -- require their own tactics. However, the backbone of a good zombie survival plan is a disaster response strategy useful in the event of natural. man-made, and undead events.
Will you be staying in your home or headed somewhere else?
Phase 1 is "hunkering down" in place and preparing for siege. If this is impractical, or the situation does not look like it will improve within seven days, it will be essential to move to Phase 2 and proceed out of the area and to a more rural location. Don't be fooled by "big box" stores or shopping malls! These are likely to be the first places others think of to go, and the more tasty meat there, the more zombies such locations will attract.
If you're heading out, how do you plan to get there?
Vehicle, at first, in order to get some distance between us and the city. Plan on being unable to buy gasoline and have sturdy bicycles available with attached carriages for carting material.
Got anyone you want to take with you?
I'm taking my wife and my dog. Anyone else who wants to come had best be in shape, similarly prepared, and able to contribute in some meaningful fashion (soldiering skills, farming or maintenance skills, medical training, etc.).
How will you communicate with the outside world, or do you plan to go the hermit route?
Signal flares, strobes, signal mirrors, and portable radios.
How are you planning to get food and water?
We will have at minimum 10 days' field rations if leaving the home. The home is stocked with dry goods, water, and canned meals for two weeks.
What's your weapon of choice? Do you need to reload that thing? Gotta plan for that?
Weapons need to reflect the ability to have multiple utility. For example, my restored Kar98k has a bayonet and heavy stock, and can be used for melee as well as ranged combat. A tomahawk makes a handy weapon and useful tool. Do not neglect to carry one or more knives as both tools and back-up weapons.
Pistols and rifles are best with clips and in small calibers unless one is a practised firearms enthusiast. A Remington rifle with scope and a Ruger MKIII, both sharing .22LR ammunition, will set you back less than $1K and allow you to carry literally hundreds of rounds of ammunition (which can be bought cheaply). If you're trying to pull off a head-shot, you'd best be wielding a pistol you can use at close range, or firing something you can shoot reliably. For the average person, that's a .22.
Hand-to-hand weapons should reflect one's training. I am not a melee combat enthusiast, and so do not know how to use swords. I recommend crowbars, pickaxes, axes, or long hammers. Anything with enough weight and a good strong surface for penetrating the skull, but not so heavy it will tire you out.
But never forget the utility of simply bugging out. He who runs away lives to run away another day.
Got a survival philosophy?
Ruthless pragmatism. When was the last time you met un savauge noble? Remember: A paranoid is just someone in posession of all the facts.
Are you willing to hook up with other survivors?
If they display a sense of preparedness, come with supplies and/or needed skills, or can be easily outrun and I'm in dire need of cannon fodder, absolutely.
Is your plan based on a book/movie/blog/scientist we may have heard of?
The work of Max Brooks, S.M. Stirling, and various disaster preparedness manuals.
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