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City: Chicago, ILNeighborhood: The Loop
Building or Defensible Location: John Hancock Tower
Attributes:Though this would seem like an unlikely location, this 100-story, glass and steel skyscraper on Michigan Avenue in the heart of Chicago has many attributes that make it an excellent defensible location. The tower is the second tallest in the nationination and roughly divided up into retail on the first few floors, then large number of floors devoted to offices and business, another large number of floors for private residences near the top and then an observation deck and restaurant near the very top.
My plan would be to seal off the first second of floors near the ground level so the zombies couldn't get in and reside only in the upper third of the building. Access to the upper floors can only be done in two ways: the elevators and the stairwells, and their aren't that many of them. Additionally, the elevators and stairwells already have lock-out features built into them that allow you only to go down and exit the building but not to go up. Controlling the elevators and blocking accessIaccess would weld steel plates over the windows on the first few floors, just as added protection.
Pros:
In the case of an outbreak, will you be allowing other survivors to join you here?
Pros:
- theThe building contains many sources of food as there are many restaurants and even grocery stores inside the building.
- theThe building is equiptequipped with generators, has an extensive maintenance facility, i.e. lots of tools for creating baracades,barricades, etc.
- otherOther sundry goods are available through the mulititudemultitude of convenience stores.
- thereThere is subway access to the rest of the city through the basement floors... while this poses a problem in as far as this is another area that must be secured, it could be a valuable escape route if all goes to hell
- there'sThere's an 80-mile visabilityvisibility radius from the sky-deck so you can see whatever'swhatever is coming at you.
- theThe sheer size of the building means it can hold a lot of survivors and will have a lot of space for dealing with the build up of trash.
- theThe residential part of the building is near the top and fairly luxurious... if you have to live as a refugee, you might as well do it in a luxury apartment.
- there'sThere's a cheesecake factory in the building, and high-stress times call for lots of cheesecake.
- theThe very top of the building has changeable colored lights visablevisible from many many miles away... goodaway...good for sending signals to other survivors.
- theThe building is so tall that even if you lost control of lower floors you could add levels of protection by sealing up every few floors.
- there'sThere's huge antenna's on top of the building... those must be good for something... sendingsomething...sending and receiving transmitionstransmissions from other survivors?
- there'sThere's great shopping in that part of the city so when the emergency's all over you can go out and celebrate by shopping on the magnificent mile.
- reallyReally the building's entirely too tall for anyone or any thing to scale it either on the outside or up through an elevator shaft.
- thereThere are a few clothing stores and spas in the building. Just because the country is being invaded by zombies doesn't mean you can't look good feel good.
- withWith such nice amenities I don't think you'd have to worry too much about things degenerating into a "Lord of the Flies" type situation. I think it could remain pretty civilized.
- thereThere are many security camera's throughout the building so people assigned to security detail could use them as long as we had power.
Cons:
Cons:
- you'dYou'd really have to make sure you had control of the elevators or just disable them entirely... althoughentirely...although it would be really annoying to only have the stairwells to get in between floors. I beleivebelieve there might be "local elevators" that only travel up and down through the residential part near the top.
- againAgain you'd have to be sure that subway entrance in the bottom was sealed up nice and tight.
- ifIf you lost electricity and then eventually the generatorsgenerators, iI think the temperature inside would be pretty hard to regulate seeing that Chicago has tempraturestemperatures well below freezing in the winter and well above 100 in the summer.
- waterWater could pose a problem. evenEven though Lake Michigan is only blocks away it would be risky to send a group there to get water. We'd probably have to start collecting water though the taps while we had access to it.
In the case of an outbreak, will you be allowing other survivors to join you here?
Sure, plenty of room. I'd have to approve who gets to come up but basically friends and family and whoever could get there. We could probably get a little community going. I'm the leader though... just so everyone recognizes that.
