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Oakspar77777 |
The good, bad, and ugly of school buildings
Oct 20 2011, 9:00 PM EDT
PA is right that schools have lots of doors. This is due to fire codes and the need to quickly evacuate the building. Many of those doors, however, are "exit only" doors, lacking a meads to enter from the outside (no handles, grips, etc). So it is possibly to have a school building that is secure. Not all schools have huge panes of glass. Obviously, those that do should not be used.The huge size is a potential boon, as it allows some outdoors activities (mainly cook-fires and restrooms) to be used inside without worring about buildup of smoke or feces. The multiplicity of rooms also creates lots of good fallback locations. The doors are usually solid as well, again due to fire code. Locking those doors is usually as simple as a bike chain and lock. The downsides, however, are MASSIVE. First and foremost, the school has NOTHING of value in it. It is weapon-free by design, it contains little that can be burned for heat (most furniture is metal), and it has very little food in it and most of that food is frozen or perishable. Also, there will not be water once municpal sources loose power. Most schools do not have generators. FURTHERMORE, most schools are the staging location for emergency disaster aid - meaning that they will be filled with people, the injured, the infected, law enforcement, etc. A real ground zero. Not to mention, how are you getting in? Unless you are on staff with a key, you are going to have to break in - leaving a way for people and things to follow you. To be honest, the school offers little that a giant empty warehouse does not, apart from cinderblock walls. 2 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you?
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DonovanRichter |
1. RE: The good, bad, and ugly of school buildings
Oct 21 2011, 8:00 AM EDT
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Yeah, trying to fight in a school would be awful. =*_*= Think of all the sharp corners and doorways. The echoes would be awful and you could be surprised by about any direction. Most of the schools around here can't be well scoped out from the outside either so it would be an awful place to go if you were trying to lose a crowd that was following you cuz you never know what you might run into. Plus, playground equipment, as great as it is for exercise is a terrible place to fight zombies, its like it gives them seven different ways to grab you while protecting them from any decent killing blow. =*_*= There's also usually no good areas to sleep that are only accessible by ladder and under the roof, so its kind of a useless stop in for the night shelter. 0 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
chitoryu12 |
2. RE: The good, bad, and ugly of school buildings
Oct 21 2011, 2:14 PM EDT
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I'm going to discuss my high school for the purposes of this scenario; I have seen almost nobody discussing a school plan talk about college campuses, as they're usually teenagers wanting to go somewhere familiar.There is a massive amount of entrances to every building; except for the portables (which have only one door and are only big enough to fit one classroom), each of the four main buildings has at least 4 entrances. The main building has a good half-dozen to a side, which is terrible. Pedro has already discussed food in general in his page, and I know that food deliveries are multiple times a week. You won't find more food than a few week's worth at the most, and that's assuming the power stays on the entire time. Hope you like ketchup sandwiches. Weapons can be improvised in several places: the weight room is the most obvious solution, but I discussed the equipment on our Improvised Weaponry page. You've got your choice of 45 pound 5-foot steel bars (have fun swinging those around), discs weighing from 2.5 pounds to 45 pounds, and dumbbells from 2.5 to 100 pounds. Almost none of these are the right size, shape, or weight to be more than awkward emergency weapons, though everyone will at least be able to pick one tailored to their strength. The one good weapons I can think of are the desk legs for some of the stand-alone desks, which are unscrewable from the desks and can be used as light clubs. Water is obviously plentiful......as long as the utilities remain. Almost all of the doors will be locked unless the building is abandoned in the middle of a school day, and the same qualities that make them secure against zombies and ******* humans make them secure against YOU. Do you find this valuable? |
Rand22 |
3. RE: The good, bad, and ugly of school buildings
Oct 21 2011, 2:23 PM EDT
You must also consider the location. I definately can't speak for everyone else here, but where I live, many of the schools are built in communities, or just off the main road. That makes them much deadlier when everyone flocks to them for evacuation or medical care set up in there.The bright side sides I can think of, is that those schools that are a bit out of the way have a chance of not being used, which means there shouldn't be many, if any people by them. Also, given the right materials and how large your group is, there is alot of room people can comfortably live in, not to mention you have access to text books and reading books from the library, and alot of storage space to kick around with. In short, schools can be your prebuilt foretress in the making, or a hellhole nightmare you should avoid like the plauge...all depends on location and population. Do you find this valuable? |
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chitoryu12 |
4. RE: The good, bad, and ugly of school buildings
Oct 21 2011, 2:45 PM EDT
My high school also has large amounts of grass and fields, but I'm unsure of how fertile they are. I doubt they're excellent soil, though.
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