THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE by MAX BROOKS
The Zombie Survival Guide. It has lots of good ideas.
Tight clothing and short hair are some of them.
Canned goods are too, get to the country.
Dont take a car, all the roads will be closed up with accidents.
Stay quiet and low profile. Guns=BAD, they are too loud and attract attention
for miles.
Be practical, robbing a gun store is a terrible idea, there will already be drunk rednecks there willing to shoot anything that moves.
Stay in groups smaller than eight, prefferably size of 4. Too many people means too many chances to screw up. Also large groups make more noise, consume more food and have a higher risk of becoming infected.
Get to a second floor and chop down the stairs.
A FIRE AXE IS THE BEST POSSIBLE WEAPON.
Its quiet, its reliable, and it versatile. You can chop down a door or chop off a zombies head.
Gas and ammo are both consumable, dont rely on them.
If they are shamblers than the second floor or any small building ouside of a heavily populated environment can make for a decent hold out.
MOST IMPORTANTLY
Assess the situation. Are the zombies Shamblers? Necromantic? From an Air-born virus? Infected with rage?
Do I have enough food and water to hold out? Is there help comming?
MY PLAN FOR CLASSIC ZOMBIE INVASION
Chop down the stairs to my second floor apartment and barricade the door and windows. Thankfully I have a large metal door, should hold.
Secondly, turn off all the lights and stay away from every window. Quietly consume the stock of canned goods and bottled water I currently possess and fill the bathtub and as many containers i can with water.
Next once those supplies have run down I attempt to contact the neighboring apartment via tapping rythmicly on the wall. If a concious response is given a conversation at a quiet level is made through the wall discussing situation and food. Even if they have food to spare I make no attempt to join forces, just trade what we can through a small hole in the wall and barricade it immidiately afterwards.
The zombies should only last for 3 weeks after their becoming a zombie, after that amount of time the zombies body will fall to pieces seeing how their metabollic rates have collapsed and they are no longer rebuilding the muscular tissue that we burn up in daily activity.
Try to hold out for a month or so on whatever scraps we can. If necessary, I eat my dog and my pinky fingers and pinky toes.
If cellular phones are still an option I call in a favor from someone I know in New Orleans with a private jet (which I luckily do know) and ask him to meet me at a private airfield twenty miles south of my location in the woods.
By this point there should be a minimal amount of straggeling zombies but I travel quietly and on foot, sleeping in trees and carrying only the bare minimum.
With me I have a metal baseball bat, a hatchet, twenty feet of rope, 1 1/2 gallons of water, canned food, a can opener, some simple climbing gear, a small flashlight, a small bottle of drambuie and a cloth, a lighter, peroxide, ace bandages, hiking boots, a compass, a map of my town and a pocket knife. (All things I currently have in my home)
Travel off the roads and as far away from civilization as possible, meet the plane, win.
In case of no plane, my plan stays the same, except instead of leaving my apartment, I break down the wall and kill whoever is next door with the hatchet and take their food. If the water doesnt work You can survive off boiled human blood (and the blood in the brain) for some time, however the body wont digest human flesh because of the protein shards.
In case I can't go through with eating my neighbors like the old snes game, I venture for food in nearby locations similarly to how i would travel to the air strip destination before mentioned.
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