The ideal place to be for World War Z

Valmont

I take the possibility of a zombie apocalypse very seriously and as such, I am currently scouting out possible locations for my safe house. Right now I am deep in the Alaskan interior, in the town of Healy (pop. 300). Alaska, especially the interior, west coast and north slope are impervious to zombie infestation on a large scale mostly due to the harsh winters and already low poplulation density. The town I am currently in has large swathes of wilderness for hundreds of miles to the east and west. I'll have to see about purchasing a log cabin deep in the bush. Unfortunately there are other risks associated with living up here such as the lack of food in the winter and the difficulty of travelling in the summer. Guns are readily available as I have access right now to a friends 12-gauge, 12shot barrel semi- auto shotgun, 44. magnum, .30-06, and a .220 swift.

Despite the harsh environment I think Alaska would be a good place to be in the event of an outbreak. Does anyone else have a good location in mind?

Valmont

I definitely put this in the wrong forum by accident, apologies. If the mods could move it to the Zombie forum that would be great. Thanks.

c - 13

The main problem I see with this is the cold is as likely to kill you as it is to hold off the zombies. Not a lot of help if you run out of fuel and freeze to death.

Problems with ease of access to food can be averted if you lay in a huge store of dried and canned goods and plenty of drums of water.

The wilderness around the cabin isn't exactly the best either as it may hide zombies, you wont know that they're there until its too late.

SimpleSam06

Leitrim. Its impossible to find without a GPS, a local guide, and a leprechaun charm.

Dave147

Coolest thread ever! I would hide out in Myrtleville in Cork, it's by the sea, has a pub and shops.. so if the zombies were ever to find me, I'd have a conveniently placed boat and I'd sail to the Isle of Man. Simple!

raah!

Dave147 wrote: »

Coolest thread ever! I would hide out in Myrtleville in Cork, it's by the sea, has a pub and shops.. so if the zombies were ever to find me, I'd have a conveniently placed boat and I'd sail to the Isle of Man. Simple!

But that place is fairly populous, wouldn't it be filled with zombies too? Wouldn't the people serving you in those pubs and shops be themselves zombies?

What kinda zombies though? If it was the slow ones you don't really even have to hide, but if it was like the 28 days later ones... I'd go up mountains in kerry and eat the sheep who live there.

Keggers

Well since longford exists in it's own reality that would be my first choice

Valmont

c - 13 wrote: »

The main problem I see with this is the cold is as likely to kill you as it is to hold off the zombies. Not a lot of help if you run out of fuel and freeze to death.

Problems with ease of access to food can be averted if you lay in a huge store of dried and canned goods and plenty of drums of water.

The wilderness around the cabin isn't exactly the best either as it may hide zombies, you wont know that they're there until its too late.

I'll have a big coat and a cabin, so I'll be warm. Also zombies don't know how to light fires and there's plenty of wood fuel. The food is the main issue, but regarding meat it's no problem as this is big game country; moose and caribou are everywhere. The whole point of Alaska being so isolated is that I'd be so far from anywhere that there wouldn't be any zombies and if there were they would be rendered inoperable in the 40below interior winter temperatures. All this is dependent on one being a confident and able outdoors person.

Good idea on Leitrim, the zombies would probably avoid it.

Valmont

raah! wrote: »

but if it was like the 28 days later ones... I'd go up mountains in kerry and eat the sheep who live there.

good thing 28 days later wasn't about Zombies. Zombies don't run!

gino85

Valmont wrote: »

good thing 28 days later wasn't about Zombies. Zombies don't run!

i agree, they were not zombies, just people infected with the rage virus, they died out after a few weeks of starvation

dresden8

Valmont wrote: »

I take the possibility of a zombie apocalypse very seriously and as such, I am currently scouting out possible locations for my safe house. Right now I am deep in the Alaskan interior, in the town of Healy (pop. 300). Alaska, especially the interior, west coast and north slope are impervious to zombie infestation on a large scale mostly due to the harsh winters and already low poplulation density. The town I am currently in has large swathes of wilderness for hundreds of miles to the east and west. I'll have to see about purchasing a log cabin deep in the bush. Unfortunately there are other risks associated with living up here such as the lack of food in the winter and the difficulty of travelling in the summer. Guns are readily available as I have access right now to a friends 12-gauge, 12shot barrel semi- auto shotgun, 44. magnum, .30-06, and a .220 swift.

Despite the harsh environment I think Alaska would be a good place to be in the event of an outbreak. Does anyone else have a good location in mind?

But if there's an outbreak there the harsh environment becomes a prison with no escape. And God knows what those people already have living in their attics and cellars.

Bajingo

The best place to be would be on an oil rig or a boat within site of land.

Theres plenty of water of water around you(just boil off the salt)...

Theres plenty of fish and seaweed to eat yum yum...

And finally zombies cant swim so you'll be perfectly safe...

Grizzly 45

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12shot barrel semi- auto shotgun

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:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
I'd hate to fight your buddy.I know folks in Alaska are Big.But OMG he must be massive to just LIFT that!!!!!!!!:D

gino85

Bajingo wrote: »

The best place to be would be on an oil rig or a boat within site of land.

Theres plenty of water of water around you(just boil off the salt)...

Theres plenty of fish and seaweed to eat yum yum...

And finally zombies cant swim so you'll be perfectly safe...

biggest problem with that is maintaining the oil rig, its one thing to say your going to an oil rig but unless u got a group full of quilified personel to run it u would be better off on dry land

Bajingo

gino85 wrote: »

biggest problem with that is maintaining the oil rig, its one thing to say your going to an oil rig but unless u got a group full of quilified personel to run it u would be better off on dry land

Yeah thats true enough but my mate does have a fifty foot cruiser so I could still have a chance!

Valmont

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

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:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
I'd hate to fight your buddy.I know folks in Alaska are Big.But OMG he must be massive to just LIFT that!!!!!!!!:D

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or just making a bad joke. Anyway the semi-auto shotgun with 12shot drum isn't that much heavier that a regular twelve gauge. I've shot both up here and the pump action is more fun I think.

Grizzly 45

Me being humorous,as you described it as a "12 barrelled semi auto shotgun"Rather than as in your last post a " semi auto shotgun with a 12 shot drum"[Which means you have either a Street Sweeper or Striker 12 ??]
Your first gun would indeed need a huge chacter to carry,so dont get too teed off with me,plus I have never not met an Alaskan without a sense of humour.:)

rossie1977

Valmont wrote: »

good thing 28 days later wasn't about Zombies. Zombies don't run!

zombies were running very fast in the remake of dawn of the dead, that opening scene on the street where the zombie easily catches someone who is running full out

Valmont

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

Me being humorous,as you described it as a "12 barrelled semi auto shotgun"Rather than as in your last post a " semi auto shotgun with a 12 shot drum"[Which means you have either a Street Sweeper or Striker 12 ??]
Your first gun would indeed need a huge chacter to carry,so dont get too teed off with me,plus I have never not met an Alaskan without a sense of humour.:)

Ah my apologies, it's the semi auto with the 12 shot drum; I'm still working out gun terminology. Unfortunately I'm back in Wicklow again so if there's an outbreak I've missed my window of opportunity! ah well, I have a good stout walking stick and my back garden is pretty big, I'm not too worried:eek:

mawk

Valmont wrote: »

Ah my apologies, it's the semi auto with the 12 shot drum; I'm still working out gun terminology. Unfortunately I'm back in Wicklow again so if there's an outbreak I've missed my window of opportunity! ah well, I have a good stout walking stick and my back garden is pretty big, I'm not too worried:eek:

well i hope its big enough to find moose and caribou in. because if not you might well starve.

Blitzkrieger

You can't really beat the classic big-ass shopping mall. Sadly, in this country you're more likely to be stuck with a 24-hour Tesco stuffed with junk food and a River Island than a supermarket packed with dried goods and a 'sporting goods' store. Even so you still have a big secure location which can be divided into zones by closing the security shutters on the individual shops. Just be sure that nobody you bring with you is already sick - if someone so much as sneezes, toss their ass out.

Genrel T-Dazzle

yeah, here all shopping malls her are ether cothes or food that would either go off after the first couple of days without food or is complete junk that you couldn't survive on. personaly I think a house is the best place to stay

tiny-nioclas

I reckon our 40 foot trawler moored out in the harbour for a few months would do(unless the Z's can swim well), plenty access to food and water can be made safe and drinkable, and if we had more time to get prepared we could survive out there for much longer,building a floating pontoon, and armed speed boats and survivalists making runs in and out to land for fuel and water,and grown veg???? just a taught!!

ScumLord

Best place to be would be a factory. There already fortified to keep people out, have very few windows, the vast majority would have a generator for backup power and all would have a ready supply of hand weapons.

Edit: Most would also have a cantine to allow cooking.

Mal-Adjusted

my safest place would be a well stocked, big-ass ship (about the size of the Celtic Explorer) just off-bay. the only real drawback is that whoever was on it would have to do a thorough swep to make sure that there's no zombies on it already. and, as zombies can't swim, you're home free, (unless they can climb up the anchor)

Question: can the "fast" zombies swim? the ones from DotD remake and 28 days later?