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Unified Dublin (inside M50) Survival Plan

  • 24-02-2009 12:21am
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    Registered Users Posts: 795 ✭✭✭


    So I think it's important we decide on one unified strategy for Z day. We've all had great ideas but if 100 of us are doing 100 different things there will be chaos and we'll all end up brain nom-ers.

    ITT we sort out what all bordsies will do come Z day

    starting off with a stripped down version
    I say we gather our zom survival pack (which you all should have prepped) and head to Trinity College, lock it down and from there retake the city.


    Your ideas....


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  • Registered Users Posts: 297 ✭✭Undead


    Chaos, its right in the middle of the City, thats the last place ya wanna go in the initial stages of the Outbreak, and as for taking back the city, it'd be a while before ya can do that, between Zed's, Raiders, Military and desperate survivors in strongholds there's alot to fight, best to wait it out and let them all kill each other and thin the Zombie ranks THEN retake the city :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭Frankiestylee


    Trinity would be a good location to lock down... but yeah, later on for sure.


  • Registered Users Posts: 783 ✭✭✭Kromdar


    i'd be on board with that.

    problem being, trinity is too big for 1 or even 10 people to lock down. i agree that if we don't lock it down at the initial stages,the chances of finding it z-free are pretty slim. however: the idea remains that if we are away from our preferred fort, say we're in town, working, college, shopping, whatever it is that you do; that trinity becomes the preferred location.

    i for one will be there, if i'm in the area.


  • Registered Users Posts: 795 ✭✭✭smegmar


    I agree there would be huge amount of chaos and zombies in the city, but if we get in there early before zoms (or at least not too many of them) have managed to get in, it would be a bastion for survivors, and impenetrable fortress.

    "problem being, trinity is too big for 1 or even 10 people to lock down."

    yes it is, and so would all the best places to be during a zombie attack. That's why we need a unified plan, if we get 10 / 100 / 1000 boardsies to descend upon the college before the zoms are there we could significantly raise all our chances of survival.

    Consider this, a city center location is where we can rescue the most wondering layman survivors, each one saved does not become a zombie and in turn cannot turn others into zombies. By saving 10 lives in the early stages we may save thousands of lives later on.

    Further more rescued survivors may be able to rescue even more people and might kill a few zombies. huge success. We've got supplies, vehicles, many safe houses, seperable fall backs, weapons (in Pearse St Garda station) and everything else you could need.

    The key in all this is being able to secure the entire campus quickly before any zeds can breach the perimeter, which means we need an large organized group that can act at the first sign and know what their up against.
    Which leads me back to the Unified Dublin Zombie Defense Plan.
    We need to be organized and work in unison.

    If you have a better fort that the boardsies could assemble argue your case for it here.

    TL;DR when Zombies attack go to Trinity, lock it down


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,217 ✭✭✭FX Meister


    Well I'm going to fill the clouds with petrol instead of water. I'll be in my helicopter. It's specially adapted with a large collector funnel in the top. As it rains here all the time I'll never have to land. Oh, my helicopter is a chinook and I'll have a range of animals on board for various food. You are all suckers on land. FACT


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Cianos


    I'd be heading for Áras an Uachtaráin. Inside the Phoenix Park so there's plenty of room to scope out oncoming hoardes of Z's. The Garda Barracks is nearby for plenty of weapons, ammunition and vehicles. The house itself probably has it's own ready made defence system, along with trained personnel ready to defend the stronghold.

    Problem is I can imagine many people would also have thought of this so the defence force may be ordered to shoot both survivors and Z's, but who knows. If you show up with food and a few kids for sympathy value they may let you in.

    Once in though, I think you're set. There's bound to be a panic room or two. If worse comes to worst you can nip in to the zoo and climb up on a giraffe for a swift walk to safety.


  • Registered Users Posts: 795 ✭✭✭smegmar


    Cianos wrote: »
    . If you show up with food and a few kids for sympathy value they may let you in.

    note to self: steal a few kids in case of a zombie attack


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭Frankiestylee


    Most buildings in Temple Bar would be pretty good for a central point. The likes of Temple Lane Studios with one entrance and a roof access that gives access to the roofs of most other buildings in the area... with a decent sized plank of course.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Staying in the most populated part of the island would be just plain daft. What ye should be doing is finding quick ways out of the city that others wouldn't think of straight off. ie, using canals or train tracks.


  • Registered Users Posts: 795 ✭✭✭smegmar


    ITT: don't just say where you're going, agree on where all Boardsies will go!

    (assuming we get mobile in the early stages, before it's chaos and there are 10~100 of us)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Actually if you are in a crowded space and there's a few of you trying to get through you could pretend to be zombies and watch everyone flee.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,747 ✭✭✭✭wes


    ScumLord wrote: »
    Actually if you are in a crowded space and there's a few of you trying to get through you could pretend to be zombies and watch everyone flee.

    Or try and kill them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 72 ✭✭sagat


    In a country filled with castles you'd be mad to hold out anywhere else. Seriously the things are designed to keep enemies out. Not sure how up to the job Dublin castle would still be but the Magazine fort in the Pheonix park might be the best bet:

    IMG-1077.jpg


  • Registered Users Posts: 795 ✭✭✭smegmar


    I'm sure it's a great place to be...until you starve to death. The most important thing when looking for a fortress is resources: food, improv. defenses, weapons etc etc. You maybe under siege for some time and dispatching of mrh cows is easier on a full stomach


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,620 ✭✭✭Grudaire


    smegmar wrote: »
    I'm sure it's a great place to be...until you starve to death. The most important thing when looking for a fortress is resources: food, improv. defenses, weapons etc etc. You maybe under siege for some time and dispatching of mrh cows is easier on a full stomach

    A decent size group could take the Phoenix park over, and secure it. There's only the gates to worry about.

    As for food - if the zombies are outside, then we'd have the deer to eat - plus a few raids into the local areas would do the trick.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Cianos


    Cliste wrote: »
    A decent size group could take the Phoenix park over, and secure it. There's only the gates to worry about.

    As for food - if the zombies are outside, then we'd have the deer to eat - plus a few raids into the local areas would do the trick.

    Securing a massive area such as the phoenix park is too difficult. You are going to mess up somewhere, or overlook some weakness in the perimeter, or not be able to keep everything in check all the time. With an area that big, there is going to be a breach somewhere eventually.

    It's better to go for a smaller, but highly secured area that you know every corner of like the back of your hand. It's easy that way to make sure nothing is actually vulnerable and if something does go wrong it will be blatantly obvious and you can deal with it immediately.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Phoenix park does have the advantage of having rings of security. You have the outside fences. Then secure government buildings inside (including the US consulate who are very likely to be prepared for the outbreak) with their own walls. If it can't stop the zombies it will make them more manageable. It's not safe though.

    I'd say the government will take this area over due to the important buildings in the area. I'd expect it to be a hotspot for military engagement and should be avoided at all costs.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I live well outside the bounds of the M50, so I don't think I should be the one to contribute anything as to strategy for this thread.

    However it does raise a good point - perhaps all of Ireland should be divided into sections, and individual strategy's worked out based on the area, the resources, local advantages, etc.

    After we begin to regain control of our country, these sections could slowly consolidate and higher level strategy's worked out, until we've regained control of our country.

    Obviously, the higher level strategy's would need to include plans for running the country, such as the running of electricity, public safety, etc.

    The question is how we go about splitting the country into these sections?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 25 Pedrospuds


    How bout Tesco? Depends where you are , but Im thinking , grab some weaponry preferably a shotgun and clear the place . Lock it down , as theres probably a big **** back gate for delivery's that can be closed off and theres probably a pull down gate at the entrance . Tinned Food , Medical Items , you name it ! even some make shift weapons , axes what have ya!


  • Registered Users Posts: 783 ✭✭✭Kromdar


    Pedrospuds wrote: »
    How bout Tesco? Depends where you are , but Im thinking , grab some weaponry preferably a shotgun and clear the place . Lock it down , as theres probably a big **** back gate for delivery's that can be closed off and theres probably a pull down gate at the entrance . Tinned Food , Medical Items , you name it ! even some make shift weapons , axes what have ya!
    >>Tesco
    >>Shotguns
    >>Probably a pull-down gate at the entrance

    1. What tesco. where?
    2. what shotguns? how?
    3. What about all the glass-fronted shops?

    Although he does raise a point, one thing i meant to add to the map at some point. there is the Tesco warehouse Castle out near donabate. the place is huge. really, really huge. like, 'we can live here for a few decades and build a small city inside it' huge.
    anyway, here's the site, where it now stands, and compared to tesco Clare Hall [inset]
    tesco.jpg

    the difference is, because one is a wareshouse, there's no glass walls, no fancy doors. just walls. and more walls.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Most supermarkets work off the same plans so they'll all be more or less the same. They don't really have big glass fronts anymore and are basically warehouses.

    The main problem is they'll be well known, may be stripped by shoppers or looters and are in areas that have easy access. Being on main roads for easy access by passing traffic means they may be blocked off by people fleeing.

    I think if your going to pick somewhere, pick somewhere that the vast majority of people won't think of going. Like the Tesco warehouse that Kromdar mentioned. Ideally you should be looking for someplace designed to keep people out rather than draw them in.


  • Registered Users Posts: 795 ✭✭✭smegmar


    I think it's important to have a location that won't be ransacked by the locals but at the same time will be somewhere survivors will go for rescue. I think the only thing we can do is get there quickly before the majority population realize what's going on. Which again is why we need a unified plan. I encourage all other populated area to develop their own.

    Here's the list or requirements for any sort of fortress.

    1) Resources, must be able to sustain you and group for some time.

    2) Security, Walls walls and more walls. must be 8foot high and patrolled.

    3) Redundancies, must have fallbacks, if one walls is compromised the entire base must not be.

    4) Space, to accommodate all survivors (a few hundred) vehicles and supplies, but also be patrolled 24/7

    5) Evacuation, should worst case scenario happen everyone should get out quickly and safely.


  • Registered Users Posts: 676 ✭✭✭ilovemybrick


    smegmar wrote: »

    Here's the list or requirements for any sort of fortress.

    1) Resources, must be able to sustain you and group for some time.

    2) Security, Walls walls and more walls. must be 8foot high and patrolled.

    3) Redundancies, must have fallbacks, if one walls is compromised the entire base must not be.

    4) Space, to accommodate all survivors (a few hundred) vehicles and supplies, but also be patrolled 24/7

    5) Evacuation, should worst case scenario happen everyone should get out quickly and safely.

    First of all I am delighted to find this forum, the amount of times myself and my friends have thought about this while drunk is bordering on odd.

    Trinity Campus would be the perfect spot, both in the short term and the long term. Plus I live here so it's defending my house essentially.

    1) Resources, must be able to sustain you and group for some time.
    Two student shops and 4 food/coffee places. Also include the 600 or so people who live here.

    2) Security, Walls walls and more walls. must be 8foot high and patrolled.
    Trinity is designed to be easy to seal off. The lowest street to fence is above eight feet.The front of the college is essentially a castle and the back entrances have nice big gates which would be easy to reinforce. The college itself has a security force who could easily lock down in a minute in an emergency. Patrols would be easy to organise with internal spotters and the comprhensive CCTV footage.
    The weakness of the trainline could be secured by taking pearst street station and blocking it or even collapsing the bridges in both directions.

    3) Redundancies, must have fallbacks, if one walls is compromised the entire base must not be.
    Several massive independent buildings, designed in a time when emergencies were to be defended against.
    Has it's own radio station and some large green space to be choppered out.

    4)
    Approx 700 bedrooms, and significant space in the library,or lecture halls.

    5) Evacuation, should worst case scenario happen everyone should get out quickly and safely.
    Most people forget the college has a large mechanical engineering faculty and lab. If needs be I wouldnt put it past them to be able to build a basic gyrocopter which could help spot for a convoy of the dozens of campus vehicles evacuating people through any one of 4 points that lead on to major roads.
    Or if there was a strong force (armed either from the rifle club[only small calibre but useful] or from Pearse st Garda which is adjacent to campus) it would be easy to get from the ground to the trainline and from there via tara st the river where boats could be, or if possible just get a train and keep moving.

    Long term is also amazing because the college is secure food and water wise for at least a week and can get better but that is another post.


  • Registered Users Posts: 795 ✭✭✭smegmar


    First of all I am delighted to find this forum, the amount of times myself and my friends have thought about this while drunk is bordering on odd.

    Trinity Campus would be the perfect spot, both in the short term and the long term. Plus I live here so it's defending my house essentially.

    1) Resources, must be able to sustain you and group for some time.
    Two student shops and 4 food/coffee places. Also include the 600 or so people who live here.

    2) Security, Walls walls and more walls. must be 8foot high and patrolled.
    Trinity is designed to be easy to seal off. The lowest street to fence is above eight feet.The front of the college is essentially a castle and the back entrances have nice big gates which would be easy to reinforce. The college itself has a security force who could easily lock down in a minute in an emergency. Patrols would be easy to organise with internal spotters and the comprhensive CCTV footage.
    The weakness of the trainline could be secured by taking pearst street station and blocking it or even collapsing the bridges in both directions.

    3) Redundancies, must have fallbacks, if one walls is compromised the entire base must not be.
    Several massive independent buildings, designed in a time when emergencies were to be defended against.
    Has it's own radio station and some large green space to be choppered out.

    4)
    Approx 700 bedrooms, and significant space in the library,or lecture halls.

    5) Evacuation, should worst case scenario happen everyone should get out quickly and safely.
    Most people forget the college has a large mechanical engineering faculty and lab. If needs be I wouldnt put it past them to be able to build a basic gyrocopter which could help spot for a convoy of the dozens of campus vehicles evacuating people through any one of 4 points that lead on to major roads.
    Or if there was a strong force (armed either from the rifle club[only small calibre but useful] or from Pearse st Garda which is adjacent to campus) it would be easy to get from the ground to the trainline and from there via tara st the river where boats could be, or if possible just get a train and keep moving.

    Long term is also amazing because the college is secure food and water wise for at least a week and can get better but that is another post.

    I like your style.
    I've pretty much been saying that since I started thinking about a zombie invasion. What we need is a good 50-100 boardsies that will, on hearing of a zombie outbreak assemble at trinity and lock it down before the hoards can get inside. From there we can made raids on anywhere else in the city for other resources we might need. I don't want to dismiss anyone elses ideas that may be better but so far I haven't seen any.{ Phoenix Park is a bad idea}.

    Is there a Zombie Soc in trinity and if not why not?


  • Registered Users Posts: 795 ✭✭✭smegmar


    some key notes

    For the purposes of this thread we assume

    1) The outbreak has just started in somewhere outset Tallaght Lucan Bray or Sutton but rapidly moving into Dublin city center.

    2) The army has been overwhelmed/preoccupied/disbanded except for a few places that are locked down
    (Barracks, Áras an Uachtaráin etc).

    3) Roads out of Dublin at the M50 have been closed/ blocked by abandoned cars/ moving at a crawl pace.

    4) Most of the population are unaware or do not take seriously the reports of zombie outbreak.

    5) Sometime within 24 hours electricity, water supplies and telecommunications will be cut off.

    6) You are at home alone when you get first indication of Zombies. You start with only what you can find in you house until you loot

    7) There has been very light looting already but most places have majority of tools you would expect


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35 Setheme


    Get a car. Go to port. Get a boat. GTFO of the island. :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 134 ✭✭Kareir


    I think that what I would do, as i'm in Wicklow, is gather the survivors I could and hole up somewhere fairly remote in the country. Run raiding strikes on more built up areas for food/weapons/supplies, but always return to home base. As the outbreak progresses and strength is built up, run more raids. Hopefully survivors will find us, and make us stronger.

    _Kar.

    PS: To keep this on topic, the dubliners should come to me :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    trinity collage is bad to many people to many danger's to many access point's not enough people to patrol, also majority of people wont be in any fit mental state to fight.

    What you need is a group of 40 to 50 people enough amo weaponry and equipment to transport these people and also to feed and house any larger then 50 and your going to run into problem's...

    way id do it is get my self to a hill top with miles of open ground in every way....

    Id want to be close enough that i could get an abundance of equipment like generators, tools welder's, make shift acomidiation, transport and fuel... all very important jeep/truck would have an inner fuel tank entry systems so risk of fellow, coleny member's would be less prone to becoming Z bite's....

    I would go looking for the likes of razor wire, and consult my anarchist cook book. for weponary

    I also feel that large 60 foot container's cold be usefull as both living quators and a most inner perimitor wall.

    after that a 60 foot fuel tanker for fuel storage then its just water and food...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24 irishmic


    i agree with snow monkey trinity is a bad idea in the short run .long term it may suit for rebuilding purposes .On average ten thousand people pass thru trinity every day either studying ,visiting or just cutting thru . even if the security could close it down in time there would still be panic and a chance of infected been in or getting in . in the intial stages of an outbreak somewhere isolated is your best chance of survival failing that some where thats not obvious to every one else. shopping centers garda stations hospitals and army barracks are a complete no no joe public would be on them like bees on honey . i therefore suggest somewhere like the central bank for those stuck in the city center .surrounded by railings secure underground parking canteen facilities plenty of room and not the sort of place paniced survivors would think of . after the inital outbreak then you could look to the like of cathal burgha barrcks or mckee(which i think would be more secure) or trinity
    p.s this is my first post in this forum so be gentle:D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    mind you trinity would be a great place for mass hoarding to take out all the zs ....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    It's crazy but it just, might work.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    ScumLord wrote: »
    It's crazy but it just, might work.

    couple of fir engines water tanks replaces with petrol ;)

    Obvously the book of kells was rescued etc spray the lot of them then do the yippi kye yay motherf*cker with a zippo at which point we all head to the nearest pub get sloshed rebuild society:cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,518 ✭✭✭matrim


    There are a couple of things about trinity that I wouldn't like.

    If you look at this map (http://www.tcd.ie/Maps/assets/pdf/tcd-campus.pdf) you can see some of them.

    Some of the houses on westland row can be used to access the buildings in trinity. I also think some of the houses on Pearse can do the same.

    The new sports center with the glass front could be hard to lock down.

    The railway tracks over one corner of it may be a potential breach

    Also I think the amount of people passing through it every day would make it difficult to lock down quickly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭SmileyPaul


    matrim wrote: »
    There are a couple of things about trinity that I wouldn't like.

    If you look at this map (http://www.tcd.ie/Maps/assets/pdf/tcd-campus.pdf) you can see some of them.

    Some of the houses on westland row can be used to access the buildings in trinity. I also think some of the houses on Pearse can do the same.

    The new sports center with the glass front could be hard to lock down.

    The railway tracks over one corner of it may be a potential breach

    Also I think the amount of people passing through it every day would make it difficult to lock down quickly.


    we could block the dart line off.... could be ridiculous but we could first of all watch the part where it crosses the campus and then destroy the bridge either side of the campus, it would help anyways


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14 DemonLilith


    my plan, stay in my fourth floor apt. most residents are either foreign or culchies so they'll be heading to the airports, train and bus stations, leaving me in a mainly abandoned building.

    the building's got two security gates which will have to be chained shut, won't stop people but will stop zombies. firstly take everything useful from the lower floors then block off access to the top floors and roof. thats going to be the difficult part.

    I could live here very quietly for several weeks till things calm down. don't want to draw attention to myself or I'll be killed by looters.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    my plan, stay in my fourth floor apt. most residents are either foreign or culchies so they'll be heading to the airports, train and bus stations, leaving me in a mainly abandoned building.

    the building's got two security gates which will have to be chained shut, won't stop people but will stop zombies. firstly take everything useful from the lower floors then block off access to the top floors and roof. thats going to be the difficult part.

    I could live here very quietly for several weeks till things calm down. don't want to draw attention to myself or I'll be killed by looters.
    I'm fairly certain you'll be zombie food. Back to the drawing board old chum.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 102 ✭✭blog_blog_blog


    ScumLord wrote: »
    I'm fairly certain you'll be zombie food. Back to the drawing board old chum.
    To-shea zomb fodder. trinity too large for initial regeneration. Initial will be survival .I,m sure there are people in dublin and country asside polititions that have access to such long term shelters.

    I remember in the times about 3 years ago , some large building contractor offering a fall out shelter style underground cylinder building circa 1 mill. I wonder would the neighbours mind.. Emm What you mean i need to apply for planning? I,m only digging a 100ft hole out my back garden.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 433 ✭✭flynnduism


    I live near Arbour Hill prison, which has big strong stone walls/gates etc

    Intended to keep people in, it would also prove ideal to keep the z's out - one small catch though; you'd be sharing the premises with a gathering of Ireland's convicted sex offenders...

    On 2nd thoughts I'd probably just take my chances in the streets!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 228 ✭✭pandemonium


    In the event of an outbreak i'd think the prisons would be abandoned. By guards anyways, why would they stay guarding criminals when they have loved ones to protect? In the likelihood of that happening, prisoners may either be released or left inside in which case you'll find an amazing fortress run by criminals or lots of dead bodies in cells dead from starvation. I seem to have forgotten where i'm going with this ,apologies lads


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,457 ✭✭✭Cactus Col


    Might I suggest that the National Museum on Kildare Street may be a decent place to hole up at first. It is directly beside Leinster House, which would mean that a Garda / Military presence would be very close by. There are two entrances (both behind heavy doors) one through a gated entrance that can be closed providing an extra bit of protection. There is a cafe there, which would provide a short term supply of food, as well as some older weapons.

    Museums generally wouldn't have the same flow as people as a place like Trinity, so there would be less work in clearing it of already infected z's.

    As time progresses the idea would be to integrate with the survivors in Leinster House (with their gardai and military).

    You may wonder why not go directly to Leinster House, well, access there is already restricted, in a state of emergency access would no doubt be even more greatly restricted and so may necesitate the armed forces opening fire on interlopers.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 331 ✭✭sendic


    How about bus aras? Central location, the entrances have shutters which could be locked in place, plenty of room inside, access to large vehicles should the need arise, close to the train station giving an alternative to roads if you had to walk out of the city


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭SmileyPaul


    sendic wrote: »
    How about bus aras? Central location, the entrances have shutters which could be locked in place, plenty of room inside, access to large vehicles should the need arise, close to the train station giving an alternative to roads if you had to walk out of the city

    shutters are locked from the outside as are most, walk the tracks? what if z's have been on a train chances are they'll stay on the tracks, also the bus idea... could be good, but have you ever tried to drive a very long bus while very panicked?

    also chances are people will flood the place trying to get out of the city.... one Z in there and you'll soon see a mutilation fest


  • Registered Users Posts: 783 ✭✭✭Kromdar


    i was just passing the post office in finglas village. goddamn that place is a fortress... still, convincing the locals to let you in would be a challenge. good ole finglas :rolleyes:

    busaras would be an interesting choice, if you could get access to the big tower above it, that would be a cool 'vertical fortress'

    or the liberty hall building, tho i'd imagine that would be full of unioners asking the government to compensate them for being out of work, due to the outbreak. a zombie siptu... not a pleasant thought :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 193 ✭✭Missiechan


    Maybe instead of one large stronghold, several small ones should be the plan. That way, if one is compromised it's a minor tragedy and not a major disaster.

    My plan is to bunk down in my flat. It's always stocked with about two weeks worth of food, I have window boxes with vegetables growing and once I've blocked off the stairs I have the run of my flat and my neighbour's (assuming he's dead). If I totally run out of food I could eat the cat or set seagull traps on the roof. And if the house is breached? I escape onto the roof, make my way to the nearby dock and raft to safety.

    The garden shed is full of building odds and ends to barricade the main entrance to the house and the back garden is surrounded by a ten foot brick wall. It's real close to the city centre too so as long as I'm not at work I'll be fine.

    Just a thought: people in open-plan houses are screwed. They'll never block up all that glass.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭SmileyPaul


    *pats missiechans head*
    I think we found a keeper :) :P

    we're thinkin really long term though hun your ideas great for short term then we'll have to head to our big places around the city


  • Registered Users Posts: 783 ✭✭✭Kromdar


    SmileyPaul wrote: »
    *pats missiechans head*
    I think we found a keeper :) :P

    we're thinkin really long term though hun your ideas great for short term then we'll have to head to our big places around the city


    we need plans for all eventualities. like a minor 1-5 day outbreak is managable in your house, but yea. the general consensus on boards is that its a 1 week to 18 month outbreak. any longer than that and i'm abandoning the city centre for an island, but hopefully we'll have a 300-strong zombie resistance commune going. hopefully...

    has there ever been a thread about how boardsies are going to rebuild ireland after a zombie outbreak? assuming that the government is out the door and we're left to organise the survivors, as the only organised people among the remaining populace?

    tl, dr: i think a local stronghold [you know a small, well defended grocery/pub/ school/workplace] would be best, the trinity or phoenix park ideas are for a longer-term survival plan.


  • Registered Users Posts: 193 ✭✭Missiechan


    In that case, I vote for anywhere near a dock. My immediate plan is to hop into the nearest body of water and swim home. Are there any fortresses along the Liffey?

    A big secondary school could do the job. Barricade the lower floors with desks and chairs and woodworking equipment and we can set up rain barrels and grow crops on the roof. Home Economic rooms will keep us in emergency food for a while too. My old convent school would be perfect, too bad it's in Wicklow.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 102 ✭✭blog_blog_blog


    http://www.bikeradar.com/routes/?bpath=maps%2Fbike-path%2FHow-to-get-out-of-Dublin-alive

    Has a basic map showing routes ,Routes out of all points of the city,These are the preferred routes by cyclists to get in and out of dublin. If the main routes(m50,m1, and feeder roads) where blocked or chocker block with crashes and whatever zz, These route,s might be used, Say on a moto cross bike.. Not a push bike.

    I,d fancy the canal routes


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 102 ✭✭blog_blog_blog


    I wonder if zombies are in my mortgage policy... 3 day week, soon to be made redundant! Bring it on ! :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 296 ✭✭JP Mulvano


    Kromdar wrote: »
    i was just passing the post office in finglas village. goddamn that place is a fortress... still, convincing the locals to let you in would be a challenge. good ole finglas :rolleyes:

    busaras would be an interesting choice, if you could get access to the big tower above it, that would be a cool 'vertical fortress'

    or the liberty hall building, tho i'd imagine that would be full of unioners asking the government to compensate them for being out of work, due to the outbreak. a zombie siptu... not a pleasant thought :pac:


    First of all brilliant thread.....my lcoation of choice Beggars Bush

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beggars_Bush_(Dublin)

    Zombie SIPTU - what would the difference be?


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