What's your method of escaping to somewhere safe?

[capncnut]

oxford oxford oxford.... mike the main block right across the street from the park uptown minus the stone animals... perfect fortress. the miami students have these shuttle buses that take them everywhere. using these to block off entrances to alleyways and such would make a great fortified and nearly unmoveable encampment. police station is right across the way and could be used to house un wanted guests. no ammo there though. their amory is with butler county sheriffs and thats somewhere in hamilton so good luck gettin there. also there is a derilect (spell check) army national guard base outside of oxford so fall back there would be nice. sewer system in oxford could be used to get to many different sectors of the college and other establishments. plus two of the schools have fall out shelters. oxford has an endless aray of possibilities. from where i am now in harrison about an hour from oxford... i could make it there using back roads or go off road seeing how my truck has big knobby tires and 4 wheel drive. i have a jc higgins 12 gauge and about 36 shells...six 00 buck, five slug, and 25 7 and 1/2 bird shot... also i have a ruger security six .357 magnum with twenty two 38 special flat nose full metal jacket rounds for it and an assortment of knives all about the place including an aluminum baseball bat of the t ball variety so its short and easier to store. slap on the junk get in my truck and head to my parents farm where i would hold up until i got ahold or until i found my gun totin buddies. parents place is fairly securable but we are right on a major state highway. hueston woods would be my next safe venture or maybe the newer talawanda elementary school not 3 minutes from my parents place. then the plan with oxford could commence. i have several family members who work for miami some in the bookstore at the shriver center and one who works in trucking and shipping. i would pretty much be able to access everything at miami maybe not so much in oxford. id do what i coud but the zombie population would be high in oxford because the students are of all the rich and stupid and stuck up variety. most wouldnt know what was going on. so i would suppose fire bombin and snipin or just plain running the fruckers over would be the way to go. i could go into more detail but my brain doesnt want to process any further so i will leave to the others close to oxford. if such a thing happens we meet at the indian creek tavern in riely which im gueesing is fairly close to you mike. ill leave it at that. Mmm, nice but... enter button?

[Shadowofthedead]

this is my boom stick..... ha. improvised enter button. thats what us country boys are good for.

[MissJacksonCA]

Ov3rlord has the best plan i've ever heard And yet i'd still try to drive away from the scene of the zombie attack ... its just too damn hot to try to ride a bike like Mr. Brooks suggests and since zombies have been known to both run and shamble who's to say i'd have the energy to outrun or walk them...

[Exatreides]

I have the fallowing weapons Ar-15 with 90 round drum magazine +2 standard mags, cleaning kits, and 550 rounds Mosin Nagant with 120 rounds and fixed Bayonet Ruger 22 Rifle with about 900 rounds of hallow point .22 ammo Baseball bat, several other melee weapons If it were to happen while I was at home, I would grab my bug out bag from down stairs(Purchased at the px) Load it up with canned food and any medical supplies in the house, clothing ect. If time permitted I would change into my ACU's for even if you have no idea what your doing, you can bull**** your way into alot with a militarty uniform, a ar-15 and a flack jacket. My room is located with a convenient roof access on the second floor, with a good line of sight for about 1000 meters in each direction. Hopefully, if their numbers are limited, i can pick a couple off with the Mosin, AR, or 22. I would clear the immediate area and drop onto the ground, Shoulder the .22 cal and mosin and primarily use the 90 round drum mag at this point. In my trunk I have about a dozen MRE's from my unit that I have saved, A flack jacket from my the early 90's era, my issued sleeping bag, and a bayonet. Also since I'm a medic in the national guard, I have been able to get some medical supplies of my own and have a aid bag in my trunk. Which consist of about 4 liter bags of Saline, 2 of ringers and 1 of Hextend, tubing catheters ect,(sneaky devil aint i?) Israeli trama bandages, Cat turnequeits, over the counter stuff, and more trama stuff. Grab a friend who lives down the block who is ex-infantry. Head downtown to the gun store, raid it if possible, aquireing side arms, rifles and as many rounds of ammo as we can. From that point head out of town, north to Michigan and the north, far away from Chicago to the West, Indy to the south. If my unit is somehow together, work my way south to join up with them. Try to save people along the way, arm them and get a fighting convoy going. Strength is with numbers, and more people means more rounds down range. Supplies, raid towns along the way. Strength comes from mobility, always fast moving and not allowing yourself to be sourounded by more dead then you can handle. Ultimate goal? Either the Yukon, or the Desert, someplace with either a total lack of people or a line of sight that goes till the earth bends.

[Shadowofthedead]

couldnt let this thread die.... resident evil extinction made a good point in noting that mobility is your best defense from the dead.also a pretty good offense when you run the buggers over. yet i feel you can have a decent barricade defense if set up properly. land of the dead had a good defensive set up yet it required way to many resources to maintain. i think heavy almost unmovable objects and a good sniper defense would work great. one must think of every possible outcome of anything. that means someone has to constantly think about the worst possible situation that could happen. i sit and think about the negative all the time so i would have almost no problem comin up with some type of unmovable defense. it would take alot of time and man power but it could be done. ill think about it then ill get back to you. especially with a detailed plan of oxford.

[SRP76]

couldnt let this thread die.... resident evil extinction made a good point in noting that mobility is your best defense from the dead. It's just common sense. Staying on the move is the only possible way to survive. There is no such thing as a static defense with a bottomless well of supplies. Your resources will run out, and you will have to move. So there's not much point in trying to establish a "fortress" in the first place, since you'll just have to leave it at some point.

[Publius]

It's just common sense. Staying on the move is the only possible way to survive. There is no such thing as a static defense with a bottomless well of supplies. Your resources will run out, and you will have to move. So there's not much point in trying to establish a "fortress" in the first place, since you'll just have to leave it at some point. Unless you find/form a sustainable community. Then you don't have to keep stumbling into unknown situations.

[Shadowofthedead]

in my neck of the woods mainly oxford or butler county where it resides there is alot of farm land and wooded areas. the mobility would work good for foraging food and hunting and the such. i wouldnt limit myself to just oxford not at all... i think i discussed this once before but ill save it tomorrow when i get more in depth. basically i would play on i am legend using the surrounding area to grow crops. plus there would be plenty of machinery to do so. and it doesnt take a genious to learn how to use it. if machinery breaks down or is unusable then i could just plant them and use hand tools to cultivate and the such. plenty of animals to hunt. and trust me you need to try raccoon before you say nasty gross. actually not bad if you cook in butter onions and salt.

[Skippy911sc]

Good god, what happened to the man who built this house? Did the survivalist get knocked off? I can't imagine him selling it after so much preparation. Haven't checked this post for a while... The guy that built it sent the keys back to the bank after he got his property tax bill...could no longer afford it. Really a sad story...his dream home and poof had to walk away.

[AcesandEights]

Haven't checked this post for a while... The guy that built it sent the keys back to the bank after he got his property tax bill...could no longer afford it. Really a sad story...his dream home and poof had to walk away. I've revised my survival plan to waging fiscal war on Skippy911sc, Flintheart Glomgold v. McDuck style, and buying his zombie-proofed fortress for a pittance.

[Skippy911sc]

I will be waiting in the turret armed with this... Or maybe this

[lullubelle]

Cars need to be fueled, skates leave you out in the open and unprotected, walking is out of the question, maybe ride a horse if they catch up they can eat the horse... Cars need to be fueled, skates leave you out in the open and unprotected, walking is out of the question, maybe ride a horse if they catch up they can eat the horse... It's not what you do, it's how you do it.- I will be waiting in the turret armed with this... Or maybe this Do you have a spare one?

[Skippy911sc]

I might have a few extra lying around...but you have to take turns reloading the brass and the clips & magazines.

[Deadman_Deluxe]

I would try and set up camp in a Wal-mart or a mall, I am such a copy cat Yeah, you and ten thousand others Best bet is to lock yourself in at home for a couple of years until all those freaks at Walmart have shot each other. Where you have people, you have conflict, where you have armed people, you have murder by the bucket load. Myself, if i absolutely positively had to leave my home ... i would go out in style. Probably opting for the tried and tested "unicycle/peashooter/shark-proof clown outfit" combo.

[sandrock74]

I have 5 or 6 magnum bullets to my name. Unfortunately, I have no magnum gun to fire them from Maybe with training, I can throw them with superhuman speed and accuracy to make them lethal to zombies? Yeah, I don't think so either. I guess I could do the Shaun of the Dead trick and just toss them into a fire and hope for the best...