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where would you build your zombie shelter?

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nageov3t

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or rather, which area of the world do you think has the best balance between low population density, a long growing season (assuming this is long-term and you'd have to grow all your own food since the world outside your shelter is littered with zombies), and low risk for natural disasters (because, GG if a tornado tears your walls to shreds)?

yes, yes I am reading a new zombie novel that has be re-obsessed with this. :p

I also think about the entrance question a lot... how would you balance out the need to have a zombie-proof gate that they can't see behind with also needing to get in/out of the complex (especially pre-zombie attack, when you're still getting your dream fortress setup)?
 
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maniacalpha1-1

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Hm, your question about the growing season gave me an idea...at least in areas of the world where winter actually gets cold, wouldn't zombies stay outside in the winter and freeze solid? So basically if you can just travel to a colder area and wait for low temperatures, even if the freezing doesn't kill them it ought to immobilize them so you can go around smashing them with ease?
 
Triumph

Triumph

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I was thinking about maybe a Swiss Family Robinson/Ewok Village tree house kind of thing. One, because tree houses are awesome. Two, because I don't think zombies can climb trees. MAYBE they could climb a rope ladder, but I believe if you are eaten by a zombie because of your own negligence, then you deserve to be zombie food.

You would need multiple trees strung together so that you could escape when needed down another tree, in case a horde (hoard?) mingles around the base of your tree. But what is a tree house city without an above ground network of rope swings/catwalks anyway?

Mostly I just want to live in a tree house.
 
Azraele

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What novel are you reading? I'm always on the lookout for a good read.
 
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nageov3t

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rdubbz said:
ewok village. zombies cannot climb rope ladders or trees.
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termites?

Azraele said:
What novel are you reading? I'm always on the lookout for a good read.
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Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End

I believe it was originally a Spanish book... the protagonist is a civil servant in Spain. it's written journal-style (ala Day By Day Armageddon) but it's an interesting perspective to have a Joe Schmo main character instead of some crazy ex-military vet/survivalist guy.
 
waggy

waggy

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maniacalpha1-1 said:
Hm, your question about the growing season gave me an idea...at least in areas of the world where winter actually gets cold, wouldn't zombies stay outside in the winter and freeze solid? So basically if you can just travel to a colder area and wait for low temperatures, even if the freezing doesn't kill them it ought to immobilize them so you can go around smashing them with ease?
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Not sure the cold would slow them down. they are dead its not like the ligaments are going to freeze up. Also who it to say they won't just go into a hibernation type and when it thaws out they come back?

I think a warmer climate would cause them to decay and "die" faster. also you can grow more crops in the south then far north.
 
SMOGZINN

SMOGZINN

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Marfa, Tx
Very low population, old military installation with only 3-4 people at it. Miles of flat empty land around it would make spotting incoming zombies easy from a high vantage (I'm thinking a tethered hot air balloon) Large industrial hothouses nearby (large amount of the USA's hot house tomatos are grown near there)
 
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classy

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I would build in the desert. Preferably under ground bunker. Would make supply runs once a month. The desert does two things for me. Should weaken the flesh considerably of the zombies and give me long sight lines. I would have to deal with the heat, but the heat imo would be of great help to me.
 
JamesV

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The one thing zombie movies always get wrong, is that 99% of humans will not just scream with their arms up and get eaten when backed into a corner. There are alot of people out there with guns, and many more that would grab anything and hit/stab/burn a zombie coming after them. And don't think for a moment the goverment wouldn't nuke a major city with a 'zombie' outbreak.

With that in mind; you wouldn't be able to just go out stake your claim on an island, prison, or whatever, unless it is in an area that got overwhelmed, because otherwise someone else is probably already there, and might be a warlord/goverment/army type individual you would not want to live under.

This is assuming non-supernatural zombies, and since we've never documented real supernatural activity, our zombies would most likely be just crazed (virus?) humans with a thirst to kill, and therefore could bleed out, freeze, drown, and be killed quite easily compared to movie zombies that seem to function magically with bodies that could not otherwise move or do anything.

Personally, I'd find a nice high spot in a deep forest, build a bunker, with some ATV's and a good truck to salvage from nearby towns when I needed something.
 
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waggy

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classy said:
I would build in the desert. Preferably under ground bunker. Would make supply runs once a month. The desert does two things for me. Should weaken the flesh considerably of the zombies and give me long sight lines. I would have to deal with the heat, but the heat imo would be of great help to me.
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that's my line of thinking. but i think i would go more midwest. It has a great growing season, and flat. so i can see something miles away.

oh yeah btw i had this bookmarked.

http://homes.yahoo.com/news/anti-zombie-strongholds-for-sale.html?page=all
 
DrPizza

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JamesV said:
The one thing zombie movies always get wrong, is that 99% of humans will not just scream with their arms up and get eaten when backed into a corner. There are alot of people out there with guns, and many more that would grab anything and hit/stab/burn a zombie coming after them. And don't think for a moment the goverment wouldn't nuke a major city with a 'zombie' outbreak.

With that in mind; you wouldn't be able to just go out stake your claim on an island, prison, or whatever, unless it is in an area that got overwhelmed, because otherwise someone else is probably already there, and might be a warlord/goverment/army type individual you would not want to live under.

This is assuming non-supernatural zombies, and since we've never documented real supernatural activity, our zombies would most likely be just crazed (virus?) humans with a thirst to kill, and therefore could bleed out, freeze, drown, and be killed quite easily compared to movie zombies that seem to function magically with bodies that could not otherwise move or do anything.

Personally, I'd find a nice high spot in a deep forest, build a bunker, with some ATV's and a good truck to salvage from nearby towns when I needed something.
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Wasn't the basis of one of the zombie movies that the fumes from a burning zombie animated the corpses in the graveyard - it was related to some sort of chemical. Toward the end of the movie, they nuked the area with the zombie outbreak, and clearly showed that the effect of this was to release more of that chemical by burning zombie flesh.
 
MiniDoom

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DrPizza said:
Wasn't the basis of one of the zombie movies that the fumes from a burning zombie animated the corpses in the graveyard - it was related to some sort of chemical. Toward the end of the movie, they nuked the area with the zombie outbreak, and clearly showed that the effect of this was to release more of that chemical by burning zombie flesh.
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yes, The Return of the Living Dead
 
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