I don’t currently have a home, so I reckon I’m alright for joining the Zombie Cleansing Brigade. Now I just need to figure out how those “gun” things work…
My friends and I, we evaulate all our houses for Zombie-proofing. more fun when you do it with public buildings, but still…
My house is the best, as it’s three bedrooms, with one entry point at the top of stairs. I would blockade my stairwell, and I would probably be ok. I think I would arrange for a rope ladder to drop from my roof to the other side of the building, so as to avoid the pussbags.
In the event of total collapse, I knock out the walls and take over the whole top floor, blockading each doorway that isn’t mine. I’m right on the edge of Sacramento, so that would suck, but between my friends and I, we’ve got enough guns and skills to last for quite some time.
Again, the question comes up as to if we’re dealing with Romero Shamblers, or Fast Zombies. Totally different tactics.
So, that Saturday night will be like any other, will it?
My house would be a total wash. It’s only one story, there are two doors (one of which is mostly glass), and almost continuous ground-level windows. The only rooms without big ground-level windows are two small bathrooms. Sadly, the knob to one was put on backwards, so there’s no way to lock it from the inside.
The only reasonably safe place in the whole house is the crawlspace above the house. If you hoisted yourself up (and pulled whatever you stood on up after you, you’d be safe until you died of thirst or took a misstep and fell through the ceiling.
If these are advanced stairs-using zombies, then the fact that I live on the third floor will not be very helpful. Still, my door is made of metal, and there are no windows on that wall. Assuming I have remembered to lock my door, I should be zombie-free.
If they try to climb up the outside wall I may have problems, as I have a large balcony with a sliding glass door and two other windows. I do have a fairly secure bathroom with two doors – one to my closet with another door inside there leading to my bedroom, and another to the hall.
I have a couple of decorative swords, and one might be sharp enough to do some damage. Lots of kitchen knives. No guns. My car is small and will not stand up to the tearing hands of zombies, I fear.
All in all, I might just hide in the Walmart across the street and snag a shotgun. There’s a car dealership too, and I think they’ll probably be OK with giving me the keys to one of their many pickup trucks or SUVs in the event of zombie holocaust. If they’re all gone, I imagine I can figure out where they’re kept.
Unfortunately, right next to my apartment complex is a rather old cemetary. It isn’t very big, luckily!
A mobile home here. Like Quake, I’m relying on the grenade launcher.
The Piranha Brothers? Doug or Dinsdale? Or both?
We’d be hosed if caught inside. I live in a three storey townhouse with a big sliding glass door in the back. Even if they ignored the rear entrance, and even though the front windows are too high to jump in, I figure a zombie could still smash them and climb in; or maybe the first few might get hacked trying, but the rest could climb up the pile of bodies and get in eventually. The flights of stairs leading up to the 3rd floor loft have no doors. None of the bedroom or bathroom doors are terribly thick. With a ladder we could climb up through the skylights and onto the roof. We could then pull the ladder up behind us, I suppose. After that? Starve or freeze to death on the roof, pretty much. It’s too high to jump down without risking injury.
The one hope would be that the zombies attack from only one entrance, and we can run out the other to the car and drive like hell. If these are the slow-moving variety of zombies, that shouldn’t be too tough. If these are the 28DL-style sprinting fiends, however, the outlook is much bleaker. A pump-action shotgun and ammo with maximum stopping power would certainly help, in that case.
In the past year, I have found out:
That the stairdoor locks and cannot be openned unless you have key that used to open the lobby door(the one that was replaced by a fob) :eek:
The elevators closes quickly and doesn’t have a magic eye to keep it open if blocked.
The elevators are so quick, last week a dog was cut off from it’s owner.
Not surprising, a month ago, a toddler circled the elevator to go around his younger brother’s stroller and found himself alone in the lobby when the door closed.
Thus no zombie can get up the stairs. :o
The elevator closes before they can lumber in.
Zombie-proofing my home would be a bad idea. I’d never make it from my bed to the coffee maker.
Esthetically, I don’t like either of those; I prefer the Romero-type zombies.
I live in an apartment; only one door, which is pretty secure. The windows and screened porch are a level above the ground. We could hole up here for a while if we had to. My girlfriend’s got a .38; I’ve got a battle-axe, a machete, couple of swords and a crowbar.
Not a day goes by I don’t think about this.
A mixed bag. The Saudi guards got rifles and machine guns, but are very short on holy water and crusifixes. So the zombies should be toast, but even a few highly-trained vampires could make it to my steel door.
<marks in big red letters that this is NOT the apt. to break into…>
I have no worcestershire sauce in the house, therefore, I am not worried about zombies.
Robin
You might want to take care of Philip first.
I’m doomed. No reason to explain it any further.
Damn it! I got big windows everywhere!
But, I got guns. And machetes and chain saws and other felling instruments galore.
I also seem to have a way with zombies. Kind of like how other people have a way with animals or little kids. Zombies dig me. They adore me. They think I’m a righteous dude. And then I decapitate them.
I live in a ninth-floor apartment, so I figure I don’t have to worry about the windows. There are three accesses to the floor (two stairwells and an elevator), so I don’t expect to be able to hold the whole floor, but there’s only one door to my apartment, and I can probably barricade that pretty well. Weapons, though, might be a bit of a problem: If I need to defend the door, I have a sword, some staves, a shilleleigh, and an assortment of knives, but I don’t have any sort of firearms for sniping from the window.
Our house is completely open to zombies. They are under foot day and night. My wife and I just ignore them.
We’re totally screwed.