If *I* were in a zombie apocolypse like Walking Dead...

No, you’ll just have to deal with the zombies wanting to eat your face 12 months of the year.

In some zombie scenarios they freeze solid in the winter, which would give you a break from the eat-your-face problem, at least.

In Real Physics (you know, this Universe), anything remotely like a Zombie would freeze in winter and either be destroyed by it, or be rapidly broken down by the freeze/thaw cycles of winter and spring.

So while you people in the South will have to deal with every damned one of them, after the first Winter, we in Minnesota would be largely Zombie free.

Yeah, tough call - I guess I’d have to make an exception for the zombie apocalypse. Otherwise, I’m going south!

I would head for the nearest marina with decent sized sailboats and take one, with a small sailing dingy. Load up with a long and small gun each, with a fair amount of ammo, some tidewater nets, surf fishing gear, some solar gear and water gear [desal and filter], a couple years-worth of our medications and a couple buckets of those Doomsday Prepper Seed kits and head for an island far enough out that it would be difficult for both living and dead to get there without a boat [I suppose Block Island and such for New England unless we want a longer trip to the Caribbean] The diet would be fairly boring, fish, what we could grow and what grew naturally there, and whatever spices and condiments we managed to bring along. Well, maybe one rooster and 4 hens - we have a little bantam that will set anybodies eggs and is seriously broody so we could have eggs and eventually an occasional chicken. If we could manage it and get a group together to settle an island it would be better - more people to raise food, help secure the island and a small group to head out and check other local islands for supplies and possible friendlies to join us.

Pity any small tanker barges tend to have been used to haul petroleum products - being able to run and pick up several tens of thousands of gallons of fresh water to process into potable water would be very handy. Many of the small islands suitable for holing up upon do not have dependable sources of potable water. Brakish can be processed with a solar still, but still takes time and effort to process. However, large poly tanks in the thousand gallon range are reasonably available and could be strapped into the sailing dinghy and towed along behind …

Unless they’ve flown to South America. I’m pretty sure TWD’s apocalypse is confined to the United States. God is punishing the US for its tolerance of Fred Phelps.

That would be a hell of a twist ending to a post-apocalyptic movie - we assume throughout the whole movie that everybody in the world is dying/affected in some way, but the very last scene of the movie shows us that it is just one small part of the world that is affected.

What about a horse as transportation? Easy to fuel, all-terrain (well, more than a car) less noise and someone to talk to if you’re lonely. :slight_smile:

Me, my first stops: local military base/National Guard Armory and the local casino. Food, water, useful items from the resident State Police, only a few ways in that are easily blocked, good field of view in all directions, and the horses I mentioned before, with a military base not 5 miles away.

Incorrect. When they’re in the CDC with Jenner he talks about other researchers working on the problem around the world, and how the French team were the last to go silent. So it’s world-wide.

I’d try to find an island somewhere. Not off the coast - thats too obvious and I’m sure any islands there would either already be grabbed or be potential targets. But maybe in one of the Minnesota lakes.

Hopefully we are talking slow, stupid zombies like in “Walking Dead”. You might have the smarter and fast moving zombies like in Would War Z. Or even the smart zombies with leaders and all like in some of the other movies I cant remember now.

To me, the only zombie scenario in WD that makes sense is that a ‘regular’ pandemic killed off the majority of the world and then the dead started walking. As opposed to a Romero Living Dead situation where the dead rose and destroyed society. Even if you take into account society freaking out and breaking down, (which could happen) to get to a WD situation it’s going to take some time.

I like the phalanx idea, how many people would use need for a effective anti zombie phalanx?

I’m thinkng the first two lines with broom shaped spears, as to keep the horde at a distance, and the lines behind it using skull pearcing spears/ head head severing halberds

YOu must have seen the movie. In the book they were slow and stupid, as in TWD. And in WWZ they froze in winter but came back each spring. Also, I wouldn’t ever go swimming in a natural lake, or in a river or the ocean, unless the swimming area was screened, because those suckers “survive” underwater. In WWZ, one of the first, but unnoticed, indications of the plague was disappearance of swimmers.

Just another skull on my fence posts.