I was thinking maybe Balta, North Dakota, since it is basically the geographical centre of North America, but I saw that Minot is nearby, and Minot has a military base, so Balta will probably be a bad place to be. Then I thought, maybe Boulder, Colorado, but Boulder has too high an altitude - too difficult to grow things, too cold in winter.
What do you think? Where’s the ideal place to meet up, assuming we survive the Apocalypse? We probably can’t count on any magical old black ladies to guide our dreams.
We gotta get to Atlanta, yo. The CDC is there, and surely if there’s a cure for the plague, we will find it there.
I want to be the one everyone in the group looks to for answers. It’s a stressful job, but being the leader means that I’m one of the major characters of the story. Major characters are never killed off.
Middle of Kansas. There should be plenty of tornado shelters and storm cellars around to take refuge in and some distance from any prime targets. Moderate climate and regular winds to disperse any concentration of fallout. Centralized location so you could still get to about anywhere in the U.S. in about 24 hours. Lots of access to airplanes as well since it’s an aviation industry center.
Lake effect might protect it, it could be far enough from Chicago to avoid fallout, fresh water & fish, farmland, & we can avoid the zombies by going out on the lake in a boat.
How do all us North Americans get there, though? We have to get Johnny L.A. or Broomstick to where we all are, first, then talk about flying us over. Or maybe a boat - can we take a big boat over?
Well, we are pretty embedded in the submariner community in Connecticut. We could probably manage to get any subs and tugs currently in port running, and manage to haul 200 [including skeleton crewing] per trip. Hot racking to hell and back, and I wouldn’t guarentee the food quality. Call it week and a half each way. [fast attack, boomers can hold more - and if we are in Norfolk, you can pack probably 20K people onto a carrier if you toss the aircraft off the side and pack the flight deck?] I seem to remember something like 15k people on the old nam era pfired carriers.
You know, now that I think about it, if you added towable barges, you could actually haul a hell of a lot of people around. Can you rig a carrier to tow barges? With a freshly fueled nuke carrier you would be able to putt around the oceans for what, 10 years? Though on a submarine you can effectively ignore the weather for as long as you have ox candles and chow. [and cans for dunking the garbage]
And the other advantage for a sub or carrier, you can run a shore community with electricity and possibly water generated onboard if you could manage to rig the equipment. Pull the sub up to a dock, hook the community up and let the electrons zoom. makes some of the desert islands sound quite comfy. If you had 2 subs you could alternate providing shore power and running for a supply scrounge somewhere.
In *The Road *and in the Walking Dead video game I’m playing, all the protagonists are heading towards the nearest coast, although the two camps in The Stand buck this trend (one goes to Vegas, the other settles in Boulder). In Cloud Atlas, the most advanced survivors get around by ship, like in aruvqan’s post, so I really don’t know. I suggest that we invite SenorBeef and the others in the DayZ videogame thread, as they’ve been getting a lot of recent practice at surviving as a team against the zombies (and other survivor bands!)
I didn’t finish World War Z, but in that, the folks who took to the mountains said the ice and snow would buy them a few zombie-free months, until the thaw. There were some bad scenes along the coast, when people learned the hard way that zombies no longer need air to function and would happily stroll along the bottom, pulling boats and swimmers under.
Am I like the guy from *Scream *who was listing off all the horror movie tropes when the real killer showed up. He survived right?
Maybe we need contingencies - if it’s nuclear, we don’t want to be anywhere near a military base (or should I say, radioactive hot spot). If it’s zombies, you probably want to stay away from large centres (also if it’s contagious, and the dead bodies remain contagious). I like the idea of the flotilla on the ocean - that has some legs, but we still have to have an on land meeting place before we take off.
I’m the Doctor, and I’m hear to help.
On December 20th, 2012, the Daleks will rise again.
There will be no way to stop them. They will kill everything. You can, however, escape with your loved ones for a short period of time and possibly avoid certain extermination. First, tunnel underground underneath the city of Orlando, Florida. Make a 1,500 square foot flat area underground. Store food, put beds down, buy board games, etc. Be ready to be down there for the long haul.
When the Daleks find you, they may bargain with you and agree to keep you as slaves. Don’t take their offer. It is a trap and will be worse than death.
I will be back three days after their rise to help you. The TARDIS will land in the middle of your tunneled home, and I will take you to safety on another planet.
See you all soon.
First, I’ll need a date for the Apocalypse. On the following day, we can meet at the bunker of any survivalist and ask them (while they’re hunkered down surrounded by stores of food, water, toilet paper, guns and ammo) what’s going through their mind in light of the fact the Apocalypse never happened.
