Important skills to have for the coming zombie-pocalypse

Knife sharpening

Chain-saw repair

Heavy-equipment operating (use a track-hoe to build a moat)

Masonry (bricking-up windows)

meditation (to keep the howls from driving you batty)

helicopter piloting might be useful as well

making improvised explosive devices

IMHO survival percentage is increased with a group of people with different skill sets. You have to have a planed exit strategy with friends and fam. Surviving the chaos of the beginning will be your first obstacle


not that I have thought about it or anything

Also, Z doesn't have to swim, just walk across the bottom of the lake/ocean, so careful of your fishing lines you might get more than you bargained for.

Check out Colony on Discovery Channel, they have a pretty interesting show that follows people after a fake post apocalyptic event.  
 

I have a ready go bag for me and my family including dried food, tent, change of clothes, .....essentials for survival.

as far as zombies, you will want medical training of course but if you get bit, well, just don't let that happen.  Find high ground near a replenishable water source and at least 3 escape routes, shotgun shells so you can use direct or use the powder for man made B****s (dear God don't let the FBI think Im serious here), 100 yaesr of fish line for fishing and traps, and most important, your bike, never leave your bike behind.

• What good will that do them once you're off the Continental Shelf? Or even in 20 meters of water?
• Zombies are not immune from having their brains burst due to immense water pressure at depth.
• How will they know what direction the sailboat is headed when they are 20 meters below surface?
• Tack just once and you are on a different trajectory and your zombie has no clue.
• Chasing a sailboat that is moving along topside while you are walking underwater with no idea what is happening at the waterline is preposterous to the point of being zero threat.

TriRSquared - 2010-09-22 10:12 AM

Renee - 2010-09-22 9:54 AM

TriRSquared - 2010-09-22 7:44 AM

Renee - 2010-09-21 9:32 PM Navigation

Zombies can't swim. I've always said an escape to the sea was the best plan. No need to live a violent life worrying about zombies; just enjoy life on the seas.

No but they walk on the bottom of the ocean.  In World War Z they walked from the Caribbean Islands to the mainland.  Deep oceans might be safe but you have to go ashore at SOME point.

Big deal, they can walk on the bottom.

• What good will that do them once you're off the Continental Shelf? Or even in 20 meters of water?
• Zombies are not immune from having their brains burst due to immense water pressure at depth.
• How will they know what direction the sailboat is headed when they are 20 meters below surface?
• Tack just once and you are on a different trajectory and your zombie has no clue.
• Chasing a sailboat that is moving along topside while you are walking underwater with no idea what is happening at the waterline is preposterous to the point of being zero threat.

You never have to go ashore. Keep a barge off the Continental Shelf; use this to grow your plants.

Other skills it would be advantageous to acquire: You're gonna want hurricane tracking skills.

I see survival as a matter of getting the biggest return for the smallest investment. No need to learn combat skills, making your own bullets, living in constant fear and heightened anxiety (unless you're into that), etc.

Just get off land and learn to feed yourself. Live in peace and harmony with the elements.

That's what all the sailors say.  Until they get lazy one day and wake up to a zombie on board

It's not the zombie you see chasing you that you have to worry about.  It's the ones you forget about.  The ones who are floating on the surface than float up to your boat in the middle of the night.

The barge is just going to float?  Probably not, would need to be anchored.  That's one long anchor....

Not as simple as it sounds.  Need to figure out how to desalinate large amounts of water for both yourself and your crops.  Now that I think about it crops are going to be hard to grow as well in the saline environment.  Would need an enclosed greenhouse.

(I love the internet (and COJ in particular).  Where else can you have an argument about a zombie invasion )

1. Life is a risky proposition.
2. We're all going to die.
3. We don't get to decide how or when. Whether it's getting tossed overboard in a big storm, a meteor landing on you or getting knocked in the noggin by a swinging boom, stuff happens. Then again, old age happens, too.
4. The odds of encountering a zombie on the high seas is extremely minimal to the point of being on a par with the odds of getting hit by a meteor. I think the meteor is more likely.
5. You wouldn't live on the barge. That would be too risky. Live on the nimble sailboat. The barge is a luxury, if you had to have fresh veggies and even livestock (maybe chickens, nothing big that would require a lot of resources). For the barge, you'd want a rotating shift or just minimal time on board, enough to pick fruit off your fruit trees. Again, if the barge is off the Continental Shelf, you'll be safe. Sure the zombies can float but a) how will they know the barge is out there and b) what are the chances they will simply float out into the Atlantic and bump into it? Very low. See falling meteor.
6. The Atlantic Ocean: think of it as having an extremely wide and deep moat.

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