Sonixboom wrote:I have always been convinced that when the zombies come that I need to have a zombie plan. So i made 3...
Interesting suggestions.
1. For a short time (while planning escape and accumulating supplies) a defendable store/mall with food and supplies is a great idea, but Dawn of the Dead showed the pitfalls of planning any extended length stay in one. Zombies are apparently attracted to either human scent or to other zombie activity so unless you can stay completely undetected, the longer you stay the harder it's going to be to get out of your store/mall when you do leave - and eventually you will have to when you run out of food/bullets.
2. Alaska would be a decent location to be in if you have the requisite survival skills - which you would need as power grids and the like would quickly break down if they weren't already by the time you got there. The risk in this plan is that depending on how far away from Alaska you are when the ZA occurs you could have one mega long and dangerous road trip ahead of you - one which you would be unlikely to survive. Secondly I can't recall any evidence to support your theory that zombies would be unable to bear the cold of Alaska. If their blood isn't flowing, what's to slow down or freeze?
3. The cruise ship idea is a good one except for the size of the crew and # of skilled maintenance people you would need to operate a vessel of that size. (and fuel would be an issue soon). Any large vessel is going to be visible quite a ways off so it would be hard to sneak into a port for food or fuel. A yacht / flotilla of smaller vessels would probably be more practical, though would be more difficult to manage.
I think the _safest_ option would be to find an island close enough to a continental coast where you would get the weather benefits of being near a large land mass, and large enough to support whatever survivors you've managed to accumulate (with enough fresh water, good soil, etc) and settle down there. Since Zombies can't swim (except for certain nazi zombies) and the odds of a zombie infested cruiseliner running aground on your island are relatively slim, you would only have a finite number of zombies to deal with. Once any zombies on the island were destroyed you could settle down to a fairly 'normal' agrarian life - although of course the community would have to be vigilant about any approaching boats and people dying and turning..