I didn't want to keep tying up their thread with just stuff about my hideout so here is a new thread to discuss plans to help build my/our Zombie hideaway
Plus real life places you plan on defending.
Ok I live in Newcastle Ontario, population about 10,000 (according to Wikipedia that is
)So here is my zombie plan, assuming that I am at home, I load the family into the car and head to my parents house, which is about 5 minutes away by car, and that is driving slow 80 km/h or slower, obviously I would drive quicker and get there in about 2. (of yeah I don't live in town I live in the rural part) so get to mom and dad's they live on 30 acres of property all fenced in and there are metal gates attached to stone walls that can close and lock over the driveway ( they are fancy looking ones that have spikes on them and are like 10 feet high easy. So roll in there, lock them behind me and head to the house (which cannot be seen from the road due to all the trees) So dad owns a few guns, plus my bow is there, also there is a variety of martial arts weaponry in the gym. For water sources he has two natural spring fed ponds on the property (close to the house) one of them is about 12 feet deep and stocked with trout and koi. So food and water, also there is a pool if he needed to boil that and drink it. He has a deer trail that runs through one corner of the property as well as coyotes and such. There is a large home gym to keep yourself in shape, a full garage set up including welding equipment, hydraulhic hoist and all the tools you need. plenty of cars and gas stored there, back up generators, oh and the stove is gas not electric so even if we lost power we could still cook for a while and his fireplaces are gas as well. He has three tanks he keeps full so it should last for a fairly long time. The only drawback is the garage/shop and gym are not in the house they are in a separate building accross the yard. As long as you check for Zeds before going out you shold be ok. Like I said the whole place is surrounded by trees, you wouldn't even know there was a house there except for the driveway and gates, but are Zeds smart enough to know that ? The house is very large and we could close of portions if we wanted too and there is also a tower we could go up into and block of the metal spiral staircase in times of emergency. I'm sure there is more but I'm at work and can't think of any right now.
lso have the German Shepards that bark at anyone who comes down the driveway so that is kind of an early warning system, plus one thing I forgot to mention is the type of alarm system they have. It is the early warning kind, as in if a window is smashed are a door bashed open we would know which part of the house was being broken in to. It is a large house and someone could be in one end and you would never know it unless you went there and looked.
for those intereseted here is a photo of their place with a few things labelled, It's from Google Earth and looks to be a little out of date.
http://s676.photobucket.com/albums/vv12 ... sHouse.jpg
Oh even if we do loose power (which is pretty evident) dad has a couple of generators and a fairly large pump and firehoses so we could still get water to the house (he uses it to pump water from the pond to the pool instead of paying for a water truck) and he has two one electric (which wouldn't work unless hooked up to the generator, but he also has one that is gas powered) One thing I thought of, they have one of those automatic lawn sprinkler systems set up (like gold courses, they are fairly high pressured (shoot a fair distance) too bad we couldn't drain the lines and fill the resevoir with gasoline and use it as a weapon. Some Zeds are shambling along the side yard, we turn on the sprinkers just in that zone (you can set it up by zone or turn all on at once) and they get soaked with gas, toss a couple moltov's and boom crispy zeds. Too bad we weren't being attacked by vamps, have a few priets bless the holding tanks, bam! instant holy water cannons!
I thought of a few more things for home defence, could also work for other people too. Now being on 30 acres that is a lot of grass so my parents have interlocking brick pathways that lead to different places (the shop, to the patio/pool in the back, to the pond on the side). I was thinking if we booby trapped all the grassy areas, every human would know to stick to the bricks. Step off the bricks and you are in "no man's land". This way we could really amp it up in the way of defending the place before the zeds even reach the house itself. Kind of like 28 days later where they knew that the other side of the fence meant a mine field. We could rig up snares or pits, wouldn't be too hard to camoflague them, I mean slouchers are pretty dumb right ? The only problem would be the runners and thinkers, thinkers might figure out to use the bricks, and runners might avoid the pits.
Hey Razz. You mentioned that there are spring fed ponds on your property. To me this means there is moving water. You could build a simple water wheel to supplement your gas generators.
If there is not moving water then there's always wind power. You should tell your dad to start working on that. Just in case.
Yeah there are underground (hot and cold springs that feed the pond) he dug the pond with a huge excavator because he found out that there were natural springs under the ground. He also built a small waterfall (not sufficient enough to power anything, that leads into a man made river that leads into the pond as well, maybe if we increased the pressure to that we caould generate power ?
If your dogs bark, you better fix that quick! While they may seem like an early warning system, anyone with a rifle will try to make short work of them (dog is good eating worse case scenario).
