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Ariel Williams's Zombie Survival guide.Prepare for disaster in advance. It need not be zombies, much of the beginning of this document is useful in wars, natural disasters, earthquakes or weather situations too. The US government has recommendations for the bare minimum kits everyone should have.Basic Disaster Supplies KitFood | Ready.govHave a supply of emergency food that grows over time.I buy #10 cans of freeze dried food from places like Mountain House and Backpackers Pantry once a month. TBH this is not for zombies but just for emergencies. These cans last for 25 years, buy them once keep them forever. If you ever get stuck in a storm or disaster you will never need to worry about food. Buying one or 2 cans a month eventually I will have enough to last me many months only needing water to rehydrate them.Know how to cure meat for long term storage without refrigeration. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has created a simple almost foolproof guide to salt curing meats.UN FAO Manual on simple methods of meat preservationThe most basic technique for meat preservation is to trim off all fat, cut the meat thin, soak the meat in a heavy salted brine, cover the meat in salt, pound the meat flat, and hang it to dry. Spices are not necessary but can add flavor and hide any bad flavors. The meat can then be rehydrated by boiling it for soups or stews.Know how to can food. It is surprisingly easy but takes some time. You can make some really tasty canned food yourself so it's fun to try.General Canning StepsGet Started with CanningKeep a 12 volt battery powered water pump. If the power goes out for long enough so will your water and water pressure. I can turn on this pump and get enough water to fill several 50 gallon water barrels even if the water stops flowing on its own. The pipes in the house alone likely have many gallons.Keep a supply of "Contractor" garbage bags. These bags are bigger and thicker than normal garbage bags. You can safely put even sharp sticks in them with little chance of it tearing. They often come in 50 gallon varieties or larger. These can be used to store water or other supplies and they fold up small. Cut a few open on one or two sides and they make great waterproof tarps or ponchos.Own a sewing kit and a first aid kit with basic surgical gear and a military field medic manual. It should have butterfly sutures and a tissue stapler. Most first aid kits are filled with just many sizes of band-aids. Instead model your kit after the ones they use for field medics in the military.Download and/or print all of the US Military Field Guides you can find. Most are available free on the internet. They cover everything from food and water sources for survival to organizing a population that has been displaced. This is amazing stuff. They even cover things like military tactics and strategy and how to fortify a position. The US Army makes them available freely online in PDF. Doctrine and Training PublicationsWater heaters are a source of many gallons of stored, clean water. Most residential water systems use chlorine in the water which will keep that water fresh for a very long time.Own a baseball bat for people. Own a Two Handed Kukri Machete for zombies and for thick brush.Own (or acquire) a hatchet, LED flashlight, pocket knife, folding saw or pocket chain saw, parachute cord, a folding spade and a multi-tool. These tools can be useful every single day on the move.If you feel you must own a gun, make it a 9mm. This is the most common caliber of weapon anywhere. Shotguns are good for convincing a crowd to stay back. Small pellets embedded in many people's skin has that effect. Shoot at the ground in front of a group of people (concrete / blacktop) and it will disperse the pellets widely even at short range. While they are hopping on one foot or fall down, get away. People can be just as dangerous as zombies in a disaster.Most common warehouses would be very secure in a zombie outbreak. Metal walls, doors and no exposed windows at ground level. If the zombies did get inside you could easily have a ladder ready to get to the ceiling trusses and skylights. Personally I think the best would be to take over either Fed-Ex or a UPS warehouse. It would be like a continual Christmas all the wonderful things you might find in that place at any given moment.Oh look, a chainsaw, Grandma's cookies, clothes, bullets, etc.........Pulse monitors on everyone. These could be found at any pharmacy and are not likely to be high value looting targets unless you read this answer. A bit of work from someone with electronics experience on each one and it could be made to let out an ear piercing squeal when you die.(Wire a piezo buzzer to the warning light.)Zombie power station / Zombie Mill. Take zombies and remove their arms and lower jaw. Chain the zombies to a rotating shaft and have a two people on opposite sides watching them. They will wander towards the human keeping the thing running. The torque could be used to run a small generator forever with no fuel or to run mills and such. Several of these in series could power a small city. With no arms, and no jaw they would be harmless if they escaped.Much like above but with 20+ armless, jawless zombies.Zombie machine. Similarly, jawless zombies could be used to power carts in a big zombie hamster wheel sitting behind the driver.Weather permitting, sleep on the roof. Make a tent or such. If they get in while you're asleep you will be fine for a little while.Regular full body nude searches for bite marks on anyone that has left the safe haven for any reason, for any amount of time. These will be done by at least two people, ideally three. Mandatory bite mark checks every 7 days for everyone else.If you can't find an exit make an exit. With a large piece of metal (shower rod, pipe, part of a bed, large lamp. etc) and determination most walls can be smashed through with time. You could even potentially smash your way up through the ceiling or down through a wooden floor.Zombie traps 1. Build deep ditches and have a solar or wind powered device that draws zombies in with a human sounding noise. Occasionally burn the ditch. When it gets full refill it with dirt, dig a new one and start again.Zombie traps 2. Something as simple as strong rope can stop most zombies. Weave the rope back and forth in a zig zag pattern as a wall across a street. The rope should be designed so a human can squeeze between the pattern easily but a bunch of zombies pressing against each other will not. This is meant to slow zombies and let fighters or survivors get away.Zombie traps 3. Wooden stakes and kite string or wire <Miguel Valdespino) braided across the ground back and forth will trip zombies but humans could walk past it. This should be used in your compound to slow the flood in case of breech.Zombie traps 4. Metal poles could be installed in the ground at choke points with just enough room for one or two persons to slip through at a time. These could be used to trap or kill zombies by slowing them to a trickle that gets through while the horde is stuck pushing on each other.Zombie Traps 5. An alarm clock, walkie talkie, music player or tiny radio is a great way to lure zombies in an emergency. If you get in trouble turn the volume all the way up and overhand throw it. If it lands on a roof, all the better. Attaching this to a remote control car or aerial drone can lure zombies away harmlessly in any direction you want. You could even send the zombies off a cliff this way.Zombie Traps 6. Set up a series of solar powered music players to lure zombies to a cliff or quarry. Lead them nearby with a 4 wheel drive vehicle and good speakers.First aid. Learn some basic first aid methods. Get CPR certified, it is cheap and easy and sometimes even free.Motorcycle gear is great zombie-resistant armor. Anything that can prevent road rash can stop you from being bitten. The helmet is also good. The sports stores will have dehydrated food and the motorcycle riding clothes, people might steal the food but are not as likely to steal the riding clothes.In absence of motorcycle gear, wear multiple layers of long sleeved clothing. Even if the zombies are abnormally strong with 3-4 layers of clothing they won't be likely to bite through. Wrap a towel or sheet around your neck. This approach might be harder in the desert but even thin long sleeve shirts will likely stop mouth to blood contact but you will still get bruises. Also several layers of cotton might feel warmer but will actually slow the effects of dehydration.Set a bite policy upfront. If you are injured and suspected of being bitten you have three options. Everyone knows the rules. Suicide, Exile or lockup. No exceptions.(1.) Suicide.(2.) Exile. (If you are still alive a week later we can take you back.)(3.) Lockup. Remain locked to a bed or in a cage until you either change or the known incubation period is long since over. You may also be gagged and have your fingers taped into gloves for our protection.If you change it's no longer you and we kill it.New refugees policy. They must be strip searched to the skin and have a full body inspection by two different groups of three people before being let in. New people will be required to clip their hair short enough to see any injuries, all hair! They must then stay separate from the population for the incubation period of the disease.The short hair/buzz cut will also mark them as new so people know to be a bit careful around that person until they have proven themselves and reduce lice. The last thing you want is sabotage or insurrection by a rival group. By the time their hair grows back we should know if they can be trusted.Work to get out of the cities as soon as it is safe. Dead bodies, scavengers and rotting food will make them disease centers. Population centers are also zombie breeding grounds.Water. Know that you need a gallon of water per person, per day for drinking and hygiene. More in the summer. More in the desert or dry environments. IF you decide to move you need a huge supply of water to bring with you. Get a food grade tanker truck or a water delivery truck and fill them for your convoy.Make a homemade water filter and always boil your water. The basic principle is very simple. Do it like mother nature does. You use alternating layers from top to bottom of gravel, coarse sand, fine sand, and charcoal. You will also want a cloth filter on the top to stop bigger things from getting in and fouling it up.Once the water has gone through the filter have it run into another filter like this. Set each one below the other and gravity will do the work for you. This can be made in anything from a plastic bag and tin cans to a giant oil barrel. The process will be very slow so constantly fill the tank.Make sure your water source is safe. Check for dead animals nearby the water and look to see if birds or other animals are using it. Many pollutants can be colorless and odorless and yet still deadly.Gasoline. Most gas stations have huge underground tanks. If you are careful you can access these without power. Make sure you have a heavy duty hand pump made for gasoline. You can also siphon gas from any gastank. Newer tanks may have a rubber gasket or metal grating so you might need tools.If you are entering a new environment make noise. Bang on the something inside or otherwise make some noise. This will give you a clue as to how filled the building is. If you don't get a response quickly then there may not be many zombies nearby. Creeping around quietly when exploring means you might walk face first into a hoard and be unprepared. Find a place with a good sight-line like inside the hallway or near the exit with a view of the whole room then make some noise. Then you can escape if the place is infested. If it is infested, bar the doors, mark it with a big Z with a circle and leave.Every time your group stops/stays anywhere, always scout out and establish a nearby (1 km away) secondary rallying point and mark it. So that if you're overrun by surprise at any time, all survivors in the group know in advance where to go to regroup and move on with the survivors.TY. Michael BoyleLearn to sew. Seriously, where are you going to find a tailor after the apocalypse? You will need to repair and resize clothing.Simple refrigeration. The Cool Pot. Take a smaller pot and put it inside a larger pot. Fill the space in between them with wet sand, and cover the top with a wet cloth. As the water evaporates from the sand, it pulls the heat out with it, cooling the inner pot.Root Cellar. The temperature of the Earth down 20 or 30 feet is a relatively constant number year-round, somewhere between 50 and 60 degrees. Make sure there is more than one entrance.Go North! Zombies cannot handle the extreme cold, they become zombiecicles. There is also good hunting to be found in high mountains and far northern reaches.Recessed metal rolling shutters can make your house mostly burglar proof and zombie proof. When installed recessed in the walls at the time the house is made it can make it extremely secure. These are also great in hurricane prone areas to prevent damage.They can even be used to seal off areas like patios.While doing construction outside use cars with good stereos to lead zombies away. This is a very easy job but carries some risk. The ideal vehicle should be 4 wheel drive with high clearance and there should be a motorcycle or two in the back in case the driver needs to get away and the car breaks down.If you build a fortress add Bastions to the corners of the walls and ramparts behind them. Bastions are arrowhead like outcroppings of the wall that provide line of fire to all portions of the wall even if you are surrounded. This is epitomized in the Star Fort design that has several straight walls (at least 4) with pointed bastions at each corner. Once you build the walls, reinforce them by using backfilled earthen ramparts from the inside. This will make them invulnerable to being broken down by vehicles, most explosives and zombies. This also makes it easy to run to the top of the wall (from inside) and defend the camp. You can also later make the wall higher by building a new one at the top of the previous embankment. Below is the ideal shape.Fortress enhancements. Add a rampart, banquette, parapet, revetment, scarp, ditch, glacis, and counterscarp to the outside of the fortress. At its most basic, you dig a deep ditch and put all of the removed dirt on the inside edge. This becomes your rampart. If you are on a hill you can remove dirt from the sides of the hill to create a stepped rampart.You can even double up on the ramparts later.Sturdy buildings with cinderblock walls, concrete or metal are the best shelters. Anything else will eventually fall to the tireless punishment of zombies or fire.Gasoline will eventually become scarce as a source of fuel, convert engines to wood gasifiers. It takes any reasonably dry woodstuff, hay or coal and turns it into fuel that can run any car. Anywhere there are trees you will have fuel. It can be built into the car but a better option is to put it on a trailer so it can be moved to another vehicle quickly and easily.It is a proven technology and has been used in the past. During WWII gas was in short supply and there were more than a million of these in active use worldwide with over 500,000 in Germany alone.A technical description courtesy of Wikipedia.Gasification is a process that converts organic or fossil fuel based carbonaceous materials into carbon monoxide, hydrogen and carbon dioxide. This is achieved by reacting the material at high temperatures (>700 °C), without combustion, with a controlled amount of oxygen and/or steam.An ideal Gasifier setup. Some can be skipped but doing so will cut engine life.Your go to vehicle should be a pre 1995 Toyota Hilux converted for gasification. They are strong, small and will take a beating like no other vehicle. You should keep a couple of motorcycles in the back for scouting and use the truck for longer trips or bigger cargo. If you have a unblocked route across good roads you may want to use a hybrid due to their high gas efficiency. Hybrids are mostly only useful for frequent trips back and forth to another camp.Fortify your vehicle or home easily. This does not require great skill or fancy tools. A drill, some long screws with nuts and heavy metal cord is all you need for a simple enhancement. This can be used to create a steel web over the windows so zombies cannot get in through them. Easily found in any hardware store.Advanced vehicle fortification. Once you are setup and can freely loot the surrounding area build a zombie-proof vehicle.Or a mine clearing vehicle like the Minewolf.If you can't beat them join them. Who knows, maybe being a zombie is not all that bad. Maybe they have a language, culture and society of their own that we just don't understand. This should probably be a last resort becuase well ouch.This can also be a zombie survival strategy if you are in deep trouble and have no other choice. Covering yourself with zombie blood, guts and entrails will disguise your smell. You will need to stay away from the other zombies and move slowly. Zombies are drawn to movement and noise. If you run or they hear your heart jackhammering they will eat you. You might not be able to do this if you don't have control over your gag reflex. The rotting zombie flesh tends to give off strong amounts of Putrescine which often makes retching unavoidable. Just try to pass off your retching as zombie groans and you might be all right but then you might also accidently call that other zombie "a big poppy head" in zombiese and start a fight.See also: Ariel Williams's answer to If you could choose anyone to be a part of your team in a zombie apocalypse, NOT including fictional characters, who would it be?

Back in the 70s when I taught 5th grade I took a bus load of students (we did every year) into Chicago to the Museum of Science and Industry. I had parent chaperones and each parent was assigned 4 kids + their own (5 kids in group). I did not chaperone any students myself as I roamed and monitored as I saw the groups here and there at the museum. (For those who don’t know, that museum covers about 4 or 5 sq. blocks and is multi-storied.) We all met at a specific time and place for our sack lunches and then were to meet at a specific time to leave. It was about an hour-hour and a half drive, depending on traffic, back to school.All seemed to be going well. UNTIL we began to load to return home. One parent said she was missing a kid. He said he needed to use the restroom and so she let him go and told him to meet out at the bus. (Why she didn’t wait outside the bathroom I have no idea!) Well, he didn’t show up! The bus loaded and we waited. And we waited. I went back in, got security (I had photos of all the kids and all were wearing ID tags w/name, school, my name, etc) and we all began searching. This was the 70s—never heard of cell phones. Could not find the kid. It was getting late so I sent the buses home and asked one of the parents to call this kid’s parents and explain what happened and why he was not on the returning bus and that I would find the little bugger and we’d have to come home on the commuter train. The buses left. About 45 minutes later we found the kid! He enjoyed the little train trip thru the coal mine in the basement of the museum and wanted to ride it again! I chewed his butt until I was sure he’d never be able to sit down again!!We took a city bus to the train station and caught the next South Shore Train back to Gary. I called his parents and told them where we were and what happened and when we would be arriving in Gary. They said they’d meet us at the train station. This kid was happy as a lark! This was great fun!! This was the BEST field trip!! He’d never ridden a real train before!! I had smoke coming out of my ears!!We arrived in Gary around 8 PM (we were suppose to be back at the school by 3:30!) His parents were there. They were mad as hell, not at me, at him! His mom chewed him out like I’ve never heard! Wouldn’t be surprised if he got his butt swatted when he got home. His dad ‘grounded’ him for a month! No baseball, no Boy Scouts, no camping trip, no nothing! I was so happy that the parents supported me 110%! They apologized all over the place to me. No need. It was my job to take the kids and deliver them home safe and sound and I would never leave a 10 y/o kid alone in Chicago!Re: the question, how would the parents deal with a high school kid left behind on a field trip, I would HOPE that the kid’s parents would do something similar to what my kid’s parents did and support the teacher. The teacher, however IMO, should not have left the kid behind. S/he should have stayed until the kid was found and then bring him/her home. The kid did this on purpose. He did not want to be found if he was not answering his/her cell phone—every kid has one now-a-days—or checking in with security of the place they were visiting. This was a LARK for him/her. IMO, the teacher was negligent in not ‘securing’ all students. Don’t know if there were other chaperones on the trip. Hopefully, there were and teacher was not the only one. I don’t know if the parents have any legal recourse against the teacher regarding the negligence in security but s/he sould be reported to the principal and probably the district and Board. As far as the kid is concerned, he should be punished by in-house suspension or even full at home suspension for several days and a notation made in his records that he NEVER be allowed to go on another school field trip!

There was no kindergarten. Not in the public schools. Some of us had gone to various day care centers or kindergartens, but many of my classmates were away from Mommy for the first time. Our parents were sent a list, a very very specific list of what supplies we would need. Among these was a request for the eight pack package of Crayola Crayons.Some parents tried to be over achievers and sent the larger packages. The teacher collected these and returned them with a note. The kids came back with the right crayons. Parents did what the schools asked. Our day started with the Pledge of Allegiance, the Lord’s prayer and then it was time to learn. We had work sheets, reading groups that were actually designated as which was the top reading group and so on. Stickmen - plywood cut outs of the figure of a man lined the top of one shelf. Using clothespins we would use these to learn some simple math. Lunch was at school. Some children, but not too many, brought their lunches in lunch boxes. Cooks, employees of the school system prepared home made stuff food every day. Lunch was twenty five cents. For five cents more, you got a 4 oz. carton of ice cream. One day a week, you took in some extra money and gave it to your teacher. She pulled out a folder with your name and gave you a stamp to glue in the folder. When the folder was full, you would get a savings bond. You didn’t know what that was but you had been told it was a good thing, so you did it. Report cards came out every six weeks. A local bank provided the cardboard folders in which your teacher put your grades. You took these home. Parent signed them and you took them back. We pretty much had the same people in our class at the beginning of the year as at the end. We had a fifteen minute recess time in the morning before lunch. The playground had swings with heavy chains and you learned to not put your fingers in the links. You could climb on the monkey bars or cross the cross bars. We got callouses, bruises, scrapes, etc. We survived. You lined up at the water fountain, one right after the other, and grabbed a sip of water before you went back to the class room. We sometimes had film strips. In first grade, our parents had been instructed to take a gallon of bleach and when it was all used, tip the bottle upside down in a sink over night. We took that and a towel to school. Our teacher put our name on the bottle, filled it with water and made a line of these in the cloak room - Each child’s bottle sitting on their towel. We were at war. We had fire drills and civil defense drills where we would huddle under our desks, out interlocked fingers covering the back of our necks. In third grade, cartridge pens were added to the arsenal of school supplies. We were going to learn cursive. That may have been fourth. As we got older, our desks changed and we were expected to store our books, supplies, etc. under our seats. Desks were subject to inspection. The girls wore dresses or jumpers or skirts and blouses. The boys wore pants. On school picture day, the boys wore bow ties. When that one boy did not stand up for the Pledge or when the three Jewish boys did not say the Lord’s Prayer, that was okay. As long as they were nice. We learned about how those Jewish kids had some different holidays than us. One mom bought in a noodle keugel. Another brought in Matzah. We learned about Hanukkah. We went on field trips. We had an art resource teacher that brought really cool art stuff to our classroom every other week and music teacher that did the same. There were poor kids. We knew who they were not because anyone pointed to them and said, he, he or she is poor, but the clothes, the other stuff, you knew. It didn’t matter. If Rex was poor, that was okay. Was he a good kickball player is what counted. The Weekly Reader arrived every Friday and was a part of our weekend plans. Almost all of us talked about going to church or Sunday school during Monday’s show and tell time. One kids parents, that i remember, got divorced. We had snow cones for sale, after school on Thursday. We had paper drives one a month and the class with the most paper all got a party. My class one time had over a ton of paper. We had a Halloween carnival with all sorts of booths and fun. You could throw a ping pong ball at a table full of small cups and if it went in the cup, you got to keep the gold fish in the cup. They put it in a bag, pumped in some air and tied it up. The gold fish that I won lived until noon the next day. No one called PETA. There were bake sales. And a cake walk at the Halloween carnival with home made cakes. No one would have thought that someone would have dared to try and slip poison into one of those cakes. If a friend’s mother or father told me to do something, I said yes ma’m. And I did it. You did not want to go to the principal’s office. Our teachers hugged us, some to the point that they allowed five minutes extra before the bell on Friday to get their weekend hugs.Most of us walked home. A few kids road a bus but their parents had to pay extra for that. There was a group of boys that attended my elementary school that lived in a boy’s home, a children’s home. We always knew when they had had their haircut weekend. There were children of color in may school Just a few. We didn’t pay much attention. We would have afternoon time on the playground filled with serious games of dodge ball, kick ball, red rover, etc. Typically, about four classes at a time would be on the playground at a time. Your skill at kick ball, bound ball, dodge ball, etc. was as negotiable as cash. We all wanted to win the presidential award of fitness. The teachers would sit on the edge of the playground, grading papers, talking with each other. We were safe there. And, typically, within fifteen minutes of that last bell, the school, the campus were a ghost town. And then there was the day that, just for a minute, it kind of changed. I had stayed after school. Probably for a spelling bee. Who knows? There was parking on the street right in front of my school, but the crossing guards were gone. But I was trained to cross there, so I stopped to see if I could cross. A car was parked there. I looked down into the car to see that he had on no pants. I didn’t freak out. It just seemed strange. My experience in seeing penises to that point was very limited. He sped away. I went on along my way wondering why in the world he wasn’t wearing pants. The next day, another girl had told a teacher that she had seen him and then I told the teacher. The police wanted to know what I thought. And then, later, we went to the playground. There were police cars on the street that ran along side the playground. The teachers wouldn’t let us play near the very quiet street that edged the playground. The police came for a few more days. But our teachers, they stayed on top of it. We were their responsibility. I dare say had the man shown up…No, he would have had to know better than to even think of dealing with four angry teachers bent on protecting their class. And that, by the way was elementary school.