Stay alive, no matter what occurs, Non will come for you...

[eynon81]

[exploited]

[Spider]

[Professor]

Stupid ranking system for some of the things. "Survival skills based on facebook"? WTF! Real "woodsmen" don't know what the f**k FB is. Ever watch Swamp People? These people shoot alligators. In the head. For a living. They aren't going to have any problem shooting zombies. There's a reason that Louisiana is called the "sportsmen's paradise".

Though, the obesity thing is gonna kill us. Well, some of us. Mostly the fat f**k. Good riddance.

Where would I like to be? Except for one thing (hurricanes), New Orleans isn't a bad place. Relocate outside the city temporarily, then make forays into the city to kill zombies. Once they're all dead, move back into the city. Plenty enough open land in the eastern side of the city for farming and game. Cut the bridges going north, east and over the river. Leave yourself a single egress to the east, heavily fortified. No way for anyone to get into the city, except by air or boat (zombies can't drive, can they).

Voila - you have a self-sustaining city, not susceptible to harsh winters (face it, without electricity, winter is gonna suck for people of our generation up north), and plenty property and buildings to utilize.

[Spider]

Not worried about winter. I know how to cut wood. Surrounded by hundreds of miles of evergreen forest in every direction. And Ex is right about the advantages of frozen winters. The warmer the latitude and the lower the elevation you live in, the higher the population densities, and the worse the hordes will be. With no respite in the winter when the things freeze solid elsewhere. That said..the Eastern seaboard is screwed no matter what. Too damn many people.

Methinks one of the biggest problems the northerners will face is actually the hordes of helpless warm weather senior citizens in motorhomes desperately running north.

[eynon81]

[The Dharma Bum]

[The Dharma Bum]

[Professor]

In the north, will most "survivors" be able to really survive a harsh winter? No shipments of fruits or vegetables. You can hunt, but after a while of just living on deer and other game, disease and other maladies are highly likely. Most houses and other buildings these days aren't built to use wood to warm them.

I guess that you "could" live north of the Mason-Dixon line, but it'd be far tougher, I think. Not even sure that I want to think about living in CO during a winter without outside supplies or electricity.

Besides, I personally know of roughly 63,000,000 (yes, 63 million) gallons of unleaded gasoline that is stored in a tank farm right here in the city limits. Not doing the calculations, but I'd imagine that this would last me a while, even with my lead foot and penchant for 10mpg autos!

[The Dharma Bum]

also that theory doesn't have any component that explains why you turn into a zombie when it bites you

that's the real fear from a zombie attack, getting absorbed into a mindless horde