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0bsessions:
The thing is, zombies aren't going to chase you constantly for twelve hours. As is well established, it's not going to be hard to outrun a zombie when traveling light. The general plan for being on the run, is to use high ground for sleeping. Remember, I never said I planned to live on the road indefinitely and your plan for heading for the mountain is no more foolproof than my plan for the Southeast as you've still got to travel to get there. Unless you're living somewhere you can hole up and see yourself surviving for a few years, somewhere capable of growing and sustaining future supplies, you're going to have to travel at some sort.

My basic plan outline is travel in the short term, settle in the long term in an ideal area. I'd be looking mostly Florida area as far as permanently settling, as the hurricane season would probably do a good job of clearing out a lot of the zombies and it'd probably be at least a year before I could journey all the way down anyway.

0bsessions:


Read it. Learn it. Practice it.

Beyond that, it should be common sense. A predator that acts on instinct will always go for the easier meal, without exception. At a decent jog, you're going to put a mile or so between yourself and any zombie that is chasing you inside of an hour. A zombie is not going to be able to track you from there. They're dead people walking, they won't have enhanced spider senses or the ability to track your scent like a dog all of a sudden.

I'm half tempted to post my last picture from the Quiki forum to show you just how seriously I take my zombie preparation.

Patrick:
Now that you've mentioned it though, weather is definitely a major consideration that has only been touched on in terms of "Oh will I be too hot in all of this clothing?" There is a lot more to it than that.

I definitely like your idea that Florida's hurricane season will clear zombies out while you are conveniently holed up in a well-fortified, hurricane proof structure. I'm assuming that the zombifying virus doesn't cross species boundaries and can only be transferred human-to-human. When the wind or flooding eventually washes them out to sea, their carcass bodies will hopefully be eaten by sea creatures, but since it's human-to-human transfer only, you can still fish for your food.

I, for one, am hoping that the winter freezes the zombies' feet to the ground due to their slow walking pace. Of course, they'll not feel it/care and keep trucking, but in the process they'll probably lose their mobility-capable appendages in the process, depending on the degree of rottenness and/or how well stuck they are when they keep powering through.

Of course, they could get stuck and then completely frozen, and when the weather warms up they'd just thaw out and reanimate. One bonus to them being completely frozen, though, is that you can go up after a certain amount of time, allowing them to become frozen before you do anything. Then you just walk up with your baseball bat (wood axe on your belt, just in case) and make with the brain destruction in a few fell swoops (assuming they aren't already frozen to the point of shattering from that kind of hit).

0bsessions:
Also of note, the humidity and intense heat will likely cause any lingering biters to decompose at a quicker pace. I'm not even concerned so much with the hurricane season legitimately wiping them out so much as at least spreading them out and making it a bit easier of a journey. There are also significantly more military bases and prisons in the south, both of which are ideal positions for holing up.

a pack of wolves:
On the subject of cold climate survival, a few people have mentioned the difficulty of doing this without electricity. Although it's true that the power plants will be down and relying on petrol generators is a bad idea there's always renewables. I know people who own and know how to rig up wind turbines, solar panels and the like, if I can get them and myself into a cold climate then we can still heat a building. Of course, this isn't too likely for me since as I've already said I'm basically going to be boned within about an hour of this kicking off, but it's worth thinking about for those of you with a greater survival chance. Solar panels would be a fucker to carry but if you knew what you were doing you could put together a wind turbine and hook it up to a car battery with scavenged materials.

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