Outbreak II

[Heimdall]

8 am east coast time, I'm usually still in bed. I am in Des Moines IA more than likely just stirring for work, or snoozing still. In house I have, um plenty of weapons and ammo. 4 cases of MRE some canned goods and a decent bit of watter. In my van I have my GHK(Get Home Kit), and my 38 snubbie on me, 15 rds total including spares in the kit. I also have the truck, and van fully fueled today, lucky me, the Toyota is a lil under half tank and having problems holding a charge.

Ill be heading to work if all looks normal thats all Ill know till the job site where I listen to the radio when other trades are working in the same house, Not many people like my music choices, mostly foreign. If I hear something on the radio during the day, or see something odd, Ill call Tripwire and see if he has heard anything and go from there. There was allot of activity at the clinic near my job site, I noticed this during lunch. Not enough going on to cause much more than a little WTF is this all about, but something feels off.

Due to the random oddities during the day I sort out the gear, check mags load ones that were emptied at the last range outing just in case my guts right. With all the evening reports of things and the goings on I decide to call a full ready to go. I empty the van of all work gear and load the stores food ammo and other supplies, weapons will stay in the house at the ready, wile doing this Ill put the dog in the pen with her pups instead of having her roam the yard. Ill throw the tools for work, and the GHK in the pickup for work tomorrow, and my shotgun will go under the seat as well as my Beretta 92. Ill still have my 38 on me as usual.

The rest of the family and friends that need to know will be told, somethings up if I call be ready to go, if I don't call and it looks bad, be ready to go. With all the reports of violent or deranged people, and animal attacks Better to be prepared than scrambling, I was in the Boy Scouts after all. Ill do what I usually do after that, build something, read something, or watch something till I go to bed. Ill keep a better watch on the news before bed tho.

[Tater Raider]

I am heading out to work (04:15 Lima). Will read headlines like I always do. (I deliver the papers, but I don't subscribe - I do buy a paper if there is an article worth having though. I'm odd that way.) As usual I work out of my minivan (bicycle is laid up due to a bent rear axle from being constantly overloaded - that's why the tricycle is in the works for a BOV, just sayin') and watch the neighborhood for any oddities. This is normal routine so unless otherwise posted this will happen every day between 03:30-06:30 Lima. I also listen to 2 national morning radio programs, one is news and the other 'comedy' while working so I might have info to report beyond my local news. I'll always (for the game's sake) do a sit-rep after I finish here. I tend to head for chat thread after work anyhow.

On a side note, the local LEOs love/tolerate me because at this time of the day I [img]am[/img] the neighborhood watch and have let them know when something is going on that don't feel right. 2 domestic disputes and a potential burglar scouting an area have been turned in over the last 2 years.

Hope this helps the game out too.

Yeti: please feel free to PM me if you want me to report something.

[Tater Raider]

Anything in green is game-related. Everything else is real life. Most news today is political so I posted headlines only and withold comment (and ask everyone to do the same) to 'keep it real' while we get this started.

Today's Headlines from the Globe Gazette

Above the Fold:

• Obama: 'BP Will Pay'
  
• Water Treatment Plant Renovation (picture)
Below the Fold:

• North Iowa buzzing over Branstad's running mate options
• Crazed man dead after assassination attempt

I noticed nothing unusual while out today. I half listend to America in the Morning with Jim Bohannon. Chick McGee did not come into the Bob and Tom Show today (he was out sick, apparently at the last minute). Tom, being the mysophobe (fear of germs, dirt, or being contaminated with something harmful) he is, launched into a discussion of hand sanitizer and how to prevent the spread of disease, similar to what he did while H1N1 was going around.

I am continuing to listen to Bob and Tom until they go off the air or I take my morning nap on the internet (Q95 out of Indianapolis is their home station). I am feeling a bit better but still am fighting a head cold.

Note: Once the outbreak hits here I'll switch it over to pure outbreak stuff - maybe a couple days - a week depending on how our fearless leader paces this.

[DarkAxel]

Just waking up to the morning TV News after a night of rolling fits and bad dreams. Lead story on WYMT is the assassination attempt in Washington, followed by a blurb about the air crash outside Mexico City. The rest of the news is local filler, though the final piece is an interview with a Jackson PD Officer who was injured arresting a drug-crazed man at the Shell Mart. The Officer has bandages on his cheek and upper arms: a paramedic is dressing his wounds while he recounts the events of the arrest.

"I hit him with the tazer and he didn't drop," the officer says. "That's when a few bystanders jumped in and we wrassled him down an got cuffs on him". The news went on to say that the suspect was being transported to the Three Forks Regional Jail. Also added was the suspect's name, that he was from Lexington, and that he had no previous record.

I call my boss to see if there's any work to be done today when the news goes off, but the rainstorms last night put the kibosh on any work plans for the day, so I prepare for another day loafing around the house. The grass could use another trim.

[mordekin]

I'll play!

Since I live in the mid-west (Kansas City), and I work nights I would be a little delayed in getting some of the information. However, due to my job I would be working more hours, but since I troll the news pretty regulary I would connected some dots by now and would start preping my friends and family to start emergency evac to our designated "secure" facility.

[IceWing]

Alarm goes off just before 7 am. I mutter as I turn it off. I smell lunch cooking downstairs. I love my wife. She got up before me, so I'd have a nice lunch. (Cheaper than going out to lunch AND better food)

Keep muttering until I'm cleaned up and ready to go to work. Wife gives me a smoothie. I know its good for me, but there are mornings I miss my eggs w/ prosciotto and toast.

Check the internet (Digg, ZS, CNN)

Some kind of bruhaha in AZ about signs posted by the feds telling American citizens that it's not safe in the parks.
News flash, there's an oil spill in the gulf and people are upset.
More coverage on Big Butter Jesus (between Cincinnati and Dayton) burning down due to a lightning strike. I'm still wondering about this one due to the fact that lightning normally goes to the highest point, and in this case, it actually struck something lower.
Another shooting in Over the Rhine I don't think much of this as it happens about once a week.
Oh yeah, and it's going to be hot (90+ today... again)

On the way in, listening to NPR and the pop channel, since the radio in my car is crap and I get about 5 channels. More BP coverage and info about a 'there may have been a leak' of more video and state dept docs. About half the news as normal, since they're shilling for donations again.

Ice

[Tibus]

I don't wanna jump the gun here but.... Chest shots not dropping them, no or little blood from wounds, they're biting people. The guy at the Whitehouse didn't go down till he was shot in the head. Doesn't this sound a little like...oh...maybe.. ZOMBIES? But for real? This shit's crazy, I'm gonna definately look out my door before going to work in the morning.

In the USA, every person is going to think "zombie" or at least "zombie-like". In which case, shooting either one in the head is still going to do the job. Might as well travel the extra mile and aim a little higher.

Someone "you shot the guy in the head cuz he was a zombie?"

me: "no, I shot him in the head cuz he was grabbing random people and devouring them on the street......o yeah and he was coming right for me."

I don't think most people would immediately think "zombie" at this point. "Crazy guy with a bullet proof vest" as reported by the media sounds much more plausible than "zombie". The world if full of messed up wackos doing crazy stuff and "zombie" is about as unlikely as vampires and unicorns. A few people here are already preparing for the the end of the world even though the news reports have not yet given anyone a reason to panic. The only weird stuff in the news so far it

Crazy guy bit a little girl
animal attacks
plane crash

I'm going to work as usual. I put gas in the car this morning because I was out of gas and not because the world may end today. I'll check the ZS boards where I'm sure someone will post links in the DICE board about the plane crash. Someone will make light hearted jokes about the nutcase biting a little girls. Haha - maybe he was a zombie - haha. Poor girl.

[Yeti]

Day 2 Morning Update 8AM EST
NATIONAL LEVEL
Police Updates:
Terror Alert raised, possible bio-hazard threat in major metro areas. Contains the standard jargon, nothing really stands out.
Medical:
CDC - issues Summer Flu warning as there was an upswing in flu like symptoms reported into ER's throughout the night.

Reports are sketchy at best on the cause of the plane crash outside of El Paso, it is reported there were no survivors yet the passenger manifest and number of bodies found have not matched. News footage shows the plane relatively intact. Homeland Security, TSA, and the FAA have taken jursidiction as a possible terrorist incident.

President's address to the nation is scheduled tonight on the oil spill.

USS agent is to be recognized this morning for his heroism yesterday, along with the two injured police officers. President is supposed to visit the girl in the hospital this afternoon.

Other headlines on Drudge Report this morning:
NASA Warnings of Solar Flares
Blue Wire Katana Wielding American Detained in Pakistan
London gripped in fear after mob attack kills several tourists overnight

Local News:
Kentucky:
Lexington Man Trashes Local Corner Store, Story continues about eyewitnesses commenting on what a methhead the guy must have been. Cop shot him with a tazer and that bastard didn't even twitch from it. Local news footage shows some of the stores survaliance camera footage in it's black and white grainy jerky glory. Footage spreads on Facebook and other Social Network sites.

Texas:
Uptick in violence in Austin and El Paso overnight. Random attacks & beatings.
15 bodies were found at a house in the El Paso suburbs in what authorities are calling a brutal masscare of a bunch of teenagers that were celebrating their graduation. (for those that look close address is about one mile from plane crash site)

Austin - local trendy night club was closed due to a riot breaking out. Reports of a fire and several being stampeded.

Iowa:
Greyhound bus crash on I80 near Newton, causes 20 car pileup over night.

Ohio:
Columbus - Reported disturbance at area hospital, reports of several wounded and the suspect dead.
Police news: Several officers out sick today, suspect in hospital disturbance was same deranged man that attacked local high school cheerleading bus.

Kansas City:
Reported disturbance at airport, several passengers attacked by deranged man during the red-eye flights. Officers shot and killed suspect.

North Carolina:
Reported disturbance at Concord Mall in the Bass Pro Shop. Man attacking random people. Still at large.

South Carolina:
Accident on I20(just outside Columbia) resulting in multi-car pileup as car swerved to avoid man chasing a deer across the roadway.

Indiana:
Indianapolis- Home Invasion foiled by 88yr old Grandma with her double barrelled shotgun. "He wouldn't stop coming at me, so I let him have both barrels of it. My late husband gave it to me for my 50th birthday."

Utah:
Reports of a man attacking a church pot-luck. Wounded several before running off.

International Local News:
Austrailia:
Syndey - Several passengers thrown overboard off ferry when passenger began attacking others. He fell off the ferry as well. Authorities are still searching for all passengers.

UK:
London - Violence took hold last night with mob attacks being reports. Home video leaks out over the internet showing some of the attacks (last 30 minutes MSM and interwebs haven't picked it up yet).

Russia:
Moscow - Russian Police shot and killed Chechanyan Terrorist that was attacking passengers using the subway.

All location specific news is only at a local level currently. Unless your the type to explore every newspaper out there, you shouldn't be tying it together yet.

[Morinor]

Seems to be business as usual for me. Nothing really stands out too much, so I plan on going to work to deal with another kind of zombie hordes: the people trying to pre-order the new iPhones at the Mall. EDC and GHB is in the car, since i can't CCW at work. I'll probably check the news a couple times at work, and I'm rocking a filthy head cold, but otherwise, just another day.

[Randall]

today would have gotten up head out to menairds to get some play wood and other lumber while on the way I would call my boss to find out what happening at the hospital (he is also a prepper and a here on the forum) and deside to where or not go to work. I would start securing the I would still mostly likely still go to work but put my AR under the rear passenger seat of my Cherokee along with my concealment vest with two extra mags and to park in the vistor's parking lot so that I would be able to get to it more easilty if I have escape the Hospital. I would be also be in contact with my brother in Louisville make sure he is aware and ready to bug out.

[Yeti]

CDC Medical Bulletin release:
Flu symptom cases resulting in deranged/demeted behavior being reported.
Advising hospitals to use quarniteen procedures with flu victims.

They are asking for blood samples to be taken and sent for analysis as they do not have this strain on file.


Mid-Morning News:
Shows President giving award to Secret Service Agent.
Talk shows going over the gentlemen's excellent record and how he has been serving the Presidents since Reagan.
Cameras show motorcade leaving Whitehouse enroute to hospital for a private lunch date with the 9yr old girl and her parents.

Local News:
El Paso - Police reports indicate large group attacking random houses near masscare site.

Breaking Mid-Day News on Headline News/CNN/Fox:
Police shoot 6 suspects in New York as they were attacking people in JFK Airport.

Drudge Report has small box of headlines (bottom right - least noticeable area of page) to various incidents of violence happening. With it's own Headline of "Economy Worsens, So Do Tempers & Violence"

[sjshack]

Following IceWing's lead and going with green for in game only.
8am
Alarm goes off to news radio reporting traffic accident in Columbia.
My phone starts going off with emails and txts. I'm worried about more airplane crashes like in El Paso but it turns out to be work except an app on my phone indicates the terror threat has been raised. The internet is down in our MD office due to a Verizon transformer blowing near Snowden River. Spend most of the morning on the phone with the site and Verizon. No ETA on when it will be fixed.
Finally get a chance to get on the web. Nothing really interesting but some of the coverage from the El Paso plane crash and more on POTUS vs. Oil Spill. This bothered me a bit though, teenager in custody after she bites a group home worker in Canada.
Got the CDC bulletin by email since I am signed up for them through the .gov site. Wonder if the girl in the news story in Canada is related.
Call a couple group members when work slows down to discuss El Paso plane crash when I hear about 6 attackers at JFK. We decide it's time to have the group start rounding up their preps and keep a close eye on the news and web.

[Richter]

hey man! not cool to include Utah in the list of attacks! LOL


since I'd be locked down already, I wouldn't care

[IceWing]

It's lunchtime. I check my gmail and get an alert from the RSOE Emergency and Disaster Information Service email list about the CDC alert. Think it's actually more applicable than some other other ones such as jellyfish washing ashore en mass, or the alert about thousands of fish dying in a creek in LA (not part of the oil spill BTW). (that was the real message I got) I'm thinking great, new flu strain and remembering how nasty ManBirdPig was (both me and my wife got it, even taking steps to avoid it), as well as how fast the damn thing spread. Make a note to check the supplies tonight, and vac seal the rice we got last week, since shopping day is coming up soon. May need a slightly bigger list this week. Good thing payday is tomorrow night.

Still nothing here in Cincinnati, or in Columbus, which is drawing my attention.

Trying to figure out the best way to solve the pool leveling issue at home, as well as not looking forward to unloading 30 bags of sand, manure and peat moss from the wife's Escape and getting it up the hill. 90 degree \ 90% humidity SUCKS.

On the upside, it made me think about refilling my thermos with water before leaving work so I have something cold to drink on the way home. (No AC in the car). This is now going to be a part of my leaving work ritual. I also am getting tired of being ribbed by my co-workers about the Trader Joe's insulated cold bag I keep my lunch in at my desk. Am seriously contemplating switching it up and grabbing the Jansport backpack out of the closet and shoving the cold bag inside of it. Not sure if the thermos will fit though. It's kinda tall.

Edit: I just took my early afternoon leg stretch, walked to and around fountain square. For some reason, they are putting up the crowd control fencing all around the square. I assume there's a Reds game this afternoon (there is, I looked). (*chuckles* now, taking into account the scenario we're working with, this could actually look ominous, but they really put that stuff up every time there's a reds game because they allow people to drink on the Square, but ONLY on the Square. On a side note, it would be a major pain for that stuff to be there if something DID happen, because they put it at the edge of the upper level, meaning there's an additional drop beneath it if you vault it.)

[ellemir]

Home all day like every day. The London attacks are worrying. I'm nowhere near bugging out level worried, but my vague thoughts about whether the wood hubbie has been collecting on his recent carpentry kick is enough to board up our one large vunerable ground floor window if TSHTF are becoming a little more urgent. I just need a plausible reason to measure the frames outside. London suburbs are fairly safe from threats of hurricane or tornado, so nothing obvious springs to mind. Food stocks are reasonable, and as the water board is currently doing 3 weeks of repair work with intermittant stoppages, increasing water storage will not look out of place. I'm currently updating my storage inventory and improving my BOB (just camping supplies I tell the hubbie, whose indulgent about my zombie squad obssession but isn't quite on board yet.
Updating the supplies in the BOV would be a good idea, and I'll find a good reason for hubbie to avoid public transport to work for a few days. He'll use the car or the moped he is getting this week from his Dad.

[rule4]

I woke up today around 11am and followed about my usual routine, my girlfriend had to be in for 8am so she has already left for the day. i let the dog out, made some coffee and looked through my iphone to read today's news headlines. i am concerened about the recent terror attacks but i feel safe in my small town so i dont start grabbing for my gun or boarding up the windows. i need to drop off my truck at the mechanic today to have some work done on the rear axle... not a big deal its just a mile down the street. i take the dog in hop in my old truck and drive it on down to the shop. while walking hope i once again start messing with my iphone and check my emails. i notice that i have a half dozen generic looking memos sent to me from the massachusetts office of emergency medicine (my work as a firefighter/paramedic and get these quite often when ever there is a medical scare). i dont pay much mind to them assuming its another "bird flu" or "swine flu" scare. when i get home i turn on my portable fire radio,(it's usually off but i was curious about why all the trucks were out of the station when i walked by) i can hear the dispatcher is sending the ambulance for a psych patient over at the police dept in a holding cell. i can hear the other unit on the air transporting someone to the hospital. i think to myself "good grief i have to go into work in a few hours... i hope it slows down i want to get some sleep tonight." my phone rings and its my lieutenant wanting to know if i can come in early apparently there have been a lot of people complaining of flu like symptoms calling for the ambulance all day (this is normal for any word of a new flu bug, when the swine flu hit every hypochondriac in town thought they had it and called for the ambulance). i apologize to the dog for having to cut our day short reluctantly get dressed and walk the 0.3 miles over to the station. once i get to work i pour a cup of coffee and open up my work emails... while scanning through i see endless updates from the state regarding the new flu scare and a few cdc. before i get a chance to open any of them the tones go off and i get dispatched to an elderly woman with the flu......

[Yeti]

Note: For any of you signed up for alerts like the CDC/Police bulletins. If they are publically accessible, would you mind posting the links or directions how to sign up for them. Since those are real items, I'm quite sure many would find them as an excellent prep info source. Like this is one source for the DC region: http://capitalert.gov/ Thank you.

NATIONAL NEWS
Breaking across Network/National News(CNN/HN/FOX/MSNBC) at 1215pm, it shows the President's motorcade speeding away from the Childern's Hospital. The lead vehicles literally ramming vehicles out of the way.
Local Reporter for ABC is being shared across all networks in the report.
"We are receiving reports that the President's entourage was attacked in the Children's Hospital as he was going to his lunch with the survivor of yesterday's horrific attack at the White House. Several shots were fired at the attackers, even now you can continue to hear the gun battle going on inside the building. Police are beginning to cordon off the building. (In the background you can see SWAT units starting to show up.) We don't have any word on weather the President received any injuries or not, but he was seen being lead to the motorcade under his own power."

Except for a few local affilates and radio stations the news channels are all focusing on this news report.

[IceWing]

I use RSOE EDIS (The Hungarian National Association of Radio Distress-Signalling and Infocommunications (RSOE) operates Emergency and Disaster Information Service (EDIS))

Caption on their site: "Nothing happens unexpectedly, everything has an indication, we just have to observe the connections."

They have a really nice mapping function. Click Here for the root page or Click Here for the US map which gives you a real time display of where things are. It includes natural disasters, weather, biohazards, chemical alerts, siesmic activity, etc.

Mind you, you'll get a decent amount of traffic from them if you sign up for the alerts.

Click Here is you want to see the list of all of the mailing lists and RSS feeds that they have.

[sjshack]

Sign up for CDC alerts goto http://www.cdc.gov/emailupdates/index.html After you sign up you have the option to sign up for FEMA and several other alerts too.

After the attack on the POTUS I goto Amazon.com and move everything from my Zombocalypse wishlist to the cart. I let work know I will be taking vacation the rest of the week since I have a lot of carryover time that I am loosing by the pay period. Pull cash out of savings and stop at Sams/Costco and get the big packs of TP and a few other essentials such as a case a Ramen because I will not want to go to the stores if people start to panic buy. I have decent food/water preps so I just do a quick inventory and grab anything I think I'm short on. UHT shelf stable milk and Cheerios should be about the only other thing I've used up much of lately. Stop by Wal-Mart and pick up some ammo just as retail therapy. I also test the generator and make any adjustments/repairs needed and check the filters on the well. I just got the propane tank filled last week so I'm good there. All my Jiffy Pop is expired so I toss the kernels into the unused garden area and replace those as well. Spent the rest of the day cleaning/maintaining/sighting on the range at the hunt club. Noone else was there.

[Tibus]

We don't have any word on weather the President received any injuries or not, but he was seen being lead to the motorcade under his own power."

Maybe we'll have a zombie for president. That would certainly make election year interesting

[IceWing]

We don't have any word on weather the President received any injuries or not, but he was seen being lead to the motorcade under his own power."

Maybe we'll have a zombie for president. That would certainly make election year interesting

Sorry, but my immediate response is to ask if you the difference between a career politician and a zombie? Second thought is that the media would simply say that the constant moaning for brains is part of his platform to attempt to rebuild the educational system and stop the slide of the US in areas of high technology.

Honestly, I'm not making the connection to zombies yet. The attack at the hospital, with a running gunfight, was obviously an attempt to finish off the first, botches, assassination attempt at the white house. Although I'm pretty sure that this isn't a good thing, as it may be a poorly thought out attempt at a decapitation strike. Definitely making the shopping list bigger for Friday.

Ice

[cygnosis]

I notice the story about the attack on the president in the hospital when pops up on reddit. Some think it's a radical right wing extremist group. Others think it's another terrorist attack. Nobody really knows. The big question in the discussion is why would there be such a firefight. If it were terrorists you'd expect a truck bomb or a sniper. Not a hospital full of attackers that go unnoticed by a secret service sweep and take a sustained firefight to put down. It's a real mystery.

When I pull up the CBS news site there is a video of the SWAT team vans and police cars and vans in front of the hospital. There are barricades surrounding the entrances and a large perimeter has been established. The occasional shot can be heard, but nobody is saying what's going on inside.

[rule4]

i take the elderly woman thinking she might have the flu to the emergency room. the hospital is located in a small city in central mass about 15min away via speeding ambulance. the staff there is very busy with lots of people complaining of the flu and worried people looking to get vaccinated. i make small talk with some of the nurses as i drop off my patient in the waiting room with the rest of the worried masses. all of the hospital employees are wearing surgical masks as they rush about the er. the news of the presidential motorcade attack must have spiked the city's police into action because they are setting up barricades around the hospital and i noticed a few police officers posted at the entrance to the emergency room... very unusual. as im leaving the emergency room i have a short conversation with one of the doctors about how busy it is. he agrees and is afraid that "this might actually be the beginnings of a pandemic" but none of the patients he has seen "appear to be deathly ill but the cdc has put all hospitals on alert and they are taking no chances. a few hospitals in other parts of the country have become over run with very sick people coming in" he tells me. i wish him luck and joking say "ill see ya in a little while with another paranoid hypochondriac". i leave the hospital and begin to return to my small town in the ambulance. once i get back to town the chief notifies us that due to the large influx in call and updates from the state we will no longer be transporting low priority patients to the hospital and all flu like symptoms will need to be taken to a triage area being set up at a high school in the next town over. the state has started to mobilize mass casualty trailers to a number of predetermined locations. now for the first time im getting nervous. the public is going about its normal day all around me and we are preparing for world war three... in all my years of service ive trained for this a dozen times but never seen these resources actually put to use. its like we are preparing for a hurricane. i call my girlfriend at work and ask home as soon as she get off "it looks like this flu thing might be pretty bad". i tell her to make sure she doesnt go to the store... i dont want her getting exposed to this thing anymore than she has to be... for me it looks like its going to be a long busy night.

(yeti, this is my first time playing a game like this so let me know if im not on the right track)

[Yeti]

As news footage continues on the incident at Children's Hospital, sparoadic gunfire can be heard from inside with images of people running from the seen. Many covered in blood.
Police on the outside are still struggling to maintain a perimeter, more officers are reporting along with FBI and Secret Service now.
The reporter is being ushered back behind line being formed now.

Local Level:
Disturbance reports at local hospitals.
Medical/Police/Emergency staff are all being asked to report in my locales.

(yeti, this is my first time playing a game like this so let me know if im not on the right track)

Doing fine, it works out great with local accounts like that.