Zompocalypse happens now

[Kalob]

You're sitting at your computer, reading this article (ironically), you look out your window, and you see someone running by being chased by another person. Within the next 5 minutes the power gets cut and your neighbor and 2 kids come over to ask about the current situation. One kid has some type of injury that doesn't look familiar to you.
You aren't 100% sure if this is the infection you've been prepping for or not.

What's your plan for the next 24 hours?

[zombie mercenary]

i would contact other like minded people in the area, have them gather their gear and go to a preplanned location, because i'm not heartless i would have said neighbor gather what he has/needs from his house and come with me. when we got to the location we would take stock of everything brought and everything on location, kick on the auxiliary power and try to find informations, radio, TV, or internet on what could be happening, (all the while watching the child and his wounds progression, possibly isolating at the new site with the best in first aid tending the wound). after finding it is a zombie outbreak i would secure the compound and we would assign lookout positions and shifts along with starting to prep for the long term then securely isolating the child and seeing the progression or allowing the parent to say goodbye and terminating whatever is easier for them, then we would start trying to contact other ZS members and rebuilding a from of community sustainable and open to helping others while giving the presence of you really don't want to mess with us to deter those who might not have the best intentions. all the while abiding by local laws and assisting in anyway possibl local governments in their war on zombies.

[carolinafan]

I would connect to ZS via my mobile phone(since the power got cut) and read the million other similar threads to this one to get good advice.

[Tater Raider]

You're sitting at your computer, reading this article (ironically), you look out your window, and you see someone running by being chased by another person. Within the next 5 minutes the power gets cut and your neighbor and 2 kids come over to ask about the current situation. One kid has some type of injury that doesn't look familiar to you.
You aren't 100% sure if this is the infection you've been prepping for or not.

What's your plan for the next 24 hours?

I like this!

• Get angry at whoever it was for cutting through my lawn. Again.
• Get upset at power going down and lament all the unsaved info on my PC I just lost.
• Tell the kids that they probably know more than I do about what's going on then yell at them to get off my lawn.
• Tell them to stop a moment, assess the kid's injury, and render first aid/call 911 if needed.
• Lament living in the neighborhood I do and hope that CPS doesn't get involved because I don't need this crap.
• Head for a store to get yet another battery AM radio (prep fail) and tune into the news.
• Wait and see what develops.

I just don't see where I have a lot of options beyond that exist for me given the lack of info, which would be how the Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse™ or nothing out of the ordinary would start. I'd rather not over react and depend on my limited preps to get me through things.

[JesterODX]

Go to work as normal. As long as there is power, I have to report for work at the 9-1-1 center. I would advise all my family to stay in doors, close the curtains and dont show any activity coming from their residence. Most of my family will be good to go for the first 24 hours.

I'd stay here at work and take calls and dispathed until I was releaved or until the communications system failed. I figure power outages fairly early on, from people having wrecks and hitting power poles. We have people hit them all the time when no zombies are around chasing people so its bound to worsen the peoples lack of driving skills.

Our generator will run for a week or more and its large enough to push power back into the the cities grid, so we can keep going for that long. We would still be able to dispatch as long as our primary tower behind our facility isnt damaged. Incoming calls from the citizens would be effected but lines down and such. But to what extent I am not sure. a lot of phone lines are under ground now. Cellualr service would go away quickly so that would be a lot less calls. Most people dont even have land lines now days.

You know, I'd be doing my job, but we'd be busy as hades trying to get help to people that needed. We would run out of resources in very short order. With in the first several hours, if zombie movies are anything to go by, the streets would be blocked with wrecked vehicles so emergency crews would be come ineffective, unable to reach patients. And then the crews them selves would be attacked. Law enforcement would be sent to protect vital locations such as the hospitals. The rest would try to go to calls but that really wouldnt happen. Hundreds of calls all about zombies. Come to think about it, EMS wont respond to incidents where they are put in danger. If the EMS guys get hurt they are no good to a patient and now a burden to other responders. They'd stop responding. The fire department might still attempt to respond but hell if I know.

I fear we'd go from working our arse off to not doing much of anything by the end of the first 24 hours. And then we'd turn our attentions to our own families needs.

[Bob Bobberino]

Well, I wouldn't be bothered by the kids' injury because zombies don't exist. So I'd tell him to go disinfect it, and to be careful of the weirdo I saw chasing the other guy across my lawn. Then I'd tell them to leave me the hell alone unless it's an emergency.
Then, I'd probably make sure that all of my doors and windows were locked, check the batteries in the flashlights, get out blankets depending on the season, and light some candles, and maybe read a book to kill time, and put on the radio. If I heard of or saw any signs of civil unrest, I'd make certain to have a firearm and knife on me at all times in the house, and would listen to find out more details if the situation wasn't visible outside my window. I certainly wouldn't sit on my front porch getting drunk with my shotgun in my lap waiting to see somebody else getting chased because that would probably just get me into trouble, and there doesn't seem to be anything linking a guy getting chased, a kid injuring himself, and a blackout happening in the same day. In fact, I would venture to guess that in every town that has ever suffered a blackout, on that very day somebody did in fact get chased, and some kid did manage to get injured. Sorry if this isn't what you were looking for.

[Tater Raider]

...zombies don't exist.

Why do you people insist on crushing my hopes and dreams?

*runs off sobbing brokenly*

[thesupremeking]

I would go inside, get on ZS and use the search function.

[JesterODX]

I would go inside, get on ZS and use the search function.

BEST ANSWER EVER!

[Tater Raider]

I would go inside, get on ZS and use the search function.

BEST ANSWER EVER!

No way. It's on topic and makes sense on top of being funny. Drop the Ban Hammer! This cannot be allowed to stand!

[dynomike]

Well, me and my best friend would probably still ignore it all anyway. We'd tell the kids to have their mom put some Bactine on it and shove off. We would play Playstation while I lament about my girlfriend. I'd make a run to the mini-mart and be completely oblivious to what's going on. Once our third roommate goes zombie, we'll realize what's going on, run to the backyard and see two zombies in the yard. After tossing our most hated records at them, we would kill them, pick up our friends and my grandma and go to the Winchester for pints and darts.

In all seriousness, probably grab the nearest firearm and sit on the roof, picking off walkers.

[Boondock]

Yup. I'm headed straight to the Winchester and then ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnTR-cG5W1I

[engr-rn]

Go to work as normal. As long as there is power, I have to report for work at the 9-1-1 center. I would advise all my family to stay in doors, close the curtains and dont show any activity coming from their residence. Most of my family will be good to go for the first 24 hours.

You know, I'd be doing my job, but we'd be busy as hades trying to get help to people that needed. We would run out of resources in very short order. With in the first several hours, if zombie movies are anything to go by, the streets would be blocked with wrecked vehicles so emergency crews would be come ineffective, unable to reach patients. And then the crews them selves would be attacked. Law enforcement would be sent to protect vital locations such as the hospitals. The rest would try to go to calls but that really wouldnt happen. Hundreds of calls all about zombies. Come to think about it, EMS wont respond to incidents where they are put in danger. If the EMS guys get hurt they are no good to a patient and now a burden to other responders. They'd stop responding. The fire department might still attempt to respond but hell if I know.

I fear we'd go from working our arse off to not doing much of anything by the end of the first 24 hours. And then we'd turn our attentions to our own families needs.

I agree. I work in a hospital and imagine a similar scenario..right after the neighbors come over I imagine my phone will ring with someone asking me to come in and do overtime because of a rash of admits for "fever of unknown origin" and "cellulitis" of various lacerated areas.

Tina

[Slagathor]

Get the family rounded up, bandage up the little guy\gal from next door, then.


I would find the Ultimate Warrior.......

[SeerSavant]

Seriously, I SHIT YOU NOT...

This happened last night. Watching the last episode of Dexter season 3 (okay, okay, i've gotten far behind...) The power zaps out for a few seconds (honestly, the power in the neighborhood is a bit dodgy last few months) and hear a scream... won't go into details, but a neighbor was attacked, or chased and in front of my house I had an ambulance, and 3 police units that parked in front of the house for a little over an hour...

No one seemed to be injured, but I've always been the type hate's rubberneckers, and people (neighbors especially) who come out and watch a person have one of the most embarassing/frightening/horrifying moment of their life...

So we went back in the other room, and decided not to be among those people who always stare with the same sick morbid fascination as would a kid watching a faces of death movie..

So... I would.... Watch three more episodes of Dexter, go to bed too damn late, and debate the morality of a serial killer specializing in bad people before letting the wife know that the reason why Dexter's wife is so familiar looking is that she played Darla on Buffy the vampire slayer...


By the way, if the ambulance and police weren't so johnny on the spot, I would have gone out (armed) and investigated immediately, but it was barely seconds after the screaming that the police were in front of the house...



Aside from that, Contact those ZSrs that I know in the area, and hunker down until we can all agree on a rally point and a second step, or collecting at a defendable position, with all of our preps that we can carry...

Shamblers, head out, group and decide...
Fast runners, stay the hell indoors, shutter the windows...
start wishing I had bought more 7.62 instead of decking boards...
???
Profit.