Oddly enough, all of your rules seem to apply to pre-apocalypse times, too. Insightful, or coincidence? I prefer to think the former.

@G3: Perhaps, given the uncertainty of whether the apocalypse will be caused by immortal or 28DL zombies, agricultural planning should be part of the plan from the get-go.

I mean, think about the movie I Am Legend: Robert Neville was a survivalist in the fine tradition of zombie move survivalists. But in the end, he dies, and the woman and her child end up finding a HUGE community of people living in a walled city. Neville was OK at what he did…but let’s face it, THERE were some people who REALLY had their shit together. Talk about a zombie plan…the whole freaking town was in on it–they must have been building infrastructure from the second the virus was discovered. Cool as it may be to hole up in a sporting goods store, it’s a short-term solution; the only way to really win is to have a long-term plan.

I wish I’d thought about this in college. Our zombie plan would have been even more complete.

So the question is, do we form a community of insular survivalists, or do we just mark the most defensible towns on Google Maps and plan on cleaning it out from a central sporting goods location when we get there?

Like, “Always collect what’s useful. Reject only your ignorance, and you might survive.” also from the Cat.