

On the other hand, you must have a route planned that keeps you near to water and food, because that hunter/gatherer life is a tough one for anyone who doesn’t know what they’re doing.

It’s easy to hide from threats, easy to avoid trouble, and you never run the risk of overworking your resources, because they’re constantly changing. There’s much to be said for staying in a small group and staying on the move. Since you’re still in a natural habitat, growing crops might be possible, but the thin air atop higher hills might be a problem, meaning you’re going to need to figure out a food supply, and water is even more scarce, so you must scout the destination in advance. You can also roll boulders onto them for easy disposal and cleanup. If Game of Thrones has taught us anything, it’s that no one wants to lay siege to a mountain because you can see usurpers or the walking dead from miles away. They combine aspects of both islands and bunkers, but are also excellent places for being highly defensible. There’s a reason that Bond villains tend to favor mountain strongholds. Queen/King of the Hill View in gallery via If you’re looking to outfit a bunker, get yourself some full-spectrum grow lights so that you can start raising plants to sustain you, or be ready to begin scavenging when supplies run low. Bunkers are easy to conceal, meaning both zombies and other people aren’t likely to find it, and can be stocked with vast stores of food along with access to a water well that can give you a base of operations for an extended period of time.

Those who already own a hobbit home are already halfway there if they fortify. This is the Cuban Missile Crisis/Fallout solution, which is to build a private bunker underneath the earth to escape into. That means knowing how you’re going to get to the boat or ship you have prepared, and get to the island rapidly, then prepare to defend it against the dead or dangerous survivors. You must either live near a coast or be able to access a coast during a time when many people will be thinking the same thing.

It’s the most sustainable plan, but also difficult to execute. Islands also tend to be self-sustaining, so you can grow food, raise livestock, and live indefinitely. Islands are generally the most useful of all the bug out plans for any disastrous scenario merely because being isolated away from population centers is going to give you more resources to exploit, and make it more difficult for others to either attack you, or take your supplies. There’s Max Brook’s Zombie Survival Guidewhich is a pretty good primer for how to prepare yourself for the downfall of normal people by Homo Coprophagus Somnambulus, but since we don’t have time to read a whole book, we figured we’d talk to some survivalist experts and military recon personnel, then get all the most survival zombie survival plans in one quick place. The good news is that a zombie attack is relatively easy to prepare for.
