If the cars you have found are drivable, find out its information. The
internet is still running, Google the car and learn about it. Compare it with
your current vehicles; consider gas mileage, size, how many seats, amount of storage,
engine type, working parts, condition and color. You only need enough space for
the people in your total group. It is a waste of gas if you try to maintain all
the vehicles. Just use the cars that work and the ones you can rely on. The
worst situation to be in is needing to escape a pack a flesh eating zombies
when your car craps out. You also don’t want to use a car that sounds like a
shot gun going off every time you start the engine. Also make sure the cars you
keep have working locks/windows. You also need to make sure the car has a
working radio; if the military/government is trying to send messages to civilians,
they will be using radios.
If the cars you have found are not driveable, keep them. You can use them
for spare parts for your working cars. Strip the car of its wheels. The rest of
the car parts might not be needed, but the wheels are essential. Once you have
taken the car’s main parts, you can use the car bodies to block up your house.
Obviously you will have to roll the car to where you want it before you take
the wheels.
Roll the cars to block off main entrances. It won’t be able to stop a
person, but it will be able to stop a zombie. Block off the front door for
sure, or a ground floor window. Depending on how many spare cars you have,
block off any entrance to the back yard (unless you have a fence). You want to
create only two enter/exit points to your house. You need two because if zombies
get in the side door of your base, where are you going to go? You need two
possible exits; if they come in the side door, you go out the back. If they
come in the back door, you go out the side. So roll the cars into a position
that blocks zombie’s flow of traffic. You need to seriously plan out where the
cars are going; you only have limited cars and probably a lot of ground you
need to barricade. Be wise.
Where do you find gas? Just siften it?
ReplyDeleteIt is still very early in the outbreak. Gas stations will probably still have working pumps. But yes, it is just easier to siften gas from all the left over cars on your block.
ReplyDeleteWhat about the upstairs windows? Should those be boarded off enough so that even if someone/something climbed up on a car they wouldn't be able to get in?
ReplyDeleteIt depends on how high your upstairs window is. I talked about the upstairs in one of my first posts. But basically: cover the upstairs windows with carpets. It make it look borded up, but it will give you a chance to look out on the street when you need to. Also, if zombies come in from all side, you could escape through the upstairs widows. It really depends on how low they are.
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