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I'm gonna follow whatever my zombie survival guide book says...if it's in print its gotta be true right?
Eh. It's this one. It's decent, but the firearms section is really stupid. An excerpt:
> The U.S. Army M16A1 is considered by many to be the worst assault rifle ever invented. Its overcomplicated mechanism is both difficult to clean and prone to jamming. Adjusting the sight, something that must be done every time the target shifts its range [pfft], requires the use of a nail ballpoint pen, or similar device. What if you don't have one, or lost it as several dozen zombies shambled steadily toward you? The delicate plastic stock of the M16A1 obviates bayonet use, and by attempting to use it as such you would risk shattering the hollow, spring-loaded stock... So poor was its early battle record that during the Vietnam War, communist guerrillas refused to take them from dead Americans [right...]. The newer M16A2, although somewhat of an improvement, is still regarded as a second-class weapon. If given the choice, emulate the Vietcong and ignore the M16 entirely.
> On the opposite end of the spectrum, the Soviet AK-47 is considered the best assault rifle ever made...
ಠ_ಠ
It only goes downhill from there. Other fun bits include calling an M1 Garand the best semi-auto you can get and saying bolt-actions can be more effective than semi designs because they "[force] the user to make each round count".
Yep yep. Max Brooks. Also the author of The Zombie Survival Guide
World War Z (the book) is far better, but the survival guide was how I was introduced to it all.
So...a $22 junior-sized machete, a $10 book, a pocket-sized first aid kit, thirty feet of duct tape, a no-name flashlight, and a can of SPAM? And you only have to pay one hundred American dollars (plus $16.59 for ground shipping) for the pleasure of getting it all in a wooden crate? Sign me up!!!
Sweet, but she's dead when she runs out of ammo. Swords and bats are fairly effective, and if you'd really like her to live a bit longer, check out The Zombie Survival Guide
I haven't seen the movie, and I'm not much of a book reader, but I do love all things zombies and of all the zombies things I've seen or read I loved World War Z the book.
It's a very easy, light read. But in my opinion it's the best, more realistic and rational zombie book. Hell, it was written by the guy who wrote the Zombie Survival Guide.
Acutally yes I do know how tiring a real sword fight is. I've been in re-enacted battles in a full harness of plate and mail with padded gambeson and then two layers of woolen clothes.
I can fight pretty well in that situation for a reasonable amount of time. Given that in the proposed scenario I would not be in full plate I should be okay. The whole point about having a melee weapon and using it correctly is that you keep the fucker as far away from you as possible.
This leads me to my defensive armament my mail shirt. Recommended in the very Zombie Survival Guide you appear to be drawing your research from.
You are correct, sprung steel is not as good as tempered steel, for that I'd have to go get this, but as it's in the cupboard and would take longer to get than the 3s the OP mentioned I discounted it.
Dull blades kill just as quickly as sharp ones.
In short sir, I do not speak bullshit, I will not purchase a firearm and if desired could use a fucking mace if I wanted to
On that note, everyone should read The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks.
Settle in, hunt, gather, and prepare a defensible structure for the warmer months when the zombies will thaw out and come to attack you again. Preferably one big enough to allow some farming in the warmer periods. Of course, this means no timely return to a normal life as we know it, which is a bummer.
The last few chapters of the ZSG cover exactly this :)
Easy Choice...
Fierce_Fox is right. FM manuals such as FM-217-76 Survival.....may be somewhat outdated but the information is reliable.
As a Medic/EMT my prepping focuses on my skill set with everything else falling close in line. I have a lot of information in digital format; both on USB and a small external drive. I have a small tablet that is in my BoB for reading documents and such.
At a minimum, here are my suggestions:
FM 21-76 Survival - Department of the Army
https://archive.org/details/military-manuals
SAS Survival Guide - https://www.amazon.com/SAS-Survival-Guide-Collins-Gem/dp/0061992860/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1483496552&sr=8-1&keywords=sas+survival+guide
The Pocket Prepper's Guide - Bernie Car
https://www.amazon.com/Preppers-Pocket-Guide-Things-Disaster/dp/1569759294/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1483496827&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=The+Pocket+Prepper%27s+Guide+-+Bernie+Car
The Complete Disaster Home Preparation Guide - Robert Roskind
https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Disaster-Home-Preparation-Guide/dp/0130859001/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1483496881&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Complete+Disaster+Home+Preparation+Guide+-+Robert+Roskind
How To Survive the End of the World As We Know It-James Wesley,Rawles
https://www.amazon.com/How-Survive-End-World-Know/dp/0452295831/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1483496952&sr=8-1&keywords=How+To+Survive+the+End+of+the+World+As+We+Know+It-James+Wesley%2CRawles
Bug Out - Scott B. Williams
https://www.amazon.com/Bug-Out-Complete-Escaping-Catastrophic/dp/156975781X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1483496991&sr=8-1&keywords=Bug+Out+-+Scott+B.+Williams
When There Is No Doctor - Gerard S. Doyle, MD -
https://www.amazon.com/When-There-Doctor-Challenging-Self-reliance/dp/1934170119/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1483497054&sr=8-2&keywords=When+There+Is+No+Doctor
The Ultimate Survival Medicine Guide - Joseph Alton, MD & Amy Alton, ARNP - https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Survival-Medicine-Guide-Preparedness/dp/1629147702/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1483497109&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=The+Ultimate+Survival+Medicine+Guide+-+Joseph+Alton%2C+MD+%26+Amy+Alton%2C+ARNP
Last, but not least, The Zombie Survival Guide - Max Brooks
https://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Survival-Guide-Complete-Protection/dp/1400049628/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1483497158&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Zombie+Survival+Guide+-+Max+Brooks
The last one is more humor but it does have many great points and ideas.
A library that covered everything would be very heavy and take up a bit of space. For the minimum, at least 1-2 books on everything one will need to survive will still be a lot. These books should be read, reread, and read again. We can't memorize everything, but having this to go back on when needed is a great addition. There's tons of information online and downloadable for free.
Depending on one's skill set, then they may not need as much. Teach others in a group is a must. Can't have one person be the ONLY one who can do 'this' skill. IMO, research should always be the first step. So much information out there and it's free.
Jesus christ, have you not read the Zombie Survival Guide? SETTING THEM ON FIRE ONLY MAKES THEM FLAMING ZOMBIES!
Sounds a lot like The Zombie Survival Guide. Awesome book, it pretty much started the recent zombie revival, and it's essential for anyone with a passing interest in the genre.
> Ok, så er det tid til at tanke op på dåseretter, rippe den lokale jagt-butik, finde et sikkert sted og zombiesikre det.
Du glemte helt at nævne at man lige hiver den obligatoriske guide frem og sikrer sig at man tager de rigtige forholdsregler
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I found the Zombie Survival Guide to be an interesting one to go to..
Yes it’s about zombies, but take out the zombie aspect and it seems to be a decent book still.
Least the zombie idea makes it interesting more then just survival imo
Altho, it’s the only survival book I’ve read, so I don’t have any comparison
In fact.. I just stumbled in here..
and this is my first post in Reddit!
Here’s a link to see..
https://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Survival-Guide-Complete-Protection/dp/1400049628/ref=asc_df_1400049628/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312139954763&hvpos=1o2&hvnetw=g&hvrand=12536411841858454967&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=t&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9015428&hvtargid=pla-433825695584&psc=1
Zombie Survival Guide. It will scare you shitless. World War Z is also good. http://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Survival-Guide-Complete-Protection/dp/1400049628/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252519573&sr=8-1
This remind me of this. My husband was reading this book when we first met. He's educated me a lot in the zombie survival technique.
The best way to survive a national disaster is to imagine how you would survive a zombie apocolypse. Stock up on food and water, get tourches with batteries (or better yet, wind ups), block all entrances and wait for help. Depending on the level of outbreak and how much society has broken down, you could be waiting for days, if not weeks for the government to step in.
Your costco idea works in theory except that malls and shops are generally hard to defend. Multiple entrances, concreate stairs, lots of windows. Not to mention you will have to stop every Tom, Dick and Harry from trying to raid the store.
Check out the zombie survival guide. Its ment to be a parody but theres a lot of info that works in any situation.
As a man who once read the [Zombie susrvival guide] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Zombie-Survival-Guide-Protection/dp/1400049628) I must say that a prison in rural Canada would be best. Walls, not many zombies and a lot of guns.
Also: [Zombie-killing girls] (http://www.google.se/imgres?imgurl=http://www.gogoanime.com/images/highschool-of-the-dead.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.gogoanime.com/category/highschool-of-the-dead&h=415&w=300&sz=44&tbnid=C8ZWLbyrh1tnGM:&tbnh=86&tbnw=62&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhighschool%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bdead%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=highschool+of+the+dead&docid=ot0XrGinSneWoM&sa=X&ei=80uVT-KKFumk4gSikuXQDw&ved=0CEwQ9QEwAg&dur=4314)
In that case, I think everyone who wants to write a zombie flick should have Max Brooks' The Zombie Survival Guide as mandatory reading to ensure continuity regarding the capabilities of zombies in future movies. Love that book - it makes me question what the writers were thinking whenever I see a zombie doing something out of the ordinary.
Pure worldbuilding and minimal narrative describes pretty well Expedition and Barlowe's Inferno by Wayne Douglas Barlowe.
Granted, these are books where the framing story (a person exploring the setting in question) is there to provide context for Barlowe's paintings, but you can do pretty much the same thing with words as he does with illustrations- take an explorer, an archaeologist, a historian, or some other sort of researcher, and follow them as they acquire knowledge about the setting. The story will thus focus on their discoveries, rendering exposition and story one and the same.
The SCP Foundation's various exploration logs are the best examples of this that I can name at present, as the characters involved in the framing story are generally anonymous redshirts whose only significance is the strange phenomena they encounter. As far as novels go, I also see the general formula in Jeff Fahy's Fragment.
Another example of an approach that works is the SCP-Foundation. There are traditional narratives on the site, but the main attraction for most of the Foundation's existence has been the collection of fictional documents describing various paranormal phenomena.
A fictional document or fictional documentary strikes me as a perfect method of doing what you seek. You can have an in-universe history book, an in-universe encyclopedia, some other sort of reference work like the Zombie Survival Guide, etc. You could call some of these "stories" by some definition of the word, I guess, but the bottom line is the format and content are quite different from what you typically see in things described as stories.
Come on, we all know the only zombie survival guide is this one. http://www.amazon.com/The-Zombie-Survival-Guide-Protection/dp/1400049628
Here's the link for the book.
http://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Survival-Guide-Complete-Protection/dp/1400049628
For the machete a Cold Steel kukri is an excellent option.
Field strip the MREs: here's how.
Get the Chinese military shovel instead, it's really awesome. Here's one link to buy it.
Would advise a Camelbak or other mini-backpack style hydration bladder, much better for mobility.
For the rope: get milspec 550 paracord.
Gorilla brand duct tape is advised.
For the multitool either SOG or Leatherman are excellent choices. A couple of good picks from each: SOG PowerAssist and PowerLock as well as the Leatherman MUT and the Charge TTi.
Check out 4Sevens for excellent quality flashlights - really these guys are among the best in the flashlight market.
For the gun I would advise a Ruger 10/22 with a folding stock for compactness. Add some 32 round interlocking magazines and a box or two of ammo (.22LR is cheap, they come in boxes of 500 or so).
I would also recommend a Red Cross multifunction solar/crank radio.
The SAS Survival Handbook and of course the Zombie Survival Guide would make good additions.
The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks. I know it isn't a novel, but it's damn sure fun to read. :)
Oh shit, it's a zombie! Better break this out.
A mental mind fuck can be nice...
It must feel like Christmas for you to find all your lost books.
I would love this [zombie book] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400049628/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&colid=N9C349SABZ8H&coliid=I3DO792KZU31AY&me=&seller=) to go with my other zombie book, World War Z!
https://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Survival-Guide-Complete-Protection/dp/1400049628
OK, so most people will have the same basic plan: Get out of town, find remote fortifiable location. lay low, gather supplies, hold out til you can rebuild (great basic strategies Here!)
However, most people will be cramming the highways with the same strategy, then you get swarmed in the car on the way out.
SO, you need a contingency plan to hold out until you actually find a safe/quick/Stealthy way to execute the get-the-hell-outta-dodge part.
Supplies
have enough supplies on hand so that you could safely bunker down where (or near to) where you are. This is good advice in general and the same supplies will help you hunker down should a hurricane or a riot sweep through or society falls apart for some other reason.
4)Basic Hurricane Kit - hand-powered flashlight, Radio, signal flares etc. buy at any sporting goods store.
Secure Shelter
Now this part depends greatly on when/where you are when you become aware whats going on. But in general, (unless you are just pants-shittingly unaware of your surroundings) you should have a day or so between your first Zombie sighting and when stuff really starts going to shit.
You need to have a clear idea in your head where you are going to draw the line in the sand across which the Undead shall not cross. For me this is the small section of my apartment complex. 22 units with a high iron fence all the way around. 3 entry points which can all automatically lock. I'd need to first secure and barricade these then begin to make a sweep of the neighboring units. There are 3 possibilities of what you will find. 1) Unoccupied unit - poor bastards were either caught in the initial outbreak or tried to make a run for it. make a not of these and come back for supplies. 2) Survivors - Congratulations you're not alone. enlist their help or have them keep their heads down. 3) Biters - You know what you have to do.
Adapt
Now once you have a safe defensible location for at least the short run, all planning goes out the window. Depending on how situations develop your plans are probably going to get blown to shit. Maybe the government falls faster than anticipated, so they don't have time to firebomb major cities. Maybe you become entrenched and are going to have to survive in place ad infinitum. Maybe you find your escape path and can make for the hills and follow the default plans.
You can never be prepared - only more prepared
TLDR; Have fun feasting on the brains of your loved ones
Also, zombies in hot regions will dry up and break apart while zombies in cold regions are "at risk" of freezing completely (after all, it is assumed that zombies are cold-blooded and contain at least some water). Also, zombies in areas of extreme heat and humidity (rain forest) will rot very quickly, assuming that decomposition doesn't stop straight-up.
At least that's what the Zombie Survival Guide tells me.
Easily this. When I was done, I was thoroughly convinced zombies were real.
I say this book is pretty awesome
Alice in Zombieland
The Zombie Survival Guide, by Max Brooks. Awesome lecture!
This is what I got my little brother for Christmas:
This, this, and this.
That's why you need the Zombie Survival Guide
Hurry and buy one before the zombie apocalypse!
Sigh...terrible, just terrible. You guys would all be dead before the day was done.
Chainsaws? Guns? Are you retarded? THEY MAKE NOISE! That will just bring MORE zombies to your location!
The following is what you REALLY need:
As penance, you all must now read, The Zombie Survival Guide
Either that or die.
I'll just leave this here
Max brooks covered it already in his howto book. I preferred world war z which was actually stories from the war. Note this all assumes its the slow moving variety of zombies, not the crazy super zombies. But in summary the following items made bikes a better option
Zombie Survival guide by Max Brookes ----> http://www.amazon.com/The-Zombie-Survival-Guide-Protection/dp/1400049628 (although it looks like you have the same one but with a different cover)
http://www.amazon.com/The-Zombie-Survival-Guide-Protection/dp/1400049628/ref=tmm_pap_title_0
Enjoy!
It's Max Brooks' predecessor to World War Z, The Zombie Survival Guide
The Zombie Survival Guide also by Max Brooks. Didn't see it referenced.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Zombie-Survival-Guide-Protection/dp/1400049628
> I can't even remember what made zombies more popular than cat videos.
The Walking Dead pushed them over the top, but the initial groundswell came from The Zombie Survival Guide (which is actually a pretty fun, humorous read.)
And Max Brooks (Mel Brooks son) published this in like 2003. I'm not trying to split hairs, I'm just trying to say that zombie apocalypse stuff has been around long before vampires had sparkles.
Read the manual bro
https://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Survival-Guide-Complete-Protection/dp/1400049628
I've read Max Brooks' Zombie Survival Guide a few times through, and it's a brilliant manual for any major disaster, really. Good tips on fortifying against rioting masses, stockpiling of food, disposal of bodies and waste, weapon selection, etc.
[Zombie Survival Guide](http://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Survival-Guide-Complete-Protection/dp/1400049628/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1299938944&sr=8-1 "tooltip text")
Write awesome stuff about zombies including a book entitled "The Zombie Survival Guide". I haven't read that one, but I suggest you check out "World War Z." It approaches a zombie war as it happens on a global level rather than just 8 or so survivors, addressing many sociopolitical issues and showing how different cultures would theoretically react to the outbreak.
read the book that came before it. [The Zombie Survival Guide] (http://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Survival-Guide-Complete-Protection/dp/1400049628)
Excellent reference: Max Brooks (Mel's son) Zombie Survival Guide
I'll just leave this here.
Max Brooks' Zombie Survival Guide
Might I then reccomend......
http://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Survival-Guide-Complete-Protection/dp/1400049628/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217618426&sr=8-1
I would behead the person. Gather essentials (see reference http://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Survival-Guide-Complete-Protection/dp/1400049628 ) Inform a select few loved ones, set up a rally point and specific time. Then set out on my journey north with whoever arrived at the designated location.
I'd say a nice bottle of bourbon or cognac would do the trick. Or, if he wouldn't like that (you know better than me), you could build him a zombie survival kit. You can personalize it with his favorite snacks, etc, and then have something like http://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Survival-Guide-Complete-Protection/dp/1400049628 to bring it all together. That seems pretty practical.
have you not read this?
This DVD would be nice to have and this physical book will be nice used of course :)
Zombie Survival Guide is always a good read.
Two books that might be interesting reads for you:
More of personal survival than mankind and obviously that's for zombies, not aliens, but you might find some good tips (Remember, you never have to reload a sword!).
Also, the Center for Disease Control has a Zombie Preparedness site
A journal (book 1) Zombie Survival Guide A magazine that way I can look at the year it was released to keep track of time
I don't have movies
MRE type stuff, insta water added
iPod with 2000's music, if that's not a genre, then pop
Personal items: my iphone, wallet
Survival items: Heavy duty Utility knife, Knife sharpener, rope
Person: My brother
You're welcome. Make sure to read "The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead" for proper usage. :)
http://amzn.com/1400049628
All you need is this.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1400049628?pc_redir=1412911414&robot_redir=1
Pretty sure this book will answer all of your questions. It's packed in my suitcase with my pole trimmer. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1400049628?pc_redir=1404050055&robot_redir=1
To help fix that, I highly recommend the book The Zombie Survival Guide by the same guy who wrote The WarZ, the book that shares a slight similarity to the movie.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1400049628/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/180-2819606-9361610
(Sorry mobile, couldn't find a non mobile link)
STAND TALL, YET BRACE FOR A FALL
Rule 1: Cardio
Most ill prepared bunker I've ever seen, ignoring the fact that there isnt food/water.
Guns make noise, which attract other zombies. Where are your melee weapons? Crowbar is top choice for that.
I suggest adding this to your repetoir.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Zombie-Survival-Guide-Protection/dp/1400049628/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1347191436&sr=8-1&keywords=zombie+survival+guide+max+brooks
The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks
http://www.amazon.com/The-Zombie-Survival-Guide-Protection/dp/1400049628
World War Z also by Max Brooks
http://www.amazon.com/World-War-Oral-History-Zombie/dp/0307346617/ref=pd_sim_b_2
And if you are open to graphic novels/comics
The Walking Dead series (It is significantly different from the TV series which is based on this series)
http://www.amazon.com/Walking-Dead-Compendium-One/dp/1607060760/ref=sr_1_1
http://www.amazon.com/The-Zombie-Survival-Guide-Protection/dp/1400049628
The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks, you know, just in case.
Obligatory wiki links: Dystopian Literature. Although, some of the titles listed don't seem to fit (The Dispossessed?). Nuclear holocaust fiction, and your general apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction.
Some of the better/more popular ones:
Zombies: World War Z, Raise the Dead, Marvel Zombies, Zombie Survival Guide, Day By Day Armageddon, I Am Legend.
Also, just for kicks, some of my favorite dystopian movies:
Brazil, Soylent Green, 12 Monkeys, Blade Runner, Akira, Children of Men, Dark City, A Boy and His Dog, Logan's Run, Idiocracy, Equillibrium.
Let me ask a simple question... how, exactly, do you intend to sever the spine or severely impact the brain of a zombie with that?
While I don't agree that the Quad 50 is the way to go, there's no chance that gun would have the firepower required to take down countless zombie hordes.
As mentioned here:
>Brooks also scoffs at my notion of using a heavy machine gun, pointing out — quite rightly — that zombies can only be killed with a perfect head shot.
That said, I'd recommend educating yourself.
Read Max Brooks's Zombie Survival Guide. It goes into great detail on bugging in vs bugging out and what it all means in preparation. It's a really fun book
I would have been nice if the person posting that interesting piece of information would have listed the source. Max Brooks' Zombie Survival Guide.
I think it's already been made..at least a few times...
edit: Here is the best one....
And another
Get 'em while you can!
The Zombie Survival Guide was pretty good
The Zombie Survival Guide agrees with e001mek. Don't remember the details from the top of my head, though.
Have you read this then? i love that book and also World War Z by the same author.
Easy, just get him a Zombie survival guide from Dymocks/Kinokuniya. What you have to watch out for is that you don't get him a shit one, of which there are many. IMO, The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks is the best one out there. If he hasn't read it, World War Z also by Max Brooks is excellent reading. It's not so much a guide as a collection of individual recounts, reports and stuff from different people over the course of a zombie breakout. It reads realistically which is more than I can say for the majority of Zombie related "survival guides" and books that are just stupid. They're making a movie out of it with Brad Pitt starring - just to show it's popularity.
If he hasn't seen The Walking Dead, getting him the seasons on DVD might be a good idea. Awesome TV show - again, realistic. If he's seen them, don't bother. I mean, he can just download them anyway so I guess this would be a crap gift unless he really likes the show. There are graphic novels that the show is based on which might be good.
If he's a gamer, might be good to get him ARMA II: Combined Operations. The reason I say that there's a great zombie survival mod for it called Day Z which is basically an online multiplayer open-world zombie survival like game. Trust me, he'll like it. Steam summer sale is on right now so ARMA II is 20% - if you can wait, don't buy it yet as it may go on sale for more (possibly up to 75%) if it goes up as a daily deal/flash sale/community choice. There's also a The Walking Dead game which I've heard is good. It's already been a daily deal so 25% is as good as it will get now.
Last of all, making him a kit might be cool. I put together this for a redditor last year. You can probably make a better one than me - I'll admit I cheaped out a little. Get a box or a backpack (you can cheap out on the backpack) and fill it up with things like a flashlight, a med kit (bandaids, bandages, surgical scissors, sports tape etc. things you can buy from a pharmacy), water purification tablets (this especially adds to it IMO), food (canned, power bars or, if you want to go the extra mile, MREs), thick army socks, a compass, etc. Basically just shit you'd take with you if you were going camping. Make it as compact/lightweight as possible.
Well, fuck, that turned out to be a lot longer than I intended. Anyway, good luck.
EDIT: Oh yeah, one more thing. What I did for that same redditor last year was that I wrote a survival plan for him. Basically, if you get him that Max Brooks Survival Guide, one of the things they suggest is hiding out in a prison (fortification, food, water, exercise yard, accommodation, weapons, remote etc.) - what I did was that I researched prisons in the walkable/bikable vicinity of his house and I mapped out routes to them from his house on a map I printed of his house from google maps.
The Zombie Survival Guide is for more than just surviving zombies. It's all about survivial in a post apocolyptic world. It just also includes guides to dealing with zombies. Very useful for exactly the desire you want, and even more useful in the event of z-day.
the top recommendation from the zombie survival guide.
This.
I messed up; It's "handbook" not "guide" -- ZSG
As vendas deste livro iam bombar.
The first thing that comes to mind is The Zombie Survival Guide, though it's probably not widely applicable enough for your tastes (though much of what it says is good for a general end of the world scenario).
OP, I work in a Risk Management field too. I basically keep things in the city's public realm in good shape and run zombie and catastrophic details through my head all day. It is sort of fun. At a recent annual review my boss said she loved the work I do because I 'live this' kind of world. I can totally thank zombie apocalypse scenarios for sending me down this career path. That being said everyone should read Max Brooke' "The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead".
https://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Survival-Guide-Complete-Protection/dp/1400049628
Get out of the car, get onto the bike
https://www.amazon.ca/Zombie-Survival-Guide-Complete-Protection/dp/1400049628
Its a pretty fun quick read.
The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
Have you read this? I'm sure you have, but if not, it is definitely worth the read for some inspiration. Also, I would love if you stuck to the type of zombies described in this book.
Edit: Forgot the link. Stupid.
http://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Survival-Guide-Complete-Protection/dp/1400049628/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310692624&sr=8-1
buy this... read it ... then read it again
http://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Survival-Guide-Complete-Protection/dp/1400049628/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1311631387&sr=8-1
If you have the time, read The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks. It is very informative, as well as interesting. Provides all the (basic) info you need to know about zombies and zombie survival.
I've been making a "joke" survival kit for my boyfriend. This is what I have in it so far:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/82012973/united-states-zombie-hunting-permit
http://www.gamestop.com/xbox-360/games/red-dead-redemption-undead-nightmare-collection/84602
http://www.etsy.com/listing/65530954/zombie-repellent-soap?ref=sr_gallery_1&ga_search_submit=&ga_search_query=zombie&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_ship_to=US&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_facet=handmade
http://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Survival-Guide-Complete-Protection/dp/1400049628/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1322669816&sr=8-1
I'm going to throw in a couple of those small bottles of liquor to sterilize wounds of course ;). I'm also hoping to find a funny crowbar-eque bottle opener or something. For his main gift, I'm going to include a nice pocket knife and get his name engraved on it. I'd love more ideas for things to include, if anyone can think of something.
Your question is answered in the Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks. I can't remember exactly why at the moment, but the answer is in there.
Its funny because this actually exists. Its a good book actually, I've read it.
You may have missed all the minor incidents along the way its ok...http://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Survival-Guide-Complete-Protection/dp/1400049628
This is all you need. My favorite version of zombies and a great read.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Zombie-Survival-Guide-Protection/dp/1400049628
My favorite piece of zombie culture would have to be the book The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks
It is a book all about how to survive a zombie apocolypse and has a good way of helping you suspend your disbelief- when I was a kid reading it I thought the stories at the end were real...
Also he made the book World War Z after this one, which became the loose basis for the movie of the same name.
Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks
I'll assume you meant "Where can I find a quick guide on how to protect myself and my family?"
Here ya go.