If I saw it on the news?
Steps (in order):
- Lock the doors, close the drapes, turn out lights, kill all sound (television, radio, etc)
- Call family to check their status and give them a heads-up--a weak link (i know i know, they only slow you down!). Call to say goodbye, nothing more! You're on your own, mom and dad!
- Hit the bathroom, plug the tub and fill it up (will bottle it later with jars, bottles, cans, glasses around the house)
- Get my backpack out and fill it with: extra clothes, all the batteries in the house (including smoke detector ones!), grab the handheld radios and walkie-talkies, weapons
- Sort all the food I have in order from non-perishable downwards
- Pack what I can in my backpack
- Leave backpack at home and run up the street temporarily (without being noticed)
- Grab the shopping cart on my trailer trash neighbours lawn on the way up the road
- Crash the retirement home. Take all their food stocks--afterall, they eat lots of that canned non-perishable mush don't they? (and its not like they will survive the ordeal. i'm doing them a favour taking their food stores!)
- Gather back at home and sort the food into different piles.
- If the zombies haven't hit my street yet or aren't in sight i'll go and hide the food and survival kits around the property, and one in the house (attic)
- Put furniture in front of windows and make it secure to barricade in case i need to fall back to the position
- Grab the phonebook and map and take it with the backpack. Phonebook could come in handy not for the #s but the addresses along with the map--if i need to load up supplies.
- Head out at night wearing all black. Move with stealth on foot. Get far far far far from the city. Don't go near any roads--stay 100 feet or more away.
- Get into the trees far out in the country. Those big old growth trees that are sturdy as hell (a horde couldn't push it over).
- Split my gear into two: leave half in the trees and take half with in case I can't return (unlikely as its a far secluded tree area )
- Try to refill supplies in the local villages/towns
- Wait a few weeks living in the trees
- Using my communication gear I'll get in contact with those who were strong enough to survive (not earlier--don't want to attract weak links)
- Setup small communication networks and see the status of what remains
- Don't drop a single zombie until it is a threat to my life--no fun sniping from trees
- Locate food and supplies and hopefully live as long as I can