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Wed, 16 Sep 2009SunnyvalePosted to Travel categoryI'm back out in Sunnyvale CA, this week. I have some documents to write this week and am stuck. I figured maybe if I wrote a blog entry it might warm me up for the more boring work.Back at my usual hotel, the Quality Inn (see past posts for my insane reason for hotel choices). They've been busy since I've been away. They have upgraded to full digital cable in each room. My room still has an older TV, but they are replacing all the TVs with 50" HDTV flat screens, even so, the older TV can see the higher cable channels, was over 200 channels to include all the sirius music channels. Since I read the book World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, I can't enter a building without thinking how I would Zombie proof it. Zombie proofing a building has two major aspects; securing it from the single to small groups of zombies and securing it from large hoards. The first is pretty straight forward, get a two+ story building and take out the stairs. Zombies can't climb very high, they can't support their own weight. The second is much harder, when zombies swarm they will climb over themselves and eventually overcome any wall. So you need to make the building 'sense' proof, such that the zombies can't tell there is anyone living inside. It's hard to tell how zombies can sense the living, but blocking out all sounds, smells and sights should do the trick. The Quality Inn would be a temporary place to hide from zombies at best. First the first floor entrances are all glass, no way to easily secure them, not to mention all the windows. Secondly the stairwells are very wide and supported by solid steel girders. To remove the stairs, and there are three staircases, you would need a lot of help and cutting torches. Even if you had a dozen folks and an acetylene torch it would be a tough job cutting the stairs down. Third the hotel is not swarm proof, the windows on the second floor are too large and the rooms configured in a way that there are no interior rooms. There no place to hide more than one or two people for any extended length of time. The zombies would swarm around the building crushing each other till they formed a ramp of zombie parts to reach the second floor windows, then it would be all over for the poor souls hiding in the bathrooms. My house, if we survived the initial swarm, is pretty defensible. Other than the sliding glass doors, which I would probably brick up, assuming I had time, the stairs are easily removed, as I discovered after Sukki ripped the carpet out. Posted at: 10:14 pmComments
Re: Sunnyvale An actual blog post?! I didn't know you did those anymore. As for Zombies, your house wouldn't hold up very well, how would you get rid of the window wells? They could probably just bust down the garage door if they tried hard enough. Been reading the book, its really good so far. Reply
Re: Sunnyvale As long as they don't get upstairs your fine. You'd need to be careful climbing down to get supplies, but as long as you cleared the house of zombies every few days and stayed up on the second floor, things would be fine. Reply
Re: Sunnyvale It's clearly not swarm proof, thats why I started with "if it survived the initial swarm". ReplyYour Comment |