I'm not preachy. Can you blame me for anticipating the worst case scenario? One entrance and exit means that if you do get overrun, you are done for.
And again, there is not ONE exit from a light house, you dunderhead.
A lighthouse I would choose would be SURROUNDED by sea. I live an hour from Galveston. Zombies, angry diseased people, are not going to run, march, and gorge their way up to me without me seeing them. The sea will do most of the work for me. LOL!
I don't believe that you are as good with sniping as you claim, but I think you're smart enough to know that sniping isn't just pointing and shooting. Bullets follow an arc, much like an arrow from a bow, and you must also account for wind--which the further you are away from your target, the more even the slightest breeze has effect on your bullets. Five mile an hour wind can make all the difference from a perfect shot between the eyes, and a graze across the cheek.
Of course, this is assuming that you aren't a trained sniper and don't know precisely what you're doing. Though I'm sure that even the best sniper in the world can't shoot for shit in gale force winds, and out in a lighthouse you are sure to get some of the worst winds possible.
I never said I was a sniper, I said I would snipe at them. Snipers are never given that title until they use it in the field. I am not a field-tested shot, but I qualified (one does not simply point and shoot into Mordor (qualify for sniper school)
Gale force winds? Explain to me, captain keen, how ZOMBIES, or disease crazed hooligans, HUMANS, are gonna run up to me, surrounded by storms, while I am shooting at them? Fuck the velocity, wind shear, omg you noob, bullshit. Pointing a gun, and shooting it, is about all you need. Sniping would have no purpose in this situation, as, again, the sea would do all (or most) of my work for me. I just would have fun with it. No, not every shot, even were I the best sniper on planet earth, would connect, but it would be fun. FUN, Nomad, FUN!
I would have FUN with them! LOL!
Secondly, it's true that some lighthouses are on small islands, sometimes man-made, but I was assuming a lighthouse on a peninsula, which most of them I have seen have been on peninsulas. Of course, these were mostly out in California, and the coast out there isn't all that islandy. I'm sure I saw some when I was in Florida, but I was only six years old and can't say I remember.
Islandy? Is that even a word, Nomad? LAWL.
No, an atoll to GET around first, laced with mines, tripwire, whatever sadistic fuck thing I wanted. The lighthouse would be surrounded on all sides by sea, rocks, razor wire, automated turrets I could control from the pinnacle of my little lighthouse (a visit to radioshack and to old surplus fleamarkets, Texas is overrun with such things, for munitions and toys), and I would SNIPE and toss grenades, and have a hootin' time. If the fucks somehow overwhelmed me, I would zip line down to my awaiting sea yacht 'Pride & Arrogance' and sail the fuck away to my next hideout.
As I said before, one entrance/exit means that if it does get compromised, you are screwed. I can't emphasize that enough.
Unless it's a one of those thrown chutes that BASE jumbers use, it won't do much good from a 100 foot lighthouse (give or take 50 feet), and even then you don't have much time for the chute to slow your fall, so you're looking at likely a broken leg or worse. I don't imagine they are normally tall enough for a chute to open safely.
The parachute idea has merit, but not as an escape vector. Instead, use it (or a cluster of them) as blankets, covered in the most flammable substances you can find, and "carpet" the crowd, then show them what Christmas is like in July.
And I think you're actually thinking of Land of the Dead, not Dawn. The zombies in Dawn never went in water.
I have no idea what that post was in response to.
ANYWAY, either way, the lighthouse idea is only relevant for folks near the coast. Or near a lighthouse, for that matter.
Yes because at the end of society as we know it, we would all migrate into the CENTER of a continent to escape death. The last frontier to us planetside, the sea, would be our only escape from a horde of crazed, diseased, hungry non-persons. Sharks (and worse), tidal forces, undertow, would all help bring down a mob. Zombies? They have to eat. In the sea, they would get eaten. Infected? They cannot breathe underwater. They would starve to death marching into the sea like idiots. And let's not forget, after I escape my little island of rock and lighthouse, DEPTH CHARGES.
Nope, I will not be stopped.