@Jess
-You made a good point and true, most of us would either die before we got all our supplies or just listen to what our parents want. Luckily for me I live in a smaller area in Wisconsin so there wouldn't be a huge amount of outbreak in my area right away. For myself I would probably folow my father's instructions and it would probably go something like this:
Sharpen the various weapons around the house and barricade the lower floor, from there we would be destroying the stairs. With a months worth of food and water, melee weapons to hold off the ones climbing the broken stairs. A crank radio and petal powered generator, and bedding and entertainment. My mom would likely be watching after my eight year old sister trying to hide the fact that the world around us is going to hell. My dad and I would be discussing how to get out to the great lakes and use the watersystem to get to sea. After about a week most of the people will have tried to go for the 'defend the castle' approch or run awayto their death on the highway. Taking the back entrance to the super walmart I would likely be shot or injured. Assuming that there were still weapons we would stock up on what we could carry. From there we would drop off a cash of ammo and a spare gun. Then heading outside to get my dads friends to assemble a small rebel base. Then for the next few days preparing a convoy out to the great lakes. My guess on how the convoy would go: lead car is my dad's Honda pilot since it has the ramming bar in the front. The car behiend would be the RV with supplies and younger kids. Behiend that would be a car carrying a raft like boat. Behiend that would be our modified van to carry gas. Assuming that I live long enough for the convoy the amount of vehicles would diminish. The RV would be ditched after running low on supplies with kids in van and pilot. The pilot would carry the boat and such. From there we would travel along the river to the sea close to ports. Knowing many others would also go to sea we would unite with other ships and fish for food and use purifiers for water. Now all this is guessing that I lived which would be a slim chance with many variables. Too for the making it to the great lakes we would add on time by taking backeroutes and making our own roads stoping by little villages to raid for supplies and syphen fuel tanks of abandoned cars.
