I'm rewatching a Walking Dead video game playthrough and was thinking about the best type of base to build/discover, and realized, why has nobody ever mentioned fire lookouts?? They're high enough off the ground that no zombie wandering past would notice you, have a great view of the surrounding area, and are already built to be lived in. Having only one way to get up and down could be an issue, but you could build gates at each platform - if a bunch of zombies are chasing you, you just shut and lock them behind you as you climb, and once you're out of their line of sight they'll eventually get distracted by something else and wander away. Obviously also keep them shut when you're not going up or down anyway, so zombies wouldn't be able to wander up to the top and surprise you.
It could be an issue if you have a really big group, but I think three to five people could live comfortably enough in one of these. Take out everything unnecessary, use the roof of the building as storage, and bam, you've got a lockable, insulated box a hundred feet off the ground to live in! What do you guys think??
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I am in search of high resolution scans or documents with blue prints for lookout/fire watch towers. Focused more on the layouts than the supporting structure but I will take it all for now.
Thanks in advance for leads or resources.
Welcome back everybody and thank you for reading. I’ve decided to share some of the rules I’ve made for myself and the stories behind them. I don’t have much to say before I get into the stories except that Sheila hasn’t been answering my attempts to contact her for some reason. I don’t think it’s anything to worry about but I thought I’d mention it.
This first rule is kind of weird.
So a little known fact about me is that I love rules and I mean I love rules. They make everything seem more orderly and in control. So I decided to make myself a list of rules to remind myself what to do and avoid. I’ve written these down as I think of them over my travels of the last year and I think my list is pretty extensive. I’ll also refer to these rules from now on in some of my other stories.
Rule 3. When you’re out hiking farther than 5 miles from your cabin look out for long bears. If you happen to see one stay completely still and silent until it goes away. Then keep being still and silent for at least a half an hour after it disappears.
So I have this rule because of the long bears. As I said in my first story bears have never been seen within 53 miles of my tower and there’s a reason for that. That reason is the long bears. They’re a subclass of the morphed and deformed animal family I’ve composed.
That family stems from deformed bears. The other members include the short faced bear and the long legged bear. The short faced bear is the most well known and most widespread of the three. They were known to be extremely aggressive and powerful. Some people have even said that for a time they prevented the widespread colonization of North America. Although I don’t know if that fact is true.
Long legged bears are… well… long legged. They’re extremely fast and agile, capable of running in speeds upwards of 75 mph. This combined with the fact that they can weave their way through and over trees faster than a bird makes them the most deadly bear out of the three. I’ve only seen one of these bears once and thankfully it was occupied with eating a deer so it didn’t notice me.
The long bears have very long torsos and jaws that can open like a snake’s. This allows them to eat large amounts of food very fast. They can also swallow
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So I’ve worked/lived at a fire lookout tower in the Modoc national forest in California for around 6 years. I go up and live there for 12 days of almost complete isolation and then I go home for 2 days. I’m there usually from mid March to the end of December because the fire season is abnormally long in Modoc for some reason. In the off season I fly down to Florida and stay with my great-grandmother because she’s the only family I have that still talks to me. In the 4 days that I’m not at my tower I’m bunking with my friends in a nearby town. I don’t really want to go into why I decided to take up a job as a lookout because it’s personal but maybe you can figure it out yourself while reading some of my stories.
Anyways, as the title suggests I’ve seen some crazy stuff and the only person I’ve been able to talk to about it is the person in the closest tower to me, Sheila. Sheila works at a lookout a few mountains over from me and has been in the business longer than I have. I can’t talk to it about my friends because they never seen to believe me and my great-grandmother’s too old for my to worry with my stories. I browse Reddit as a pastime in my job and I recently discovered the nosleep community and after much consideration I’ve decided I want to share my experiences. I’ll start you off easy with my first story
So this first story is one of my first experiences with the “friends” who come to visit me when I’m at my post. It happened the third month of my first year when I was getting back to my tower after a morning hike. I never go out too far in the mornings, usually just 1 or 2 miles. I wish I could go for longer but I need to check in at 10:45 so if I start at 9 that really doesn’t give me too much time to hike. My hikes are also mostly downhill and as the old saying goes: “what goes down must always come back up.”
I got back at maybe 10:15 and as I was rounding the last bend of trees before my cabin I hear loud repeated snapping sounds up ahead of me. I slowed down immediately, and initially my mind rushed to a scenario where a bear somehow managed to break into my tower and was eating all my food. I stopped walking and took a few deep breaths to calm myself down and to give me time to rationalize. My second thought was that the was just a moose or deer up ahead because no bears had ever been spotted within 53 miles of my tower. I pulled out my bear spray, cautiously walked forward and peered around
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I made a fire lookout tower that functions as a sort of mini food court area for my North American wildlife refuge.
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