Personally, I'd find the nearest military base. Lots of weapons, secure doors, maybe electrified fences etc...plus there'd be lots of canned food and stored water.

I just happen to have a basement with canned food, water, shotguns, grenades, a flame thrower (i have to check if its still working though) and an old VHS player with cheap copies of friday the 13th and hellraiser.... no i'm kidding my mom turned it into a gym. can i come with you to the military base?

yeah my mum turned my zombie bunker into a gym too...some people just dont have their priorities in order ;)

The more the merrier as long as you dont want to try and "domesticate" the f*ckers, I'm all for blowing them away Rhodes-style. And bring the friday and hellraiser tapes ;)

the flame thrower still works, count me in!

I've got a chunk of land out in the sticks of Athens TN - and I'm working to be completely self-sufficient there - Solar, wind, water and geo-thermal for power and comforts, agriculture, livestock... all I need is a good wall around it and I'll be good to go.  It's 65 acres so some of you can come on over too if ya like.

I'd go Road Warrior and take a bunch of gas and tools to break into other vehicles. I won't sit in one spot. That's lame. The better question is ...How would you even know it happened? How would you find out?

I don't think my zombie-free zone will be lame... but I won't be able to wear all of the cool black leather that you road warriors sport. Actually, this makes me think that I will have to worry about more than zombies - there will be survivors roaming around looking for things to pirate like the shopping mall in Dawn of the Dead. I'll have to be ready for those folks too. I guess I'm going to need to plan for several other folks to have residence at my walled-in place in TN so that

we can defend it from rogues.

Regarding "how will we know"... aside from the general noticing that there are flesh-eating creeps roaming around, how will we? Is there some kind of early-warning network in existence?

Maybe we need to create one...

I agree. Remember in Dawn of the Dead the remake when that chick woke up and her husband was trying to eat her. She had no clue what was going on. She only knew not to trust anyone.

Also keep in mind when the zombie apocalypse comes...we will be enemies

I would head down to the local secure military site in my home town.  They have an awesome guard force I hear.

I wouldn't hole up at first.  There's this gun shop not too far from where I live.  I'd rush there first and load up on as much as I could.  There's a military store next door to where I work, I'd go in there and grab boxes and boxes of MRE's (Meals Ready To Eat) and one of those crank radios, maybe a CB Radio.  Then, roadtrip, try and make it to the mountains.  I'd find myself a nice, secluded cabin and cool my heels for a while and see which way it goes.  If it goes south, well, I'd move out, keep on the road, stocking up on food and supplies as I went along.

or...there's always the Winchester...heh.

Nobody is going to pirate with me? That makes me sad. Did anyone see 28 weeks later where the military just air raid the place?

 I'd Pirate with you.  It'd be something to do on my way to the mountains.  Arrrr  Yeah, I saw that in 28 weeks later...buuuuuut, I hated that movie.

Awesome! i'm not a fan of 28 weeks later either

I think I'd attempt the whole Road Warrior thing too.  The thing is that in a zombie apocalypse sort of thing, the likelihood of survival is pretty low.  If  a person were supremely lucky enough to acquire the materials necessary for survival (tire tools, axes, shotguns, food,  etc.) and avoid the various impossibly overwhelming scenarios, I suspect one would have to be a thoroughly and consistently ruthless S.O.B in order to survive such an ordeal.  You have to wonder if living such a life would be worth it.  

I started a thread about this on the World War Z IMDB page (the script for the movie is finished now and is supposed to be epic. If you haven't read this book you don't need to be posting here). The thread gathered some good ideas on this topic. The best one I saw was taking over Sam's Club. Think about it: food for years, the buildings are usually gargantuan but easily fortifiable due to disregard for fire code, the automotive area would be a place to quarantine and inspect new comers, a large gas supply (which would probably be raided unless you got there quick enough or you were the one raiding it) and multiple huge freezers (for food preservation and desalinization of water) that could be run by generators when the power goes. This is good, at least for my area, because a franchise hunting outlet about the same area in square feet is only a few yards away from the Sam's Club. It's called 'Wood's and Water.' It's basically Sam's Club for the redneck sportsman.

As for the Mel Gibson wanna-be's; I'd dare you to try and take this place.

As for the Military base, there's a reason for the saying 'Close enough for government work.' Do you really want to seek protection from a group of people who can't even send out a package on time or without filling out tons of forms?

I agree with you about the military, but I still think its a better idea to keep moving. What if Sam's club is already infested with zombies?

I have dreams about his ALL OF THE TIME. After stocking up on weapons and provisions, I would hold up in a Television or Radio station. Assuming the power and water is still on (and the zombie convention usually allows for this to be the case), most modern broadcast stations have controlled electronic access, the general public doesn't really know where they are exactly (thus no zombie muscle memory to worry about overrunning the station, as they might a mall or military base), and there's typically broacast equipment and computers...somebody has to be alive, right?  Does no good to be safe, but cut off from other people. Spending the rest of my life holed up in a broadcast station attempting to make contact...at least I would have an activity.  Also, I would try to find a station that had a nice rooftop garden, like mine has. Then I can safely enjoy the outdoors and garden. Oh, and you got to love the parking garage full of vans and sat/microwave trucks. Yeah...I would hold up at a tv station.

That would just be another obstacle in a long,long line of obstacles you're going to have to face. Staying on the move is good if you're on your own in or between large cities. Otherwise, you're just running for your life and eventually the path will run out. After so long you'll definitely end up sick from exposure and hunger. Any food you'd be able to find will be rotted and medicine could be pretty much non-existent. You're best bet would be to get away from big cities and find other people to hole up with. More people means more effort. More effort is paramount to survival. However, the TV station could be a very useful tool in that effort. It's not a bad idea but for a small group of people with no safe central location, you have more pressing matters than bringing other people into the fray. 

well of coarse there'd be a group... and food no problem we'll just grow it  We'll be our own society. We'll just have more freedom.

Okay, well... if you're talking about growing food then it's gonna be hard to be on the run all the time. Now you're talking more like my Tennessee refuge with the wall around it. I think we're coming full circle and you're gonna end up at the TN compound with myself and several other of us. If you want to satisfy your wander-lust from time to time that's cool... you can bring us cool things that you acquire.

Briar Ridge (the name of my place here in TN) will have full electricity via solar, wind, geo-thermal and hydro-electric... lots of crops, livestock and such... could be a good home base as you're getting all "Road Warrior" on their ass...

perfect! actually ... we'll be more like merchants we'll go from hold up to hold up. A kind of trades group we'll have many bases and we get lots of zombie action

I am with MadMolly! I do like the Tennessee hold up because that is where I am from too.

Yeah, hey! why don't we all just 'eat babies'...aka, Jonathan Swift's, "A Modest Propostal"?  But, I would miss my greens.... :-)

Cool - well, at the first sign of outbreak I'll send a map. I will need someone out in the world to trade with from time to time. FreakyCreepieChic you can of course come too...

I, for one, am glad to be getting this settled. Now I can move on to other projects.... LOL

I Would Find Shelter Here In Tx... The Next Town Over From Me Has A Few Homeland Security Hideouts!  Plus, Being In Tx, I Should be Able To Find Any Weapons That I Need! LOL!

Boulder, Colorado . . . oops . . wrong apocalypse.

George romero's house -- maybe he could talk some sense into them.

You sold me on the place in TN. I'm in alabama. I could be there in four days on foot. After that why not hit the road from time to time. You're going to have to find other people eventually or find out if we're making a come back. As for eating babies well...

LOL. I'd opt for an abandoned missile silo. No zombie's muscle memory is going to get them down the elevator, plus Cold War-era silos are hardened against fallout for when I nuke the zombies into oblivion. ('Cause I'm sure I could find a nuke just sitting around somewhere with an instruction manual next to it...hmm, on second thought, maybe it shouldn't be an abandoned missile silo...)

Don't nuke the zombies! I'll be sad. I mean come on this could be the coolest thing that ever happened, and you're just going to nuke them?

Good point. Nukin's too good for the bastards...

Besides, it'd be too hard to get them all inside the microwave.

Carry on with the slice and dice then.

First I would do a ram raid on the local bottle shop, then take my endless supply of Beer and Whiskey to the marina, hijack the biggest boat there and sail the seven seas, fishing and getting drunk. Then I'd eventually go mad and end up eating myself, but that's another story.

That sounds like an interesting cross between "Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things" and "Cast Away" with the little twist borrowed from "Alive" from 1993.  Brilliant.

i would hide in walgrens because they have every thing guns food games tv beds bath rooms pritymuch the best posible place to be

Yeah but did u notice in Alive the first piece of human they ate was a bite out of some guy's ASS? Crikey, I'd go for a bicep or something...sure it might be a little stringy, but at least it's not some dude's ass!!! Even in zombie movies they don't go for the butt they bite arms or throats or what-have-you.

You Yanks get all the best stores... I find it weird that department stores stock guns over there...or am i mistaken? Anyway...go to a Kmart in Australia the most threatening thing in there is the disgruntled chick at the returns counter

I don't think I've ever seen any firearms in any of the local Walgreens (although, they really do have everything else), but they still sell them at Wal-mart (not necessarily the best quality firearms, mind you).

yeah getting a gun is no problem 'round here.  In Virginia you can get a "concealed carry" permit just by taking a one-day course on safety.  New York was even whining at one time because their criminals were coming to Virginia to get guns and taking them back to New York.  Well --they send their trash to our landfills, which I guess is better than dumping it off the Jersey shore, --so we'll take their garbage and they get our guns--especially the stolen ones that we've already shot someone with.

I was at a fire pump start-up this morning where we test the pump's flow and pressure by sending it through fire hoses--this one was supplying 6 at one time up to 500 gallons per minute through each hose--well anyway, my point is:  You could sure have some fun blasting zombies with a fire hose--you could clear a street --blast them over and wash them away like tumblewoods--good times--good times.