You’ve made it. You are one of the “lucky” few to survive the initial onslaught of corpses and have boarded yourself up. Maybe you have family. Maybe you have friends. Maybe you even saw this apocalypse coming and prepared. That does not matter much if you flip your lid. One of the, if not the most, deadly weapons in your arsenal is your still functioning human brain; And, just like your other weapons, you’ve got to keep it in fine working order. That will not be easy, given the extreme stress and pressure of your new situation. Pressures like having to put down those friends or that family when they go rabid. So let’s see how coal becomes diamonds.

Z-Day has come and you find yourself barricaded in a location that renders you “safe” for the time being. You are alone. You have had to abandon or even kill someone close to you to prevent them from mauling you. You try the tube. Static. You try the radio, with the same result. The feelings of panic and frustration well up inside of you, and you toss the radio in a fit of rage. You calm down just in time to realize the sound of moaning over the static from the television. You peer out your window to realize you are severely outnumbered and surrounded by horrible looking monsters. Your only weapon, a small handgun, holds enough ammo for less than a dozen of them. However, it seems to be an acceptable choice for another way out of the situation you are in. How did it come to this?

It is convenient for one to assume that they will be at home the zombies appear -- the home gives the owner a sense of security and familiarity. However, assuming this will be the case could prove fatal if Z-Day happens to be during your family vacation. This article is meant to simply explain an effective plan outline for the common tourist.

Imagine it: you and your fellow prepared survivors are in your vehicle, you have your trusty weapons of choice, and you are laying waste to vast numbers of zombies. Well, that's great, but what next? You canít fight forever. Either your muscles or your ammo will give out before too long. You need to get to someplace safe. These safe places are harder to find than you might think, so we have outlined a few traits you need to look for in a location, before you trust that location with your life.

This guide is written as a practical, step-by-step guide for fortifying the average home. While many guides have been written, most assume the features are being installed before the fact and can be fairly complex, or assume certain home features that are too uncommon too be useful in an emergency. What I hope this guide can be is a step-by-step instruction manual for securing your home for a long period of time, with little (less then a week) preparation time.

When we choose a location for a post-apocalypse base, we will more than likely not have a steady source of electricity, and even so, we will likely not have an abundant source of replacement light bulbs. Thus, we should find a base where there are lots of windows and lots of light. However, doubtless the reader has predicted where the problem may come in, there are only so many windows a place can have before there is the concern of safety and durability.

They say people's homes are their castles -- of course, were this true, this article would probably be unnecessary. People know enough to run away from zombies, people even know enough to hide from zombies, but we still need to be thinking about more. This article explains some steps that you can take to turn your home into a castle.

When zombies start their slow, inexorible shuffle toward our eventual doom, many people have just one thought on their minds: does this mean we have to give up our computers? It is the Zombie Preparedness Initiative's great honor to have the opportunity to bring to you an article from Una Persson, science advisor for the Straight Dope Online News Journal. This article analyzes the longevity of various power sources and gives an estimate for the time each would stay working if humans no longer managed the processes.