You don't know that. People could be tied up with the zombies. And there is no way people to know you're in the store.

I'm thinking people would need to defend himself for more than month. They'd probably have defend himself for a long time.

How would the fire trucks no where to go? The communications would be done. You have no guarantee that people would show up.

A lot might depend on whether you're located in a populated region (like a large city) or a small one. Assuming a zombie apocalypse is a very infectious disease/virus a populated region = instant death centers. Even if you managed to get out of the store, the hordes of zombies will find and eat you.

Also, think of the chaos a zombie apocalypse would cause. Assuming the virus scenario, people could be infected while they're on a plane (leading to immediate crashing), on a boat (run run run with no where to go), or in a car (major car accidents = dead people = more zombie fodder).

If you live in a non-populated region, you might have time to get to your car and get the heck out of there.

@C4AT: I wasn't talking just to you, I was talking to KTC, too.

@all: One might not get the information about the zombie apocalypse before it's too late if they live in a rural area. If the radios were broadcasting the info before communications went down, then there's a chance they could get out.

Where would one go if there was a zombie invasion, anyways? I would think that it would be easier to be in the woods, where you have a large chance of finding food. Maybe an island would be good- in the middle of water. Zombies can't swim, but maybe the water would be contaminated with zombies.

True enough, Mopiece, but most people would only defend to buy time. No one would try to singlehandedly fight off a zombie army without a tank.

@Yuffie

I'd try to go to a place that can be easily barricaded. An island is a good idea, but you're right about the water. I'd probably try to get to a rural area, maybe by the woods but not in the woods. Then I'd try to barricade it as well as I possibly could.

@CAAAAT

I don't think so. I think a lot of people would defend themselves to survive. And I think there are a lot of people that would fight off zombies single handedly. The are a lot of people who would have the means to do so, and the knowledge to do so. So it's not hard to imagine one person going out there without the military to back them out.

I suppose so. Most people would just run, though.

I think that there are four kinds of people in this situation:
1) "COOL! Zombies! I wanna be one!" type people who run up to the zombies and get instantly infected, or have their brains munched.
2) "AAAAH! Run for your lives!" type people who just grab what they can and run away as fast as they can.
3) "Yeah! Time to kick some zombie butts! They'd better stay away from me!" type people who would fight if necessary, or for the fun of it.
4) *so terrified they're frozen stiff* type people who would stay in one spot, terrified, and get munched on or become zombies.

Most people would be one of those options. It's evident that most people who posted here would be type 3.

It would be funny if there really was a zombie apocalypse, and we were all stuck in a sports store with no hunting section. Ha. This would be the perfect preparatory guide.

How can you kill a zombie anyway? Aren't they already dead, or ... um... undead??

@belinda
In most cases of zombies, to kill a zombie you need to destroy the brain. That means shooting it in the head.

@CAAAAT

I don't think most people would run. I think a lot would fight.

Have you seen the so-called "zombe-proof house"?

I like it. (Not for the fact that it's 'zombie proof', I think the design is interesting.) But if you really want to survive the zombie apocalypse, that is the type of fort you would need.

Along with a way to make energy/electricity for it.

Yeah, I saw that. I thought it was pretty interesting. And it looks like a nice house on the inside, well from what I can see from the pictures.

I think the most important post was the one asking "Where is the best place to go?"

Really, where IS the safest place you're likely to find. I'll come up with a short list:

An Island
A hunting store (that isn't in immediate danger of being set ablaze)
Top/inside of a dam
Bomb shelter (Or other Vault Tec installation)
A fishing boat (preferably near the headwaters of a river)
Anywhere you can barricade yourself in where there is plentiful canned food and water; preferably with a second+floor for an escape zipline.

@Ashen: That's a very interesting house! It would probably be fun to live there.

@all: The zombie virus would be contracted by contact with a person who has it, or contact with an object that an infected person has touched, right? If this pathogen was airborne, we'd be dead... Or undead. That would really affect where safe places would be.

In most of the zombies stories I've read, or watched, one becomes a zombie if bitten by a zombie. That makes me think it'd need to be contact with the infected.

However, if it was airborne pathogen, then yes that really would change the safe places. I'd think the farther from the cities you could get, the safer you'd be.

Reminds me of High School of Death(anime. I dont follow it much). It's about the town was attacked by zombies. As same as condition we're talking.

I can't think much about, cause the city will be in total chaos. The other countries might also infected, from plane, maybe. And, i think people who survived after getting bitten by a zombie won't turn immediately. There's time, so it's possible if he/she gets into a plane to escape.

One more equipment: helmet
Oh, and how we're supposed to kill the zombies out with tanks?
Will their brains out with ammunitions? O.o

Majority of tanks have a gunner. So you could just use the machine gunner to take out the zombies.

though tanks need a lot of gasoline to operate. Since you can't just fill up your tank's tank while a zombie's braining you, a tank's not really useful.

People with projectile weapons would be better off than the people in a tank. The people in a tank would be kind of stuck if the zombies got too close to the tank, too. Yum. Military zombies. It would be easier if people were on foot, or maybe on an animal or in a convertible car. It's so much easier to shoot zombies when you don't have to break the windows. XD Anyways, if the zombie virus mutated enough, then maybe other animals could become zombies. That wouldn't be very good at all.

is it odd that my final project is a zombie apocalypse? weird.....

@Yuffie - You forgot one type of person:
5) "Aaah! Zombies! I'm scared, but they're faster than me so I can't run and will have to fight!"