Zombie Defense Plan: By Travis Richardson

Here is the first of what I hope will become a continuous series of guest submissions. Our post is courtesy of Travis Richardson. This plan is not censored, and therefore does not reflect anyone's views but Mr. Richardson. Still, I think that it is well thought and informative. Hopefully my readers will find it useful in planning for their own zombie crisis.

Well, my friends and I have laid out our plan for the zombie apocalypse in full detail. My house located in the middle of the woods with access to fresh water from my pond and plentiful game animals to harvest will become our base of operations. When the zombie apocalypse occurs the first 24 hours are vital. We will all meet at my house with all our assortment of weapons from our own personal collections. This includes an assortment of weapons rifles, shotguns, handguns, and melee weapons.
We will then leave 50% of our force at my house to begin preparation for barricading the house as well as preparing wood for the stove and as well as clear trees around the house to provide a obstruction free killing zone. The other 50% percent will run to Richmond Indiana and with the like hood of mass looting being 100% will gather supplies of ammo, gas, can food, powdered milk, and anything useful we can get our hands on or if looting hasn’t begun run our charge cards buying the essentials. The alternative raiding city is Greenville if Richmond has fallen victim already to the zombie menace though if both have fallen we will raid a few small towns within 10 mile drive from my house we're maintaining safety while raiding is possible, if need be. Then once the raiding or buying is done the other 50% will return to the house now known as Alpha base.
Alpha base is a two story log house with logs spiked together with extremely thick walls. The trees around the house would've been cut down by the group left behind to provide a 20 yard kill zone. The preliminary boarding of all first floor windows and doors should have begun. The first floor should be completely boarded up accept for gun port to fire out if the need be. These task once complete are the first phase of occupying alpha base. We will then move all non important furniture to the pole barn to maximize space for which to store gear and deploy cots and beds. Thus, with these tasks complete the objective is survival by all means.
We will burn through our rations in a couple of months and then will begin to hunt for food. The hunts will take place with two groups heading in opposite directions and return six hours prior to sun set to field dress kills and prepare them to be cooked. They will stay in radio contact so that there isn't an over abundance of food, because the lack of refrigeration. We will also occasionally harvest fish from my pond located in front of alpha base and the one 1/2 a mile up the road. We will also take my neighbors chickens and continue to raise and butcher them as well as harvest their eggs. We will stave of cabin fever by rotating jobs and the once and a while scouting party to investigate towns.
The scouting parties will not go straight to their objective rather zig zag to it taking different roads there and different roads back to minimize the possibility of being followed by the undead or anyone else. We maintain these survival methods until relieved or taken out. The plan, if we're attacked by a large force of zombies is to load up in the vehicles if holding alpha base is impossibility regardless of the fortifications. We will then proceed to seek shelter at any alternative site to be determined by necessity, but most likely another log house located 20 miles away owned by friends. They will have already done all we have to this point and also have access to clean water and game.