Zombie Survival 2

In the last Zombie Survival I talked about how to hold up in a mall, I also mentioned that I think a mall is a horrible place to hide out in, mostly because there are a lot of zombies and if by chance a search party is about theres probably not much chance they'll look in a mall. So, now I'm going to tell you how to hold up a normal house. We'll go over your average one story home, and two story homes (my preference). I guess we'll start off with the one story. We'll assume that it has a cellar, if it doesn't most of this will still be useful to you. First you'll want to board up all doors leading outside. You can use shelves, cabinet doors, bed frames, bedroom doors, basically any long or flat (or both) pieces of wood for barricading, just make sure its thick enough to hold anything. Find Nails, you need nails, lots and LOTS of LONG nails (the long part is for extra added safety). If your house does not have nails theres a good bet theres a lot of other important things missing too, if I were you I'd find a different house. Now nail up all the doors and windows (if by chance you don't have a hammer use another large metal object that can pound something). Nail long, stronger peices to the doors, preferably reaching from end to end. If you have enough strong pieces use them for the windows too, but make sure you use the long strong ones for the doors. Once everything is barricaded (make sure to take my advise from the last one and keep an inconspicuous emergency exit only loosley barricaded) move the refrigerator to the cellar, in fact stockpile all food and most of the supplies (the ones not so often used) in the cellar. If theres no electricity you'll need a generator (which should also be kept in the cellar, in fact the cellar is the only room that should have electricity, noise attracts zombies and so can light) if you do not have a generator you'll have to go and get one. If you are in a suburban area before you drive (if you can) all the way to the nearest home depot (if there is one AND if its not already looted, also it'd probably be crawling with zombies) I would check your neighbors house to see if they have a generator (here's an instance where you can free run-jumping from rooftop to rooftop to avoid going to ground level) if you can't find one the worst thing is you won't be able to use any electronics or the refrigerator (which won't actually be much use anyway) so I don't advise leaving the neighborhood to get one unless those dvd's are worth risking your life for. Also the cool thing about the suburbs is that theres a lot of canned food, in my neighbor hood theres probably 200-500 houses, (thats just a guess I'm probably way off) 95% chance of each house having some canned food so you don't have to risk your life going to a supermarket (which may be looted anyway) to get food. Individual houses probably aren't looted and people leaving in a hurry won't take their canned food with them. Weapons shouldn't be hard to find, a monkey wrench, a hammer, kitchen knives (the big mutha's!), some houses probably have guns (emergency use only, very loud, noise attracts zombies)-sorry UK, no guns for you. If zombies do get through (assuming that you can't get to your emergency exit in time, if you can good for you) you'll probably be wishing for that generator when the only place you can get to is the cellar. If this happens I would suggest ready yourself some books, batteries, a flashlight, perhaps a radio because if you did have a generator it would eventually run out of fuel and you might be waiting down there for a long time.