Costco.
Small number of secure entrances. A lifetime supply of batteries and solar kits. Tons of shelf stable food and drink. Clothing. Tacky home decor to make the apocalypse feel more homey.
It would be great.
Just any yard with a distinct lack of my milkshakes.
It’s “hole up,” by the way.
I think its fine.
Maybe yours is the true idiom but im not what you would call a literary legalist.
You seem legit to me. Maybe a little too legit…
hold up
And a bone apple tea to you!
Unless their hold is in their castle!
a 1950s school building. they were built like castles. have wide open lawns and high towers. windows were at least a story above grade, and the glass had that mesh embedded inside.
any windows or doors that are at grade can easily be barricaded or already are with high grade steel cages.
bonus if there’s an internal courtyard that can be used as a field for growing crops, water retention area, and just an outdoor exercise area.
schools already have a cafeteria and kitchen, showers, fitness and entertainment, first-aid and medical, an entire library, science/biological labs. many schools have also been retrofitted with solar panels as well.
a school is really the best place to hold up for any kind of natural disaster.
Super weird when someone posts what is likely a random stock photo of a place you went to school.
are you a hairy wizard?
“Secure” as in “fortify it against zombies and potentially other threats”
Or as in “I can get to it and lay some sort of claim to it”
Because if it’s the former, we probably need to put some restrictions on the scenario. That’s really the hard part of this and we’re just assuming we can do it, and your best bet is probably to secure as big of an area as possible. A city, a country, a whole hemisphere, or hell, the entire world or the solar system if we’re being really silly.
If we’re going with the latter, where we find a building or property of some kind and call “dibs” and the rest of it is up to us
I think a tech school is a pretty good bet, at least thinking of my local tech schools.
They have some fully stocked workshops with pretty much any tools and materials you could need- carpentry, plumbing, automotive, electrical, etc.
Maybe some kind of medical program, so probably a decent amount of meds and first aid equipment, in addition to whatever is in the nurse’s office.
A culinary program, so you have a well equipped kitchen and probably a decent amount of food on-hand.
Maybe it even has some sort of agricultural program with some farming equipment, maybe even some ready-to-go planted crops and possibly livestock.
Most schools are fairly secure with limited entrances and locking doors often they have backup generators and maybe even solar these days (odds are any school with a decent electrical program at least has a few solar panels kicking around somewhere) and you have the tools and maybe the materials there to further fortify it as needed.
And it probably has some pretty beefy fire suppression systems since you have teenagers playing with welders and industrial stoves/ovens.
Some college campuses might be as good or better for the same reasons, with the added benefits of there probably being some purpose-made living quarters, but they’re usually less compact, which has its plusses and minuses, more land to grow crops and such but harder to secure.
And if the apocalypse hits while school is in session, you have a bunch of young, hopefully reasonably-healthy people already on-hand to do some of the hard work if like me you’re not quite as spry as you used to be.
Walmart or similar has food, tools, guns, ammo, chemicals, and the building can be secured via steel shutters.
Yeah but the materials you have to work with are a little limited. At least around me, Walmart doesn’t carry much in the way of stuff like lumber, pipe, or other building materials, and there’s gonna be some gaps in the tools available, I don’t think most Walmarts carry welders around me, and even if they do you certainly wouldn’t be able to get the gases you need for MIG/TIG welding there, and you might want that if you, for example, need to repair those steel shutters.
And most Walmarts around me actually don’t carry guns.
And you can’t grow too much food on a parking lot, you can try to work with containers and potting soil of course, but odds are a school is gonna have more land you can easily convert to a food plot or maybe even the plumbing parts to get some kind of hydroponics system going.
Ok so we need a Walmart that’s between a college campus and hardware store with a lumberyard.
Lots of food is gonna rot.
First week gonna be a lot of smoking meats, and canning/preserving lots of fruits and vegetables.
Dairy coolers and frozen gotta be emptied as soon as power goes unless you can rig enough solar/gas generated power for them.
An island? Seems like a great way to isolate yourself from the masses
World War Z, the book, proved this wrong.
Look, I need to spend my efforts on the toxicity and climate collapse apocalypse. I would WELCOME zombies at this point.
If I can automatically secure the location, then I pick the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
Immediate suicide for me, I’m afraid.
Probably a Walmart. Lots of guns, food and medicine.
Yeah if there is power, no contest. Especially in the southern USA where they sell guns and ammo. You could honestly last years there alone.
The Bar in North Muldraugh, Kentucky…oh sorry, you meant IRL and not in Project Zomboid… Let’s see…IRL…zombie apocalypse…got it…The Bar in North Muldraugh, Kentucky.
I speculate that in a real world zombie apocalypse scenario the zombies will probably be just one war crime out of many, Half Life 2 style, so it must be assumed that if you manage to fortify a location against zombies, that fortification is probably getting noticed by a drone and bombed or similar after not too long. Therefore instead of holing up, it would be a better strategy to focus on offense instead of defense in some way.
any, I’m gonna say the Fortress of Solitude from Superman
Some island in the pacific
Oops, sorry, you got Japan - Tokyo specifically. Best of luck.
