City: Scottsdale, AZ
Neighborhood: North Scottsdale residential (30y between houses)
Building or Defensible Location: My house


Attributes: one story, flat roof, razorwire can be mounted ontop of walls going around the house, only place walls aren't around house are on the side of the house with no windows or doors.

Pros: Thick walls surrounding half of house (8' ft), rest of house surrounded with 6' ft high walls with gaps, edges of roof go 3ft past flat surface (good for hiding), drainage holes on roof provide great sniper spots, roof can see all areas within 50y, small secret room, High ceilings and has high ledges you can climb to (almost as they were made for anti-zombies). Access to the roof from inside walled area. Plenty of spots from roof you can shoot Zack in the brain with a Silenced Walther P22. Direct line of sight to other neighbors houses.

Cons: Large windows (will covered in the inside with chicken wire and boarded up/re-enforced), Hard to monitor whole perimeter solo without sitting ontop of chimney.

In the case of an outbreak, will you be allowing other survivors to join you here?
Family=allow close friends=allow friends=maybe strangers with skills=maybe
It all depends on food and water supplies we have. If someone can hit a zombie head from 100y with a Ruger 10/22 (no scope), I'll take him.

Food: I'm planning on breaking out the camping gear in the garage, cleaning all water I drink (Pumps, UV pens, Jetboil heating system), and eating plenty of MRE's I have sitting around our house. At around $6 per meal, they are a good deal for food. They can easily last for up to 4 years if left in a cool room in your house (70-75* f). I would also keep some Survival Tabs Emergency Food Rations handy for special needs. Twelve tablets contain everything you need to eat for a day, so pack 25 whenever you leave your stronghold, just in case.

Water: Clean water is my first concern once I am situated on Z-Day. I am going to fill my 2 large 55g water containers I have from when I maintained my 150g fish tank, and the 5 or so 36g storage bins, along with whatever else I can fill stuff up in. I will boil about 100L of water and seal them in 2L air tight heat seal packs for when we are on the move and can't lug around large containers. I'll boil the water in the other containers, seal them, then store in a dark room, and using a water filter pump to extract water after the first two weeks or so after being filled.

Weapons: I plan on having a lot of fun with my Bushmaster M4A3, Ruger 10/22 (want to get a supressor), 12g shotty for when we're on the move, and tests with my pump pellet gun (Killed a rabbit at 3/4 of max pumps). I have about 3500 .22 LR rounds sitting around right now as they are about $10/550 for decent ammo, about 500 .223 rounds, about 100 12g shells, and about 500 pellets.

Transportation: Incase I have to leave, I'll have my dad's F250 extended bed hidden and parked behind the house with 2 250F dirtbikes, and 2 mountain bikes, and 2 5g containers of gas hidden under a tarp in the back. I'll also store some food and water in the car. I can bring other supplies in my bug out bag with me if we are leaving for good.