One of the most obvious facts related to any natural disaster is that people will die. This is sad, but true. When considering the possibility of a "Zombie Apocalypse", you really don't have to think hard to realize that lots of people are going to die. But being the sick opportunist that I am, I have found a way to make good out of so much bad. Lets think... Where do people live? Houses. What happens to the houses when nobody owns them anymore? Well...

I live in a subdivision of a neighborhood called "Lake Windcrest." Houses here range from 1 story to 3 story, and large families to small families. But for the most part, the large houses have only 2-4 people living in them. When, IF these people become infected, there house becomes abandoned. So, with that knowledge in mind I would like to dive right into my newest plan.

Did zombies eat your neighbors?

No? That's great!

Yes? I'm sorry.

So here's an idea... you now have a group of survivors (your non-eaten neighbors), and you have a group of empty houses. First, you take some of your neighbors,

.... <- (that is a small group of neighbors)

and you put them in an abandoned house.

.... /--\
.... I__I <- (thats an abandoned house.)

If you can get enough of the houses filled with (armed) survivors, you can make a massive parameter that will have several layers of defense from the zombies.

Now you have a huge parameter of houses filled with survivors. Hooray! now all you have to do is dig gardens at each of the houses, scavenge for gasoline and natural gas-powered generators, convert them to manual power, and set up a powerplant. That way, you have a minicity making its own food and power, all the while keeping the zombies at bay.

And, in the rare case that the inhabitants of a house get infected, you can simply lock it up and throw in a couple of molotov cocktails and burn them/the house to ash.

The End! (Don't you love happy endings?)