# Worried about the zombie apocalypse? You need the fortress house! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 29, 2013, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worried-about-the-zombie-apocalypse-you-need-the-fortress-house/672589 "2013-10-29T20:48:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worried-about-the-zombie-apocalypse-you-need-the-fortress-house/672589/1 "2013-10-29T20:48:30Z")
[Fortress house](http://www.viralnova.com/zombie-house/). Brutal, but awesome . > [@](#): > > The zombie apocalypse may never happen, but hey, maybe it’s a good idea to own a house like this just in case. The fortress is virtually indestructible. Thieves, rioters and even an army couldn’t get in once you lock up. > > It’s perfect. Especially if you hate socializing. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worried-about-the-zombie-apocalypse-you-need-the-fortress-house/672589/2 "2013-10-29T21:06:40Z")
What’s the deal with that big steel roll-up door? Ten seconds with a torch and that thing is history. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worried-about-the-zombie-apocalypse-you-need-the-fortress-house/672589/3 "2013-10-29T21:08:09Z")
Oh, sure. Like that worked for Dracula. ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worried-about-the-zombie-apocalypse-you-need-the-fortress-house/672589/4 "2013-10-30T11:04:21Z")
Fortress ha! muahahahah ahaha ahah \*glurp \*THUD! thammit mi thaw thell oth athan :mad: shambles off back to Boo! ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worried-about-the-zombie-apocalypse-you-need-the-fortress-house/672589/5 "2013-10-30T17:16:50Z")
The house actually looks very nice & open when it’s in “non-secure” mode. It looks like it’d fit in to one of the post-war housing developments in **World War Z**. Or something a rich vampire would live in. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worried-about-the-zombie-apocalypse-you-need-the-fortress-house/672589/6 "2013-10-30T17:23:02Z")
Can I get it in pink? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worried-about-the-zombie-apocalypse-you-need-the-fortress-house/672589/7 "2013-10-30T17:26:22Z")
> [@astro](#): > > [Fortress house](http://www.viralnova.com/zombie-house/). Brutal, but awesome . Look for a small thermal exhaust port. I mean, the thing’s got to have a tailpipe. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worried-about-the-zombie-apocalypse-you-need-the-fortress-house/672589/8 "2013-10-30T17:27:26Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > What’s the deal with that big steel roll-up door? Ten seconds with a torch and that thing is history. That’s what I was thinking. That house might keep out trick or treaters. And maybe zombies, because they’re pretty stupid. But rioters or thieves? Or an army? They’d barely be slowed down by a few doors. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worried-about-the-zombie-apocalypse-you-need-the-fortress-house/672589/9 "2013-10-30T17:33:51Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > What’s the deal with that big steel roll-up door? Ten seconds with a torch and that thing is history. How would [this](http://www.google.com/imgres?client=firefox-a&hs=iVG&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1505&bih=815&tbm=isch&tbnid=GH-903ogtypppM:&imgrefurl=http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Torch_%28Skyrim%29&docid=UnmSLawHjHfhJM&imgurl=http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120619180717/elderscrolls/images/9/93/TESV_Torch.png&w=626&h=557&ei=P0JxUvzjDZbesASk54DIDw&zoom=1&ved=1t:3588,r:8,s:0,i:113&iact=rc&page=1&tbnh=181&tbnw=203&start=0&ndsp=23&tx=81&ty=55) get through a steel door? Or [this](http://www.google.com/imgres?client=firefox-a&hs=iVG&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1505&bih=815&tbm=isch&tbnid=lXhPYPHMCfkjLM:&imgrefurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shaking_Torch.jpg&docid=P6fn8uFj44PbtM&imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/be/Shaking_Torch.jpg&w=1024&h=768&ei=P0JxUvzjDZbesASk54DIDw&zoom=1&ved=1t:3588,r:39,s:0,i:215&iact=rc&page=2&tbnh=176&tbnw=184&start=23&ndsp=35&tx=114&ty=103)? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worried-about-the-zombie-apocalypse-you-need-the-fortress-house/672589/10 "2013-10-30T19:28:18Z")
Seems like the perfect house for South Florida or the Carribbean, with the hurricanes and all… ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worried-about-the-zombie-apocalypse-you-need-the-fortress-house/672589/11 "2013-10-30T19:53:53Z")
I like the cat on the ramp, about halfway down the page. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worried-about-the-zombie-apocalypse-you-need-the-fortress-house/672589/12 "2013-10-30T21:08:18Z")
i’d rather go for the homes that are built in former missile silos. Here in Kansas there’s a high school in one of the silos. Pretty cool, I toured it before the school remodeling started. > **[North Jackson USD 335](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Heights_USD_335)** > > North Jackson USD 335 is a unified school district headquartered about four miles north of Holton, Kansas, United States. The district includes the communities of Circleville, Netawaka, Soldier, Whiting, and nearby rural areas. The high school is notable for having previously been an Atlas nuclear missile site. > The site of the current high school previous housed a command center and one of the nine Atlas nuclear missiles from 1961 until its closure in 1964 and then sat empty for five years. A... ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worried-about-the-zombie-apocalypse-you-need-the-fortress-house/672589/13 "2013-11-01T02:24:11Z")
> [@Moldy Bread](#): > > i’d rather go for the homes that are built in former missile silos. > > Here in Kansas there’s a high school in one of the silos. Pretty cool, I toured it before the school remodeling started. > > [North Jackson USD 335 - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Heights_USD_335) They should have a pretty good tornado shelter. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worried-about-the-zombie-apocalypse-you-need-the-fortress-house/672589/14 "2013-11-01T14:32:27Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > They should have a pretty good tornado shelter. I wonder how the house would fare in, say, an EF4. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worried-about-the-zombie-apocalypse-you-need-the-fortress-house/672589/15 "2013-11-01T14:51:33Z")
Unfolded that house is rather pretty. It will stop zombies, but a determined assault will take it down. No firing ports, you see.