Kansas City is a fairly rural city, if that kind of oxymoron makes sense to you. You don't have to go very far to get out of the 'city' and into the country. My long term plan is to wait out the thick of it and farm out in the middle of nowhere. But step one, on z-day is to go to work. I work at Home Depot, a large warehouse-style home improvement store. There is a small amount of food there, and if I ration wisely it will get me far enough to barricade in and work out a way of getting out. There are several gas stations, homes, a Price Chopper (small grocery store), a Hy-Vee, a Sam's Club (Wal-Mart on drugs), and a handful of car lots all within spitting distance. My plan assumes that the zombies are your typical dumb, decaying corpses (ie. Shawn of the Dead, Zombieland) not your super human zombies (ie. 48 Days Later, and the zombie-like vampires from I Am Legend). I am a good climber, and I don't assume corpses are so much, so arriving at work I will make a bee-line for the lumber section. Once there I will grab as much food and water as I can from the cash registers and shimmy my way up onto the top of the 20 foot shelves. In the overhead I will be able to cut open bunks of 16 foot lumber and construct makeshift bridges across the narrow isles. There are pallets of bottled water in the overhead. I will be able to move around the store, allowing me to reach the power tools. The store will have power for a little while because of back-up generators. Using that time I will use the corded tools to reinforce the building and my cat walks and also to charge batteries for cordless tools. I will have access to the garden tool isle with the shovels, scythes, axes, hammers, and all sorts of zombie-dispatching utensils. There is a limited amount of gas in the store, and propane tanks out the back, but that will have to be conserved, however, some can be used in the generators that we sell. I have access to the roof, where I can set up tarps to catch rainwater, survey my surroundings, and signal other survivors. The store has a flat-bed Ford truck that I will reinforce when the time comes to make my way out. I will stay at my reinforced store until the infection had died down long enough to move out into the country where I can fortify and sustain myself.