Ahoy me mateys, what ye be up to?
Preparation is luck meets opportunity. In preparing for zombies you're preparing for an entire wide range of possibilities that could go wrong in life. Not only could they go wrong, but at some point something is likely to happen. But realistic possibility or otherwise I would prefer zombies over anything else. I would say I'm a pretty big fan of the genre, I've seen all the Romero movies, and countless lower budget Zombie flicks, of course I've read the Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z.
My survival plans are slacking a bit but I have the basics covered. I forgot dish soap and calamine lotion though

I live in Kansas, and I'm relatively close to the outskirts of the town I'm in aside from some houses to the south of me. There's also enough closet doors, and wood objects on the first floor to barricade all the windows of the house I'm in, and more than likely enough to do the same for the second. Not that I think about stuff like that or anything :p