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Pretty much got it all. I have a years supply of Mountain food (water is still a question). I did so for natural and man-made disasters. WTSHTFan, we're kinda there.

My biggest concern is not how soon the water or food can get back on line, it's about how the inner city folks (bad AND good) will be heading towards our area for stuff. You know where I live. If a nuke went off tomorrow in Los Angeles, the survivors would span out towards suburban and country areas, and there's where we are as you know.

My SO thinks it's all BS, except for earthquake. Funny thing is, she has asked me to keep the 870 loaded. Hmmm...

"My biggest concern is not how soon the water or food can get back on line, it's about how the inner city folks (bad AND good) will be heading towards our area for stuff..."

Not going to happen. Traffic gridlock will be your best defense. After that simple human failure will take care of the rest. If recent history is any indication, the zombies won't make it past the city limits sign. The inner city types will expend themselves trashing and looting their immediate neighborhoods. They've been trained like dogs how to find food, booze, and welfare checks. They won't deviate from it. After that, they'll be too weak and incapacitated to form a zombie army to march on the hinterlands.
Those caught in traffic gridlock will be completely localized and quickly die off from lack of preparedness. Those attempting to walk out won't make five miles. A lifetime of electronic keyboards and television viewing from their couches will see to that.
Meanwhile, back in the inner city, booze, cigarettes, potato chips, soda pop, athletic shoes, clothing, and useless electronic goods will be scarfed up while food will be left to rot. In the initial frenzy, medical supplies, canned goods and bottled water will be completely ignored. Call that the fatal first misteps by the sheeple.
After few days, they'll turn submissive again as they gather around the municipal buildings and hold out their hands for scheduled welfare and social support payouts. After half a day of that, the booze and drugs will wear off. They'll realize nobody's home, and collapse in place. They won't have the knowledge needed to survive, and they'll be too weak by then to do anything about it even if they did. New Orleans during Katrina is your model. Three successive generations made dependent upon government largess. A cave man could do it, but those poor folks lost the knowlege needed to make fire. Didn't even have the wherewithall to collect rainwater to drink. Thirst, starvation, and ordinary sepsis will form the bulwark of your defenses.