'Unconvinced Spouse
asked in the TimeBomb 2000 (Y2000) Q&A Forum
Although I have an extremely knowledgable friend who
regularly reports to me about Y2K issues and information, my
husband remains unconvinced to the true serious nature of
Y2K. He feels that at most, a few computers may go down
temporarily ( a minor inconvenience). My friend and her
husband are busily spending every weekend shopping for
generators and stockpiling food. And they appear, by all
accounts, to be fairly rational and intelligent people. Which of
these approaches is closer to the truth? Can anyone give me
more information that could persuade my husband to take this
situation a little more seriously? Thanks.
Asked by Tom O (todo@mtaonline.net) on July 30, 1998.
Answers
This is precisely the problem. No one is sure what all the
ramifications of Y2K are. The general public is barely aware of
the issues and don't know that a debate is taking place. I just
recently found out that people are actually preparing with
generators and supplies, etc. That scares me. I still don't believe
the doomsayers, but I am actively researching this issue because
I want to be sure.
Buddy Y. from DC
Answered by Buddy Y. (buddy@bellatlantic.net) on July 30, 1998.
Tom O...
The key to Y2K is reading reliable information about it...and
reading a lot of it...
Everyone on this forum and anyone else who deals with Y2K
goes through various stages of denial until they finally arrive at
the "spend money" stage. It can be a long and bumpy ride to get
there.
You'll never convince your husband; he must convince himself.
There is an astounding amount of information on the net, but for
convenience sake I would start with Gary North's page because
it is organized by category. You can find it at
garynorth.com Wade through his rhetoric and read
the articles.
You can go to my site at lifetel.com
and find hundreds of links to the best sites on the web.
Blessings!
-Pastor Chris
Answered by Pastor Chris (pastorchris@lifetel.com) on July 30, 1998.
Yes, the problem is that no one knows for certain. Even the
most optimistic acknowledge that there may be a 'bump in the
road.' The most pessimistic call it The End of the World As We
Know It (TEOTWAWKI).
Each of us have to make up our own mind about how severe
the problem will be. Some other good sites to check are:
year2000.com ---- Peter de
Jager's site has daily newspaper articles.
y2kwomen.com --- Karen Anderson's site for
women, includes advice on unconvinced husbands, as well as
simply getting the Y2K story from the woman's viewpoint. This
might be a good place for Tom O to start.
There are some fairly rational and intelligent people who have
been preparing for a long time. There are also some who flatly
refuse to see a problem.......as I said, each one of us must be
responsible for what we do with the knowledge we are given.
Each must make up our own minds.
If you decide that you are better off preparing for something
that may not happen than not preparing for a disaster that may
happen, I would suggest going to:
geocities.com
From there you have a choice of preparedness sites, and go to:
y2knightmare.com
which is Gary Norths forums on individual aspects of
preparedness, including forums on power generation, food
storage, non-hybrid gardening, etc.
Such a lot to learn, such a short time to learn it in. I wish you
very good luck.
rocky
Answered by Rocky Knolls (rknolls@hotmail.com) on July 30, 1998.
Each day YAHOO prints currrent and recent major(?)
newspaper articles;I cant tell you how to get there from here but
I can "send" the site e-mail. The evidence is piling up.
Answered by Arthur Rambo (buriedtreasure@webtv.net) on July 30, 1998.
Whatever you do, be careful not to freak out your spouse. I
would end up yelling at my wife in my frustrated inability to get
my urgent need to leave the big city (Sydney, Australia). So we
ended up selling the house and separating. Now she's got the
kids and I am in no position to help them at all unless I can
persuade them to come to the safe(r) place I am moving to, up
country. My wife and her family still think I am crazy. Good
luck to you and anyone else. Don't make the same mistakes I
did.
Answered by David Harvey (vk2dmh@hotmail.com) on July 31, 1998.
Like David, my wife won't move, or take any "drastic action".
She admits things could get rough, but seem to prefer to
suffer/die with the masses - IF it comes to that (which she
doubts). I decided to risk dying and stay with her & the two
(young) kids. It it really gets rough, since we are on the
outer-ring of the sub-burbs, we can run (drive), but with
no-place to go that won't be much help.
I'll stock-up on enought stuff for a few months, but being so
close to D.C., if it really is TEOTWAWKI, I'll probably be
gone in a (nuclear) flash! It's hard to imagine what Russia &
other nuclear powers will do if their economic conditions grow
worse the pre-WW2 Germany...
Answered by Anonymous (Anonymous@anonymous.com) on July 31,
1998.
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