OT - Re Any Y2K Crisis
Y2K, like most thinks in life, will probably be somewhere in between the two extreme scenarios.
After living in the country without power during the great ice storm last January, I learned that, unless you want to live in a shelter, you are on your own. Any minimal help from your government will take days to arrive and if they promise monetary help, months to arrive.
We were without power for lights, heat or cooking ( 8 days ), water ( 8 days - we carried 20 gallons per day from town), Telephone ( 3 days ), internet ( 8 days without SI or the market - talk about withdrawal! ) I gained some appreciation for the term ' freezing in the dark ' and said ' never again' .
We have since tried to make ourselves as self-reliant as possible by
1) Buying a standby generator ( If you do buy one, chain or bolt it down as many were stolen )
2) Buying several oil lamps ( Candles are just too dangerous and stores quickly run out of batteries, etc )
3) Upgrading our wood stove to an 'EPA approved' model ( for safety during longer burns )
4) Stocking up on plastic sheeting ( You can add a couple of layers to your windows to keep the heat in during a crisis )
5) Keeping a little more ordinary canned and packaged food on hand.
You don't need Y2K for a disaster .... With global warming messing up the weather, ice storms, hurricanes, earthquakes, tornados are all possible .... Do your family a favour and use just a little of your hard-earned trading profits to CYA.
Better get down off this soap-box ... I am getting dizzy.
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John
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