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Technology Stocks : Y2K (Year 2000) Personal Contingency Planning
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To: jbe who wrote (550)12/8/1998 9:36:00 PM
From: ScatterShot  Read Replies (1) of 888
 
jbe, sorry about the typo on the earlier post; I should have said CO detector, not CO2. I'll have to go look up what "superannuated" means, but I can relate to your being a single female in the DC area and not wanting to buy something you can't use later. I live on the Gulf Coast and intend to buy a reasonably small generator in the event we have a hurricane outage of power. But I'll have it before y2k. It seems to me that providing electricity would be your biggest obstacle to being self sufficient thru y2k or a hurricane which is not out of the question for you. In my house I think I can cut the main circuit breakers which would prevent a lineman from being electrocuted off my genset and at the same time it would provide power to the house circuits. I guess if you don't have any frozen stuff and have all candles for light, wood for heat, and don't watch tv, you might not need electricity. But it seems to me that a lot of city apartment dwellers would need these things and might have a problem with a genset running on their patio. Where do you store all that gasoline in an apartment? These are problems I have to contend with but are much simpler to solve in a home/garage/yard scenario than what I remember about apartment living. BTW, been lurking y2k threads 6-8 months & definitely notice the posting activity picking up. Also I'm with you, let's leave god out of this.
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