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To: C.K. Houston who wrote (39738)	8/29/1999 3:04:00 AM
From: d:oug	Respond to of 116826

(off topic) G Cheryl, I C U 2 B Y2K AOK Lets try another approach for those hard core not to worry type. Focus on food and drink items, and identify which ones you would stock up on if you knew there would be a shortage after 1/1/00, for say 2 weeks to 2 months long. Ok to assume electricity and drinkable water available. Got a problem here Cheryl, my mind freezes up when I'am asked to switch from a life style where money is only needed to obtain those basics of living like food, and then picture myself in a coonskin hat like a long ago person in the woods looking for berries and mushrooms and maybe a rifle to obtain a wabbit. Wait, I know a better approach, as in recent news reports of the terrible wars happening in Europe, and when the fighting and bombing stopped we could see people living in a setting where availability to food was not there. So imagine the same here after 1/1/00 without the war aspect, and without the Red Cross and other relief agencies helping. December first I'am going to start stocking up on can goods like beans and that milk you store at room temperature. Must be secret when I do this else in worst case hungry people will want me to share, and if I say no, then not nice stuff will happen. I do know one thing, those computers that are needed in the sequence of events to get food from the starting point to the food markets, if there are enough having y2k problems, then a smaller and slower supply of food will arrive for a long period of time as in months before the computers are fixed. Supply and demand of this sort will cause the price of food to go much higher, especially if the government cannot regulate prices and prevent some from obtaining highway robbery prices. Sounds like a y2k inflation for sure for food. doug

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (39738)	8/29/1999 9:32:00 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116826

<<I don't know about you guys, but a 65% successful compliance rate for FOOD SUPPLY sector by year-end does not give me warm fuzzies. And this is the optimistic news. Besides gold. Stock up on food.>> Cheryl Thanks, great post! I've had the dehydrater(sp?) running very hard for a long time now, & I'm not letting up.