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To: Rambi who wrote (43799)	12/22/1999 1:43:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 71178

I bought four cases of bottled water, 20 rolls of toilet paper, and several six-packs of canned soup, canned chili, and canned pasta. Also several boxes of crackers, and a couple of big jars of peanut butter. Extra food for maybe four days, a week if we stretch it, not counting what's in the freezer already. I would have bought more, but Chris is really giving me a hard time, so this was a compromise. Also a big case of candles from Costco, and lots of extra batteries. Stuff we will use eventually, anyway. Extra large bags of cat food and dog food. Suggestions I've heard or read - clean the bathtub, and fill it with water to use to flush the toilet. Of course, you can use the pool for that. Make sure that you have charcoal for the barbecue grill, but don't cook inside, due to carbon monoxide. Keep your gas tanks for your car full. Get a battery operated radio. Extra refills on necessary prescriptions. Go ahead and lay in some extra cash in case you can't use plastic. I am trying to plan as if it were a blizzard. Guess it wouldn't hurt to get extra books from the library, you can sit by the windows and read. I nixed the generator, you have to keep lots and lots of fuel and that didn't seem safe to me. But I just found out that a diesel generator will burn fuel oil, which our furnace uses, but won't use without electricity, so I could have bought a diesel generator. Someone told me yesterday that the only difference between diesel and fuel oil is the color of the dye and the cost. Not sure if that's true. But we've got a fireplace, and I've laid in a cord of wood, so I don't think we really need a generator. For your continued entertainment, from the DUH-2000 web site: Colonel-General Vladimir Yakovlev, head of the Strategic Rocket Forces, when asked whether Russia and the United States could guarantee there would be no erroneous missile launches as January 1, 2000 began: "I can answer that there is such a guarantee from Russia. ... Because today the command system which exists for the intercontinental ballistic missiles of the Russian Federation is impossible to copy and impregnable for any kind of intrusion into its algorithm." Translation: "impossible to copy" = "we can't find the source code"; "impregnable for any kind of intrusion" = "no one remembers how to run the system anymore". Quoted on Yahoo News-Reuters Russia Declares Its Nuclear Arms Y2K-Proof December 8, 1999