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Technology Stocks : Y2K (Year 2000) Personal Contingency Planning -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Mansfield who wrote (473)	9/27/1998 5:59:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 888

'Suppose conditions are extreme and you are not able to return home for a while. Shelter, communication, clothing, tools and possibly cooking items will be needed. If your home remains intact, but power is unavailable, alternate sources for warmth and cooking would need to be used. The General Supplies list is built on the basis of two adults, two teenagers and two dogs for nine weeks. This is only a guideline, alter the list to suit personal needs and family members. HOLY COW!! I hear the yelping at the list's length already! Many of these things you will have on hand and they need not be duplicated. The best way to prepare for potentially rough times is to take this test: Assume there is no electricity for the purpose of effective planning. How must you alter your routine? What would you need to get through each day's activities? Do you have the proper equipment? Are your appliances all electric? If, after the initial crisis has passed - maybe a week to 10 days - power has returned, GREAT! But what if it hasn't... This is not being pessimistic, only prepared. For example, if you purchase a grain grinder, make certain it can be converted to manual operation if your unit is an electric model. If you can't use the microwave and only frozen, nukable dinners have been purchased, effective planning is already shot in the foot. Never mind the fact with no electricity foods will be thawed and unusable in approximately 3 days. Should half of your stored foods be canned and there is no manual can opener, access would be difficult. Do a mental walk-through of a typical day. Imagine waking to the clock radio. Does it run on batteries? You have completed your day's ablutions. Did you use an electric razor, curling iron, blow dryer? Did you need a lighted make-up mirror or drink a cup of drip-brewed coffee? Did you use a space heater to ward off the morning chill or a heat lamp? Don't forget to factor in time to heat your bathing water! For breakfast, did you warm up toaster pastries in the toaster? Boil tea water on the stove? Electrically juice vegetables? Perhaps you flipped on the stereo to catch the morning news. Are you stocked up on batteries? Do you have a solar or battery-powered radio? Next on the day's agenda is a little house cleaning. Do you have adequate disinfectant? Germs will be rampant with broken sewer mains. The vacuum cleaner won't run; do you have a decent broom, mop and pail? Practice composting. It makes one less reliant on the garbage disposal and feeds a sprouting garden. Will you survive without the Internet? Did you make a hard copy of every important file on your hard disk? Let's hope the only copy of your address book is NOT kept in cyberspace. Don't plan on calling Aunt Nell with your cell phone. Your regular phone, should it be working, will be useless with call-clogged phone lines. A visit to Aunt Nell is probably not feasible either with inoperable traffic lights. How long will your gasoline or petrol last? This is an excellent reason to have a dependable bicycle. This scenario is enough to set your imagination in motion. Continue visualizing the rest of your day and cooking the evening meal. Afterwards, what do you do for entertainment? In winter, your daylight may be gone by 5 PM. Activities will need to be something other than watching TV or playing video games. Remember the good ole days of books, talking with your neighbor and playing Monopoly? It's back to basics time! millennium-ark.net