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

To: John Hunt who wrote (639)	12/26/1998 11:34:00 AM
From: Scripts	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 888

Hi John. I'm in the Toronto area and there is one dealer of Kerosene heaters in the city as far as I can tell. He should do a land rush business if all 5 million suddenly decide to buy a heater. I have been to Guelph and Kitchener and contacted a lamp dealer as far away as Kingston but none have kerosene heaters for the purpose of Ice Storms or the Y2K concern. There are kerosene heaters in TSG stores but they require an electric fan to blow the heat and therefor aren't much use for these purposes. I did not check the Home Hardware catalogue and if you go into most Toronto stores you will quickly see why. Lamps, as far as I can understand the situation, will use the 1K fuel or lamp oil. Both are cleaner burning than the kerosene of the past. I think all the lamps I have seen come with instructions that specify the fuel they can use.

To: John Hunt who wrote (639)	12/29/1998 1:19:00 PM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 888

Yet Another Ice-Storm Lesson During our 8 day outage, we used our woodstove during the day and then let it burn out at night. After about 3 days, the house temperature would rise to about 65 during the day and drop to a frosty 55 overnight. Realizing that windows account for about 25% of heat loss in a house, we added another layer to the windows using the inexpensive plastic storm window kits sold at hardware stores. After this, our daytime and nighttime temperatures were about 5 degrees higher. Just a suggestion to consider throwing a couple of these plastic storm window kits into your Y2K provisions. As far as we could tell, nobody else thought of this. :-)) John PS: Major storm headed for central U.S. New Years Eve biz.yahoo.com