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

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (732)	3/18/1999 11:08:00 AM
From: flatsville	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 888

Both are excellent Cheryl. (Although those y2kwomen can keep their waxed rutabagas all for themselves!) I'm at that odd point in preparation where basics have been purchased (increasing the quantity continues) but parts and maintainance related supplies must be filled. It causes me to visit large home improvement and farm stores and go "Duh?" even though I'm standing there with list in hand. This stems from having rehabbed two houses and understanding how the best laid plans go awry when missing the wrong tool, part or expensive chemical item. So what exactly do you buy given various scenarios? Got me... And bear in mind we are taking a very low-tech approach to this so as not to draw attention to ourselves. No big honkin' noisy genset for us to cause the utility company to come down on our case. (IMHO should the gird go down and homeowners fire up their gensets and a few improperly connected gensets fry a few linemen, that will be then end of genset operation for quite a few people. I think utility lineman may become an even more dangerous occupation in the year ahead.) Hopefully this thread will get more active again and as we get down to the wire we can help each other close the gaps with ideas. "flatsville"

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (732)	3/22/1999 3:26:00 PM
From: Lynn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 888

Thank you for the URL's. One _very_ necessary item for many people I did not see on the list (first URL) is pet food and, for people who have cats, kitty litter. While preparing for the family humans, it can be awfully easy to overlook the family pet, who will not understand what's going on and might not take very well to a radically changed diet [what the humans are eating] due to an oversight. My pet normally has his yearly physical and necessary injections in the fall. For people who normally go January-June, you might want to talk to you vet and find out if changing your schedule and getting your pet's shots up to date before Y2K starts is a good idea. Preparedness for my pet is on my mind right now because I just hit a great sale for his brand of kitty liter Saturday. It was a tad bit difficult explaining that no, I do not raise cats, no, I just have one pet, to the people in front and behind me in the check-out line. I am finding stock piling my pet's food a bit more tricky. He is on a special diet since he is prone to tarter build up (despite only eating dry food) and the food he eats has a shelf life stamped on it. I called the company that manufacturers it about storage ideas and they do not recommend this. This means I shall not feel comfortable stock piling his food until September. Lynn