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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 (749)	4/2/1999 1:32:00 PM
From: dclapp	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 888

maybe I'm a paranoid crank (and I say that seriously!), but I sense a orchestrated gov plan to "panic us gently." Personally, I have a propane-fueled 8.5kw Kohler generator, to be delivered in a few weeks. I'm still wrestling with "how big a propane tank"? but expect to veer on the high side -- at the very least, fuel won't get cheaper. I'll probably go for 300-500 gallons. I have no clue about "what will happen re electric utilities." Black-outs, rolling brown-outs, or simply months of "3rd world power" wouldn't surprise me. "Business as usual" <<would>> surprise me...but my neighborhood loses power a few times a year due to storms anyway. (I can rationalize everything, see?) And I just had a well drilled in my suburban back-yard. 130 feet to water; about $5K total cost. I'll get the water test back today and expect the well water to be far better than the noxious chlorine-treated Mississippi water that now flows from my tap. A bonus is that I'll never again have to worry about "lawn watering restrictions." :-) And I'm adding a family room with a 50,000 btu "heating" fireplace (via blowers, but I'll have electricity). Finally, I'll be buying a kit (about $150) to change my hot water furnace from natural gas (what I use now) to propane. Cheap insurance there. And I've been buying and storing food for weeks and weeks now. Food, I've discovered, is heavy!! As for predicting the future, I do know this: I will never have to buy rice again!! Thanks to all for the great posts... doug