Just think some 10 year and 24 hours or so

Back in 1999 they believed that when 2000 hit that computers would up and die and all sort of other bad things. Well 10 years later and the internet is still working just fine so maybe it will stop in 2011 not likely

Nah !! they moved it up to 2012 good thing is ya can save the money ya waz goin to use Christmas shopping and take it with ya .

o, do you dwell on MISERY?

The Y2 items are now showing up in yard sales ie., wood burning stoves that were never installed.

And, all the generators that were sold got used for other purposes like power outages from downed lines and blown transformers.

I remember there was waiting list at all the local DIY and hardware stores for generators etc. People was going nuts over everthing, grocery stores couldn't keep supplies on the shelves. People was even stocking up on gas in cans, propane for grilles and so on. I was driving truck for Lowes at the time and stores had hundreds of calls everyday just about waiting list. When ask by people what I was going to do my reply would be this, light some candles, start a fire, and cuddle with the wife.

I have a friend that stocked up on gas masks and duct tape and all kinds of dried food, he still has it all. He said to me what are you going to do ,you are not prepared? My reply to him was WE will take a deep breath!!

The big thing is what happens on dec 21st 2012, all ancient calenders all end on that date, mayain calender, ancient chinese, and others all state that as the end. At least I can still have my B-day on dec 19th before all that happens, lol.

While Y2K did get many jittery enough to get them to prepare it was also unfortunate in some ways that nothing did happen. Now when told to prepare or stay prepared for anything they'll simply shrug it off and ignore the preparation warnings.

I think most that live in rural areas or grew up in one probably have a 2 week minimum food supply while the city folk may have a few days food at most.

Y2K wasn't without problems, much in great part to computer programmers and technicians that spent hour upon hour prior to the event.

Via forums and Instant Messenger I spent much of Y2K eve visiting with others from around the world. While there were no major issues, annoying ones such as taxi cab meter failure did occur. If memory serves correctly that occurred in Australia.

It is always a challenge to suddenly go to ones electric service panel and pull the off switch and leave it off for a few days to see if one is prepared.

A 2007 ice storm was the Y2K event for my area and most found they were not prepared at all. Electrical outages ranged from 4 days to 10 days as crews rebuilt lines. Phone outages ranged from no outages because AT&T has generators which power land lines, to no phones as cell towers here don't, nor does the cable television company which brings land line via cable.

As for me I might not thrive, but I can survive. Propane lantern, propane room heater, propane camp stove, inverter to power a 6 inch television, books, etc. Also a propane nurse tank to refill my own cylinders.

That is an interesting topic. I've watched several documentaries on the subject. Certainly are a lot of paralells. From ancient (Alien?) and religious scripture.

o,

Maybe I'm just naive, but I didn't make any special preparations for Y2K. One funny thing though, we have a publically accessible spring coming out of a hill near us. People go there and fill water bottles year-round. Just before Y2K, there was a long waiting line for water out of the spring. I don't know if it was people who are on city water who were just stocking extra water, or if it was people who thought that the spring would stop running on January 1, 2000.

Amusing to watch.

Tom in TN

i think the 2012 thing will happen long before the y2k thing and in my opinion these sort of things are a cycle of mother earth nothing man does or did will change it tree huggers blame polution when in turn its been happening for millions of years before mankind and will keep happening like the changes of the seasons would be nice to know when its going to happen so i can finish my bucket list lol

I worked with a guy who really got concerned with it. He had guns, ammo, food, water, and several hundred gallons of gas, all stored in his suburban home. He wrote a book about prepping, and even got a tatoo Y2KRD. I never thought much about it.

I personally am hoping if anything does happen, Zombie apocalypse ....That should be funnnn

I can't even find an estimate as to how much money was spent preparing for Y2K. I remember I was working at a large east coast medical facility at that time and was on duty through the midnight hour. Management personnel whom I had never seen or heard of were on hand "just in case". Federal Y2K money provided all sorts of supplies including food. Powerful generators had been installed and tested during the months leading up to Y2K. We did have thousands of patients so it was probably wise to be well prepared. Absolutely nothing happened. It was one of the quietest nights I ever had there. We heard later that 150 slot machines failed at a race track in Delaware and the US Naval Observatory clock displayed the time/date as Jan 1, 19100. In contrast, Italy did not spend a penney on Y2K. Their most serious problem afterward was a bell in a church tower that was tolling at the wrong time.

I prevented any Y2K hardships by purchasing a few cans of Spam. Figured if I was prepared for a power outage nothing would happen, and it worked. Spam is still on the shelf but now I"m afraid to open it.

We were at a neighbor"s New Year"s party. Her Dad was one of the worrywarts, for months had talked about digging a hand-pump well...didn"t get around to it. But did stock up on gasoline (filled all kinds of containers), duct tape, etc. He was at his daughter"s party, and as everyone else watched for the ball to drop on TV, I slipped out to the garage and pulled the main switch on the elec service, right at midnite.....Reaction was priceless- especially his.

I love it.............

It was 11 years ago, not 10.

We had a number of CNC machines at work. Customers demanded that we test each one on 1-1-2000 to be sure they'd run. Four of us went in, started them all, made one part, shut 'em off, drank coffee for a while and went home. I did no prep at home, already got enough stuff to get by for a few weeks, or more. And we all got a comp day off later for working on New Years Day! Not bad!

That's great!! Would have loved to see the look on those faces.

.......but, it was SO dark! Interesting whooping and hollering tho- his SonIL is about the same. Years later he was at our house during a power outage, and he wanted to run home to check if things were thawing in the freezer. Had to remind him that it"s just better to leave it shut. Sometimes I have fun with the "serious" side of me- just couldn"t resist!

That is funny!