Hi,

Rick, how are you preparing yourself and your family for the Y2K problem. I know there are standard answers for contingency plans at the corporate level, but what are you doing for your family?

Gil Vidals

-- Anonymous, August 17, 1998

Answers

I have a policy of avoiding discussions on my personal preparations. There's a variety of reasons, but primarily because personal preparedness is not the focus of my efforts - the focus of my efforts is to do what I can to make sure that personal preparedness is unecessary. Let's face it: 99.9% of the population on the planet will make no kind of advance preparations, so my energies are better targeted to facilitating remediation and contingency planning in the industry I'm most familiar with.

That being said, I'm also not an expert on personal preparedness for a short or long term loss of electricity. There are many people more conversant this topic than myself, and you may wish to start at The Cassandra Project website.

-- Anonymous, August 18, 1998

Hello to all: Rick's response to the question regarding his personal preparations was well taken. As he is not an expert in the field. I, for one, appreciate the candor of that answer. We, at Conniry's Wilderness School in San Diego, are better equipped to help you in that area. If you have decided from all the chat that there is a distinct probablity of disruption in the year 2000, or before, I encourage you to see our web page: http://members.home.net/shadow-scout/ As far as I know, we are the only wilderness school offering individual preparedness workshops and seminars. Contact us for further information as to how we can help you, and your community. Rick, perhaps you would be kind enough to add us to your links. We are also linked to Cassandra but they do not offer hands-on training courses - we do. Thanks Rick for your diligent work.

-- Anonymous, August 18, 1998

Rick was quite prudent in his answer, and I salute his efforts to mitigate possible disaster. For each of you out there who might be involved actively in your own preparedness, might I suggest you take Rick's lead and refuse to discuss the specifics of your preparations. I have taught Disaster Preparedness seminars for years (not just y2k), and have realized the too many people know too much about my personal assets. Where do you think they are going to turn if the situation gets truly desperate? Of course, I would never turn away friends or relatives, but where do you draw the line? To what degree are you able and willing to give to others? This is a question I ask all in my seminars, for it will be something which needs to be addressed sooner or later by every one of us. Keep your heart open, but know when to close the door.

-- Anonymous, September 25, 1998