Seems like the polly/doomer wars are distracting us from the real issues, how to prep. I don't know if Y2k will be a BITR, or Infomagic time, who could?

Let's face it, you don't have to have light all night long, you don't have to have TV, "puters, and the VCR. You do have to have water, 1 week without and you've been dead for 2. days. If Y2k goes bad, you will be working from dawn to dark to stay alive.

There are a lot of things you can do without, but let's think about the basics for the 6 months before the garden comes in. I'm not talking about gensets or hybred wind/solar sys. What do you need to live if Y2k goes bad? What are the basics? What will keep you and yours alive to make a better day?

-- CT (ct@no.yr), July 29, 1999

Answers

Sounds like a perfect topic for the preparations forum.

Regards,

-- Mr. Decker (kcdecker@worldnet.att.net), July 29, 1999.

It has been 1 year this week since I started taking Y2K seriously. This time last year my plan to to get 10 sacks of grain, a grain grinder, a bucket and rope for my well, some oil lamps form walmart, and 100 pounds of salt and sugar. Since that time, I have gotten chickens, a Jersey cow. (I live in a grain growing belt.) I now have a blacksmith forge set up, lots of hand tools including several cross cut saws, one and two man, and a large stack of wood. I have aladdin and petromax lamps. The list goes on. We are canning like crazy this year, trying to put up two years worth of everything. Have collected several thousand canning lids. I have not talked my wife into us buying a wood cook stove yet. If the power grid went down now and stayed down, we would do better than most, and we would have no problem getting other people to do our laundry, we are the only ones in the neighborhood with milk and eggs and a grain grinder (2 grinders). In addition to the basic needs, we have a library of several thousand books. Although our property has a mortgage, our fall back property does not have a mortgage, and it is much larger with a larger house only 8 miles away. What am I missing, what should I still do?

-- chicken farmer (chicken-farmer@ y2k.farm), July 29, 1999.

Excuse me...but what is "infomagic". I thought I was doing well knowing what BITR, GI and Polly meant.

-- Mabel Dodge (cynical@me.net), July 29, 1999.

Mable,

Infomagic is an anonomous guy/gal that thinks things will go kindda Mad Max, call him/her a supper doomer.

-- CT (ct@no.yr), July 29, 1999.

Chicken Farmer,

If you are a long distance from a big city, you look good. Maybe some barter goods if you can afford them? What about your nieghbors?

-- CT (ct@no.yr), July 29, 1999.

Decker,

Getting a compliment fron you is like bitting into a shit sandwich, looks good on the outside, tastes like hell , fuck off.

Regards.

-- CT (ct@no.yr), July 30, 1999.

My but that response certainly had everything to do with y2k and nothing with personal attacks.

what was that in the forum posting guidelines? something about profane/obscene language being deleted? please refrain from flaming?

or the biggy if you have nothing of value to add to the discussion, lurk don't post

-- what kind (ofh@ndle.isCT?), July 30, 1999.

What kind,

I have much experiance with Decker, Cpr, Poole and that kind., if you are a newby here, sorry. If you are one of the Trolls/disrupters, same to you, No offence intended, except to the butt heads afore mentioned.

-- CT (ct@no.yr), July 30, 1999.

NOW THAT'S FUNNY!

Let's get the forum back on track! HA! On what track? The shit sandwich track?

HOLY COW!

I gotta go pee.

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), July 30, 1999.

Uncle DoDa,

I will not have a discusion with a Troll, a waste of time. I like to slap trolls and yes they are like a shit sandwich, you got a problem with that? Do you have anything to add to the subject ( how to prep ) or are you just looking for some attention.

-- CT (ct@no.yr), July 30, 1999.

If you can't see the bust a gut humor in a guy calling for on track discussion lashing out with a shit sandwich at the earliest opportunity....

Here's a prep hint for you, don't eat your shit sandwich like an Oreo, it doesn't have the same effect.

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), July 30, 1999.

hurray for Uncle! CT, are you and Ray brothers by chance? or maybe brother/cousins?

Deedah, you are funnier than any shit sandwich I have ever seen.

-- CT (M@kes.nosense), July 30, 1999.

Uncle Deedah,

After some thought, you were absolutly correct, I fell into the same mindset that brings on the doomer/polly wars. The pollys have pissed me off so many times that the simple fact that decker posted set me off. Y2k has me scared, not what it can do to me, but what may happen to others, sorry. Let's get back to preping

-- CT (ct@no.yr), July 30, 1999.

Lest we forget who really started it, Decker has no need of a prep forumn, Right Decker? Or were you just agitating?

Regards

-- CT called it (right@ntidecker.com), July 30, 1999.

CT called it,

No, I went off with out excuse, Decker didn't do anything, beside posting to this thread. What pisses me off is I fell into the same anti polly thing that I hate the most, If I took my own addvice I wouldn't have responded to him at all.

Time for bed, I have tomorrow off and I'm going camping.

Thanx for the thought,

-- CT (ct@no.yr), July 30, 1999.

Full moon getting to you guys. The Moon, Mercury (in retrograde), Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune ARE ALL Squaring or Opposing each other in Fixed Signs. Considering Mars being in Scorpio, Asserting in a War Loving sign, you guys aren't doing too bad under the circumstances.

-- Feller (feller@wanna.help), July 30, 1999.

Can we have another truce??? <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), July 30, 1999.

I'd like to give CT a full moon.

-- Have a (gander@this.boy), July 30, 1999.

GEE, folks. Refreshing to see you stray, and recover. NICE JOB! Now, can we ignore gander and continue where we left off?

Chuck

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), July 30, 1999.

For the record, when Big Dog began the "prep" forum, I strongly supported the idea. It makes sense to have a forum for people who are convinced Y2K will have a signficant impact and want to talk straight "preps." You suggest Y2K will require one to work "from dawn to dark to stay alive." Why not try posting there and see if you garner a more favorable response. Since I don't visit the "prep" forum, you will not have to worry about the Turret's Syndrome induced by my name (or others.)

As for irony, this thread is a keeper. I am still chuckling.

Regards,

-- Mr. Decker (kcdecker@worldnet.att.net), July 30, 1999.

Tourette's. Maybe we can play scrabble after all.

-- Carlos (riffraff1@cybertime.net), July 31, 1999.

Uncle, that's hysterical!

You funnie fella.

One more time...

This forum is intended for people who are concerned about the impact of the Y2000 problem on their personal lives, and who want to discuss various fallback contingency plans with other like-minded people. ...

Got concerns?

We've got the Forum.

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), July 31, 1999.

The best of plans go awry. We're bummed tonight. We had a great neighborly cultivation going for Y2K, getting the community thing organized a bit, and the family we were counting on next door -- the husband died very unexpectedly, after delivering his wife's baby girl at home, also unexpectedly. So all of a sudden we have a young mother with 2 little boys and a baby girl and the whole community in shocked grief. The just-deceased man was pivotal to neighborliness. *banging heads against wall* We brought the family dinner tonight ...

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), July 31, 1999.