Time is getting short now & every dollar counts so it maybe worthwhile to take a moment to remind yourself of exactly what TEOTWAWKI stands for.

It doesn't mean the end of the world.Just the possibility that the way we live to today may be changed in a significant manner.

To keep focused on essential preps, it may be useful to imagine yourself one of the early settlers taking a single wagon into the great unknown.What did they think was essential to pack?

-- Chris (griffen@globalnet.co.uk), July 31, 1999

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Beautiful imagery there, Chris.

I still have the cherry highboy dresser that my great grandma drug over the Cumberland trail in a covered wagon, as well as the oil lamp from their unsuccessful homesteading stint in Wyoming in the teens. I'd hope to bring them with me, at least in my heart... to remind me that I carry survivors' blood in my veins. Like them, I dream of the future for the young...

-- flora (***@__._), July 31, 1999.

The old wagon trains were lead by pompous, unwanted land grabbers who were under constant attack from the natives (pollys) who don't like it when a group of conceited, foreigners invade, trespass, and assume that they hold the ideal that the entire world should follow.

Your right, that wagon tain analogy does work well in regards to y2k.

-- ('@q.+), July 31, 1999.

Yes, like y2k itself, which will "roll westward" across the US on 2000/01/01. Juggernaut ?

-- Vronsky (vronsky@anna.com), July 31, 1999.

If you live in a major city, and the power goes out and stays out, it may be the end of the world for YOU. If you live in the suburbs, and have prepared but your neighbors have not, it may be the end of the world for YOU.

Nobody knows what is going to happen. But taking the "life goes on"/"we will muddle through" approach is naive. And possibly fatal.

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.com), August 01, 1999.

No, not across the USA, Vronsky, across the *world*.

Or was that Wrongsky? :^)))

-- Nicola Larosa (n.larosa@mclink.it), August 02, 1999.

I'm perplexed by the responses to this thread.

Granted, past confessions have shown a preponderance for sci fi buffs and forward thinkers on this forum. Am I the only one that resonates with this vision from the past?

Today's post about the floods of Galveston brought back to mind tales I'd heard from that branch of my family. I got to thinking of the several people I know that can trace their lineage to the 12 tribes of Israel, and those around me that were suddenly sent to internment camps during the war.

Does the fact it was posted on the weekend have any bearing to the responses, or have we all forgotten about the rough spots of our forebearers? Do you think it would have played better on the prep forum?

-- flora (***@__._), August 05, 1999.