Monroeville expo-mart this week end.

-- FLAME AWAY (BLehman202@aol.com), August 28, 1999

Answers

Did you go? How was it?

-- Lane Core Jr. (elcore@sgi.net), August 29, 1999.

Anyone who missed that one can come to Cleveland for the one in Berea on the 18-19 of September.

Chuck

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), August 29, 1999.

I went and was there from 11:30 a.m. to about 4. (It was great to have some GI's to talk to.) I've been preparing for about a year and a half and still found stuff I needed. Got ammo cans, EcoFuel stove & fuel, books on edible weeds, some MRE's. One company there had clarified butter in jars, called "Ghee". Doesn't need refrigeration. I plan to order some. One of the vendors was selling a Dietz lantern for $15. They had used it once, so I bought it. There was a movie show with Hugh O'Brian, Dick Van Patten, & some other well knowns. It was about an hour. It didn't tell me anything I didn't already know. I did sit in on a very interesting seminar by a gentleman who tells you about identifying edible weeds in your backyard. I went home and found about 8 edible weeds in my backyard. One of them grows so fast that I can't keep up with it. I figure if people come into my yard to get the lettuce & other veggies I grow, then at least I'll have my weeds to eat. According to this gentleman, many of them are even more nutritious than the regular veggies we eat. I would advise anyone who has an opportunity to go to a Y2K expo before the end of the year to do so. No matter how long you have been preparing, you can always learn something. We are real lucky to have a radio talk show host here in Pittsburgh (Jim Quinn & Rose) who got the word out on this show. I think they also helped in planning some of it. And, no, I'm not Jim or Rose. They have a great site, www.warroom.com that I just heard them mention today gets 25,000 hits a day. Anyway, I hope this has given somebody an idea how the show went. I thought it was packed but that could have something to do with the fact that there was also a computer show going on in the Expo Mart at the same time.

-- cassie (healthy@nauticom.net), August 30, 1999.

I went very late on Sunday --4 to 5 pm.

There were still quite a few people there, although all of the seminar events were over. There were lots of people asking lots of questions, and I think I was the only one "panicking". I did pick up 60 more MREs from the Canadian company that came down from Montreal for the event. Like most Canadians, they're really nice and even helped me carry the stuff to my car.

I bought the Country Living Encyclopedia just in case and checked out all of the other booths. I think I will eventually get some freeze-dried foods for backup just in case, but first I have to buy more dry beans.

The water people had fairly high-priced alternatives, but they were at least pretty well informed.

The funniest thing I noticed was which booths were still active, and which ones were abandoned. The least busy guy was the financial planner who was offering wills. The most abandoned booth was the one for KDKA whose afternoon talk host The Honsman has been a consistent ridiculer of Doomers and Preppers. I did not see Quinn or Rose, but their booth was still active when I left.

It was not as large as I had hoped, but it did help me with SOME of my last minute preps.

Oh, the guys I am buying solar from were there and they seemed VERY busy. I'll have to ask them later about how it went for them.

-- nothere nothere (notherethere@hotmail.com), August 30, 1999.