Terribly concerned about the potential use of Weapons of Mass Destruction during Y2K transition. Any thoughts?

-- meandi (Viks2000@aol.com), October 18, 1999

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meandi:

MWD's may well be the least of Y2K worries for humanity.

Go buy more beans, rice, ammo...

Regards, Bob Mangus

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-- Robert Mangus (rmangus@hotmail.com), October 18, 1999.

I'm up to 300 rolls of T.P. and feeling very smug.....

-- cavscout (hunkerin'@my.bunker), October 18, 1999.

I second that! Today, I went to several of the big-name stores to see if anything is missing or in short supply.

I checked water containers, kerosene, kerosene heaters/stoves, propane tanks,propane heaters, sleeping bags, canned meats/fish, packaged candy(NOT counting all the Halloween stuff), canned nuts of all kinds, bread mix,$1000 and up generators, firelogs, bicycles(yes, I went into a bike shop, and they still are selling AT A SALE PRICE the last year's models of mountain bikes), Swiss army-style knives, long-johns, and on and on.

Guess what? NO shortage of any of these things. In fact, there is TONS of the stuff available this late.

That is sad.

I don't know what Y2K will bring, but as has been mentioned many times on these threads, we all buy insurance of all kinds, don't we? We don't whine when nothing happens , and say it was a total waste of money, do we?

If Y2K is a BITR only, we can still make use of the knick-knacks, and give away all the food to food banks. But I think we will have to wait until at least 3 months into 2000 before we do that.

-- profit_of_doom (doom@helltopay.ca), October 18, 1999.

If Y2K is a BITR only, we can still make use of the knick-knacks, and give away all the food to food banks. But I think we will have to wait until at least 3 months into 2000 before we do that.

3 months!? No, I'm holding on to my stuff. Life has taught me that there is always going to be one damn thing after another.

Preps are good....preps are very good.

-- Mabel Dodge (cynical@me.net), October 18, 1999.

I, too, share your concern. The world seems to be a very dangerous place right now. WMD and biological warfare, and cyber-terrorism... it's hard to be strategically prepared for all of it.

I think the best bet is to steer clear of target areas, particularly NY, DC and other likely metro targets during the transition.

-- Sara Nealy (keithn@aloha.net), October 18, 1999.