Y2K... I never got it..
 

I was one of those people who saw no threat during Y2K. I just didn't get all the excitement over it. This time around is different though for a variety of reasons.

How many Y2K peppers did we have here. I am curious exactly what you saw as the biggest threat during that situation..

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Good morning.
Do you really have to make this much noise before coffee?
I'll get back to this, I know you're holding your breath.............

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what can I say.. I'm a morning person. I used to get up at 4.00 am for work.
By 7.00 am I would start calling family and friends to see what they were doing.. Gosh they were grumpy ..

I thought I waited until a decent hour this AM. Of course I guess that depends on where you are..

Speaking of coffeee do you have green beans in storage?

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i always thought that Y2K would have been
a perfect time for the NWO to impliment their globalist agenda

with all the fear-mongering leading up to new years eve
many of the world's people would have readily believed
a power grid shutdown due to computer malfunctions

shut down 90% of the world's power grids
have a few weeks of chaos and confusion
and then TPTB could have come forth like a knight in shining armor

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No green beans. Lotsa cans that'll last till the cows come home. Ask me how I know....go ahead....that's right, the Y2K stash taught me lots about what keeps and what was less than optimal.
City dwelling/water storage = bad.
Canned coffee = good long term.

We bought our first house in early '99. It was big and had a basement. My natural bent is to put some extra by, and Y2k was reasonable enough an issue to make haste.
I read from an IT guy somewhere that if system repairs were made on the wrong side of 6 months relative to the event, we'd have not had a very nice time of it. Guv/biz pumped multi millions into it.

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OK.. :111:

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makes sense.. I don't think the time was right yet though. I'm not sure how but I do think this ties into 2012 for spiritual reasons mostly.

Also if we watch the events of the last few years it would have taken more then a power grid off for a few weeks for the NWO to move in... I think people will be ripe for the picking by 2011-2012

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on a serious note... I thought canned coffee had expiration dates. I like roasting my own beans and read they will last years in mylar. Then you roast them fresh.. What type of coffee did you buy?

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I never got excited about Y2K, either.

I was in the software field and I worked on a bunch of old code, modernizing it and at the same time checking to ensure that the date fields (if any) were sound.

The only thing I gave a second thought to was the possibility that my car wouldn't start in the morning, but that wasn't a problem.

But this time, I *AM* actually worried and I'm prepping against high food prices, or worse.

For coffee, I have the freeze-dried Taster's Choice stuff--boxes and boxes of it. The date on the bottom says 2010, but I can't see how it would really go bad.

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Cheap kind. The new stuff with the plastic cans and plastic seal is not for me.....yet. I harvest sad, wayward cans from the local "used food" store.
(That's what we call Grocery Outlet and the like)
Ideally I would't drink much coffee. I've fought it like a quitting smoker. When I do quit for a time I lose lots of weight.
But.....
Something always happens- there's never enough time in a day- and the mad caffeine cycle starts all over again.

FWIW I got the green bean reference from the git-go. I remember reading some threads on the idea quite some time ago.

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No panic for me, but made good money certifying computer systems for Y2k.

When y2k finally rolled around, I was contracting for Enron, and the CIO forced all the staff to work through midnight and even had a tanker truck of diesel sitting outside.

We all thought they were nuts.

Of course 12:01 came and NOTHING happenned, just as we thought. We continued playing our computer games and surfing the net.

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Nah, things would only have gotten violent. Cut the power and the looting starts. Looters quickly turn into rioters. It would have been a really big mess. The NWO would rather we go along quietly.

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I prepped, but it was the normal for us to have a food storage, we had been iced in on top of our hill to many times, not to have a food storage! When Y2K came and went, I figured the good Lord was giving a lot of us a lesson for the "next time". I think the goooberment hyped a lot of this to 1.) either see how far we would go to prep 2.) to make a lot of people say "nothing happened in Y2K, and nothing is going to happen now" a sort of conditioning. I have a hard time with people who were around in the 1982 event, they tell me on we got through that one, we will get through this one. I recently called a friend that I have not spoken to for some time, she said she wont watch the news because it scares her to much, I asked if she is doing anything to prepare for bad times and she said she goes to the gym and works out. She still has a little food left over from Y2K, but doesn't think she needs to buy more because she has money in the bank, and it will get her through any tough times. A lot of people with that attitude!

For me Y2K was a good thing, it taught me how to prep and made this time easier!

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I was into preparedness long before Y2K, but I thought the whole Y2K thing was kind of ridiculous and embarassing, and I didn't do anything extra to prepare. In fact, I stayed completely out of the frenzy. My husband worked in the tech field, and I was close enough to the tech departments where I worked to know that most places were ready for it. I was also kind of sulky about the Y2K thing because I'm extremely annoyed at the idea that in a few short decades we've become a society that can't function without computers.

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Had nothing been done, there would have been some major problems. Mostly accounting and database systems. Anything that was based on a two digit date would have queried wrong.

Although I don't think it would have been the end of the world like some hyped it, preps to a certain degree was prudent.

I think we realized the problem early enough to fix it.

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I lived in a fairly remote village that sometimes got snowed in during Y2K, so was prepared with a couple of weeks of canned food, coal, propane and things like that anyway. I did store some water, just in case.

I certainly didn't feel the world was liable to end. Though I did think it might be possible that inconvenient things might happen in a patchy sort of way.

This now feels completely different to me.

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Agree totally. The unease I feel now in my gut I have only felt a few times before, during times of personal immediate danger.

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Hi Maxine

What do you mean by "This" feels different?

I haven't been on here in awhile....Is the a New Threat? or the same old one?

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Maddie, our hospital switched to electronic records.. No computers =DISATER to our patients!!!

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I personally never bought into the hype.
Didn't prep either. Now I prep due to the real threats we face.

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Nice to see you traderken.. You know I'm not sure what I am preparing for to be honest. Just this overwhelming sense that there is a need. I'm not a pack rat or saver by nature so this has been an uphill battle for me to store stuff.

I think the economy is spurring us all on but in the end it might be something different theses preps are needed for. It could even be as simple as helping us get through a long bout of unemployment..I suppose I'm just going on instinct that this is needed..

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We treated Y2K like a hurricane drill... just made sure we had food in the house and stuff to be comfy if the power went out for a few days, but we are usually like that anyway...

I was actually in New Orleans for NYE that year with my girlfriends. We couldn't decide what to do, so we stayed home and drank wine and then walked next door to Snake & Jake's. Ah, good times.....

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Hi Ken, nice to see you back.

I think what Tech Guy said is a good description. Except it is worse than being faced with a Grizzly or something, in some sense, as it is the long drawn out stress of being aware that things are crumbling, yet there is so little that can be done.

I feel that we are being swept along in one of those great tide changes of history, that peoples' personal lives and goals and strivings stand to be uprooted and snuffed out, on a major scale. It is hard to put words to it.

I most certainly did not feel anything of the sort over Y2K, or in the 80's either. I feel as if I am living under a shadow really, that we all are, but few have yet realized it. It is like the hawk is up there hovering to drop while the mice scurry about below most of them oblivious, or only a bit twitchy for reasons they can't fathom.

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Y2K? They FIXED the problem. It was over-hyped by some. But my employer (Intel) spent over $300 million to fix our software. The factories would have been a disaster.

I prepped because of Divine direction. And yes something did happen....911. How many of us saw it coming? How about the subsequent disasters: sunami, Katrina, banking crisis, gold rise, dollar crash?

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Yes, exactly, they 'fixed it'. My sense at the time was -probably very naively - that people - and those in authority - would cooperate and 'fix' things, at that time.

My gut feeling now is that 'they', these fools we supposedly elected, are 'fixing' a real rat's nest. If I felt this economic fiasco was an accident. Well, OK, bad, bad. But somehow we will muddle through, and in some ways good, get rid of a lot of greed and waste and over consumption.

It is all too obviously a 'game plan' that is very clear indeed in the EU, which is basically a fascist state imposed over sovereign countries and their national laws and borders and ways of life. Also all the INSANE levels of 'immigration' in Europe, and the failure to do anything about illegal immigrants.

Once Joe and Jill 6 pack can no longer ignore what is afoot, as their pension schemes, and savings for their kids' education evaporate, and they get laid off and repossessed and so on. Hmmm? And we are just about there.

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I was working in a large clinic just before Y2K. We'd become Y2K-compliant by 1998. Of course, shortly after we almost had a crisis on our hands when the clinic system decided to change over to all electronic records. In that too-common disconnect between programmers and clients, the software developer planned on how much space we'd need going forward from the start date of our using the software, and the clinic immediately tried to download 5 years' of old records onto the servers, crashing them completely. Lol! Who needs Y2K? They never did go completely to electronic records because the doctors had offices and computers on the 6th floor and the exam rooms were on the second floor. The doctors wanted quick access to patient records, even if they were the unofficial "shadow" records.

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I was one of them. I was not convinced that the problem would materialize as many said it would, but I could not take the chance. We had food, guns, supplies, and since we lived in the city, we "escaped" to the hills for a few days to see what would happen.

I tuned into media in Australia and New Zealand on the 31st, and as midnight marched around the world, I was convinced by 00:05 Perth Time that nothing of significance was going to occur.

Today, what we see, is far, far different. The threat is real, not theoretical. Economic disaster has occurred for far less in the past (the "Great" Depression" being one example). Substantial, possibly catastrophic disruption of transportation and utility networks will ensue, only this time due to a lack of credit and later social disruption (riots, general strike, etc.).

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i never got into the y2k thing either. I had a buddy that dug a water well, stocked food, cash, etc. I thought he was falling off the deep end. I wonder how many people view me (all of us as well) as the weirdo now.

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Who cares if all the world's computers didn't crash.
Y2K was still very significant. Hell, even Obama has refered to this decade as the "lost decade".

Let's see....since the year 2000, what's happened:

TWO BUBBLE crashes in USA.
Nearing global economic/finiancial systemic failure.
9-11/ "War on Terror" begins.
Planet reached/confirmed PEAK OIL Theory.
Climate definately in serious flux (human-caused or not is irrelevant)

Should I continue?

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I didn't prep, working in IT I knew it was all a bit of a carry on. Now I realise it was just one of a seemingly endless list of false flags inducing mass hysteria. Still made some good money auditing peoples systems for compliance.

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I did pretty well selling silver eagles on ebay in the months before y2k

Wish i woulda kept them now...:banghead:

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I did some basic prepping during Y2k - I worked for over a year updating banking systems in preparation - lots of commmitees and discussions 24x7 it seemed... so I was all consumed with it. That said - we were told the infrastructure could melt down power grid - phones - internet ect - it was theoretically possible. Ths woudl in turn create riots/runs on banks ect..of course the ole nuke blastoff from soviet era bunkers whos computers could amlfunction and liftoff hehe. Who knows without the checks and upgrades.

I think if you did not do some basic prepping for y2k you wern't totally paying attention to it.

I bought a new handgun/small amount of ammo - gold and some food. Much much lighter than everything I have done this time around.

Too bad you did not get caught up in the hype - you coulda had $250-300 gold in yer pockets!!!