While Y2K did get many jittery enough to get them to prepare it was also unfortunate in some ways that nothing did happen. Now when told to prepare or stay prepared for anything they'll simply shrug it off and ignore the preparation warnings.
I think most that live in rural areas or grew up in one probably have a 2 week minimum food supply while the city folk may have a few days food at most.
Y2K wasn't without problems, much in great part to computer programmers and technicians that spent hour upon hour prior to the event.
Via forums and Instant Messenger I spent much of Y2K eve visiting with others from around the world. While there were no major issues, annoying ones such as taxi cab meter failure did occur. If memory serves correctly that occurred in Australia.
It is always a challenge to suddenly go to ones electric service panel and pull the off switch and leave it off for a few days to see if one is prepared.
A 2007 ice storm was the Y2K event for my area and most found they were not prepared at all. Electrical outages ranged from 4 days to 10 days as crews rebuilt lines. Phone outages ranged from no outages because AT&T has generators which power land lines, to no phones as cell towers here don't, nor does the cable television company which brings land line via cable.
As for me I might not thrive, but I can survive. Propane lantern, propane room heater, propane camp stove, inverter to power a 6 inch television, books, etc. Also a propane nurse tank to refill my own cylinders.
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