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Originally Posted by SSE 4 2SS
i laughed hysterically at a co-worker just prior to Y-2K. He and his father bought huge diesel generators and large fuel tanks to put at their houses... He said he was ready... I asked for what, he said at midnight on the 31st, all computers are going to shut down and life as we know it would end... He stocked up on food, fuel and ammunition... So I asked him which mid-night would this occur...he repeated the 31st... Ok, GMT, EST, CST, MST, PST, etc........ uhmm, well it will happen here..... whatever... so I guess there will be 24 individual catastrophies around the world... What good is the generator when diesel is no longer available....
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A similar thing happened in my experience, though not with somebody I knew. The house my mom currently lives in was owned by a couple and their three daughters, who decided - along with most of their relatives - that y2k was going to be the end of the world. So, they sold their house (to my parents), paid off all of their debt, and moved three families into one trailer home in order to be ready to die with no debt and no possessions.
Last I heard they were living in town in a house about half the size of the one they sold my mom, on no land (my mom's is 2.5 acres).
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