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Y2K.... hahaha doom and gloom...

We were getting all kinds of information and I was going to seminars, I was listening to experts in preparedness for all sorts of fantastical scenarios were being bandied about. And yes to cod cutters were very busy. I was working for a company that was concerned.

About halfway through a bunch of this BS, I made my own plan. I bought coffee and bourbon. I figured there is nothing that I couldn’t trade for coffee and bourbon. And I also knew in the back of my mind that every bit of critical infrastructure in this country all had manual backup processes. From electrical substations to railroad tracks, dams, nuclear reactors. Whatever.

There was always a manual backup. Some wheel to turn, or switch to throw... it wasn’t all computerized down to the inth degree... that didn’t exist in 1999.

I don’t know about now but it was farcical in 1999... and I drank coffee and bourbon for years afterwards...


8 posted on 03/08/2019 7:15:47 PM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Clutch Martin

I bought extra Too Ramen, a few cases of bottled water and Diet Cokes, Vodka, Balvenie, a bunch more wine, another water filter, extra kit supplies for medical.

Most of which I was going to purchase anyway and elements of went into another G.O.O.D bag I had planned on building and hadn’t gotten around to yet...


17 posted on 03/08/2019 7:33:44 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: Clutch Martin
About halfway through a bunch of this BS, I made my own plan. I bought coffee and bourbon.

Puppy uppers and doggie downers.

Better living through chemistry.

CHEERS!

37 posted on 03/08/2019 8:50:31 PM PST by lightman (Byzantine Troparia: The "praise choruses" of antiquity.)
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To: Clutch Martin
every bit of critical infrastructure in this country all had manual backup processes

Yeah but it is that restore that gets you

60 posted on 03/09/2019 2:36:49 AM PST by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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