George Shirley wrote:
Wayne Boatwright wrote:
On Tue 22 Apr 2008 02:02:48p, Nancy Young told us...

"Pete C." wrote

Nancy Young wrote:
(sigh) Wasn't the ridiculous panic about Y2K enough, now we need
this
fearmongering? People don't need much of a reason.
First off, the Y2K panic had reasonable underpinnings. I was
responsible
for some of that Y2K remediation testing and I can assure you that
there
was a lot of work done and if it had not been done successfully some of
those doom and gloom scenarios would have indeed been reality at least
for a few months.
And that's why I don't think it was reasonable. It was taken care of.

nancy

Yes, for the most part, and primarily within large organizations.
However, there was quite a scramble by small companies who realized in
the 11th hour that they might need to do something. It was almost too
late for some of them.

I had a big laugh at what one of my older sisters did prior to Y2K. Got
$20K in cash, bought a pistol (never fired one in her life), filled two
spare bedrooms with canned goods and bottled water. I think she's still
eating and drinking stuff she bought then. She was in a total panic that
she was going to starve to death.


How much toilet paper did she buy? People up here tend to panic-buy
milk, bread, and TP, I guess because they are all white (maybe it's just
a Scandinavian thing)

Bob