TURN YOUR MEMORY TAPE BACK TO THE DAYS JUST BEFORE Y2K MIDNIGHT.
THESE ARE TRUE STORIES FROM THAT EVENT.
1. There were dire predictions prior to Y2K: Planes would fall out of the sky. Banks would not work. All computer and security systems would fail. All electric power would be lost. Anything electric was predicted to fail. Civil unrest was sure to follow on the heels of Y2K.
2. In the county where we live there was a para-military group that the sheriff and his deputies thought was just waiting to take over the county when mass outages would occur. Of course none of this happened. I knew a deputy that was in on the response team.
3. A very educated and rational couple and their children moved to an acreage in the country that was near a ready made supply of wood to power their wood heating and cook stoves. They had thousands of dollars invested in the stoves and survival gear. The folks were not nut jobs. I know the woman had an advanced degree and was as sure as her husband that we would be near the end of civilization.
4. Our son-in-law was the IT guru for the US Senate Credit Union in D.C. (Yes, they have their own credit union.) The ATMs were sure to lock up and our son-in-law had a safe full of money in the trunk of his car that he was prepared to deliver to our senators should they not be able to get money out of the ATMs. He worked 30 straight hours for a crisis that never happened.
5. Finally, (there are witnesses to this) about 9pm on New Year's Eve a man and some of his family members were out driving when they spotted a group of about a dozen teenagers walking harmlessly on the sidewalk. The driver was so keyed up about the Y2K predictions he exclaimed to all in the car, "There goes a band of undisciplined youth!"
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