Useful Y2K gear

[longbow]

Post pictures of your useful Y2K gear.

Have fun with this thread........................




If I recall, this was my best purchase and it remains ready for me till this day.

It is a pack of Y2K matches.

What do you still have that is useful!

 

[longbow]

I was trying to be funny when I found something from the last century..........................

Tough group today. Post something funny if you have it........

 

[Tydeeh22]

no pictures, but we actually recently ran out of the little cans of propane we had stocked up for the day all electronics died.

 

[jeremy]

I burnt through my Y2K Preps by 02 Jan 2000...

I sobered up around 05 Jan 2000....

 

[Iroquois]

Still have most of mine...3 Alice packs butane stove etc....ate the MREs, cylume sticks are dead.
Haven't thrown any useful item away...bought more instead.

 

[churchmouse]

We just loaded up on crown royal and ice, mag'd up everything we owned at the time and went for broke. 12:01 came and went and by 12:30 we were disappointed as everything still worked. Finished the crown off and went to bed.

 

[woowoo2]

Spent the evening at the emergency management center in Frankfort Ky.
Had a Television truck with four cameras ready to go live to the entire state of KY when poo hit the fan.
Drove home around 4am, not a soul on the roads.

 

[churchmouse]

Spent the evening at the emergency management center in Frankfort Ky.
Had a Television truck with four cameras ready to go live to the entire state of KY when poo hit the fan.
Drove home around 4am, not a soul on the roads.

Interesting how if everything was going to shut down ie. power grids, computers etc how you were going to broadcast, curious.

WE were in full anticipation of the flying poo hitting the rotating oscillator. No poo...................

 

[Colts]

We just loaded up on crown royal and ice, mag'd up everything we owned at the time and went for broke. 12:01 came and went and by 12:30 we were disappointed as everything still worked. Finished the crown off and went to bed.

Pretty much, how I remember it . . .

 

[Kmcinnes]

It's funny.....I was twenty something and work for a newspaper and was sent out to take photos of people emptying the store shelves and just laughed about it. I was not prepared then at all! It's funny how life changes you in 12 years and even more so when you have a family of your own to protect!

 

[woowoo2]

Interesting how if everything was going to shut down ie. power grids, computers etc how you were going to broadcast, curious.

My signal was to go out on Kentucky's KEWS system.
Battery backed microwave relays throughout the state.
Them delivered to fifteen generator backed transmitters.

I also had a satellite path out if I needed it.

 

[longbow]

Anyone remember the back up stop signs at all the stop lights in Fishers?

 

[roisigns]

I bot 25 shotgun shells & a 5 gallon plastic jug for water. I think I still have them both!

I also filled my bathtub at 11:45 p.

 

[churchmouse]

My signal was to go out on Kentucky's KEWS system.
Battery backed microwave relays throughout the state.
Them delivered to fifteen generator backed transmitters.

I also had a satellite path out if I needed it.

Figured you guys had something. Just curious what. Next thing was who could watch this broadcast once you guys did your jobs. Might be a few preppers with gennys.

 

[Blackhawk2001]

I've still got the shotgun I bought. We spent the evening in the Marion County EMA EOC; went home shortly before 0200, when it was evident all would be well.

 

[aka-kesler]

Was preppin wayyy before Y2K... didnt buy a thing. Just sat and watched the world turn... now going back to the prep life in some ways.. Just dont trust the economy...

 

[Lex Concord]

Figured you guys had something. Just curious what. Next thing was who could watch this broadcast once you guys did your jobs. Might be a few preppers with gennys.

You have to remember, elec. wasn't the only concern.

I know a lot of people like to make fun of the Y2K hype...the fact is, the concerns, at their root, were legit. The thing is, the concerns were, with very few exceptions, addressed before they could become a problem. I witnessed (and corrected) a Y2K-related failure in a production system in '98.

Although I was pretty confident that the private sector had its ducks in a row, I didn't trust the gov't to have been as diligent (I know, that is so unlike me).

Ask anybody who knows COBOL....the late '90s were good years

EDIT: BTW....still have a Coleman dual fuel camp stove that I bought in '99 "just in case"...still have it for that very reason...if nothing else, Y2K served as a good wake up for some (myself included) that the systems we tend to rely upon daily are not so bulletproof as many would like us to believe...Y2K awoke the prepper within.

 

[giovani]

I still have a Booklet that I picked up at the scotts grocery store checkout titled "y2k a guide to prepare yourself".

 

[asipes]

Ask anybody who knows COBOL....the late '90s were good years

True statement right there!

 

[spencer rifle]

Still have the AR7 and P95DC and PC9 I got then. We had a lot of backpacking and camping stuff anyway. Got some extra fuel the month before, and made sure I knew where the freeze-dried food was, since we used it so rarely. Filled the bathtubs.