Back in ‘99 there was the Y2K boogeyman that no one was completely certain would or would not affect us. I didn’t know and when I saw .gov hedging their bets with food and supplies stored away in secure bunkers I figured I might as well lay in some extra stuff too.
Well, as we all know, Y2K was a fizzle that a few people used to try to tell me that I had been silly. I didn’t think so. Over the intervening years I’ve used some of that stuff and replaced much of it. Since it doesn’t take a fortune-teller to see that this country is probably in for some pretty rough times I’ve kicked myself in the rear and expanded my stores.
I’m too old to try to run away if things do go bad so I’ll just have to sit here, try to look like I’m as poor as everyone else and be prepared to shoot anyone who tries to steal my stuff. That’s not a very good choice and I’d like to be able to just invite the ‘golden horde’ in for coffee and cake but even a cursory study of similar situations in other times and places leads me to believe I’d better be ready to protect myself and my family.
Thank the legions of computer programmers, both PC and mainframe, who spent many a day fixing the programs to not crash when the century changed. A someone who worked a whole year on banking programs I can attest that without that work all hell would have happened.
It is an example of how we can address a problem, if we recognize it in advance and actually plan for it. Not the stupid stuff our government(s) does today.