there's a brand new book out called How to Survive Y2K chaos in the city: a Preparedness adn Self-Reliance Handbook.

Author: Ken and Nancy Eirich; ISBN 0-9684293-0-0; $15.95 108 pgs, pbk.

Has seven pages discussing the history of Y2K.

From the back cover: Learn how to be prepared for a complete loss of all utilities; how to provide safe drinking water for your family; how to provide heat and light and how much fuel to store; how to avoid the ten most common mistakes in food storage; how to keep your food safe, what to store and how long it will last; how to garden for self-sufficiency; how to avoid making seriuos, potentially life-threatening mistakes; ealistic, common-sense solutions for the city dweller

Authors have a web site at www.y2kcauses.com

-- Karen Cook (browsercat@yerf.net), January 21, 1999

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Another classic with some cute urban tricks is Ragnar Benson's book Survival : Live Off the Land in the City and Country

-RC

-- runway cat (runway_cat@hotmail.com), January 21, 1999.

RC -

my copy arrived from amazon.com yesterday...good resource!

Arlin

-- Arlin H. Adams (ahadams@ix.netcom.com), January 22, 1999.

From their website:

>>Welcome to the y2kcauses.com site. Unfortunately, we have suffered a tragic, catastrophic hard drive fatality and are scrambling to catch up with much lost information. If things go as expected we should be up and running by the end of January, but if things go as per usual, we may not be up until the middle of February!

What a bunch of total idiots!!! this is the WORST kind of advertising for their book. Someone who ignores thousands of ads for backup software and *failed* miserably to take account of established, common failures expects to sell a book on "how to avoid making seriuos, potentially life-threatening mistakes" ??????

Their website is Toast!!!

-- Jay Kusnetz (jayrtfm@hotmail.com), January 22, 1999.

Karen -- thanks for the reference! Since we're in the city, this will be a really helpful resource. Makes me feel not so alone!

-- Libby Alexander (libbyalex@aol.com), January 22, 1999.