Watched the trigger effect last night. Well done movie on what would happen in a prolonged outage. Y2k could make that movie seem polly. Nobody wants this to happen, but the reality is it could very well happen. Watch the movie and learn from it. It is kind of scary watching it with major y2k dates looming so soon. But dont fear. Watch it,and use it as a senario guide to work out in advance. Dont wait until event day to start working out the contingency planning. Y2k can make this happen big time. If you cant get satisfactory community security arrangement developed, so you feel a measure of safety should the utilities fail, then you need to call a friend in the rurual country-side and ask if you can weather the rollover as far away from a populated area as possible. If power and telecom is shut down nationwide it will become a security hazard almost immediately for your family to remain in the city.

Resources will be in short supply real quick. Law enforcement and military would get overwelmed immediately. Since they are playing that there will be no problems, most families are going to freak when it dawns on them that they were lied to big time about y2k by the Govt and they will be scared, angry and most difficult to deal with. They will be paniced when they realize that there survival is now at stake. They will be angry that the Govt lied to them, and scared and terified that they didnt heed the warnings of their G.I. relatives and friends to seriously prepare. At this time if you decided to stay gather up all your nieghbors and pray with them first. Then work out a 24hr 4x4 watch system, water system. waste disposal system. and a food sharing system, that will help everyone to calmly maintain there cool knowing that you are all in it together and working through it together. We dwell in safety by our nieghbor and also with his and her's help.

-- y2k aware mike (y2k aware mike @ conservation .com), August 23, 1999

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Mike: "Panic in year zero" was a cool movie, but what do movies have to do with reality? What about "Plan 9 from outerspace"?

-- Capt Dennis (capden@hotmail.com), August 23, 1999.

I watched Planet Of The Apes" last night and became very scared. This could happen. Watch the movie and learn from it. But dont fear. Watch it,and use it as a senario guide to work out in advance.I think we should go into the jungle and round-up the simian population "just in case".

-- Y2K Pro (y2kpro1@hotmail.com), August 23, 1999.

I rented "The Truman Show" the other day and wondered if maybe this could happen. Its very scary, someone could make a world around us, you know a New World Order and watch everything we do but in the end a artsy-fartsy guy in a floppy french hat would explain it all to me so it wouldnt be TEOTWAWKI. So I am preparing for the "worse" and hoping for the best.

-- scaredy cat (scaredycat@imafraid.com), August 23, 1999.

I watched "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" the other night with my kids. Hope things go more like that, but I am afraid they won't. Perhaps Andy could bury his gold under the big "W" and we could all meet there after the rollover!

-- Bill (y2khippo@yahoo.com), August 23, 1999.

I liked in the "trigger effect" the way the spoiled yuppie EXPECTED to be able to use his neighbor's generator just because he had children.The classic liberal handout attitude that will make dgi's so dangerous.which,of course brings us to "mad max"

-- zoobie (zoobiezoob@yahoo.com), August 23, 1999.

Bill,

Mad Mad Mad Mad World is quite likely the funniest movie ever made. Dick Shawn in his twisting scenes is absolute genius. Jonathan Winters, Ethel Merman, Phil Silvers, Buddy Hackett, Jim Bacus, Spencer Tracy, Sid Ceasar, Milton Berle and a few names I've missed. If you need a break from Y2K this might be the short vacation that the doctor ordered

-- laughed (yeah@laughedtillithurt.com), August 23, 1999.

I rented "Sleepin Beauty" instead. Do I need to prepare for dwarves taking over the world?

-- cd (artful@dodger.com), August 23, 1999.

I loved "Strange Brew" (the Mackenzie bros), but I thought "Austin Powers: the Spy Who Shagged Me" wasn't funny at all, frankly I think Hollywood has taken our cinematic heritage right down the toilet, Y2K is just a symptom of that larger problem, really.

P-ops

-- P-ops (pops@corn.dog), August 23, 1999.

Does anyone know if PANIC IN THE YEAR ZERO is available on video? Its been a long time since I saw it, but as I recall it is on-target with what may be coming.

Meantime, you can't do much better than THE TRIGGER EFFECT. Watch it and heed it.

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.com), August 23, 1999.

Y2K aware Mike: Thanks for your post. I rented "Trigger Effect" tonight, and it certainly was interesting and thought provoking. Lucky for them their power outage fell in summer time; it could be oh so much worse in winter. I'm sure the neighbor's T-Shirt labeled 00 was just a coincidence?

-- Claire (notbadcinema@aol.com), August 24, 1999.