Since I have finished all my preps (6 months of food, 55 gallons of kerosene, 300 gallons of gas, a lot of firewood, two gardens, two pistols, two shotguns and a 9mm carbine as well as other preps I won't go into) I decided to take Koskinen's advice and go out and prepare for a long-holiday week-end. I went to BJ's and bought a 24 pack of Heineken (I doubt that it will last until New Year's however). While I was at BJ's I looked around to see what people were buying. About 7 out of 10 shoppers had large amounts of toilet paper and bottled water. I saw two or three buying food and large quantities.

I asked one of the display girls if she had noticed any "y2k shoppers." She said yes. I asked her how she could tell them apart from Christmas shoppers. She said, "They always use the big flat carts intead of regular shopping carts and buy large quantities of rice, beans and charcol." She also estimated that she saw 6 or 7 of them a day from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM> It was orderly and not crowded, but there is definite preparation for y2k going on.

We may be an exception in Miami, since many people have memories of Hurricane Andrew engraved on their minds. At any rate, people around here are taking y2k seriously and the shopping has begun.

-- JoseMiami (caris@prodigy.net), December 13, 1999

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I am prepared for a holiday YEAR! Oh, wait a sec, you mean a REAL holiday weekend! Well, yeah , that, too. Beer, liquor, champagne that;s been chilling in the fridge since last Christmas. Gonna eat lots of Christmas yummies (why lose weight NOW?)

I see no preppers in my stores. See my thread a bit further down titled "BROOKSHIRE'S (a grocery store) GETS IT!!!!!!!"

-- preparing (preparing@home.com), December 13, 1999.

Jose:

Then, if you put it that way, then I'm good to go for the holiday weekend. Wife just picked me up 2 24 packs of Coors Light and a six pack of Zima. Ordered clams, shrimp and veggie tray. Now, if I could just get Shania Twain as a stripper, I'd be set. LOL

-- Familyman (prepare@home.com), December 13, 1999.

Hi there JoseMiami :-)

We're saving the popcorn run for fairly late in the EndGame. Chips too, Garden of Eatin organic black bean 'n yellow corn, yum. Ashton makes a tasty guacamole with jalapeno 'n cilantro 'n lotsa roma tomatoes. Sparkling Black Cherry cider to wash it down.

Planning for the 3-day Holiday Party is fun!

How's your NET / NERT / CERT life going? We're FEMA certified in 2 cities but looks like will be hibernating in a little town where they haven't gotten around to citizen involvement.

Ain't gonna stick neck out without a team of trained buddies! We even offered to teach the series of classes a year and a half ago, but no, big strutting egos and turf wars types said "no interest." Oopsie, they'll be kicking themselves in the behind real soon now.

Good luck to you!

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), December 13, 1999.

Jose:

ZIMA??

I didn't think any guy that would drink Zima, would be interested in a strip show from Shania. Maybe the Zima is for your wife?

(sorry, I couldn't resist)

-- Duke 1983 (Duke1983@AOL.com), December 13, 1999.

Jose, Two (2) shotguns! now you tell me. And I just read about that main battle tank earlier today. Will the preps never end! Got some gooood brandy, scotch and Black Velvet. We are prepped. (I HOPE).

-- Mr. Pinochle (pinochledd@aol.com), December 13, 1999.

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I had NO idea that A&L are so WILD!!!!

I'm eating Starbucks low-fat ice cream and bought some pfeffernusse-- the German gingerbread/anise Christmas cookies. Right, why diet now?

-- Mara (MaraWayne@aol.com), December 13, 1999.

AOL must have censored me, but I said: I had no idea A&L are so wild!

I'm eating Starbucks ice cream and pfeffernusse (ginger/anise) German Christmas cookies.

-- Mara (MaraWayne@aol.com), December 13, 1999.

Duke:

OUCH!! That hurt. LOL Yes, it's for my wife. She hates the taste of beer so, she either drinks Zima or vodka shots..I think they're called lemon drops.

-- Familyman (prepare@home.com), December 13, 1999.