As a fairly committed doomer, I wonder...

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As a sometimes wavering doomer, feeling up then down, confident of success in getting through this with BITR effects, then back in the dumps so to speak, I wonder if there is any confidence to be drawn from the fact that surely if there were going to be major city problems for example that the city governments like NYC would know this and we would be hearing of cancellations of big events etc. Surely, ConEd for example would be telling Rudy Guiliani that he better pull the plug and call things off, wouldn't they??

Meadowmuffins galore at the cowman's place!

-- Rancherdick (angusdude@yahoo.com), December 16, 1999

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I agree with the emotional roller-coaster. There is good news (usually self-reported!) and the less than good news. My heart goes out to those billions of people who will be hurt by the lack of preparations for the rollover.

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), December 16, 1999.

Nobody likes to 'rain on someone elses parade'.....especially something as big as millennium celebrations are. It's easier to hope for the best than to cancel everything for a non-event...it's all about money.

-- Kenin Marble (kenin17@yahoo.com), December 16, 1999.

I wonder if there is any confidence to be drawn from the fact that surely if there were going to be major city problems for example that the city governments like NYC would know this and we would be hearing of cancellations of big events etc. Surely, ConEd for example would be telling Rudy Guiliani that he better pull the plug and call things off, wouldn't they??

No, they wouldn't. They are in denial. And they will soon suffer the consequences of their inaction.

I hope that you are not near a major city. You may not survive.

-- (its@coming.soon), December 16, 1999.


I'm also having doubts. I have been preparing for a year. I have expected a 5 and prepared for an 8 to 9, but now, I am personally begining to wonder if it will be a 2 or 3. It seems to me that many on this forum have made an emotional investment in a doom scenario and will be disapointed if it is anything less. Everyone cannot be lying. The whole world cannot be in a conspiracy.

I realize that much of the happy face reporting is suspect. At the same time, there are credible people who sincerely believe that we have avoided the worst. I don't want to be guilible but to just harden our position and become paranoid can also be denial

I guess the good (or bad) news is that we will soon find out.

-- JoseMiami (caris@prodigy.net), December 16, 1999.


[I hope that you are not near a major city. You may not survive.]

Okay as a resident of Los Angeles, I'm warning you guys. If you don't stop saying we city folk are toast, then we're simply not going to share our Perrier with you should hard times come.

-- (resolved@this.point), December 17, 1999.



ConEd are trying to hire/buy emergency generators FOR THEIR OWN USE. Watch what they do, not what they say.

-- Servant (public_service@yahoo.com), December 17, 1999.

As a resident of the NYC I am wondering. When American embassies were bombed in Africa mayor surrounded the city hall with concrete blocks because of the threat of terrorism. It is a well known fact that NYC is the number ONE terrorist target on the FBI (or CIA) list. Still there will be a ceremony (as usual) in the Times Square. Trying to explain it by the confidence in the overall Y2K compliance of the city just does not sit well with me.

P.S. Just today I heard that the ceremony of dropping ball (pushing the red button) was awarded to the organization Doctors Without Borders (or something like that), the one that recieved Nobel Peace Prize. My guess is -- they did not have any other way to attract more doctors to the Times Square just in case TSHTF.

-- Brooklyn (MSIS@cyberdude.com), December 17, 1999.


surely N.A.S.A. management would have told the astronauts that Morton thiokol was strongly objecting to the lift- off!!!

Nope! booooommmmm!! dead people!! and the information was given to n.a.s.a. IN ADVANCE

-- d----- (dciinc@aol.com), December 17, 1999.


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