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Robert Waldrops's clear headed approach...
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How to Survive and Prosper
During the Y2K Crisis --
Without Leaving Town
Stay home, stay safe, and live well.
(c) 1999 by Robert Waldrop. Permission is granted to readers download and print one copy of this document per user session for personal use. All other rights reserved by the author.
Table of Contents and Links to Chapters
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1. The end of the beginning game of Y2k.
2. Building community during a major disaster.
3. Ten things you should do without delay regarding Y2k.
4. You never miss the water until your well runs dry.
6. Keeping warm in a winter emergency.
8. Electricity, lighting, transportation
10. People and cities in crisis.
12. Preparing a family emergency plan.
13. Your job and your business.
14. Miscellaneous
15. Disaster preparations on a limited budget.
16. Conclusion
Appendices
Details 1 Useful books
Details 2 Grocery lists
Details 3 Miscellaneous emergency food information
Details 4 Community food security projects
Details 5 Ten things you can do with a plastic bucket
Details 6 Checklist for December 1999
Details 7 Diapers and baby wipes
Details 8 The basics of electrical power
Details 9 Calculating your energy budget
Details 10 Inverters
Details 11 Generating your own electricity
Details 12 Distributing the electricity
Details 13 Lists of useful stuff
Details 14 Some basic social capital
Details 15 Questions to ask about local readiness (from the Center for Y2k and Society)
When printed, this report is approximately 120 pages. If you would rather purchase a printed copy, please send a check or money order for $29.95 to Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House, 1524 NW 21st, Oklahoma City, OK 73106. Why I wrote this book.
Additional pages at this website with useful information:
Preparedness Nuggets, 18 pages of miscellaneous information on frugal, simple, and sustainable living, gleaned from internet news sources.
Better Times Cookbook and Almanac of Useful Information for Poor People, on-line version of a printed cookbook distributed free of charge.
Better Times: the Webzine, access to prudent, frugal, simple, and sustainable living.
Old Ways, New Ways, during the winter of 1998-99, I started writing a "science fiction" story about life in a poor and working class Kansas City (Missouri) neighborhood after a complete Y2k-related crash of the technological infrastructure. There are ten installments in basically a "first draft" format, the time frame of the stories is January 2000 - February 2001. The neighborhood was based on the real neighborhood in which I was living at that time.
Printable flyers for distribution during Y2k disruptions, based on the text of this book, six flyers that you can copy and hand out to friends, neighbors, and relatives if there are Y2k-related problems.
This book is provided as a public service. The information herein is deemed reliable and accurate, but readers use it at their own risk and liability.