If you are thinking of filling your bathtub with water just before Y2K and if you have young children at home, make sure that the bathroom is not accessible to them. If you leave a full tub unsupervised, your young child can be, God forbid, drown in it. Please be careful.

-- Concerned (caution@aoi.com), December 28, 1999

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Thank you for a bit of wisdom.

-- (...@.......), December 28, 1999.

Good tip. Thank-you.

-- Anonymous999 (Anonymous999@Anonymous999.xxx), December 28, 1999.

An excellent bit of advice and one that I had not considered in light of the 'fill your bathtub' prep. It only takes a very small amount of water for someone to drown. And with small children, ignoring where they are or what they are doing for even a couple of seconds can be dangerous.

As always, do not let your preps become the source of a disaster.

-- Arnie Rimmer (Arnie_Rimmer@usa.net), December 28, 1999.

Actually- any water left in our bathtub freezes in a short time! It's COLD up here.....actually- it's been a mild end of December- 12 below has been the lowest temp so far- and only the tub p-trap and the line from the kitchen sink are frozen so far- this is good actually- usually by now it's been 25 below or so and many more pipes have frozen by now-and the pump too......you gotta be insane to live up here BRR......

-- farmer (hillsidefarm@drbs.com), December 28, 1999.

Good point, we have a 5 yr old and we're still trying to figure out how to explain why the bathtubs are filled.

-- preparing (preparing@home.com), December 28, 1999.