As soon as you know what that event is, please use this space to tell the rest of us!

-- Prog Nosticator (prophet@doom.com), January 06, 2000

Answers

Your guess is as good as anyone's. The fact of the matter is there will be all sorts of stories from "my friend has a cousin in XXXXX that went to a XXXX store/Gov. Dept./Bank and the lady behind the counter said, "XXXX." The tide is rising. I don't know when it will crest but it's still pouring upstream and we're running out of sandbags. Peace!

-- Think It (Through@Pollies.Duh), January 06, 2000.

The polly's will go back to their own board!!

-- Old Seer (seer@foreteller.com), January 06, 2000.

Good question, but hold on here for a sec....can we first agree on what the first "big" event was? Timeline, if multiple?

To me, the first big shocker was the amount of funds spent on underground bunkers. Imagine how old and musty the state ones were. Probably hadn't been opened since the Cuban Missile Crisis, heh. Now, all state-of-the-art, with full mil/gov staffing.

*****Anyone live near one of these puppies? Are they all closed again, or are there still vehicles, personnel, deliveries? If still active, that to me would be the "next" big event or shocker personally.

-- Hokie (Hokie_@hotmail.com), January 07, 2000.

The first big event of "Y2K" was the fact that nothing (visible) happened. The effect was as dramatic as the lights going out - powerful enough to convince people that had been preparing for a year to throw up their hands in "defeat" - as well as to push the first round of glitches to the back page.

In this pentium-run world of ours, there is no longer any time for "waiting." Six days (!) have passed and the entire thing is being swept under the carpet of complete success.

It took a long time to build them. It'll take a while to see them fall.

-- Gumby (patience@virtuous.com), January 07, 2000.