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<br /> NCTiNING�
<br /> By Howard Kleinberg ••
<br /> Cox News Service
<br /> MIAMI—At first,I thought Y2K was e,
<br /> a chemical element that I never learnedAW
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<br /> about in school—like I thought AuH2O C404 '
<br /> was a chemical element until I found
<br /> out it was just a simile,,Part of rry
<br /> Goldwater's 1964 presidential
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<br /> campaign.
<br /> The more I hear about Y2K, the
<br /> worse it sounds.
<br /> "Are you hoarding cash for Y2K?"
<br /> someone asked me the other day.
<br /> "Do you have to pay for it?" I asked
<br /> back
<br /> "Seriously," she answered, "you're o
<br /> going to need hard cash when that �� l
<br /> calendar turns.The banks are going to
<br /> have to shut down,you won't be able to
<br /> use your credit card, you're going to -� �" +�
<br /> need cash."
<br /> And how much do you figure I'll
<br /> need?"I asked. " often complain that we lack the four electricity,no water,no stores open,no
<br /> "About$10,000.
<br /> How long is this thing going to last? seasons here, but we do have them: gas stations operating,I recall telling a
<br /> Another friend,who usually ear, season aason,stone crab season,nd hurricane season;tthatss s in
<br /> my po ket thoset friend that if I d first million
<br /> afterAn-
<br /> vacationtrip in January Y drew,they would be useless.
<br /> canceled plans for January 2000;won't four.) la ed There was nothing available to buy.
<br /> fly in a plane until someone else suc- People throughout the quakes,plagued
<br /> Everywhere I turn, there is concern
<br /> b annual floods, earthquakes,
<br /> cessfully makes it. Y
<br /> My,oh,my,what is going to happen zards and tornadoes as well as hum- about Y2K and the allegedly imminent
<br /> to all those Jan. 1 football bowl games, canes, are amiss if they do not keep a meltdown upon whichf the we have ldps becomesot de
<br /> and the later Super Bowl?We are talk- hoard of emergency supplies. P
<br /> ing serious stuff here. (Among the items offered by one pendent.
<br /> I am finding Web sites"deo make it seedsWeb S1Questionte as emergency
<br /> fWha goodpwill seeds concerned,lies were "You mean
<br /> when oY2K wipes out
<br /> selling survival supplies all its tapes,or whatever,that when I go
<br /> through Y2K.As I read down the list of be in Montana or Ohio in January to the oce store,the clerk will have
<br /> offerings,there was a familiar ring to it: 2000?) grocery
<br /> generators, water containers, radios, So I'm not going out shopping for to write down the prices on the side of
<br /> flashlights, medical supplies, cooking down o Jan. 1 does go ver is supposed
<br /> ownI've gto ot ao add them p forhmelike theat y did yearencil s
<br /> supplies.... m leftover supplies from the 1999 hur- ago?"
<br /> Hey,I buy those every year. Y PP so,"he answered.
<br /> Down here in the Hurricane Belt, ricaneovided we don't geeason that endsn ailed withaa "No scbanners, no automated cast
<br /> this form of preparation is a routine is, p
<br /> occurrence.Every June 1,with he offi- dead-on hurricane as we did in 1992. registers?"
<br /> cial start of hurricane season, I go to Even then,living as a homeless ani- "Nope."
<br /> the stores and stock up on just about all mal for three weeks after Hurricane "How soon can we get to Decembe
<br /> of the above-named items,plus batter- Andrew, I've become somewhat of a 312"
<br /> ies, Milk Duds, canned goods, potato survivalist. That got me to thinking vrm¢r edito
<br /> chips, bottled water, of pretzels, about the $10,000 cash hoard I was he Miami News,Howard ss a columnist fo
<br /> propane.... • advised to keep.
<br /> (Northerners who come to Florida After Andrew, when there was no Cox Newspapers.
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