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20 years ago today! I remember we were all on call at district maintenance ops. Ready for the armaggedon ! ROFL! We had been fed so much stuff, we didn’t know what to believe.

I do remember standing out under the parking awning at district HQ at midnight with the public affairs officer (old former TV newsman from Beaumont, Lt. Pat!!!) when it struck 12 sounded like I imagine Tet sounded!!! Over in the barrio across the highway!! Man!!! All manner of fireworks and assorted small arms fire. You knew exactly who had the 30 rd. Mags!!!! LOL!

We could hear spent rounds hitting our whse, mech shop and sign shop rooves. We decided to move indoors. Just in case I had a Russian SKS and one of those chinee chest bandoleers out front in my truck. Fun times!!!!

I've seen tombstones that were redone, the 19 was marked on them.

I had toilet paper.

Idgaf about peoples’ computers

I was in Germany on Y2K eve. People were very nervous that there would be a nuclear attack by malfunctioning Russian computers. Strange indeed.

I always thought that Y2K was a metal zipper.

Y2K sure had the panic button ready to be pushed.

I was surveying in the mountains then. It was VERY busy. People buying off the grid property in the mountains to bug out to after mankind shut down one second after midnight.


Lots of folks were disappointed it didn't happen!

As a joke I taped a slide rule to the outside of my office door (I’m an engineer) with a note taped to it that said “For use in case of Y2K”. The joke was on me as a bunch of young engineers came into my office and asked me what it was.

Yeah! My boss ( engineer) had to explain to me WTF was "suppose” to happen and all!!! My answer to him was, "so?"

I understand it took a lot of work to prevent a meltdown.

My late brother got all worried, and was just waiting for the curtain to fall. I made fun of him, and called him up real early the morning of January 1, 2000 and asked him if the world was still turning.

I didn't see that there was a need to worry about anything, and there wasn't.

Just like most young people don't know what mumps and measles are; the elimination of some things are a blessing.

I was smarter than most. I convinced my wife we needed to build a safe house. Just by chance it was built on my hunting property and turned into my hunting shack. PERFECT! Pretty good for a dumb farmer huh. Ed k

A friend of mine owned a gun shop in Austin at the time. He told me he made 5 times more in Y2K than any other year. He said the number of people trying to get refunds the next year on stuff they'd bought a year before was extremely high.

Ditto - right to the bottom line...

Generators were flying off the shelves here. Afterwards, the local classifieds were filled with generators at half price.

I worked with a guy who got into the techie, computer stuff, way before the average person. Prior to Y2K, at break-time one day, several people at my work were fretting and worrying about the nearing end of the world due to Y2K, and the techie-guy said "Nothing is going to happen." Turns out, he was spot on. A lot of people sure believed there would be a disaster though.

I was responsible for all desktop computer and desktop application compliance in my company. A major retailer. I spent the prior two years recieving validation and\or applying patches from all hardware and software vendors. Pc's needed a bios patch to take the date field from 2 digits to 4 digits and I found a universal fix. I remember microsoft excel for example had to resolve for peoples older spreadhseets and addressed this on date formulas by just picking out a cutoff date for pointing to either 1900 or 2000's. It seemes to have worked very well.

I was confident all would be well and told my siblings and parents.......... who decided Art Bell had more credibility.

One of my sisters bought buckets and buckets of grains. I asked her what the hell are you supposed to do with that- pound it into tortilla's?

Dad really ticked me off. He bought a huge water cistern. I asked him why? He said the govenrment might not be able to turn the water on. I pointed to a water tower on the hill and asked how the hell would gravity fail? He looked at me curious for a moment and then I think felt a little stupid.

I wish I had bought one of those half priced generators that were listed around here instead of waiting 2 years for an ice storm to hit and then buying one at full price then losing it in a divorce!!

I remember laying on the couch watching the balls drop and waiting for something to happen, nothing happened just as I had suspected so I got up and went to bed.

Was working at a police department. Each district got issued a couple extra cases of pistol ammunition and shotgun ammuniton.

Our Tactical Squad and Vice Squad entry teams were made to work 7pm to 3am, and were geared up and standing by for deployment for unknown occurrences.

Our Communications (Dispatchers and phones) were at extra staffing with staff assigned to a backup location where they still had analog equipment that had been retained specifically until after New Years in case the primary system crashed.

Lots of gunfire in the city at midnight, but that was a normal occurrence every year.

On the computer thing...

All anyone had to do was go under the time and date settings and set it to like 11:59pm on Dec. 31, 1999... Hit "Apply".... and wait to see if your computer self destructed like a Mission Impossible opening scene...

It didn't? You're GTG.