It is New Year's Eve, 1999. In less than five minutes, the new millenium will arrive. You've got Dick Clark announcing at Times Square on your TV set. As the ball drops, your television reception gets fuzzy...fuzzier...then nothing. You pop open your champagne, and change the channel. Nothing. The lights flicker out. Fortunately, you've got your gas fireplace going, so there is enough light in the room. Oops! The gas cuts off, and the fire dies. You pay your gas bills, so what the heck is going on?
You run for your flashlight and grab the portable radio like your Scoutmaster always taught you to do. You start to panic, as you frantically go through your house, looking for anything to use to keep you warm, calm, and collected. As you rummage through your house, it suddenly becomes clear to you that you have become very electronically dependent. This is like some kind of nightmare.
Reader, I have both bad news and good news for you. The bad news is that this nightmare will most likely become a reality within the next 15 months. The good news is that there are steps to take between now and then that can save you and your loved ones from complete helplessness.
The Year 2000 (hereafter referred to as Y2K) problem is one that will greatly impact not only your individual life, but also the lives of everyone around you. Be it transportation, insurance, banking, maintenance, medical, technological, or recreational, the Y2K problem will have a definite and significant impact on every organization on the planet, and even off the planet for that matter.
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God, this is scary as hell.
