Broken Arrow
Heathen Pagan Witch
I recall it well. Sitting on Greenspun waiting for the world to end!
Walking up to the main desk of a busy 64 bed med-surg unit to grab a chart back for a new admit and being told by the CNO that the lights were still on 
We put MD's written orders in via computer, and printed out lab results, but everything else was still handwritten/on paper. I was more worried about having to try to remember how to count drops to get a rate if the IV pumps blipped out. (okay, okay - I had a flashlight in my pocked and a go bag in my non-fuel injected vehicle 
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We put MD's written orders in via computer, and printed out lab results, but everything else was still handwritten/on paper. I was more worried about having to try to remember how to count drops to get a rate if the IV pumps blipped out. (okay, okay - I had a flashlight in my pocked and a go bag in my non-fuel injected vehicle )
Bumblepuff
Veteran Member
Me too! Those were better days.
I was sitting in my living room with my wife and a reported from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel talking about the rollover and what the future might bring. We all three toasted the new millennium with pink champagne when the ball dropped. We were on generator power at the time, just in case there might be any power surges our outages.What were you doing when the clock struck midnight?
Remember when that rat bastard held us hostage two weeks before rollover, demanding a $4000 contribution to his favorite animal charity or he'd shut our group down? I'll never forgive him for that.
Remember Stu? He lost his wife over it. Evidently he darkened the house and was sitting in his living room surrounded by his loaded guns, waiting for the maddening hordes to attack at the stroke of midnight.
I was 41 years old.
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Broken Arrow
Heathen Pagan Witch
I recall the Stu stuff, I don't recall the board hostage taking. Apparently my mind was on other things LOL!
wow, Twenty Years.
I the eve of Jan 1st, I remember it well. Thousands of man-hours of work went into preparing and testing, upgrading went into making things go smoothly. Probably a million or more people were on standby that evening and the next day.
I was an alternate to the prime person(my boss) for my companies(an electronic chip maker) Toxic gas monitoring system. I was factory trained in all of our gear. CM4's, FTIR's, Atomic absorption blaw-blaw on and on.
Everything went smooth as silk... but only because incredible number of hours of work and testing.
Please don't say Y2K was a nothing-burger and their was never anything to worry about.
I the eve of Jan 1st, I remember it well. Thousands of man-hours of work went into preparing and testing, upgrading went into making things go smoothly. Probably a million or more people were on standby that evening and the next day.
I was an alternate to the prime person(my boss) for my companies(an electronic chip maker) Toxic gas monitoring system. I was factory trained in all of our gear. CM4's, FTIR's, Atomic absorption blaw-blaw on and on.
Everything went smooth as silk... but only because incredible number of hours of work and testing.
Please don't say Y2K was a nothing-burger and their was never anything to worry about.
and I double posted
blackjeep
The end times are here.
I was in a basement in Montana in the middle of nowhere. The TV was powered by a generator, we were off the grid. A group of friends watched TV as the time approached. The TV broadcast kept on going as the clock struck midnight.
I thought about the tons of long term storage food I had acquired, the log home I had built in the most remote area I could find, the generator, the 1,000 gallons of gas and diesel fuel. The time. The effort. I could almost hear my family laughing at me.
The end didn't happen.
I should have listened to Michael Boldea when he said Y2K wouldn't be the end of life as we know it. But, I lived through it.
I thought about the tons of long term storage food I had acquired, the log home I had built in the most remote area I could find, the generator, the 1,000 gallons of gas and diesel fuel. The time. The effort. I could almost hear my family laughing at me.
The end didn't happen.
I should have listened to Michael Boldea when he said Y2K wouldn't be the end of life as we know it. But, I lived through it.
straightstreet
Life is better in flip flops
I was watching a New Year's Eve special on TBN. I'm not even sure I had a computer at that point in time.
Many kudos to the bell-ringers in the runup to rollover. People like our founder Ed Yourdon, Cori Hamasaki and dozens of others who raised the alarm.
pops88
Girls with Guns Member
My husband and I were in N.Z. standing at the top of our driveway in drizzling rain, looking across the bay toward Auckland on the slim chance a few fireworks might go off. We were pretty glad to be in N.Z. if it was hitting the fan. Pretty sure that before and after I was watching TB2K like a hawk.
Macgyver
Has No Life - Lives on TB
At someone's cabin in the Poconos. I didn't really believe in it to begin with. Father worked for digital (large computer company) and he was shrugging it off.
Think I had a gun in the truck just in case, that was it.
Really only remember the God awful hang over the next day.
Think I had a gun in the truck just in case, that was it.
Really only remember the God awful hang over the next day.
Jackpine Savage
Veteran Member
I was sleeping at the Embassy Suites hotel in downtown Minneapolis. The company I worked for reserved two floors. I think I went in to work at 4AM. We were prepared to stay downtown for a week but they called it off after two days.
What worked out for me was moving my investments into cash management accounts. I missed the dot-com crash and 9/11. I got back in the market in 2002.
What worked out for me was moving my investments into cash management accounts. I missed the dot-com crash and 9/11. I got back in the market in 2002.
Knighttemplar
Veteran Member
Locked in the data center of a multinational as one of the 10 to keep things running.
Repairman-Jack
Veteran Member
Hours of overtime updating our WIndows Servers, making sure we had multiple backups (on and offsite). My shift ended at 8PM, spent the rest of the night at my then girlfriend's ..now wife... grilled steaks, watched movies and the ball dropping.
Workwise we had an two week extension of hypercare for all of ours systems...on the plus side the IT staff had very nice paychecks/bonuses for our Y2K work.
Workwise we had an two week extension of hypercare for all of ours systems...on the plus side the IT staff had very nice paychecks/bonuses for our Y2K work.
homestead2
Contributing Member
We were prepped to the gills. - in every way that you can prep. Started in 1998. By Jan. 2000, it was a way of life for us. When the date changed and nothing life changing happened, we breathed a sigh of relief and admitted that we liked how it felt to be ready for anything, - anything. and never stopped. We love knowing that we and everyone we care about, will never suffer because we did not prepare.
We live our life like nothing will ever happen, but we continue to prep as if the worst will happen. We rotate and continually flesh out our stores. Y2K was only one of many things that can bring it all to a screeching halt. We are firm believers in "the only people who aren't worried are the ones who aren't paying attention."
No regrets and no regrets about continuing to prep.
We live our life like nothing will ever happen, but we continue to prep as if the worst will happen. We rotate and continually flesh out our stores. Y2K was only one of many things that can bring it all to a screeching halt. We are firm believers in "the only people who aren't worried are the ones who aren't paying attention."
No regrets and no regrets about continuing to prep.
Wyominglarry
Veteran Member
I was sitting in my living room in Fort Collins Colorado waiting for the power to go off. I too had two years worth of supplies and was positive it was the end of the world. I still have buckets of grains sealed tight that should be good for another twenty years.
marsh
On TB every waking moment
I made my daughter come home from college. (I lived in the remote mountains and had for many years.) She had a local friend and my son was there. They were all pissed when nothing happened and they had missed the millennial partying. I lost all doomer credibility with them that evening. We do NOT talk about "prepping" now in any way shape or form.
jed turtle
a brother in the Lord
Raced home from the nearest big town with my then girlfriend to be home safe out in the woods before midnight. Actually turned the corner onto my dead end dirt road just at midnight, and noticed the lights on at the log cabin on the corner still had lights on, then realized it was all over. Still throwing out cans of food, still Prepping. Been off the grid for near a decade now. Y2K helped me move a lot faster towards the goals I had set for myself back in 1970.
Ragnarok
On and On, South of Heaven
What were you doing when the clock struck midnight?
I was mandated to be at work ( the only one, I might add. Yes, I was STILL employed in physical security ) in case TSHTF...
I was out the door by 0015 hours.
Terriannie
Has No Life - Lives on TB
I was two doors down at an outside neighborhood New Year's Eve party and had to wait for the mega-firecracker roll to finish before I ran home to see if we still had the internet and especially, TB2k.
Dux
Veteran Member
I stayed up, which is/was unusual. I was relieved it was all good. And I was well aware of the programmer efforts before the date. It amused me that Cobol programmers were making $200 per hour. My "Y2K" was the dot com crash, losing my statistical programmer job in mid-2001, resulting in my current self-employment as a property manager.
rafter
Since 1999
We lived in Pagosa Springs, Co. The town was so into y2k that they held town meetings with plans to blow bridges on the rivers surrounding the towns to keep out the hoards from getting in. We ourselves were loaded with everything we thought we would need for at least 2 years. My daughter, son-in-law and first born granddaughter were with us when the ball dropped. They were young and scared. After nothing happened, my daughter was mad and probably still is about the fact of prepping and said she would never never do it again.
In the times we are in right now, I wish I was still there and with the same preps, but life, age, and losing my DH changed all that.
In the times we are in right now, I wish I was still there and with the same preps, but life, age, and losing my DH changed all that.
Plain Jane
Just Plain Jane
Our water utility sent out notices a couple weeks before advising people that they didn't need to buy water , they were still doing things manually.
Siblings who were in finance and IT were at work when the clock ticked over in the the Pacific. They were eventually sent home when it appeared Europe was in good shape. I had been watching the coverage from about 2AM EST on the 31st. when that remote Pacific island did their native dance. When New Zealand, Australia, Tokyo, and Beijing got through OK my shoulders relaxed and I simply enjoyed the coverage.
And donated a bunch of canned goods to the food bank!
Siblings who were in finance and IT were at work when the clock ticked over in the the Pacific. They were eventually sent home when it appeared Europe was in good shape. I had been watching the coverage from about 2AM EST on the 31st. when that remote Pacific island did their native dance. When New Zealand, Australia, Tokyo, and Beijing got through OK my shoulders relaxed and I simply enjoyed the coverage.
And donated a bunch of canned goods to the food bank!
PghPanther
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Was somewhat concerned it would be a catastrophic collapse of civilization so I watch the New Year being celebrated on TV in countries almost a day ahead of us and noticed no issues with their electricity or other computer controlled complex infrastructure and figured it was a nonevent....................and despised that Gary North Christian doomer for getting everyone all bent out of shape about that..............
David Nettleton
Veteran Member
Me too.
David Nettleton
Veteran Member
North must have had Bill Clinton wondering. Bill had a $52,000,000 bunker built and stayed in it until the next morning.
nomifyle
TB Fanatic
I was up and drinking wine and on another forum, I turned a bedroom closet into a pantry, in addition to my regular pantry. My family laughed at me but I prepped anyway. I really didn't have all that much food, but what I did have comforted me. I didn't discover TB until around 2002.
Judy
Judy