A couple of weeks ago, someone posted a link to look for your energy company to see if it was compliant. Mine wasn't, but the nearest major city, Lousiville, KY, was. I'm driving into work today and the LG&E spokesman says they can not guarantee service on 1/1/2000. O.K., I'm used to that. No one will guarantee anything. What caught my attention was the fact that They were on the list as compliant, but this guy said they had a lot of equipment ordered, waiting for it to arrive, then the installation, ... Expect to be finished third quarter this year. Who's report was that anyway? If self reporting, I refuse to believe any further reports. If by some group, I'd like to know who, so I can discount any further reports by them. I hate all this confusion. How can a sane person not prepare?

-- margie mason (mar3mike@aol.com), February 08, 1999

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Margie, I concur. Just one steady advanced shopping step at a time for future distilled water, long shelf life foods, extra fuels, medications, hygiene stuff, small currency bills, toliet paper, warm boots and hard candies that will be all useable anyway. Avoid waste and keep well. With best wishes,

-- Watchful (seethesea@msn.com), February 08, 1999.

Margie, did you see the "Notes from the Senate Hearing" on the Y2K food supply thread, a few days ago? Sen. Bennett pointed out that self-reporting is notoriously optimistic in EVERY case the committee examined. He cited particularly the Dept. of Defense Y2K readiness figures, which deteriorated precipitously after the General Accounting Office went in and had a look. It makes every bit of sense that self-reporting is overly rosy--look at the average resume!

-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), February 09, 1999.