First of all, there was no general anger level in society like there is now, in 2000.

Secondly, the Y2K crisis was way overblown: thousands of IT contractors were brought into corporate murrica and in other countries to rewrite code so that the rollover was not an event. I had a hunch that the rollover from 99 to 00 was a big nothing and this proved true. I'm certain that any real time systems that needed to operate continuously (electric plants, sewer and water, etc) had been remediated and tested years before.

Thirdly the US is in multiple overlapping crises - financial/debt at all levels, cost of living, and political hatred, all at once. We had nothing like that back then.

I have an icky feeling that the sequence of events after the election may be political violence followed very closely (matters of days) by lockdowns, restrictions, and breakdowns of normal operating practices. Like COVID but accompanied by public pushback and violence.

I'm trying to prepare us for a short term crisis of inconvenience that does not turn into door to door pogroms. For example, if the power gets cut I can keep our freezers running. If the water supply gets shut down I can filter enough safe water to keep us going. etc.

If it rises above that level we're not that prepared (EG, no guns owned here.) My plan is a 1-2 month plan, not a 6 mo-5 yr plan.

We'll see if I am stupid on Nov. 5 or 6 and how much fuckery the American public will tolerate.