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Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9780966940602
ISBN number: 0966940601
Label: Cymbria Press
Manufacturer: Cymbria Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 240
Printing Date: January 21, 1999
Publishing house: Cymbria Press
Sale Popularity Level: 4718454
Studio: Cymbria Press
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Your Year 2000 Survival Guide, a Common Sense Handbook helps you with checklists, exercises, activity timelines and suggestions tailored to your environment, urban, suburban, or rural, cold or warm climate. It assists you in assessing the impact of the Year 2000 on you and your family and helps you to make the necessary plans. Topics covered include food supplies, water, home heating, cooking, lighting, self documentation, asset protection and even things to do to keep busy and have fun. The book provides you with a low-cost, well-organized plan to get through the millennium changeover with minimum discomfort and even some fun.
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This is quick reading, and time well spent. Until I read "Your Year 2000 Survival Guide" by Jackie Kessler I hadn't thought too much about how electrical outages and food supply chain glitches would impact my family in Arizona. I knew home heating wasn't an issue but I didn't think about a freezer full of food spoiling in our warm climate. Now I am getting my home prepared for any emergency from an earthquake to Y2K with non-perishable food, adequate water, safe lanterns and a reasonable supply of pet food for my pets (probably pet food will be shipped last if there are fuel shortages). I also think her advice about getting hard copies of important documents and keeping a second set out of the house just plain common sense. I appreciate the checklists, timelines and exercises.
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Jackie Kessler's book, "Your Year 2000 Survival Guide", showed my family how to organize our home safely for Y2K and how to stock up sensibly for Y2K shortages that may occur in food, household things, and medicines. She helps you think out each family's special situation. This is NOT a one size fits all book. Here in the Northeast, on Cape Cod, keeping my family and home warm in the dead of winter is a real concern. Her suggestions are sensible and always with safety in mind. I felt her advice was very valuable. BP
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I bought this book on the basis of other readers' outstanding reviews. However, I was very disappointed! I have read a lot of Y2k material (books, newsgroups, & websites)& I found little new in this book.
In fact, the book is padded with redundant material. Dr, Kessler took much of her material from the FEMA & Mormon pamphlets which are also included as appendices. The book was apparently put together very quickly: For example, in two chapters the chapter headings don't match the page headings (Chapts 3 & 11) -- I don't mean to nitpick, but this is sloppy! She also says things that I believe to be untrue: Opening paragraph "you may find that it [your car of recent vintage] won't even run." Perhaps this is true, tho that is *not* my understanding! She says that "most hospitals should be in pretty good shape" -- a year or so later, we know this not to be the case; she doesn't even mention the issue of embedded chips in much of the equipment tho she does say "some of the really fancy equipment ... may not work until some of the software is replaced." Then she makes some really silly statements: "COBOL is no big deal to learn." "Grace Hopper...was ... considered a top expert in COBOL programming among other things." Grace Hopper is generally acknowledged as being the inventor of COBOL!
I might recommend this book if it is the **only** Y2k book you will read; it does have checklists which one can use. But as somebody who has read & thought about the subject, I didn't learn anything from this book. I hope she did a better job for Unisys!
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It will not hurt to be prepared for the possible shut down of everything electronic as the clock turns to y2k. I found this book to be a very good source as a common sense survival guide.
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As author of Managing 00 and Countdown Y2K (Wiley) I have been asked to look at many books dealing with the personal planning issues. This is the most realistic and practical guide I've seen. Not only does it provide common sense information, but it does it in a way that does not promote panic. I will keep this book as a practical guide to emergency preparadness. The information is timeless and can be used long after the Y2K crisis comes and goes. The author uses a style which is informative and easy to read. A real joy for someone who scours the media for practical information. Richard Bergeon - NueVue International LLC
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