OLD WAYS, NEW WAYS

February 16, 2001

Suppose you woke up one morning and the technological infrastructure was gone -- no electricity, no natural gas service, no water or sewer, no garbage collections, no just in time inventory. What would you do? How would you cope? What would happen to you and your family? Well, here's what happened to us.

It's only a first draft, and I invite comments, critiques, suggestions, corrections. Published to the web on the Fourth Sunday of Advent, 1998. (c) 1998 by Robert Waldrop.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5 Getting ready for the winter of 2000-2001

Part 6 A Christmas on Oakley Street

Part 7 Give us this day our daily bread.

Part 8 What we did with our basement.

Part 9 Homelessness

Part 10 Civil society, and how it saved our bacon.

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This story is situated at the crossroads of these three sites:

Access to Catholic Social Justice Teachings, 300 pages and more than 1700 links

Y2k and Civil Society impact of the year 2000 problem on civil society organizations and the populations we serve.

Preparedness Nuggets Index. A cyberbook of practical wisdom, redacted from various email discussion groups.

See also: Printable flyers for distribution during y2k disruptions

Grace, Peace, and Justice,

Robert Waldrop, Justpeace webservant

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