Y2K: You Can Burn This Book!: The Original At-Home Guide to Cope with the New Millennium

by Thomas F. Potter

This at-home guide to cope with the new millenium describes preparation and coping that will be useful to every person in America. The author briefly explains the disruptions due at the rollover of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966988906
• ISBN13: 9780966988901
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Chef Brio LLC
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A great book for your employees, to make sure their prepared

In his book: Y2K: You Can Burn This Book!, Tom Potter has done an excellent job covering the basic elements all our communities should consider as the Year 2000 approaches. We've all spent many months and considerable resources reconfiguring our hardware and software so they will continue to support our businesses - now we need to look at our personal preparedness efforts and those of our employees. Potter devotes a chapter to each area of fundamental needs (water, heat, power, food, etc), explaining where disruptions might occur and then providing suggestions for different levels of planning. For a detailed resource that follows up on topics mentioned in many preparedness primers, this is just the book you need. ---Deben Tobias, Board of Directors; Business for Social Responsibility

A great resource for taking the 1st step to being prepared.

Tom Potter's Y2K: You Can Burn This Book! is an excellent resource for anybody concerned with disaster preparedness. With an emphasis on personal and household preparation, he sets a positive but proactive tone for pursuing these preparation activities. Using his expertise in industrial energy use, he discusses the scope of neighborhood preparation that Boulder > is also concerned about, and offers a broad range of solutions. Potter's book is a great resource for taking that first step toward being informed - and ultimately being prepared. He's also been an excellent speaking resource for Boulder County Y2K meetings. > --K. Garcia, Community Coordinator, Boulder County Y2K Preparedness Group >

Excellent family and community based guide to preparedness.

Unlike some of the other Y2K books I looked at, this one offers a reasonable approach to personal, family, and community preparedness. In some ways, it's unfortunate that it's linked to Y2K, because it is such a useful preparedness book. Living in earthquake country, I can really appreciate the author's checklists, worksheets, and insights on how to calculate how much water, food, and energy a family will need to ride out any crisis. Also, the very optimistic outlook and focus on non-violent responses to crises was a unique approach, given many of the other guides that seem focused on seige mentality. I would definitely recommend this book to anybody who lives in an area that is subject to earthquakes, floods, blizzards, hurricanes, tornadoes, or any other possible disasters, including Y2K.

An extremly useful, practical resource guide.

This is a wonderful resource for any person who has concerns about Y2K. The author clearly states the steps that need to be done in preparation for potential problems with a friendly, community oriented perspective.

A pragmatic and humorous guide to planning for Y2K.

Y2K: You Can Burn This Book! provides a pragmatic and informative guide to preparing for possible disruptions in public services at the end of this year as our computers succeed or fail in turning over to the year 2000. The book is spiced with liberal doses of humor, ecological philosophy, and useful prescriptions for reducing dependence upon large, computer-governed institutions. As someone who was not aware I had an interest in Y2K, I was first caught be its title, then reeled in by the book's delightful prose and balanced approach--neither predicting millinarian apocolypse nor espousing ostrich-like denial. Chapter One includes an analysis, based on Potter's extensive experience in utilities, of possible disruptions to water, electricity, food and other public services. Subsequent chapters provide a range of practical approaches to planning for shortages in each area. If you are already committed to preparing for Y2K, this is the best guide I've seen. If you are merely curious, this book will entertain and inform you--and you can burn it, too!