At 11:45 PM on New Years eve I started my most favorite car and took it for a drive. If the World came to an end, I was going to be in my favorite spot. At 12:05AM, I drove it back into the garage, as the World was still doing just fine!!! Opened a bottle of bubbly and did a toast or two!!

Sitting on top of a police horse, just west of the intersection of Congress Ave and 6th St in Austin, in an ocean of people.

Was in my office at Texas Instruments waiting time see what was going to happen to our equipment set.

 
Spent the night at work, in the NOC. After verifying all systems made the transition OK, I reported that to the company's owner by phone (he was expecting my call), and went home to bed about 02:00.

Getting drunk with a bunch of other teenagers in my buddy’s basement waiting for the world to end.

We somehow got a ton of beer and some really shitty tequila with a worm. I remember the tequila tasting like steak sauce.

I was at my desk at work, where I'd been for several hours, monitoring the year rollover at my company's overseas sites--Japan, Italy, Germany--to handle any Y2K issues that would crop up. Had to remain until our biggest computers here in DFW had made the transition. Fortunately, only a couple of very minor issues happened, and they were quickly solved. We had spent millions of Dollars and thousands of staff hours fixing our old COBOL software, and apparently did it well.

flashguy

in the years since Y2K I've managed to whittle down the supplies of Emergency Survival Jello & mailed off all the USPO post-emergency locator update forms. The new stock of multi-colored status-warning ribbon tapes & various plastic sheeting & crates of Duct Tape have been reassigned to other uses over the decades.
My inexhaustible supply of 22LR ammo has mysteriously been depleted considerably as well.

Sheriff’s dept In riot gear patrolling Memphis TN and responding to a threat that someone was going to blow up the three crosses at Bellevue baptist church.

I was at my city's Central Park with family and a bunch of my on-duty officers for a great New Year's celebration and the biggest fireworks display I have ever seen in person before or since. The previous day I had a lot of fun going around City Hall handing out instructions for tin foil hats.

Sleeping

At home, but on call all night, as were all the employees. I was in charge of sales for a small software company that was a business unit of a much larger corporation.

I don't know what I could have done to help the IT folks other than hand out pizza, but that was the drill for the evening.

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Originally posted by horsedoc:
I was flying from west Texas to Hartford, CT for my FIL's wedding. I was not a big believer in the Y2K fear, but told my wife if we had any delays that would put us in the air at midnight, we were renting a car and driving the rest of the way.

As it went we arrived well before midnight and no planes fell out of the sky.

Tommy

I was 18 and partying in Odessa, TX.

Standing in a closed bank parking lot telling a baby cop(21 years ols no military time) that yes we are listening to full automatic rifle fire and not fire crackers don't panic yet...VI

I was in the trauma center at the University Medical Center in Las Vegas. Two days earlier, my daughter rolled her car off I-15 and was paralyzed on the left side of her body. The surgery, required to stabilize her injury had been performed earlier that day.

Five months later she "walked" to receive her BA from BYU. Subsequently, she has married, given birth to two daughters, earned two Master Degrees, published eight books and generally made me a believer in miracles.

Was flying from Barcelona to Prague, via Amsterdam. Non-eventful...flights were even on time. We had more issues at work when the state of Indiana decided to put us on DST...and then a year later in 2007 when the federal govt changed the dates of the beginning and ending of DST. That was a PITA.

Moved into an apartment that Christmas in Phoenix. Watched the fireworks from the bowl game held that night at ASU’s stadium from my apartment balcony.
Moved to the “valley” after leaving Oklahoma after a divorce which was finalized six months earlier. Celebrated 19 years here on Christmas Day

This wasn't really any more "over the top" than most predictions I read. I read gun magazines extensively then, and I have a vague (and possibly incorrect) recollection of one saying that money would somehow be no good and you should stock up on .22 ammo as barter currency.

I think in actuality the problem or potential problem was known about, anticipated and fixed (if necessary) well beforehand.

Sitting in my office at Fort Wainwright wondering if it would ever get warm enough for the brigade to fly to JRTC without worrying about aircraft wings snapping off.

At home watching the festivities on tv. Neither my wife or I have much desire to be out on NYE.

I was enjoying fireworks and laughing at all the idiots panicking over the engineered Y2K crisis.