Gregory's ServerTaking your reply at face value, it should be intuitive that people - even, or even especially, remote Alaskans - who are expecting to be able to get cash fast or outside of banking hours, and told that every ATM in their town (because yes, some were one-bank towns) is wedged until someone can fly out to fix it, is not what I would call "nothing." Especially for people living paycheck to paycheck, etc.
But my larger point was that my little ATM story was just one personal anecdote in a much larger context. By singling out Alaska's rural nature in this way, at worst you are cherry-picking my post to set up a straw man. At best, maybe you just missed what those other two paragraphs were for.
@tychotithonus @robertatcara
You cherry-picked this example, not me. You were free to pick any less trivial sounding example if you had one.
You claim that I'm missing context, but I think that you are missing an important context – that of the extensive and outlandish claims that were repeatedly made about the potential effects of Y2K. None of the examples of disasters averted are in any way proportional to those predictions.