I looked primarily for things that will be definitely triggered by the date change. Every article I read seemed to note the same standard reasons for believing that Y2K is a threat. They quoted other sources that warned of the Y2K's danger, and they described several doomsday scenarios. To justify moving to the country side, you would think one would require some sort of solid evidence of what will go wrong when the year 2000 arrives. I could not find one single case in point example where for instances a known microchip will freeze-up if a 2000 date passes through its circuitry.
Wild speculation seems to have become the norm here.
The two computer specialists that I spoke to this week said that right now the only major problem they're aware of was found by an organization operating in Europe. A glitch was detected in a computer system that provided street address information to fire trucks. All local computer systems seem to be either Y2K compliant or in the final phase of testing. People don't seem to realize there are very few electronic items that are aware of the current date, and there are even fewer items that depend on dates to function. The small number of electronics that use dates normally only go as high as the day and month.