Looming over the end of 1999, was anxiety about Y2K — a theory that said at midnight when the year turned over to 2000, computers would malfunction and society would crumble. Some thought this was nonsense — but not Erin Maloney. When she learned that a friend had an old house in the woods, she rallied a small group to wait out the apocalypse there. She talks to one of those people, Alec Lively, for the first time about the final days of the last millennium. Our #StoryoftheWeek on NPR Morning Ed

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