In Brief... City Folk Worried About Y2K Bug Head for the Hills in Virginia
CNN-Dozens of Y2K refugees have moved to Floyd County, a sparsely populated area of the Blue Ridge Mountains that has welcomed social dropouts for generations, including the hippies of the '60s and the New Agers of the '90s. There are at least a dozen small communes where people share the work and earnings. Most of the communes grow their own food and are not connected to the commercial electrical system. There is also an established barter system for obtaining necessities.