Here's the Washington Post story that Drudge is talking about:
The District government, recognizing that its year 2000 repair program
likely will not be completed on time, is planning a massive New Year's
Eve mobilization of emergency personnel and other staff to ensure that
critical city services are not interrupted if computer systems fail.
Police will be stationed at more than 120 locations across the city,
working 12-hour shifts, to take walk-in requests for emergency services.
Twenty-one "warming centers," each supplied with food, water and cots,
will open. School crossing guards will be on call, ready to replace traffic
lights at major intersections. And D.C. General Hospital will have extra
staff members – as many as 175 – on site.
These are just a few of the 88 contingency and emergency plans the
District is feverishly working to put in place by the end of the year. Similar
efforts are underway across the United States among governments and
private companies, but in the District, officials have acknowledged the city
is so far behind on its Y2K fix that it may have to rely on some of these
"work-around" techniques.
"Because we began late, there may be things that suffer an interruption that
we did not completely get to," said D.C. Chief Technology Officer
Suzanne J. Peck. "Within our agencies ... in some function, a handful may
fail temporarily." ...
washingtonpost.com
Drudge was right. A pretty scary article. Sounds more like a tabloid story, rather than something from the Washington Post.
Cheryl
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