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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: Ken who wrote (6502)7/13/1999 9:56:00 AM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (1) of 9818
 
As part of the FEMA Federal Response Plan, there is a detailed plan for the evacuation, shelter, and care of large populations. Such plans for shelter are in place for any major disaster, but they have been incorporated into Y2K consequence planning by FEMA.

Ken, just what is served by confusing CONTINGENCY PLANS with OPERATIONAL PLANS??

Now if FEMA was saying that on such and such a day before Jan 1st they were planning on mobilizing US forces to act as police forces and would be moving large quantities of people to shelters, then I would say this article would be newsworthy.

But to merely emphasize a report that contingency plans ALREADY IN PLACE for natural/man-made disasters are being incorporated into Y2K "worst case scenario" planning, seems little more than Worldnut's daily ration of conspiratorial tripe.

Why wasn't it a pertinent story when those contingency plans only centered around natural disasters??

Contingency plans are just that.... operational plans TO BE INITIATED in the event of infrastructure failure or loss of social order.

All that has occurred is that Y2K has been added as a potential source of social disorder and disruption.

So again, I ask... why weren't FEMA contingency plans for natural disasters worthy of an article even though they mirror those for Y2K??

We need to find some balanced news analysis out here instead of emotionally reacting to every new world order conspiracy theory.
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