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To: Runner who wrote (9361)	12/5/1999 9:46:00 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 9818

Runner, What Koskinen said was that it would take a few days after January 1--until Wednesday or Thursday--for any Y2K-induced problems in the power system to build up to the point that the power grid would blow, not that it would take a few days for him to recognize that he was standing in the dark.<g> I took his whole comment to mean that Cheeky would be well advised to hold his I-told-you-sos until the second weekend in January because any problems might not show up the first day. I did not get the impression that he was expecting more problems than when last we heard from him. Karen p.s. I didn't catch the whole interview. I surfed into the middle of it. The other two answers I heard were: - That he wasn't worried about the Russian nuclear plants per se but he was concerned that there would be power problems in that part of the world, which would make it hard for the locals to shut the nuclear plants down. He said that he and others were working with those plants to be sure they had enough back-up power to shut the plants down safely. - That he still thinks the greatest single problem would be the over-reaction by us citizens, but that he's becoming less concerned that that will happen.

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