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To: John Mansfield who wrote (390)	5/17/1998 4:39:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (2) of 618

[UTILITIES] 'Utilities brace for year 2000 glitches' Thursday May 14 5:00 PM EDT Utilities brace for year 2000 glitches By JENNIFER BROOKS WASHINGTON, May 14 (UPI) - Other millennium catastrophes pale in comparison with the chaos that could result if year 2000 computer glitches disable the public utilities. Electric and nuclear energy officials assured members of a House technology subcommittee today they are working to debug their systems so the power will keep flowing to everyone else's malfunctioning computers on Jan. 1, 2000. ... Subcommittee chairwoman Rep. Constance Morella, R-Md., said, ''If power shuts down, the rest of our society will shut down in its wake.'' She glumly speculated that year 2000 power outages would disrupt lives, endanger public safety, risk civil unrest, and even cause a spike in the birthrate: ''Just as there have been 'blackout babies,' could we also experience 'Y2K babies' as well?'' But Kathleen Hirning, chief information officer for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said no one really knows what will happen when the new year hits _ it could be a major meltdown,.... .... dailynews.yahoo.com

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