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To: Ken who wrote (6688)7/18/1999 4:26:00 AM
From: Scrumpy  Respond to of 9818
 
Luckily all of those chains will be operating Friday night into the the weekend. Banks should be closed that Saturday, too.

Note: Lending a hand, here...any nuclear destruction will occur approximately 13 to 8 hours prior to our midnight, assuming Russia's defense follows GMT/Zulu time and early warning failures first get triggered near the Asia/Pac rim (most people will forget Fiji/Tokyo/China/Eastern Russia will roll over hours before us...just as we're chilling our Krug Rose).

Also, China/Russia could preempt a strike and blame it on a Y2K glitch! St. Barts, here I come. With cash (note, not gold), and a Nautor Swan 57.



To: Ken who wrote (6688)7/18/1999 5:28:00 AM
From: John Mansfield  Respond to of 9818
 
'We're not worried about short-term failures," said Pamela Wegner, executive vice president at Alliant Energy, in Madison, Wis. Wegner said she is more concerned about "a slow grinding to a halt of the supply chain." U.S. companies' Y2K plans must consider the possibility of supply disruptions lasting weeks or months.'

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