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To: C.K. Houston who wrote (606)	12/1/1997 8:25:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Respond to of 9818

Freezin' in the Dark in Nebraska ================================================================ Internet Newsgroup comp.software.year-2000, 10/30/1997 "This is a tale of how unprepared I really was to handle no electrical power for an extended period of time. I always thought that I was a little prepared if there was an emergency, but after just completing 4 days without any electricity I now know that I was wrong. "I lost power on Sunday morning, as part of the record breaking snow fall that Omaha and much of the Midwest experienced. For the past 4 days I kept thinking about how much worse the experience could be if my phone and natural gas was also out. I had thought I was prepared because I had a few candles and flash lights and some canned food, but believe me it isn't enough. I finally got unburied from the snow on Monday and went to look for supplies. No candles or batteries were available, any where. There have been many tales of people being rushed to the hospital because of generators being kept in the attached garages, of generators being stolen if left outside, and of house fires due of faulty wood burning fireplaces. At one point it was estimated that there were an average of 10 house-break-ins an hour during the black out. What will it be like in the bigger cities? Chicago? New York? DC? What will it be like in January in the northern Midwest and Canada? "The power company crews that have been working around the clock to get the estimated 100,000 homes without power, back online has been an inspiration. (These outages were not just large grid problems, but they are down to about 10,000 homes that have to have lines reran to the house and reconnected). Yes, they are getting paid overtime! But we all know about those death march projects that you work around the clock to get them done, and after a point you want to say f*** the money! Let me sleep! These guys probably feel the same way! "Upon thinking about this situation, I don't want to have to go through it again and next time compounded with no natural gas or phone service or nice neighbors that help each other out. I am fortunate that I only had myself to worry about, what about the people with little children and babies? or the elderly? "When I started writing this, I was going to urge you all to make sure you are totally stocked with provisions, candles, generator, what ever you need, but about half way through I realized that what I really want to do is urge all of you to get on a Y2K project and work what ever it takes to get the Y2K work done. Preferably for the critical systems which does not just include the utilities, but also the manufactures, the banks, & the governments. Do we really want to see a collapse of our governments? economic systems? or our food supplies? "This is just meant as some food for thought for everyone. Sure we can all run away and hide out on some nice tropical beach, after all we will be able to afford it by then, but what will we return to? And how will our friends and families survive? It is within our power to make things right, just ignore those pointy-heads and get the job done. If you are a geek worth your salt, you are used to ignoring the hand wavers anyway. After all, we will be getting paid to work the long hours. We can always take a year off and sleep if we need to. "Good luck and remember they can't do it with out us!" Tempi Dickinger (tdickinger@aol.com)

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (606)	12/1/1997 9:38:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Respond to of 9818

Some recent Y2K investing-related stories ============================================================ Apocalypse 2000? investor.msn.com New Profits From the Millennium Bug investor.msn.com Y2K -- a Year of Investing Dangerously washingtonpost.com Investors suffer as firms fail to comply computerweekly.co.uk ============================================================ To get on this email list: Just E-mail the word SUBSCRIBE to the address: year2000-announce-request@year2000.com