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Technology Stocks : Y2K (Year 2000) Personal Contingency Planning -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jwk who wrote (223)	4/28/1998 3:07:00 AM
From: vpelt	Respond to of 888

jwk: As an isolated incident it could be representative of isolated incidents caused by Y2K. As to being representative of Y2K in and of itself is a huge stretch. First of all you have a totally unexpected emergency where people are stuck in the dark in tunnels either catching an originating flight, catch a connecting flight or finally arriving to their final destination. Y2K problems will not come as a complete surprise in this fashion. You can argue it'll surprise a few or many but in this incident I would be willing to bet and give odds that not one of those passengers expected the situation they found themselves in. Flights and appointments missed, schedules all screwed up and who knows what else. Tempers flared and people lashed out, "scene became near riotous, etc etc." Seems to me the breakdown by the masses was not beyond the scope of the breakdown they were experiencing. The report states "5000 thousand passengers were affected" yet not one incident of physical assault or property destruction; no one hospitalized by an outbreak of violence. Sorry but to me the bottom line on this incident seems pretty tame considering all the facts in the article. Anyway, that's my perspective on that one. vpelt