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

To: Bill on the Hill who wrote (584)	12/9/1998 5:10:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 888

Bill, I am not actually IN Washington, D.C. proper. I am just over the border, In Montgomery County, Maryland. Montgomery County, incidentally, set up a Y2K Commission back in 1996 (before the state itself got into the act). It has spent a good deal on Y2K fixes already. Plan to look into what it is doing currently. The local electric company (Pepco) also seems to be more on the ball than most power companies (which isn't saying much of anything). Secondly, I have good neighbors, and a handy son living about 15 minutes away. Important for someone like me, an all-thumbs klutz. I have heard it said, incidentally, that unless we have MAJOR, CATASTROPHIC disruptions, it may be better to be in a metropolitan area (not the "inner city"), simply because when lesser disruptions occur, more populated areas get attention before less populated areas do. Those folks sitting out in the woods won't get their power turned on as soon as the suburbanites will. And then, of course, there is the hot air here....:-) (And even without it, it is warmer down here than in Colorado.) jbe