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Strategies & Market Trends : A Y2K (Year 2000) Depression Worldwide Crash -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: charger who wrote (22)	12/11/1998 5:36:00 AM
From: Follies	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28

We might end up with the worst of the problems because we are the most technologlically advanced. I've been to many countries that haven't yet conquered the Y1.9K problem yet, they will surely be less affected. RE: The recent San Francisco outage, A Pacific Gas & Electric Co. construction crew working on high-voltage lines at the utility's main San Mateo substation didn't disconnect a safety ground line before turning on the juice again, said utility officials, likening it to sticking a live wire into a sink full of water. www7.mercurycenter.com Doesn't mention Y2K, So are you saying this is bullsh*t ?

To: charger who wrote (22)	12/11/1998 11:52:00 PM
From: Michael Cash	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28

I went nearly 30 days without electricity after Hurricane Hugo. In fact, so did the rest of Charleston County--about 300,000 people. Odd thing was, traffic moved fairly smoothly everywhere I drove, amazing considering there were no traffic lights that were functional. We cooked on a gas BBQ grill, read by candlelight, took cold showers, and retired early in the evenings. Saw no looting in a city which is almost 50% black. Is this a fair analogy to y2k?--probably not...