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To: C.K. Houston who wrote (2966)	12/19/1998 1:46:00 PM
From: jwk	Respond to of 9818

I attended a meeting the other night in our small, very rural, western Colorado mnt. valley.... Larger community meeting is being planned for 1/14. County Emergency Director has committed to attend. We plan to have several other resource people such as a spokes-persons from the major county hospital/regional truama center, rural power cooperative, Dept. of Transportation, natural gas pipeline (we're thick with gas wells in the valley) etc. present for a panel discussion focusing on general y2k information from their various perspectives. The basic focus question is: From your agencies point of view, what preparation should a reasonable and prudent person make for possible y2k disruptions? The goal at this point is on providing general information. People can draw their own conclusions.

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (2966)	12/19/1998 2:49:00 PM
From: jwk	Respond to of 9818

Looks like the recent SF area wide blackout was caused by a failure of the backup system..... not good news for keeping faith in the ability of the national power grid to handle the load of potential y2k glitches. sfgate.com ** Backups Should Have Stopped Blackout in Its Circuits PG&E lapses did more harm than crew, PUC says Kenneth Howe, Chronicle Staff Writer Tuesday, December 15, 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ When the state Public Utilities Commission meets Thursday to begin its formal investigation into last week's huge power blackout, state investigators say they will be zeroing in on a series of shortcomings in Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s previously untested backup plan to protect San Francisco from power failures. PUC engineers already have indicated that they are far more concerned about the apparent failure of critical safety backstops at the utility -- procedures that have been in place for decades but have never really been tested -- than they are over the blunder by a four-person repair crew that tripped off the blackout. ......(much more...)***