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To: Sawtooth who wrote (1115)	1/18/1999 4:43:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1361

Great post Tim. I remember where I live we had a major snow storm, and over 100 of those 300 ft(or so) towers that carry the high voltage lines came tumbling down. We lost power for 6 hours, others lost it for much longer. It took many many weeks to repair all these towers, but they did it. Interesting, isn't it. Power goes out all the time! And society goes on. Why is Y2K causing the need for generators? If I lived on a farm I would want one, not because of Y2K, but just in case the power goes out from the many reasons it does anyways. Interesting, when the power goes out, the world still turns, the moon still shines, the sun still rises, the stars twinkle in the sky. Peace Man.

To: Sawtooth who wrote (1115)	1/18/1999 7:39:00 PM
From: Tom C	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1361

Tim A. As someone who woke up last Friday because of the absolute silence at 4:00 am, its an interesting situation. It was so quiet that it woke me up. Since all my clocks are electric, I was afraid to go back to sleep for fear of waking up too late to get to work on time. The only way to find out the time was to turn on my laptop computer. As I sat there, in the dark except for the glow off my laptop monitor, the first thing I thought of was Y2K. I immediately ran upstairs and loaded up my shotgun, you never know when ones neighbors that seem so friendly will turn on you. You see, I had candles and batteries for my Sony Walkman and about one hour left on my laptop battery. Then it dawned on me, the warm water was not going to be there for ever, I put the gun aside and took the last warm shower of the weekend under the glow of a failing flashlight. After dressing, btw, do not try to shave in the dark, no matter how much I wanted to protect my "castle", it's really boring sitting around in the dark so I decided to go to work early. My travels to and from work are stories for another time, but I did work the day. When I arrived home from work the neighborhood was still in the dark. I noted ominously a crowd hovering close to my domicile. The milder weather seemed to bring the neighbors out. I was faced with a decision. Should I run for the safety of home or confront the crowd? I decided to meet the multicultural mob I called my neighbors, in less turbulent times, unarmed. To say that is was tense, is an understatement. Everyone was less concerned about themselves then others. So we all bitched and complained about the electricity, community events and what needed to be done to resolve some of the community problems. After the lights had been on for 2 hours our mob broke up because of the cold. All in all, it seems that the great ice storm of 99 knocked down some fences as well as electrical wires. Tom (kinda Tongue-in-cheek)

To: Sawtooth who wrote (1115)	1/18/1999 8:55:00 PM
From: Jeff Redman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1361

"Jeff: I wonder how much faith the thousands of people in Washington that are currently waiting for power restoration after last weeks ice storm would have in a utility company's assurances that everything will be A-OK?" Oh brother!, comparing an ice storm to Y2K?, what a joke, storms happen all the time, but to run around saying look at people out of power because of a storm and that is what is going to happen because of Y2K is ridiculous. Your as bad as those in 73-74 saying we were going to run out of oil in a few years, now there was an accurate forecast. To bad they did not have the Internet back then to really whip up the hysteria over that one.