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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Mansfield who wrote (4559)	3/12/1999 11:15:00 AM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Well now with Reuters picking it up, we'll start to hear about it in mainstream publications. Guess this will make it more real and believable for some ... NEW YORK(Reuters)- The U.S. National Guard, in preparation for possible Y2K disruptions, will for the first time stage a nationwide communications drill to ensure they can keep in touch if phones, e-mail and faxes fail, officials said Wednesday. During the first week of May, National Guard commanders across the United states will assume it is New Year's Day 2000 and the phones are down. These so-called weekend warriors will test high-frequency radios to make sure the Guard's Washington headquarters can communicate with headquarters in 50 states, three territories and the District of Columbia. ''This is the first time they've done a communications exercise assuming you're not able to use traditional communications equipment,'' National Guard spokesman Jack Hooper said in a telephone interview from Washington ... Two of Washington's top Y2K trouble-shooters on Tuesday said they are now more concerned about the risk of public panic than a collapse of the national infrastructure ... Both experts said one of their top priorities is averting a ''public overreaction'' that could prompt a massive run on banks, gas stations and mutual funds ahead of the turn of the century... biz.yahoo.com Here's something I previously posted re the above: worldnetdaily.com HISTORY: 1) worldnetdaily.com 2) worldnetdaily.com 3) worldnetdaily.com From my files on Y2K, national guard, military, FEMA, etc. Message 8174634 Cheryl P.S. I can't believe Koskinen used "gas stations" in his comment. IMHO reference to runs on gas stations, at this point in time, is what will contribute to "panic". How do you spell r-a-t-i-o-n-i-n-g? <Both experts said one of their top priorities is averting a ''public overreaction'' that could prompt a massive run on banks, gas stations and mutual funds ahead of the turn of the century...>

To: John Mansfield who wrote (4559)	3/12/1999 11:50:00 AM
From: Christine Traut	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

John: Your reference to a National Guard planning exercise in early May confirms information from a friend of mine whom I like to call Bat Man. He's an old telco hand, director of a university telecomm research center and the kind of guy who likes to hang out with FEMA and the Red Cross and the National Guard. He told me that there will be a big National Guard exercise in early May and your article confirms this. I certainly do not want public panic. And I understand that the National Guard has to prepare for anything. But I wonder when average people are going to start wondering - if everything is as rosy as Koskinen is painting it - why are emergency preparedness people going through these rather scary drills. On a national level? Because, my dear friends, Nobody Knows What is Going to Happen. Nobody is going to know either. It's the uncertainty, stupid.