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FC: DC officials say buy generators; NY and European responses
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 15:48:41 -0500
--- http://www.washtimes.com/metro/news4-19991228.htm District of Columbia officials are urging residents to prepare for more than a week without private and public services as the new year approaches, though most other jurisdictions have advised being prepared for only a few days. The D.C. Emergency Management Agency's "Y2K Preparedness Guide" tells readers to "store a supply of seven to ten days worth of nonperishable foods per person." It also warns residents to "set aside enough cash to meet living expenses for at least a one-month period" and "consider renting or purchasing a generator." [...] ---- http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/regional/ny-emergency-2000.html ALBANY, Dec. 23 -- When New York City's crisis managers convene to track any chaos attending the arrival of the Year 2000, they will ride express elevators from the paneled lobby of 7 World Trade Center to the 23rd floor of the black glass tower. Officials outside the central control room of the city's emergency operations center there will have striking views of New York Harbor and Lower Manhattan. When New York State's emergency management team convenes on the same day here, the officials will clank down cement stairs, pass under a foot-thick steel hatch held up by hydraulic pistons, and go to work deep in an artificial hill on the outskirts of town. Views? Forget about it. Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's $13 million emergency operations center may have gained the nickname "bunker" when it opened last February, but the state's real bunker belongs to Gov. George E. Pataki. The state's command post for emergencies sits in a 40-year-old 2-level bomb shelter built during the prime cold war years as the post-nuclear seat of state government. [...] ---- http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/afp/article.html?s=singapore/h eadlines/991228/world/afp/Bug__parties_and_security_stretch_resources.html Bug, parties and security stretch resources PARIS, Dec 28 (AFP) - With just days to go before the year is counted out, governments are having to stretch their resources between catering for the needs of revellers, preparing for possible chaos as a result of the millennium bug, and guarding against breaches of security. In Europe, their task has been complicated by the arrival this week of one of the worst storms to hit the continent since records began. [...] --- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology To subscribe: send a message to majordomo () vorlon mit edu with this text: subscribe politech More information is at http://www.well.com/~declan/politech/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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