FC: DC officials say buy generators; NY and European responses

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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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."

[...]

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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. 

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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.

[...]

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