Can anyone comment on the likelihood that the supply of natural gas to residences will or will not continue, as per various levels of y2k disruption? Electricity is not required for some natural gas heaters, so if gas continues to flow, this would be a trustworthy source of heat. If not, I need a woodburner. My location is southern British Columbia. Thanks.

-- mark hoffmann (hoffmann@ucfv.bc.ca), February 09, 1998

Answers

However, most heaters utilize an electric fan to push the hot air up into the house and to run the air exchanges.

I would imagine many would be without gas anyway...

-- Scott R Walters (swalters@nesbittburns.ca), February 09, 1998.

There probably will be some problems as I read a report that I can't put my hands on right now about a utility that was ahead of the game and was testing their system to discover that the monitors on the valves in the pipelines having a problem with Y2K and shutting off. They estimated that it would have taken about 6 weeks to fix post-Y2k.

I would buy a wood-burner as a back-up.

-- Rebecca Kutcher (kutcher@pionet.net), February 10, 1998.

I found a great site for utilities information (I'm kinda new at this). I wondered about Natural Gas availability...this article doesn't make me rest easy. http://universalprosthesis.com/Y2K/pages/industry/Yutil.html I found it while browsing http://www.itpolicy.gsa.gov/mko/yr2000/new.html (I hope the links workk, I've never done this before)

-- Kay P (y2Kay@usa.net), June 02, 1998.