Found this little gem while I was wandering about window-shopping:

http://nrf.com/hot/it/sur2000/conting.htm

Fifty members of the NRF Survival 2000 Project spent two days working through likely failure scenarios, and how to react to them. This section will likely raise more questions than answers, but will get readers thinking.

Most of these scenarios envision temporary service loss. At press time, most observers were saying that, in general, service outages will be relatively short-lived. Protracted service loss, however, could be devastating. If this happens, you may find that key public services are restored to full availability before private businesses are. In addition, private assets may be taken by government to ensure the public health.

Found under "Failure Scenarios." There may be other gems to be mined at this site.

-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), July 19, 1999