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http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=1999/12/3/45221

---------------------------------------------------- NewsMax.com December 3, 1999

Oh, by the Way, Santa Fe: Lights Out

According to the last paragraph of an Albuquerque Journal's Web site story about Y2K problems in Sante Fe, N.M.:

"Officials with the Public Service Company of New Mexico have said they expect a "high probability" that local electrical service will be cut off for a few hours on New Year's Day because of Y2K problems. They have not ruled out the chance of longer outages."

Now, for the first of the story, headlined "Y2K Work Too Fast for Council."

A Journal staff writer covering Santa Fe for the newspaper's ABQjournal.com site led off with:

"The push to get Santa Fe Y2K-compliant is going faster than the City Council can apparently handle."

It went on to explain that the city had already received shipment of a $900,000 diesel backup generator to keep its sewer system from Shutting down in event of a power outage on Jan. 1, 2000, due to the millennium computer bug.

What with the new year, new century and new millennium less than a month away, it seems the city had to scramble to get the generator up and running in time.

"We're working under an emergency now," said Qustandi Kassisieh, the waste-water director.

So much in a hurry are the council members, the Journal reporter wrote Thursday, that the city coughed up another $400,000, without competitive bids, for the generator's supplier to install the thing for them.

That didn't sit too well with Councilor Patti Bushee, who sits on the City Council's finance committee:

"I just don't like it when we do things this way. We had no choice whether or not to do it."

Meanwhile, as the Santa Fe City Council grapples with the expensive consequences of galloping Y2K compliance out at the sewer plant, the rest of the city may, or may not, have read that last paragraph in the local story.

For the latest news on Y2K, links and commentary visit the "Y2K Daily".

-- TruthSeeker (truthseeker@ seektruth.always), December 04, 1999

Answers

Wake up you jerks. Y2K is over. Only the desperately nutty still think like this. You need to find a new hobby. Think how humiliated you'll be when you wake up 1/1/2000 and life is going on same as always.

-- weare (laughing@you.com), December 04, 1999.

weare,

Are you the polly who wrote the first rough draft of the Paul Revere 'midnight warning'? "The British are not coming! The British are not coming!"

-- TruthSeeker (truthseeker@ seektruth.always), December 04, 1999.

Boy, I feel so much better, now that "weare" has told us that Y2K is over. I guess I can ignore Koskinen's recent comments on embedded systems. I guess I'll forget about the recent NIST report. I guess I'll stop worrying about small and medium businesses, including the one where I work. Heck, maybe I'll take the rest of the month off, since my Y2K project must be done.

What happened? Did I sleep for a year? What is the date today, December 4, 2000?

Tick... Tock... <:00=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.om), December 04, 1999.

weare.......,

"Wake up you jerks. Y2K is over".= Only the desperately nutty still think like this

UR2Blame.

-- UR2Blame (upower@jnb.net), December 04, 1999.

So, "weare"'s answer to a city in the midst of spending a grand (unbudgeted) total of $1,300,000 is that they are "desperately nutty". And, on that comment, we are not supposed to worry about the availability of electric power due to Y2K problems.

Pollies ... you really have to wonder sometimes....

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.cum), December 04, 1999.

So-

Let me see if If my small doomer brain can get this......I might be humiliated next year; what a chilling thought. Don't know if I'm secure enough to handle it.

OTOH, I MIGHT be warm, fed, safe, and able to read a book at night, whilst "weare" spoons dogfood out of a can it found in the dumpster behind walmart.....

quite a risk the pollies are willing to take. I even admire their balls considering the stakes they are willing to flout.

-- cavscout (amazed@polly.balls), December 04, 1999.

These polly idiots and their mindless postings are sure amusing. Like we're supposed to take the word of a moron who can't post anything resembling basic facts. I don't even do that on the doomer side. LOL

-- Dolly Llama (DollyLlama@Tibet.com), December 04, 1999.