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Re: Fwd: Y2K Alert - 8/13/1999 - Power outage hits Chicago!



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That you are right.
Buy some candles, batteries, get some cash out and don't fly. 
Electricity could be a problem because of the hardware coded
chips are very difficult to check. Applies to any country, unless
a good number of plants are very new.
As for the cash in the bank, it should be a problem. For convenience,
update your bank books before the year is out.

At 06:01 PM 8/15/99 -0700, Larry Muir wrote:
>This is some info that was forwarded to my email address. it was free. I 
>haven't paid for info yet except when trading...someone said once when they 
>were in a losing trade...I'm just paying for information. That's an 
>interesting observation.
>About this info...I think we are being treated as mushrooms on this Y2K 
>problem.
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>>Subject: Y2K Alert - 8/13/1999 - Power outage hits Chicago!
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>>Just today: Chicago nailed by a costly power outage! The Chicago
>>Board of Trade: shut down. The business district: BLACKED OUT. The
>>Mayor? Daley said, "We're sick and tired of them" (the power company).
>>Daley accused ComED of putting the city residents at risk. Police,
>>fire, and emergency services had NO WARNING of the impending blackout.
>>Residents were milling about the downtown business district, people
>>were stuck in elevators. Y2K Newswire readers called, shouting about
>>suddenly "being convinced Y2K is real!"
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>>SUSPECTED BUT NOT CONFIRMED: ComEd performing Y2K tests. And they're
>>failing! Would ComEd publicly admit they were conducting Y2K tests? Of
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