Got a friend visiting from DC. He has a small company that has been doing remidiation work for the NIH. He said that he has been told that he will be spending about 10 days in one of NIH hospital facilities during roll over. This will be his "home" until the all clear is given. He said that NIH has stored about 40,000 gallons of diesal fuel to power generators. The plan is that they will go off grid about two hours before roll over because they are concerned about the effects of dirty power and hackers. He seems to feel that NIH is in pretty good shape. (I hope so they all get that all important holiday "Columbus Day" off tomorrow)

When I asked him what he is doing about personal preps he said he has stored about ten days worth of food and several cases of bottled water. What will you do about sewerage problem? City system is gravity fed. If water goes down? I hadn't thought of that.

Along with this genius, my bro-in-law is also visiting. He works for the SEC (which by the by is still not compliant). His job is to do back ground checks on businesses seeking to go public. It didn't dawn on him till yesterday that if the electricity goes down the gas station at the corner won't be able to pump gas into his tank. Be afraid folks, be very

-- Duckie (Duckandcover@opps.com), October 10, 1999

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Gawd,

If it wasn't so sad and scary it would be funny.

-- R (riversoma@aol.com), October 10, 1999.

Specialist- A person who learns more and more about less and less until they finally know everything about nothing.

-- Sam (Gunmkr52@aol.com), October 10, 1999.

What, these geniuses don't realize that water and power will both go out by TB2K decree? Better educate them quickly.

-- Flint (flintc@mindspring.com), October 10, 1999.

Flint Duh. What a numbnuts! I didn't say electricity or water will go out. I don't know if they will or won't. I merely pointed out that the perspectives of my two visitors are very limited. They are not spending very much time thinking out of the box.

One would think that a person working on remediation efforts would take at least a moment to reflect on personal ramifications if everything isn't hunky dory. When someone says, "Gee I hadn't thought of that" to something so basic, you start to question how thorough they are in their professional efforts. They are obviously joined by you in the land of "Disc

-- Duckie (Duckandcover@opps.com), October 10, 1999.

Duckie, don't mind Flint, he always thinks inside of a box.

-- ~~~~ (~~~@~~~.xcom), October 10, 1999.

If Flint runs into some of our posters after Y2K (and it's a 8 or 10) they'll probably make sure he never gets OUT of the box. (7 foot by 20 inches by 18 inches) Hope he likes the smell of pine.

-- Lobo (atthelair@yahoo.com), October 10, 1999.

I don't think that Flint's differing opinion merits any implied threats. It seems that we have been over this ground before.

regards,

gene

-- gene (ekbaker@essex1.com), October 10, 1999.

I have this notion that most of the people reading this forum are capable of making their own decisions. This is a forum for comments on Y2K.

Flint's got the right to be wrong. So have I.

We won't know for a while yet whose ideas are right or wrong. Maybe there'll be surprises for everyone.

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), October 11, 1999.

NIH needs at least that much fuel for backup.

There are probably a gzillion and five animal and other experiments in progress which are VERY sensitive to power disruptions. I'm glad they are planning. My very large hospital is on top of their research needs as well. If it's less than a week's worth of disruptions, I think everything will go okay. My fear is that it will be a month or more. This would be VERY bad for many people, and expensive for many more than that.

-- nothere nothere (notherethere@hotmail.com), October 11, 1999.

Health Care, a whole lotta education resulting in a peculiar dumbness.

-- hospital toast (cardboard@ward.00), October 11, 1999.