Puget Sounders - Y2K meetings

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Attention Puget Sounders - Seattle PI this morning says - "Panel of experts will answer your Y2K questions". Lists meetings as follows:

Oct. 25 7:00pm to 8:30pm - Auburn Riverside High - theatre

Oct. 26 10:00am to 11:30am - Highline Community Hospital - Somers Auditorium - Burien

Oct. 27 7:00pm to 8:30pm - Shoreline Community College - main dining room.

Doors open 30 min. prior.

Panelist will represent the county Office emergency Management, Puget Sound Energy, Seattle City Light,/Public Utilities, US West, Sea-Tac Intn'l Airport, Wa. State Dept. of Transportation ,and the state Y2K office. Others will represent Washington state bankers, Social Security, Medicare, Group Health and the US Coast Guard, and other local government agencies and hospitals.

Not sure we will go - sounds like you will be receiving the same ol' tired lines of we'll be OK, keep your money in the bank and no one knows for sure...

Admission is free. (Does this mean you get what you pay for? {:-)

-- Valkyrie (Anon@please.xnet), October 18, 1999

Answers

We went to the Kitsap County panel discussion on Saturday in the Kitsap Pavilion. Very low turnout, of course, and we in the choir sat around preaching to each other. I thanked several of the presenters for caring enough to show up, but that's a meager substitute for what we all really wanted - a big crowd.

Sounds like Bremerton is very much up to speed. Sounded like Harrison Hospital is less excited - no added inventory for Y2k. No discussion of fuel problems by any panel member.

The most interesting thing was that everyone on the panel took Y2k seriously. Nobody said Y2k is no problem; they all said we don't know what happens next, so be ready.

We were supposed to have utilites represented, but none showed up. I got grapevine word that this will be SOP for utilities - promise to show, then skip it. My grape says that the lawyers want the utilities to totally clam, and that's the best way to do it. Not sure whether my grape is on the level. (For some reason, I enjoyed writing that!)

-- bw (home@puget.sound), October 18, 1999.


BW

Sounds "reasonable" to me. One of our best friends and neighbors called his brother who is a supe at Seattle City Light. He says no way way will they be ready and they are concentrating on contingency plans (read generators) for Pill Hill and 911 and not much else. Another neighbor who is a supe for Puget Sound Energy first told us that all would be fine. A couple weeks later he admitted that if PSE pulls off the grid, that they only produce 32% of their own power - and guess where that will go - not to us folks in the counrty - that is for sure. Business partner works for Boeing at Boeing Field. He talked to a driver who brought in 1 of six of those big Semi sized gens and he said there were "a lot more" of those being delivered to a lot of Boeing plants from Everett to Auburn. Boeing doesn't want to loose all those expensive machines because they get shut down due to power outages. Still rather be prepared - better to have and not need than to need and not have...

-- Valkyrie (anon@please.xnet), October 18, 1999.


We were supposed to have utilites represented, but none showed up. I got grapevine word that this will be SOP for utilities - promise to show, then skip it. My grape says that the lawyers want the utilities to totally clam, and that's the best way to do it. Not sure whether my grape is on the level. (For some reason, I enjoyed writing that!)

-- bw (home@puget.sound), October 18, 1999. The meetings I have gone to have always had the power guys there. They publicly could not guarentee, but privatly they said there would be no problems.******

BW

Sounds "reasonable" to me. One of our best friends and neighbors called his brother who is a supe at Seattle City Light. He says no way way will they be ready

What is this third person removed a supervisor of? janitorial services?

and they are concentrating on contingency plans (read generators) for Pill Hill and 911

That would be the smartest thing to do, cover the majority of the hospitals that are bundled in the same area. Although, if I'm not mistaken, the new 911 facility has just opened in West Seattle.

and not much else. Another neighbor who is a supe for Puget Sound Energy first told us that all would be fine.

A couple weeks later he admitted that if PSE pulls off the grid, that they only produce 32% of their own power

(did you have to badger him over and over to answer to that possibility) - and guess where that will go - not to us folks in the counrty - that is for sure. That is your own assumption?

Business partner works for Boeing at Boeing Field. He talked to a driver who brought in 1 of six of those big Semi sized gens and he said there were "a lot more" of those being delivered to a lot of Boeing plants from Everett to Auburn. Boeing doesn't want to loose all those expensive machines because they get shut down due to power outages. That is noy true,Boeing will not loose any expensive machines due to power outages, they will loose "time" if the power goes down. Boeing usually shuts down completly for two weeks over the holidays anyway, so even if they experience problems, they will have plenty of time to fix them. Still rather be prepared - better to have and not need than to need and not have... YEP -- Valkyrie (anon@please.xnet), October 18, 1999.



-- Cherri (sams@brigadoon.com), October 19, 1999.


The Shoreline meeting sounds like one I would like to go to, unless it would scare others off by my being there *grin*. Who do I contact to get directions etc?

-- Cherri (sams@brigadoon.com), October 20, 1999.

Cherri, yeah, I didn't take my grape too seriously. He has highly placed connections, but also has a certain sense of humor.

-- bw (home@puget.sound), October 20, 1999.


valkary you are a liar. stop lying about power. you don't know what you are talking about.

-- stopthebs (you@bs.lots), October 20, 1999.

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