Here's an interesting article regarding installation of diesel generators in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Check out the last couple of sentences in the article (I won't spoil the surprise - you've gotta read the article).

Link to Albuquerque Journal article

-- Anonymous, December 02, 1999

Answers

Wow, Rick, this is serious stuff.

I guess New Mexico is one of those "Local" areas...

Jon

-- Anonymous, December 02, 1999

Amazing how they're so willing to spend so much money to prepare for an outage that might last "for a couple of hours on New Year's Day." You might think by their actions that they're planning on a longer outage. Nah-can't happen; only a wierdo-conspiracy-doomer would think that.

Makes one ponder, don't it?

-- Anonymous, December 02, 1999

During the ice storm of January 1998, the City of Montreal lost two of its three high-tension links to the city and it was one hour away from losing water.

They did not inform the public about the water crisis.

Reference here

-- Anonymous, December 02, 1999

I didn't think it would take too terribly long for Public Service of New Mexico to respond. ;-) Here it is, in it's entirety - the press release from PNM (original is at their website, www.pnm.com):

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, December 2, 1999

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Don Brown, (505) 241-0837 / 790-6057 (pager)

"Yes, We’re Ready."
Clarification of PNM’s Status for Y2K

An article in this morning’s Journal North section of the Albuquerque Journal incorrectly represented Public Service Company of New Mexico’s readiness for the Y2k rollover on New Year’s eve. We are working with the Journal North for either a clarification or retraction of the error in reporting.

In fact, PNM has reported that its systems that are critical to the production of electricity and the delivery of both gas and electricity are Y2k ready. In early August, the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC), which is monitoring the readiness of utilities around the country, placed PNM on its list of utilities that are Y2k ready. Additional information on PNM’s Y2k readiness and the NERC can be found at www.pnm.com.

After three years of systematic testing and correction of its mission-critical systems, PNM believes that voltage and frequency variations, not Y2k-related outages, are the most likely events within its service area during the millennial rollover.

YEAR 2000 Readiness Disclosure: This information is a Year 2000 Readiness Disclosure pursuant to the Year 2000 Information and Readiness Disclosure Act. Pub.L. No. 105-271, 112 STAT.2386 (1998).

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There ya go. Feel better now? (I didn't think so...)

-- Anonymous, December 03, 1999