Morrinsville 11:42 31-Dec-99 WAI01 Water Loss of power water plant. Suspected cause is strong winds. Minimal as the town still has water

... So 45 minute lag time on the offical NZ gov site.

-- merville (merville@globalnet.co.uk), December 31, 1999

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link>http://www.y2k.govt.nz/home/Navigationpage.htm

-- Vern (bacon17@ibm.net), December 31, 1999.

I also saw that, did you notice the "official" statement was no incidents of any significance have been reported. If you didn't notice the yellow dot on the map, you would have missed this report. Interesting!

-- Tom (tcgmtnman@spiralcomm.net), December 31, 1999.

Also, their clock on the web site is 1 hour out ..... Or is it Netscape 4.7 under Linux doing wierd things ....

-- merville (merville@globalnet.co.uk), December 31, 1999.

Got it - The time on the map on the front of the site is not 'real time'. So their reporting is really over an hour out ....

-- merville (merville@globalnet.co.uk), December 31, 1999.

I wouldn't read too much into that...

However, Peter Jennings just said, almost under his breath, that there were brief power outages in Auckland and Wellington, but they only lasted a few minutes...

-- (pshannon@sangersreview.com), December 31, 1999.

Maybe not, but I would be surprised if .gov didn't use a reporting time lag to their advantage.

-- merville (merville@globalnet.co.uk), December 31, 1999.

Very interesting. I think if there was any problems, they wouldn't report it anyway...or, they will spin it and make it sound good.

-- Mello1 (mello1@ix.netcom.com), December 31, 1999.

Dittos Mello.

-- bardou (bardou@baloney.com), December 31, 1999.