Starting a list of probs that have 'suddenly' popped up on the rollover, but- Gee. They are not Y2k related!

One I noticed listening to Barbara Walters was the French Millenium clock stopping 'Due to rain'...

Someone else posted about a nuke plant shutting down...not Y2K related, of course...

-- Satanta (satanta@zdnetmail.com), December 31, 1999

Answers

Weather-related electrical outage in NZ.

-- Mara (MaraWayne@aol.com), December 31, 1999.

The weather related power outage in NZ was pre roll-over, and occured to a water treatment plant in a town with a population of 3500 people. Power was restored in 15 minutes.

A one hour outage occured in Central Otago NZ when some idiot used a rifle to shoot out an insulator on a power line.

-- Malcolm Taylor (taylorm@es.co.nz), December 31, 1999.

And the nuke plant was here in the USA... perhaps you would take notice that it *isn't* midnight here yet??? Or maybe it was just anticipating Y2K...

-- Me Of Course (geektom@pcgeek.net), December 31, 1999.

Two Canadian National Railway trains had a head-on collision east of Montreal last night. Keep in mind that most chips have been installed for years (and they don't all keep perfect time).

-- Duane Knoblauch (dknoblau@nesbittburns.com), December 31, 1999.

C-Span Blames Signal for Blackout The Associated Press Friday, Dec. 31, 1999; 1:40 p.m. EST

WASHINGTON  First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, architect of millennial festivities a year in the making, was about to claim her spotlight today when coverage on C-SPAN burped and went black.

While news reports on other stations declared smooth technical sailing in countries that had already tipped into 2000, C-SPAN's black screen marked the second time the cable station lost its feed of noontime opening ceremonies for the "America's Millennium" party put together by Clinton's White House Millennium Council.

A "garden variety signal problem"  not the Y2K bug  was to blame, a C-SPAN official said.

"There are dozens of television signals and cameras and pieces of equipment being deployed" to cover the countdown to 2000 and some are bound to have technical difficulties, the official added.

C-SPAN, a nonprofit cable network dedicated to the political process, planned to continue coverage of today's millennium events around Washington.

) Copyright 1999 The Associated Press

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-- S. David Bays (SDBAYS@prodigy.net), December 31, 1999.

2:15PM December 31, 1999 Basel, Switzerland, Europe. toplyrics@mail.com

The largest chemical company in Switzerland has lost all data connections to Sydney shortly after midnight in Sydney (2:00PM in Switzerland). No emails can be sent at the moment and no data transfers are possible. We are working on the problem. I'll keep you uptodate. Angie

-- Uncle Bob (UNCLB0B@AOL.COM), December 31, 1999.

Link to another thread on this topic

-- Uncle Bob (UNCLB0B@AOL.COM), December 31, 1999.

Oops, try this one

-- Uncle Bob (UNCLB0B@AOL.COM), December 31, 1999.

ANKARA, Dec. 31 -- Turkey says it reset the date on computers monitoring an Iraqi oil pipeline from 1999 to 1995 to avoid any Y2K problems.

-- Uncle Bob (UNCLB0B@AOL.COM), December 31, 1999.

Limerick, PA, limerick Nuclear power plant (PECO) near philadelphia anounced that it was shut down today temporarily and that it was not y2k related.

-- Patrick (pmwalshjmj@rocketmail.com), December 31, 1999.