Just now watching news on West Coast(Dish Network). Power to 911 in Orange Co. out today. Didn't catch how long. The anchors last comment on the story parapharased: By the way, officials say it was not Y2K related.

-- Kyle (fordtbonly@aol.com), January 10, 2000

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"By the way, officials say it was not Y2K related."

That's ok, the "officials" can say whatever they like.

Hawk says it is Y2K related.

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), January 10, 2000.

From: Y2K, ` la Carte by Dancr (pic), near Monterey, California

We need a new acronym... OSIWNYR: officials say...

-- Dancr (addy.available@my.webpage), January 10, 2000.

OSIWNYR=Oh, see wiener? LOL

-- Kyle (fordtbonly@aol.com), January 10, 2000.

Looks like they finally found a replacement for that irritating paragraph of boilerplate about "The so-called 'year 2000 problem' is a result of programmers having..." that got shoved into EVERY STEENKIN' ARTICLE for the past year or two.

-- Ron Schwarz (rs@clubvb.com.delete.this), January 10, 2000.