The Navy came out with a report in June that listed all the cities at risk in the U.S. due to Y2k vulnerability. Although authenticated ...then later down played by czar Koskinen, "total failure is likely" for 44 American cities. 38 additional cities were listed as ""Partial failure is likely" and 43 cities listed as "Partial failure is probable." Approx 125 cities and 26 million Americans are at risk. Jim Lord has posted this info on his site with over 8 million hits. the info. is also available thru the freedom of Information Act. Many of the cities are sites were there are ports etc. the Navy uses and relies on non-military utilities. It is almost certain that other branches have had to ascertain risks too...i.e. army, etc. Many of the cities have multiple utilities being effected. The utilities critiqued are: Elect., h2o, gas, and sewage. As mentioned earlier, the report, when released to Jim Lord was immediately buried in canards. The list was entitled: "MASTER UTILITY LIST" HIGHLIGHTS: Dallas no water, D.C. no gas, San Antonio no water or elec. While I respect the foresight (sic) that some officials may have to avoid panic....are we not in a republic and they are our "public servants"?? being forthright with us as adults is the least one could expect. In June 0f 1999 , its release time, there could have been time to make adequate and appropriate plans.

Less than 70 days and the silence is deafening

-- EJH (hilgendorf-e@mail.mssc.edu), October 26, 1999

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The media silence is certainly deafening.

But there are thousands reading these threads, and talking with our neighbors and families. Some listen, some don't. Two years ago my family thought I was a kook. Now my family is 100% GI, all but one are prepped pretty well. My neighbors listened and most are prepped. My community is coming along.

Don't wait for the newspapers or the TV - to them this has never been more than a funny story about survivalists in the woods. It will get unfunny pretty soon, but not soon enough to do any good.

Keep on reading, keep on talking about it, keep on prepping. If you got it a year ago, you're prepped now and can stand back from the store while the late arrivals do their buying. A month from now the late arrivals can stand back, and let the slow learners clean the shelves.

It's not as good as we could have done with real political leadership,. But we couldn't have done nearly as well as we have, if not for the Internet and these pages. We all owe a great deal to Phil Greenspun, whatever his Y2k take, for making this forum possible. And I owe a great deal to all of you who have given me good ideas.

Media silence? Yeah, too bad, let's get on with business.

-- bw (home@puget.sound), October 27, 1999.

Ah, yes. The press that didn't raise the hue and cry... If Y2K is bad enough, they will be discredited, along with the administration. But will it make any difference to the public?

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), October 28, 1999.

Hi, I tried to find this info on Jim Lord's site, but didn't have much time to look around. Does anyone have a URL for this Navy report? I'd love to see the list of cities and what is said about each one. Thank you.

-- Amy Marsh (canaryclub@aol.com), October 29, 1999.

Go to Lord's site; click on What's New?; Click on tthe September 26 Update, at which point a long essay appears with hotlinks to various Navy documents, including a few MUL spreadsheets and the DOD Commanders Y2K Handbook. For a better time go to Lord's home page, click "Forums" and then click on Septemer 26 and October 3 Navy Lists: thsi will bring up links to revised MUL's issued this fall, some of which have what P. Berry referred to as "hidden columns of "3's", hidden in the Excel spreadsheet -- click to open nonexistent "Column R".

-- Roch Steinbach (rochsteinbach@excite.com), November 01, 1999.