PLC fails, Tacoma Sheraton evacuates tower, Nothing in news

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Been waiting to see some report of the PLC failure which shut off water to one tower at Tacoma Sheraton Hotel on New years rollover causing circulating pump to run dry and burn up. No water meant that part of hotel had to be evacuated. No news means you aint hearing about Y2K failures folks unless you happen to be the one immediately impacted by the failure. Things are happening all over but nobody's talking about them.

-- Anon Thistime (job@risk.com), January 09, 2000

Answers

That's why we NEED these posts.

-- Pam (jpjgood@penn.com), January 09, 2000.

This was caused by a Y2K bug in the PLC.

-- (pete322@burten.org), January 09, 2000.

thanks for the report. not to jeopardize your job or anything (because hopefully it is a large enough place and you are not the only computer person there) but do you work there, is this how you know?

-- tt (cuddluppy@aol.com), January 09, 2000.

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