Senators discount Y2K doomsday fears But they say it wouldn't hurt to stock food, water

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Date: March 1, 1999 | Copyright information

The Senate's leading experts on the year 2000 computer problem discounted doomsday scenarios Sunday but said that, as before a snowstorm or a hurricane, it wouldn't hurt to put in a supply of food and water.

Sens. Bob Bennett (R-Utah) and Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.), who lead a Senate panel on the subject known as Y2K, said it could bring on real problems in this country from electrical brownouts to breakdowns in medical equipment. But "we will probably not have meltdown. This will ...

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