The approximate range of downtime between December of 1999 and when the Y2K problem will be completely fixed could be anywhere from three months to more than a year. Obviously, the government is involved in making sure that items are prioritized. A program fixing your VCR has a lesser priority to something like assuring that toilet water does not end up coming out of our sinks.
More important than the security of the nation, however, is the fact that WHIM may or may not be up and running.* In the event of a WHIM failure, President Clinton will issue a state of emergency and evacuate the city of Radford. After all, there is no point in being a student at RU without WHIM, is there? :)
*This is, of course, assuming you have power, your computer works, your modem can successfully connect to a Y2K compliant phone station, connected to a Y2K compliant satellite (so far not in existence), and that you can get online anyhow.
But don't take my word for it. Do your own research, and find out what you need to do for you and your loved ones. Then, when Dick Clark comes on the tube, you can truly party like it's 1999.
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God, this is scary as hell.
