In South Korea, an apartment building suffered some problems when its heat and hot water was shut off. The residents were a little colder on New Years, but heat was eventually restored. |
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 Update #2 Television by Candlelight
A power plant in Wisconsin experienced a small problem with its monitoring systems when a computer's clock jumped ahead 35 days, but the problem was quickly corrected and service never stopped. Seven nuclear power plants around the U.S. reported some problems with their monitoring systems, but everything was fixed and nobody else noticed. Before New Years, the telephone companies were expecting a strain on the phone system. Not because of Y2K, but they expected more people to pick up the phone to check if they worked. Indeed, more people than usual gave their family or friends a ring right after midnight, but it was about the same volume as a busy Mother's Day.
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![[bob in front of nuclear power plant]](nuclear.gif)
After
that big disco ball slid down the pole in Time Square, you may have held
your breath or restacked your boxes of dehydrated soup, but you probably
didn't lose your lights, heat, or water. Most people didn't. The Y2K bug
showed up in a few places around the world, but an army of technicians
jumped on everything that came up and nobody suffered for very long.