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This is where all the recruiting and assessing and planning comes together. If you can get at this quickly, there may be several preludes to the main event where you can try out your plans (the 12, 9, 6, and 3-month "lookahead" failures).
It is my sincere hope that all of these failures, including the actual Y2k rollover, are complete "non-events" and turn out to be well-planned lifeboat drills. Celebrate them if they are! Enjoy the company of your fellow volunteers, learn from the exercise and share what you learn with others.
If your team encounters real failures, make sure that you take the time to learn from the responses you make. Celebrate those things that went well, celebrate what you learned, recognize those who made heroic efforts.
Here are some of the things that you could do
Early 1999
- Monitor systems for 12-month "look ahead" year 2000 problems
- Respond to the problems
Spring 1999
- Monitor systems for 9-month "look ahead" year 2000 problems
- Respond to the problems
Summer 1999
- Monitor systems for 6-month "look ahead" year 2000 problems
- Respond to the problems
Fall 1999
- Monitor systems for 3-month "look ahead" year 2000 problems
- Respond to the problems
Beginning of the year 2000
- Community prep team on 24-hour duty for first two weeks
- Year 2000 hotline on 24-hour duty (if phones are working)
- Surveillance against reinfection (if computers are working)
- Emergency food and shelter
- Police, fire and volunteer emergency security teams
- Year 2000 emergency physical repairs
- Emergency communications
- Year 2000 emergency software repairs
- Manual backups for key activities
Spring 2000
- Initial assessment of Year 2000 urban damages
- Survey of Y2k damages and repairs
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