If the company is like this now you may be having all kinds of fun when the Y2K stuff hits the fan! LOL Sounds like you may have to lay in some emergency stores for light and chow if you have a all electric kitchen. Thank goodness for the garden pantry! Hope you can stay at least a little cool. bsk@brightok.net zone 7a aka " Ranchmama " **************************************** ----- Original Message ----- From: George Shirley <gshirley@laol.net> Entergy bought out the local power company we have had more outages and less workers. They now have one lineman who takes care of this large area, if it gets really bad they hire contractors. All the meter readers were laid off and that was contracted out. Entergy has, I believe, two nuke plants and both are having problems staying on line. They also laid off all their safety people at the local power plant and the asst. plant manager now handles that function. George