STORY:
Vegas Better Odds With Y2K Preps

According to The Los Angeles Times, travel agents call Las Vegas the nation's most frequently requested millennium destination. Between 500,000 to 700,000 visitors are expected to flood the gambling mecca for New Year's Eve. That means Las Vegas is expected to attract more people than any other destination in the U.S. except New York City's Times Square. The influx will pack more people into the city than at any time in its history, exaggerating any fallout from Y2K computer problems.

Using their own Y2K and security advisory committees, Las Vegas police have mapped out contingency plans to cover everything from how far apart to space the 1,000 officers who will patrol the two-mile-long Strip to greasing area telephone poles as a way to discourage drunk revelers from scaling them.

Guarding against domino-effect power outages, Nevada Power & Light will minimize transfers from the Western states power grid, relying instead on locally produced electricity to satisfy the city's voracious appetite for power.

And for the first time in history, the city's 50 reservoirs will be filled to capacity for the millennium weekend--1 billion gallons of water on hand to provide a four-day grace period for working out any computer-generated supply problems.

Las Vegas officials say they're ready for the New Year's onslaught. They hope their major task is simply crowd control. There will be security guards posted at the doors of most casinos, a ban on bottles along the Strip and a curfew for minors.

Source: Los Angeles Times

DATE: 5/24/99

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