The Utilities Confront Y2K The clock strikes midnight of the Year 2000 and suddenly the lights go out with chaos erupts throughout the country. Stores are being looted, riots are breaking out, and more seriously massive destruction occurs nearly destroying the Earth. Although this frightening scenario is extremely improbable, Y2K (Year 2000) is an enormous problem most have to scale quickly. Day and night engineers work diligently to complete the Y2K compliance effort. Problems can easily be identified, however the time needed to fix the problemed area can be a very time consuming task with which time is a very limiting factor. Each business, therefore, needs to be in the process