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Minnesota Power Warns Customers to Prepare for Brief Y2K Power Outages.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 13 -- COHASSET, Minn. -- Pick up an extra gallon of milk, a loaf of bread and maybe a few gallons of gas on Dec. 31.

Minnesota Power officials say the utility's 100,000 electrical customers should prepare for the Y2K issue as they would for a severe storm, but shouldn't experience any major interruptions in electrical service when the year 2000 arrives.

"What we're going to see that morning is that (electrical generation) units may trip off, but the service will still hold up," said Andrew Lucero, Minnesota Power's director of information technology and services. "When people approach me on the street in a big panic about ...

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