The experts preparing against technological mayhem in 2000 are worried. They're fretting about a movie.
Power failures sweep the Eastern Seaboard.
Commercial jet instruments fail. A nuclear power plant teeters on the brink of a meltdown. This is not what Y2K wonks expect to happen in the wee hours of Jan. 1, and they're worried viewers will react to Y2K the way listeners did to Orson Welles' infamous radio depiction of Martian landings in The War of the Worlds . Nuclear plants aren't going to melt down. Airplanes aren't going to fall out of the sky.