One of the boys had been submerged in icy water for nearly 10 minutes. The other was pulled from knee-deep water. Their names had not been released. Newtown and Bethel firefighters were credited with the season's first ice rescue. Systems affected could include everything from banks to hospitals to air traffic control.
Some religious leaders foresee a disaster of biblical proportions.
Pat Robertson, onetime Republican presidential contender and head of the Christian Broadcast Network, has a Web page on the Internet devoted to the Y2K problem. The company still plans to maintain the waste in the plant's storage pool, said Connecticut Yankee spokeswoman Kelley Smith. But because the federal government continues to delay creating a national permanent storage sight for the spent fuel, they want to keep their options for storage open, she said.