Utilities promise the outlook is bright.
Financial institutions say bank on our preparedness. And the nation's 10 largest airlines and the 565 airports subject to federal oversight report no Y2K safety issues. Even so, there will be some glitches. A recent audit by the Department of Housing and Urban Development's inspector general, for example, found that public housing authorities in eight of nine cities checked were seriously behind in the Y2K repair work. K hype has been more overblown than that for Comet Kohoutek, the monumental celestial dud of 1976.