- Under L.A., ready for Y2K! Five stories
below the Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles there is a secret computer
command center -- a command center that has enough power, food and water
to sustain 50 people for two years!
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- The DRUDGE REPORT has learned, the bunker,
named ATSAC [Automated Traffic Signal And Control], would become a high-tech
command center used to monitor any civil unrest during a Y2K breakdown!
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- The compound is reached by a secret elevator
located on the parking level of the Federal Building.
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- In order to gain access to the ATSAC
area you must pass through 4 bank-style vault doors.
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- The city's high-tech bunker has been
designed to survive a San Andreas rip and a nuclear explosion.
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- The main area of the complex is a large
space with one 180 degree semi-circular wall stretching along one half
of the room.
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- Feeling and looking like a STAR TREK
set, the lower work area has dozens of computer consoles, which will be
powered by diesel fuel generators if power is cut.
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- The upper wall is filled with two rows
of 40 large flat panel display screens -- screens that monitor views from
remote controlled cameras placed throughout the Los Angeles area.
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- "These cameras are our eyes,"
one government source tells the DRUDGE REPORT.
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- One camera pans across the infamous Florence
and Normandie intersection. One camera is mounted on the South East corner
of the MTA building; another is on the North West. One camera is at the
corner of Cesar Chavez and Vignes looking out on the intersection by the
new city jail.
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- One camera placed on the roof of a 28-story
building has demonstrated dramatic zoom capabilities. With the camera,
you could spot a pimple on someone's face on street level.
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- The DRUDGE REPORT has not been able to
learn how many cameras have been placed throughout the city, but most appear
to be mounted on public buildings.
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- The city council and the mayor would
ride out a social breakdown episode inside of ATSAC, according to one emergency
plan.
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- Suggestions that officials should be
moved to the bunker before New Years Day Y2K, so far, have been met with
complete resistance.
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- "Nobody in their right mind wants
to watch the dawn of a new century from five floors below Los Angeles,"
laughed one well-placed City Hall source.
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- The bunker, built with local and federal
tax revenue, is strictly off limits to the general public.
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