Disaster Planning or Recovery doesn’t mean just being able to survive a hurricane.  It’s everything else leading up to it and thereafter.  It can be as simple as preventing a loss due to insufficient security systems or as complex as analyzing driving patterns and potential loss due to a poorly maintained vehicle fleet.

Maybe its not even the hurricane you should be worrying about.  Disasters don’t always come with a 48 hour warning.  And if the Risk Avoidance Plan isn’t in place, you could be exposed to huge ‘never even thought of’ losses.

Once you have been subjected to the devastation, the panic sets and the epiphany of   ‘What do I do now'?

  

What should be done to Remediate the problems are of course just as important as the planning that went with it beforehand.  Planning the aftermath is a harsh reality, but nevertheless, a process that should be in place to minimize the emotional pain and recovery costs.

Most Recovery plans are unfortunately a function of mathematics based upon historical probabilities.  Even worse, these numbers feed budget plans.  This ideology of risk management and financial constraints was unfortunately put to the test from the recent Hurricane Katrina.  

As the cliché goes, ‘A Failure to Plan - is a Plan to Failure’.

Remediation