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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Posada [mailto:jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 10:11 AM
> To: Bonnie Granat; TECHWR-L
> Subject: RE: Tech Comms for disaster relief
>
> > If you ran a company located in New Orleans, chances are you
> > had a disaster recovery plan in place. Those companies who are
> > now implementing
>
> Why? Is it a law in New Orleans that a company must have this in
> place? What makes corporations in New Orleans different than other
> cities, because my experience is that companies from all over are ill
> prepared for disaster recovery.
>
I'm not certain of this, but I highly suspect it, because they all knew this
exact situation was coming one day. They've known for years that a direct
hit would flood the city..
> BTW...I was in the field of disaster prevention in a previous
> profession, from the perspective of offsite backup of corporate
> hardcopy records, microfilming corporate records for off-site
> storage, climate controlled storage of microfilm, computer tapes and
> optical disk.
>
Yes, and if they need to set up a new operation, they will need employees
that are local to their new operation's location. That was the meaning of my
post. Companies that used to be in New Orleans may now be in Houston -- or
anywhere.
Bonnie Granat | http://www.GranatEdit.com
bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com
Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
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