The disaster-recovery lessons we learned after Katrina

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http://www.csoonline.com/article/2977193/disaster-recovery/the-disaster-recovery-lessons-we-learned-after-katrina.html

By Tony Bradley
CSO
Aug 28, 2015

A decade ago New Orleans and the Gulf Coast of the United States were 
devastated by the sixth strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded. The 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration claims Hurricane Katrina 
was the most destructive storm to ever strike the United States.

The destruction from the hurricane itself, and the subsequent flooding 
that put most of New Orleans underwater knocked many businesses out of 
commission—and more than a few completely out of existence. Thankfully, we 
have learned a lot of hard lessons in the wake of Hurricane Katrina that 
businesses can use to be better-prepared for the next major disaster.

An article from USA Today in 2007—two years after Hurricane 
Katrina—estimates that 7,900 businesses in New Orleans and southeast 
Louisiana went out of existence as a result of Katrina. Some of those 
businesses failed as a result of lost revenue resulting from nearly half a 
million people displaced from the region, but many of those businesses 
failed as a direct result of the destruction and impact the storm had on 
their ability to continue operating.

For some of the smallest businesses there really is no solution—no way to 
guard against a catastrophe like Katrina or prepare to handle the next 
major disaster. Companies that are dependent on physical location or rely 
exclusively on revenue from local customers will always by heavily 
impacted by an event like Katrina. However, many businesses did learn the 
hard way that there are things that can and should be done to increase 
resiliency and facilitate business continuity during a major catastrophe.

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