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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