Floods can be devastating as we have seen in the last few years on the news. We watched the Tsunami in Indonesia and the intensive 2005 Atlantic Tropical Hurricane Season with such infamous named storms as Katrina, Rita and Wilma. We saw other problems this most recent year when the Mississippi River over ran its banks and took out entire towns. Then in 2008 we watched Hurricane Gustav flood the Texas Gulf Coast, wiping out entire neighborhoods and what it left it flooded out.
Floods Happen, and this brings us to a very important consideration for your business. What are you going to do if your business gets flooded out? With floods generally water lines are polluted and unusable. Often, the power is out too. Worse, if your business is flooded, you will have files gone and perhaps computers ruined, but if you have a plan in advance you might be able to avoid a catastrophic disruption in your business endeavors. How so you ask?
Well, if you have computers at another location and you have backed up your data or have a portable removable hard-drive, you can simply take a few laptops to another location and operate from there. You'll need to be ready in advance; you'll need information on how to forward your company telephones and a place to have high-speed internet access. When disaster strikes it often hits entire regions so your "safe place" ought to be quite a distance away.
Next, you need to get with your vendors too, see if they have an extra-office or two to let you borrow, you'll be surprised how easily they can accommodate you and how willing they will be. Your business can survive a catastrophic flooding event. No, it will not be a walk in the park, but you will not lose everything simply due to your failure to plan ahead, think on this.
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