Was anyone really surprised by the results of recent household poll[1] in Hurricane prone areas that found “83 percent had taken no steps to fortify their homes this year, 68 percent had no hurricane survival kits and 60 percent had no family disaster plan”.
Israel has just experienced over a month of indiscriminate bombarded by Katusha’s and long range high explosive rockets from Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon. The target has always been and continues to be Israel’s civilian population. The primary goal is to strike fear in the hearts of people, disrupt normal life and cripple the economy. Long term research into the adaptive behavior of people being terrorized and how small and corporate businesses have dealt with these issues, have long been part of Israel’s ongoing effort to find practical ways to ameliorate these damaging effects.
When put to the test, most business continuity plans fail to meet their basic minimum objectives (Devargas, 1999). This may be partly because such “emergency plans” are likely to have been a standard plan pulled off the internet so as to satisfy federal or local regulations.
