What Did Katrina Teach You?
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Buy A Home After A Disaster With Government Help
Buying a home after a disaster seems like an overwhelming task, but the government provides some help through a FHA program, 203h. By making available mortgage insurance to disaster victims, borrowers may finance the purchase of a home or rebui...Full Article

Three Lessons Katrina Should Have Taught Us
Three Lessons Katrina Should Have Taught Us By Jared N. Sorensen I have listened with a certain degree of sad amusement to all the political and media hoopla about what went wrong with the Hurricane Katrina disaster response. Fingers are pointed...Full Article

Are You Ready for an Emergency?
Hurricane Katrina, closely followed by hurricane Rita, should have taught us all a workable lesson or two about the value of being prepared. For one thing it is not wise to think that someone else, especially Big Brother, will bail you out, ...Full Article

Business Continuity Testing
Disaster Recovery is not Business Continuity. Many businesses do not have full business continuity plans. They say they do have business continuity plans but they really mean that they have a disaster recovery plan, usually meaning that they ha...Full Article

Why our Nations Communications System Needs Urgent Overhaul To Prevent More Unthinkable Disasters
Much of the chaos in New Orleans could have been avoided if police, fire and emergency personnel had been able to communicate with their command centers and with each other. Failure to communicate turned a natural disaster into an unthinkable disas...Full Article