US Cities not ready for disaster

A story in today's USA Today documents the results of a recent survey of 183 cities which found that:

eight in 10 cities say their emergency responders still can't communicate with each other or area towns, 44% have not created or updated their evacuation plans, and nearly three-quarters say they're not prepared to handle a flu pandemic outbreak

With hurricane season about to move into its most active period, those of us along the eastern coast (I am writing this from Charleston, SC) would like to believe that lessons learned from last year's catastrophes would have led to concrete substantive action.  Apparently, this is not the case. 

These government findings are in contrast to those of our own survey of corporate BC plans which found that on the whole corporations do have solid plans in place and do test and update them will regularity.  In fact, we found that 45% of those companies who have plans have actually invoked them.  If you would like a copy of the full survye results, send me an email at bobw@steeleye.com