Resilience and Continuity Consultants

Three days in, the military brings their vessels to join the hundreds of civilian boats already conducting emergency evacuations of those trapped by the flood waters. 

Moral: The government response is comprehensive and eventually effective, but you're better off if your organization is prepared to weather disruptions on its own.  

Also, your team should be working with your community to keep each other safe.

The University of Miami (Home of the Hurricanes), just before the arrival of students for the year. Safety training for 16,000 students begins now.

We must always remember that people and communities survive by what is actually resourced and enforced, not by what is talked about.

Make the decision. The best plans won't help if you don't  take charge and execute them when the time comes.

Prepare for the scale of the hazard that actually exists, not the one for which it is convenient to train.

A Navy Sea Hawk helicopter descends to our aid station with yet more patients rescued from the still-rising waters.

With zero notice, local leaders asked us to help them set up an Emergency Operations Center (EOC) to support public safety activities at the largest Confederate memorial in the United States.  The memorial park was located 10 miles from the point of greatest planetary totality during the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse. 

Working together, we rapidly established a joint EOC which protected and supported major outdoor events for over 10,000 people without significant incident.