Gas Shortage In the South Creates Panic, Long Lines – washingtonpost.com

Gas Shortage In the South Creates Panic, Long Lines – washingtonpost.com

I was emailing with my buddy Doug in Charlotte, NC yesterday and he said that people were sleeping in their cars to get gas. A situation like this, which he refered to as a ‘mini gas crisis’, really brings home just how precarious our daily routines can be. This gas shortage is exactly the type of circumstance that highlights the need for a business continuity plan. Don’t wait until you NEED remote work tools and strategies to implement them, because by then the damage has often already been done.

September is National Preparedness Month – get involved at http://www.ready.gov

Listen to the FREE audio recording of our teleseminar Riding the Storm Out for advice and tips from experts about how to establish a business continuity and/or disaster recovery plan.

Hannah, Gustav, Ike, Chicken Little, and The Boy Who Cried ‘Wolf’

We’re mid-way through the 5th Annual National Preparedness month and the 2008 Hurricane Season is starting to reach maturity. Living in South Florida puts you in a heightened sense of awareness around storm season. So far this year we have been very fortunate; but I have been following the news around the last few named storms and just this morning on the news they were saying that 20,000 people did not evacuate Galveston, TX even though the language of the evacuation order said, ‘Leave or face certain death.’

I also watched reports of Ike making landfall in Texas and a rain drenched reporter was showing a street full of businesses and pointing out that only about 1 in 15 had boarded up their windows.

It’s that fundamental human impulse that says, ‘I’ll play the odds’ or ‘it won’t happen to ME’ that leads some people to defy these types of warnings and shirk common sense preparation. Unfortunately,  it happens to people just like YOU and the annoyance of something as mundane as boarding up some windows can mean the difference between a storm being an inconvenience and a catastrophe. Read more

Disaster Recovery and Hurricane Preparedness Planning – ‘Define Your Day After’

Tomorrow is the last day of Hurricane Preparedness Week 2008 and a recent Mason-Dixon Poll shows that 2 mild storm seasons have lulled many people into a false sense of security. Among the poll results emergency management officials find most alarming are these:

• 54% don’t feel vulnerable to a hurricane or related tornado or flooding,
• 56% have no family disaster plan,
• 67% have no hurricane survival kit,
• 85% have taken no steps to make their homes stronger since the last hurricane season,
• 13% said they might not or would not evacuate even if ordered to do so, leaving thousands of residents at grave risk in the path of any given storm.

And these statistics don’t even address what people have or have not done to prepare their businesses for the eventuality of a hurricane or other emergency.

Well, this year The Department of Homeland Security is urging small businesses to ‘Define Their Day After’ through new public service advertisements and their Ready.gov website. Read more

Happy Holidays from The Anywhere Office – a musical gift!

We’d like to take a moment to wish you and your family a wonderful holiday season and the very best for the coming year.

Please enjoy a musical gift from us . . . a special holiday doo-wop song from our good friends Sha-Boom (just click the play button at the bottom of this post – or download the mp3 to your computer).

You can also view our online Holiday Card to you which includes some fun holiday videos!

We really appreciate you being a subscriber to The Anywhere Office and downloading our free virtual office and virtual team resources! We’re fired up about some new webcasts, eBooks, and other surprises we have planned for 2008! Be sure to keep visiting this blog to stay updated and share your comments and thoughts.

We hope you enjoy this time with family and friends and look forward to an exciting and prosperous new year.

With warmest regards,
Phil & Jason Montero

Here is a photo of myself and Jason sitting on Santa’s lap as kids – poor Santa!

Our Holiday Gift to you . . . This Doo-Wop Christmas song from Sha-Boom:

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:33 — 0.0KB)

Free Business Continuity Teleseminar for National Preparedness Month

This September marks National Preparedness Month 2007, a nationwide coordinated effort encouraging families to take simple steps to prepare for emergencies in their homes, businesses, and schools. During National Preparedness Month, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is working with a wide variety of organizations to highlight the importance of emergency preparedness and promote community involvement across the nation through various events and activities.

This year each week of National Preparedness Month has a different focus. The second week of National Preparedness Month (September 9 – 15) focuses on business preparedness.

During this week ourselves and several other National Preparedness Month Coalition Members are hosting events and activities to help businesses get prepared. We invite you to take this opportunity to listen to a FREE hour long Audio Seminar we are offering called Riding the Storm Out: don’t wait until it’s too late to form a business continuity plan. We hosted this teleseminar and recorded it live during National Preparedness Month 2006 and features a panel of 4 small business experts discussing tools, strategies, and best practices relating to Business Continuity and Disaster Preparedness.

Beginning with National Preparedness Month and continuing until the end of this year, this hour-long seminar can be listened to on-line, on demand – or downloaded; there are also downloadable handouts and resources provided by each panelist.

For more information about National Preparedness Month visit http://www.ready.gov/america/npm07/

« Previous Page — Next Page »