Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/12/2012)
Ross McMicken (12/12/2012)
Your DR plans should be tested with a scenario where more than half your staff can't be found or can't connect. In real life, you can't count on everyone being available.I've always made this a priority. In a disaster, you can't assume that people can be contacted, or that they will come. I've told my boss that if my family is in trouble, I'm not coming to work.
For anticipated disasters (storms), some employers just send people off to another city before the problem occurs. If you've been designated as a DR resource, you don't get a lot of choice in that situation.
We use Propane here, but you have to be careful with nat gas. Lots of people assume the lines will be working in a disaster, and they may get shut down. A local supply on site is needed.
In a city, it may be impossible to legally store enough propane to power a generator for any length of time. The gas infrastructure here in Texas is well developed, and generally doesn't require any power to operate. I've never had the gas supply go out. After Ike, we didn't have power for 10 days, but always had gas.