Last week I participated in a State wide disaster exercise in a local "disaster" drill playing a plane crash victim. Part of the drill required that we not bring cell phones (or anything else for that matter) so we would not be distracted or more probable, loose them in all that was going to happen to us. I don't live in hurricane country but do live in an earthquake and volcano prone area. Being without power in the winter (below zero temperatures) for 3 days prompted me to get a generator long ago.

My plan was to leave the cell in my vehicle and check on it, if we got a break. No break came for the entire day so no chance to check. You can guess what happened. The main server and network crashed 3 times that day. It had been running smoothly for months without problem. I am a one person IT shop. Part of my backup plan relied on another individual who had just left the company a week or so before and a replacement had yet to be determined. That persons job is to follow a set of procedures of "if this - do this" instructions. Fortunately, the automatic recovery worked each time and the day went on. Point is, disaster strikes at anytime not just in bad weather conditions (yesterday we had 80 mph winds blow through, no problems) and one must keep that disaster plan up to date. That reminds me, I'm still waiting for the buildings backup generator to be installed.