Message #65371

[susan silva]

Every company I have worked for in the San Francisco Bay Area has been well prepared and had meetings or informal training.  I remember when I worked for the Bank of America (ooh many years ago) that all data from Nor Calif was backed up on Southern Cal and visa versa, we had emergency training, l.  (some of the topic quite morbid, how if there was a disaster to take care of a dead body...). We had emergency ration packs somewhere in the office.   I remember I was working there in 1989 when the Bay Area had the earthquake that broke the bay bridge. (I was actually on BART going home from work).  We had phone trees for communicating, etc.

I think possibly because we are so "earthquake aware" the companies in the Bay Area more prepared.  I moved to Montana for two years (HA not long after the earthquake!) and had no preparedness at all, as far as I know, there was no safety water or provisions,  Back ups were done locally, etc.  

Oh as for Power Outages, when I worked for a company called Applied Biosystems (waves to people there!), we had an transrouter or some thing blow up and cause the whole campus to evacuate.  we all went to our spots, then went, "woot" rest of day off.   :-P