Hurricane season exposes the gap between agencies that have rehearsed their emergency response plan and those that have only filed one. The difference shows up in the first 48 hours after landfall.
Pre-position contracts with a vetted emergency response partner before the season opens — not the week of a named storm. The standby agreements take weeks to execute and the best capacity is gone first.
Map dependencies. If your facility loses power, where does it cascade? What backup systems run on what fuel for how long? Run the math on a 21-day outage, not a 72-hour one.
Drill the activation call. Who calls dispatch, with what scope language, with what authority to commit funds? The 21-hour clock starts when that call is made — not when leadership convenes.
Document the standard of work. The clearer the SOW handed to mobilizing crews, the faster the first equipment turns on at the impact site.
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