
Matthew Erchull
Witt O’Brien’s
Maximizing Disaster Recovery: Hard-Learned Wisdom to Guide Your Journey
Disaster recovery is an ongoing process, and the quicker you take control of it, the easier it is to influence the outcome. Integrate recovery into the normal structure and flow of your community to minimize disruption. Recovery alone cannot solve every pre-disaster problem, so focus efforts on making targeted gains. Above all, do not build what you cannot sustain and do no expect the future to be the same as the past.