Could Your Business Phone Weather Any Storm?
Hurricane Harvey’s impact was devastating. It’s no surprise that natural disasters affect up to 100,000 US jobs each month.1 Houston area business owners, are you keeping your eye on the sky?
2005: Hurricane Katrina…
150,000
evacuees from New Orleans to Houston.2
2011: Tropical Storm Irene…
Damaged
2,000 roads,
200 miles
of rail,
and closed
200 bridges3
in Vermont alone.
2001: Tropical Storm Allison…
Caused approximately
$5 billion
in damage4
Flooded
95,000
automobiles and 73,000 houses5
Left
7.9 million
businesses and households without power6
Man-made infrastructure has its own risks:
When channels at the California Oroville Dam were at risk of failing, more than
188k citizens
were evacuated.7
More than
243,000 cars
a day passed through Atlanta, Georgia’s I-85 bridge before it collapsed in March 20178 due to a fire. This caused a massive productivity issues, affecting business’s supply chains, revenue, and employee commutes.9
2017: Harvey may end up being one of the US’s most expensive storms in history…
Dumping more than
51 inches
of rain within 4 days. Early estimates predict more than
$40 billion in damages10
Despite these risks, more than
60%
of businesses surveyed lacked a recovery plan.11
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Sources
- Weather adjusting economic data
- Impact on U.S.
Small Business of Natural & Man-Made Disasters - Transportation
- 1 Year After Superstorm Sandy: Quick Economic Facts
- Hurricane Sandy Fast Facts
- Hurricane Sandy Fast Facts
- 188,000 evacuated as California’s massive Oroville Dam threatens catastrophic floods
- GDOT: 243,000 cars a day pass through stretch of I-85
near bridge collapse - Fiery I-85 bridge collapse is economic blow to Atlanta
businesses - How Much Damage Will Harvey Cause?
- Disaster Recovery Preparedness Benchmark Survey
