Question

You are the Chief Information Officer in your organization. You have been tasked with developing a disaster recovery plan. What are some of the threats in your area that should be considered? Please include references on information to support these potential threats. For example, if you choose hurricanes as a threat, provide information on hurricanes in the area in the past.

Provide insight as to why this threat should be part of the disaster recovery plan.

Answer 1

Disaster is a sudden event or a natural catastrophe occurs that leads to a serious disruption of the societal function causing widespread of human,material or environmental losses that exceed the local response resources triggering calls for external assistance. it may be either :After an emergency phase of the disaster ends next main goal/aim is to focus of the disaster efforts shifts to recovery.

In the recovery phase of the disaster we have to take the actions to restructure or rebuild the community or the organization to a normal or a pre-disaster stage.

*Man made/artificial/human induced (Bio-terrorism,Bomb blast etc)

*Natural disasters (Tsunami,flood hurricanes etc)

$\rightarrow$ The major disaster we are facing in the area is flooding,here area is suffered with full of water with heavy rains.

With the flooding it not only causes damage and disruption,but also leads to illnesses and injuries.

Floods can potentially increase the transmission of the following communicable diseases:such as typhoid fever,cholera,leptospirosis and hepatitis A.

Vector-borne diseases such as malaria,dengue and dengue,hemorrhagic fever,yellow fever and west Nile fever

$\rightarrow$ Association of State Floodplain Managers,"The Nations Responses to Flood Disasters : A Historical Account (2000)

$\rightarrow$ Nicole T. Carter,Federal Involvement in Flood Response and Flood Infrastructure Repair :CRS Report for Congress,2012

*Hurricane Harvey

,Affected area :Houston,Texas

Year of event :2017

*Southeast U.S floods

Affected area :Southeastern states

Year of event :1998

*Hurricane Agnes flood

Affected area :Middle Atlantic

Year of event :1972

The flood is a natural and worst disaster that results in serious disruption of the community and as well as the people who are recovered from the disaster are prone to get the communicable and other vulnerable diseases.

*The affected area may have damaged power supply.

*Contamination of food and water supplies

*Difficulties in environmental sanitation

*Difficulty in burrying of corpse

*Chance of firing hazards from the damaged power supply

*Increased risk of carbon monoxide poisoning from the generators,pressure washers,charcoal grills and other fuel-burning tools can release Carbon monoxide

*Remaining flood water can also pose various hazards such as it may be mixed with sewage or other hazardous substances

While planning a recovery plan we should have to consider the various hazards that may be occur do the flooding