If [a disaster] does come than we'll be capable of responding to it,

It's been a standing program since the first Gulf War. They put this program together with the National Disaster Medical System. We're the receiving team down here. We partner with the community, sign up different hospitals that have reserve beds on an ongoing basis.

Companies need to refresh their disaster plans, their continuity plans, because of the particular challenges pandemic brings.

The unique thing about both of the disaster acts is you do not have to be a victim to somehow be affected.

The big picture is that the federal government is a disaster with regard to long-term spending.

People who don't live in presidential-declared disaster areas get help, but not the most help or the quickest. Those in declared disaster areas but not in the Hurricane Katrina-Rita-Wilma areas get more help quicker, while those in the Katrina-Rita-Wilma disaster areas get most.