Response to Disasters: Something Regulators and Utilities Can Agree About

✍ Scribed by Smith, William H.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2008
• Weight: 315 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0743-5665
• DOI: 10.1002/gas.3410101009

✦ Synopsis

Something Regulators and Utilities Can Agree About

he last two years have subjected North T America to some freakish weather: a destructive hurricane in South Florida; earthquakes, windstorms, and fires in California; the winter "storm of the century" (twice) in the Northeast; and floods in the upper Midwest. The World Trade Center bombing represents a more ominous kind of risk. An apparent accident within the gas system recently devastated a community in New Jersey.

Modem society relies on a number of public service operations to function as long as possible through an emergency, avoid creating any additional damage, and resume normal operations quickly afterwards.

. -. e m p l o y e e s ins-tjnciively t r y to maintain service c o n t i n u i t y

through a n y d i s a s t e r .