This is the second in a series of articles about a major disaster we went through and what lessons we learned from it. See the previous article for the build up or continue on to read about the disaster itself.

Every company should prepare for disaster, yet few small and medium sized businesses do. According to Gartner, Inc., two out of five businesses that experience a disaster are out of business within five years. Often the attitude is "It can't happen to me."

This is the start of a series of articles on my experience when it did happen to me.