Last week a telecommunications cable was accidentally cut and a multi-county area was without phone or internet for a few hours. Stores were crippled as credit card processing could not occur, businesses that rely on the internet were forced to shut down and lots of minor annoyances happened.
Today a gas line was pierced on our campus -- right in the middle of a new student writing assessment test and parent orientation. Everyone had to evacuate and there were lots of fire engines as a precaution, but the worst thing that happened was that the student essays were lost in cyberspace during the disruption.
Remember when the retail economy functioned with cash? When students wrote essays on legal pads with pens and a bound dictionary? When people and organizations weren't paralyzed by even a brief interruption in technology?
Don't forget that there was some good in the good old days and incorporate some low-tech flexibility into your contingency planning.
-- beth triplett
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