Business insights from James Watson
For those of you who have businesses in the Kent, Renton, Tukwila, and Auburn area, most of you should be aware of the severe flooding hazard due to the reduced capacity of the Howard Hanson Dam. The Army Corps of Engineers continues its efforts to solve the issue. However, there is increased risk of flooding. As Kurt Triplett, the King County Executive stated, Flooding in the Green River Valley is not a question of if, its a question of when. Emergency information is provided at www.kingcounty.gov/floodplans and through links on the city's website www.ci.tukwila.wa.us.
Although we cannot prevent any flooding to your business, we can ensure that your data is safe. Statistics indicate that a business mortality rate for affected businesses, due to flooding, hovers between 30 to 70 percent. In New Orleans, after Hurrican Katrina, 70 percent of businesses failed over a three-year period. In Grand Forks, N.D., the business mortality rate was 55 percent after the flood of 1997. The majority of these failures were due to the additional debt businesses had to take on to rebuild operations. We have a number of unique disaster recovery and online backup solutions that can help companies protect their data and bring them up quickly in the case of failure or disaster. We can act as a simple hosting provider, where we provide remote storage for your data, or we can provide more complex solutions, where we store generations of backups both locally and remotely, allowing us to utilize our virtual servers to bring your business back online in only a few hours. We can work with you to tailor a program that fits your recovery needs and budget.
Although we will probably not experience the devastation seen in New Orleans or Grand Forks businesses, the Green River flood area will be affected. The businesses that survive and continue to thrive will be the ones that have a plan.
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