Q. How did you start working on disaster planning?

One problem we face is that most companies don't want to think about disaster planning.

And there is our solutions division, things like disaster planning.

The possibility that some may refuse to evacuate causes significant problems in disaster planning.

It was built to hold 2,500 people - a fact that greatly affected his disaster planning.

That's a key problem with most disaster planning.

Yet the federal government's disaster planning is focused almost entirely on short-term relief.

The agency also promotes disaster planning and provides money to hire experts who work for state governments.

Local, state and federal officials, for example, have cooperated on disaster planning.

This may have resulted from the agency being unclear about its role in disaster planning, the accountability office said.