But exactly this sort of inquiry is instituted each time such a disaster occurs.
People have an appetite for reading prophecies of disaster retrospectively, after the disaster occurs.
When a natural disaster occurs, governments and NGOs rush to help out.
Nearly everyone involved predicts that someone will blink before this disaster occurs.
"If you don't list them all as mission critical, you're in trouble when disaster occurs".
When disaster occurs in the shape of income-tax demands or illness, it is the "home" that he metonymically laments.
When some disaster occurs, these people are likely to be suffering its effects themselves, and therefore unable to help.
There are a lot of simple steps that can be taken before a disaster occurs to manage the effects after it happens.
As Long Island officials draft counterterrorism plans, federal agencies are stepping up their efforts, too, so that they can send in help if a biological disaster occurs.
And by the time disaster occurs, they've already taken home enough money to make up for whatever they lose later on.
"When a disaster occurs," she says, "there can be a rather unsavoury rush to plant the flag of your NGO in the nearest head of whoever's surviving".
