September 2007 — Features
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Disaster Recovery :: Courting Disaster
The unfortunate reality is that all the calculation, anticipation, and planning can't entirely prepare a school district for the impact of a natural disaster, or protect it from widespread destruction. Some things simply can't be predicted, or in the worst-case scenario, such as Katrina, even imagined.
"The only thing that I thought we were unprepared for was fate itself," Bress says. "God forbid we ever have to face something of that magnitude again, but if we did, I am sure of only one thing: It will not be exactly the same. Priorities would once again be shifted to meet the unique nature of what was happening."
"Until you actually experience it, you don't know what you need," says Nederland ISD's Laird. "It was unfortunate that we had to go through it, but it was a great learning experience."
-Charlene O'Hanlon is a freelance writer based in New York.
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