Granted there are a lot of things that go into this. In a disaster situation, it's important to make sure that your machines and network continue operating, but what about provisioning to make sure you can keep NOC staff there?
We, as a society, do know how to solve this problem. It's called, the military. Most people live under the delusion that an army's main job is to shoot guns and bombs at people. But the reality is that the main work of the armed forces is to mobilize, people, food, water, equipment and communications into an area where all these things are not available. The shooting part is incidental to the work that most people are doing. A lot of this logistics work is done by people who aren't on the firing line so it gets overlooked easily. And much of the work happens long before the shooting starts when people plan how to deploy stuff and then practise doing it so they know that it will work when the crunch comes. There is no reason why corporations or network operators couldn't apply lessons learned from the military. --Michael Dillon