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Hurricane Sandy: Resilience a Key in Disaster Recovery

Resilience ensures the credit union is there for the membership, which ensures the membership remains with the credit union.

By Ken Schroeder | Updated on November 09, 2012

When a credit union suffers a disaster, whether it be from a Hurricane Sandy, Winter Storm Athena, the floods of last spring, tornadoes of summer, earthquakes from anytime, political unrest — whatever disaster de jour presents itself, it is critical to restore service as soon as possible.

While data recovery is really important (after all, who has what money in which account is pretty critical), it is probably not the immediate concern to the member standing outside the closed credit union door.

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