Each community needs to develop a continuity of operations and/or continuity of government plans specific for their community.  The plans should encompass all agencies - public works, police, fire, finance, planning etc.  There should be renewed training and education efforts placed to assist communities - particularly small and med size communities to accomplish these vital plan developments. 

A key element of developing resilient communities is to have sound continuity of operations and continuity of government plans.  The majority of incidents that our communities face day in and day out do not rise to the level of being a nationally declared disaster.  But these are the types of events that can assist us in developing the skills and mindsets needed to properly plan, mitigate and prepare for those larger, less frequent major national disasters.