Disasters
» Disasters, Volume 4, Issue 5, 2004
If respondent's business has been struck by a natural disaster in the last three years.
3. In terms of minutes, hours or days, how much warning, if any, did you have that this disaster might strike you?
| Response | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | None | 46 | ||
| 2 | Less than one hour | 4 | ||
| 3 | One to three hours | 8 | ||
| 4 | Four to 24 hours | 29 | ||
| 5 | 25 - 72 hours | 11 | ||
| 6 | More than 72 hours | 1 | ||
| 7 | DK/Refuse | 0 | ||
| Total (%) | 99 | |||
| N | 229 | |||
Notes: Forty-six (46) percent of small employers who were struck by a natural disaster in the last three years had no warning of the impending disaster (Q#3).
