Mike Tyson said everybody has a plan till they get hit in the face.

What's true in boxing is true in business continuity:

You never quite know what it'll be like.

If you have the right people in place, you can get through it effectively. However, strategic planning is very important.

Greg Holdburg is the Manager of Disaster Recovery Services at S1 Corporation. His role is to help businesses develop their continuity plans, or help companies create them from scratch.

Greg joined me on The Continuity Forecast podcast to talk about how companies should proceed when they experience a crisis, how to notify employees, how to deal with one of the worst kinds of crises, a hurricane, and how to avoid a double disaster.