IT folks spend a lot of time doing disaster planning, thinking through various scenarios, writing plans, and testing those plans. At my Day Job at Michigan State, my colleagues just installed some MSU servers at Penn State so that MSU can have a Web presence even if lots of technology in East Lansing gets wiped out.
Right now a fire in Griffith Park has the zookeepers worried. It's not immediately threatening to zoo, but yesterday they evacuated the humans. They said they considered evacuating the animals but decided not to.
I don't understand the logistics. How the hell do you evacuate the animals in a zoo? Build a land ark?
Does a large zoo have enough trailers and cages to hold all, or even a substantial fraction, of its animals?
Where would you take them? How would you care for them?
