That's a good observation about ETS and a fair question. I doubt that any of us who are not connected to some public safety organization has thought much about getting to work in some major disaster. I know I haven't. I might rank a small business owner up there with public safety in terms of determination to get somewhere, but like the rest of us, probably doesn't have explicit plans or preps on getting to person's business.

Most of us probably approach the GTW issue on an ad hoc basis. For example, last week here in the San Francisco Bay Area, an early morning structure fire next to the elevated tracks of the BART train system knocked out all service between the East Bay and San Francisco before the morning rush hour. The last major disruption like this was probably when the Bay Bridge was damaged in the Loma Prieta quake in '89. Probably the majority of my coworkers live in the East Bay, and that's probably true of many employers here.

We're lucky because our employer already invested the money in an IT infrastructure that has enough capacity and functionality so that almost all of us can work from home, so many folks stayed home. But for many others, they just figure things out as they went along and figured out some alternate method or combination of methods to get into San Francisco, like hopping in the car, taking a bus, riding a ferry, etc. I suspect that it will be the same way in a major disaster (with many fewer options to move around), and any sort of GTW kit will be simiarly thrown together as needed, or just using a Get Home Bag, if a person already has one ready.