According to the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency and the National Weather Service, the following types of emergency/disaster events are statistically the most common for Massachusetts as a whole: flood, hurricane, snow, HAZMAT, tornado. However, based on the actual geographic location of Hillcrest Educational Centers, experience and history indicate that, of these, the “natural disasters” are the ones most likely to occur due to the agency’s location. Of these “natural disasters”, historically and statistically the ones most likely to be problematic to Hillcrest operations are winter ice and snowstorms, which sometime result in loss of electric power for relatively brief periods of time and which Hillcrest is adequately prepared to manage.