You will find it extremely difficult to convince a business man who has a laptop with years and years of emails, documents, sales and lead generation data to leave it behind in the event of an emergency. I bet for many the small risk is worth it and many cases a fine might be worth it too. You are talking about someone's livelihood in a lot of cases. I would certainly take something like a small laptop bag with me in an emergency evacuation. In reality, it's not going to impede the evacuation any more than the old fat dear in front of me.
...and on the subject of backups. Easier said than done. Not everything is in flat file formats and as restorable as it would seem.
Last edited by Superpilot; 30th Dec 2016 at 12:19.