FEMA shows what causes disasters

A graphic (see below) on the FEMA website seems to show that the next step after Preparedness is Disaster.

Jeremy Zawodny has an entry that talks about this, but I think Jeremy is slightly off when he describes disaster leading to response, which leads to recovery, etc.

If you look carefully at this image, you will see that, except for Preparedness, in each of the phases of this diagram the arrows miss the next phase. Preparedness is the only phase which leads directly to the next one, which is Disaster.

Maybe the artist knew exactly what they were doing.




Update:

Garr Reynolds takes all the fun out of this by actually doing a professional analysis of the image and it's failure as a graphical presentation of FEMA's mission.

Great quote, though: "Powerpoint should do no harm" (Edward Tufte)