With natural disasters and disruptions seemingly occurring somewhere in the world every week, whether earthquake, flood, tornado or cyclone. In recognising this, I got to thinking about the way that international projects often rely on their communications, both the face to face component, and their often relatively formalised and centralised communication and power structures to get things done. All of these function well when everything is working, but all of which can unravel and fragment quickly when travel is restricted or power is cut.