Online business is no different when it comes to dealing with natural disasters. In the offline business its comparatively easy to deal with natural disaster. The reason being the additional and important factor in online business which is shipment from seller to buyer. Shipment plays an important role in online selling/E-tailing as many of the major E-market places have a condition that the delivery of the ordered products should be done in a minimum amount of time like 1-2 days in case of domestic shipping and 1 week - 10 days in case of international shipping. The rating of seller and that way the rating of the website depends on the shipment time. When natural disasters like storm, heavy rains etc. struck then definitely there will be an effect on online business. The shipment can't be done if all sorts of transportation come to a stand still. The E-market places will be responsible for the late delivery of the products. In some cases the order may get cancelled au...