Natural disasters require one part nature and at least one part human assets.  When either of these become out of balance, a natural disaster creates a shock to our lives, our livelihood and the assets we protect to manage our daily needs.  The 2013 Presidentially-declared flood disaster had a profound affect on the Colorado Department of Transportation’s road and bridge network across a 2,000 square mile area of Colorado.  The lessons from that experience resulted in new strategies under the banner of resiliency to change how publicly-funded infrastructure adapts to future natural disasters at a practitioner level. The end goal; to move people, goods, services and information more efficiently and effectively with a tiered system of risk acknowledgement and adaptation.