Recovery of this sort requires someone with a rolodex and a certain amount of cash up front to pay the temporary office space vendor to bring the trailers in on short notice. I've got to assume this was part of a diocesan function, probably in the building department, and the diocese in cooperation with the parish had a plan in pace and the serious money available to follow through. Contingency planning is part of a responsible organization. Auditors, regulators, and boards of directors expect it in the secular environment.
My brief experience at St Mary of the Angels, which almost went into the ordinariate and is typical of facilities that did in fact go in, is that plumbing, HVAC, flooding, and similar emergencies are routine. (Legal emergencies can be added to the list in that specific case.) Most won't necessarily prevent use of the facility for Sunday mass, but it's hard not to think emergencies could arise that would prevent access to the nave for either a short or longer term.
In colder climates, heating failure in subzero conditions would prevent use of the facility. Likewise, in the sun belt, air conditioning failure in a 105F heat wave could have the same effect. A fire could be a more permanent problem -- even if the facility were insured, arrangements would have to be made for mass until the facility can be restored. Completely unpredictable events like hazmat spills nearby could have an equivalent impact. Regulatory issues -- failure to pass a building inspection, or change in municipal policies on parking -- could be just as crippling.
It looks like dioceses have staff that plans for cases like these, and I would guess that even in cases where a diocesan parish facility is completely unavailable for Sunday masses, the diocese can communicate effectively on the nature of the problem, refer parishioners to nearby parishes, and has necessary resources to remediate the situation as needed.
The ordinariate, which is increasingly calling itself a "diocese', as far as I can see has no such plan in place, and it certainly doesn't have the resources to assist a parish that's lost its facility.
Small-to-medium size companies ether have an employee who plans for such contingencies as part of their duties, or they hire a consultant on a short-term basis to develop such a plan. This is increasingly a requirement. It's hard to avoid the impression that the ordinariate does not have staff that would be capable of developing and maintaining such a plan, although in the ordinariate's case, the central plan might not be much longer than a dozen pages. However, the bishop would also need to task individual pastors with developing a risk assessment for their individual parishes and strategies for responding to likely events. These in turn would probably not need to be much longer than a few pages, but they need to be done.
Again, I seriously question how many ordinariate clergy are capable of completing such a fairly simple project. I imagine some could -- Fr Vidal is probably on this list -- but others, all of whose surnames begin with B, would not.
This is just another factor that contributes to my view that the ordinariate is in large part a fantasy, and Catholic media that enable this is complicit.
