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Lack of planning won’t avert an emergency

Plan Your Meetings

According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), more than 60 percent of Americans are neither prepared nor practicing for disasters of any kind, be they natural or manmade. Certainly, event facilities and other public places, including hotels, have developed emergency plans. 4 phases of risk management.

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‘I Am Baton Rouge’

PCMA Convene

The flooding in Louisiana is being called the worst natural disaster in the United States since Hurricane Sandy in 2012, leaving at least 13 people dead and driving tens of thousands more from their homes in and around Baton Rouge. Downtown was not at all affected, so none of our downtown attractions or downtown hotels were affected.

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Houston After Harvey

PCMA Convene

That would be Hurricane Harvey, which made landfall in Texas as a Category 4 storm in late August before moving along the Gulf Coast to Louisiana. Ninety-eight percent of the hotels in and around the Greater Houston area were not materially damaged. Somewhere around Thursday [Aug.

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