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First Class: Meet the Inaugural 15 Over 50

Connect Your Meetings

Shreveport/Bossier, Louisiana. Senior Business Events Manager. RIMS, Risk Management Society. Destination Management Connection. Senior Director of Conference and Events Management. Manager, Meetings/Events & Exhibits. International Meeting Managers, Inc. David Bradley. Woodhaven, New York.

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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. The likelihood of an earthquake in Louisiana would be low as a threat potential, while a hurricane would be high. 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. We did not have a lot of business in this week, which is a relatively slow time in Louisiana.

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Taking your contingency plans to the next level

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But, how many planners have thought to consider a “rain event” that dumps almost two feet of water in 24 hours, such as flooding in Louisiana in August 2016 or Hurricane Matthew, which left most of the community of Lumberton, N.C., flooded with six feet of water in some areas. August 2016).

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Taking your contingency plans to the next step

Plan Your Meetings

But, how many planners have thought to consider a “rain event” that dumps almost two feet of water in 24 hours, such as flooding in Louisiana in August 2016 or Hurricane Matthew, which left most of the community of Lumberton, N.C., flooded with six feet of water in some areas. August 2016).

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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. We were also joined in the conversation by Leah Shah, Visit Houston’s public-relations manager. Mike Waterman There’s a predetermined list from management.

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