The cost of insuring boats, marinas and businesses near shore is going up. Way up.
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Pattie Sellers has written some of Fortune’s most talked-about cover stories, including “Oprah’s Next Act,” “Can Meg Whitman Save California?” “The 0 Billion Woman” (Melinda Gates), “MySpace Cowboys,” Martha Stewart (“I cannot be destroyed“), Ted Turner (“Gone with the Wind“) and Oprah Winfrey (“Oprah Inc.“). Since its launch in 1998, Pattie has helped oversee Fortune’s “Most Powerful Women” cover package.
A specialist at dissecting larger-than-life personalities, she has also profiled former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, Morgan Stanley chairman John Mack, and countless CEOs.
Pattie co-chairs the annual Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, the preeminent gathering of women leaders in business, philanthropy, government, academia, and the arts. She started at Fortune in 1984, covering the big brand companies.
In Pattie’s blog, Postcards, she provides insight into the lives of super-achievers through commentary, career advice, and Guest Posts by CEOs and other leaders.
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Loyola University New Orleans has hired Stephen Murphy as its emergency manager. This newly created position is responsible for managing university-wide emergency preparedness and business continuity programs, including training and guidance for emergency response, impact analysis and planning, and assessment of response efforts.
“I am pleased to announce that Mr. Murphy has joined us in this new capacity,” said Loyola President the Rev. Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D. “Universities are particularly vulnerable to any number of emergency situations, as we know from tragic headlines in the news. The safety and well-being of our campus community is our top priority, and it is essential for us to have an experienced leader in emergency preparedness and business continuity.”
Murphy has extensive experience in emergency management and homeland security strategies and initiatives, public health preparedness, continuity of operations planning and fiscal management. Prior to joining Loyola, Murphy served as planning section chief of the New Orleans Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. His responsibilities there included hurricane preparedness, development and maintenance of various city emergency operations plans, and all public health preparedness issues, such as pandemic influenza planning, bioterrorism preparedness and mass casualty planning.
“It is an honor and privilege to be a part of such a prestigious university,” Murphy said. “Loyola has taken great strides in the area of campus preparedness. Given the threats impacting campuses across the country, it is prudent that we take the necessary steps to mitigate against them, ensuring not only student safety, but the safety of every member of the Loyola family as well as the community to the greatest extent possible. Together, I think we can create a culture of preparedness across the campus that takes Loyola University to the next level as it relates to resilient universities.”
Highly active in regional and state public health preparedness, Murphy sits on several state advisory boards pertaining to public health preparedness. In addition, he is an adjunct instructor in Tulane University’s Homeland Security bachelor’s and master’s degree programs.
Murphy is a native of Georgia and earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Georgia and an M.B.A. from Mercer University. He studied infectious disease epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and later received a Master of Public Health degree in global environment health sciences, specifically disaster management, from the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.
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This conference will bring insurance professionals, first responders, emergency management personnel, local and state leaders and insurance regulators together from throughout the Midwest and nationally.
Learning from past disasters
The goal of the summit is to improve tornado mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery by using lessons learned from past disasters and sharing knowledge of state-of-the-art programs.
The conference also will serve as a national forum for federal, state, and local officials to exchange ideas and recommend new policies to improve emergency management.
Speakers scheduled include The Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore.
This event is open to anyone who wants to pay for the registration.
For more information about the event or to register, go online to www.tornadosummit.com.
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ACCORD — Fierce rain and heavy winds on a dreadful August Sunday eroded streams and wrecked the farm owned by Jack Schoonmaker.
The morning after Hurricane Irene, Schoonmaker awoke to 15 volunteers on his 800-acre Accord farm. Armed with shovels, bulldozers and dump trucks, they began cleaning up Schoonmaker’s farm without even being asked.
The 10th-generation farmer was deeply moved.
Storms and struggles
Many of Irene’s worst victims are suffering from withdrawal and isolation, said representatives from Project Hope, a mental health disaster-recovery program.
The pain lingers most for those still stuck cleaning up mud and mold or tossing damaged family mementos.
Too often, these folks pass on assistance since they think others need the help more.
But the pain was only beginning. The ,000 he received in aid would barely make a dent in the 0,000 of soggy sweet corn, tomatoes and soy beans Schoonmaker would no longer be able to sell.
Devastating storms and lost crops are part of life on the fields, said the eight farmers on a panel Friday sponsored by the Rondout Valley Growers Association.
“As soon as you take out the bag of seeds, you’re playing Vegas,” said Chris Kelder of Kelder’s Farm in Kerhonkson.
Letting go of the recent past is essential, farmers said, because the good seasons outnumber the bad.
“At the end of the day, you have to go to bed,” said Jacob Diaz of Slow Roots Farm in Marbletown. “You can’t stay up all night worrying.”
How should farmers cushion the blow from a big storm?
Schoonmaker recommended constructing barns from sturdy material and away from streams, while Kelder suggested planting some crops on higher ground.
Wolf Bravo has established a bank of old or unused farmers’ tools, and Kira Kinney wants to set up a disaster-relief fund operated by and for Hudson Valley farmers.
“There is some type of comfort to money you don’t have to pay back in (a disaster),” she said.
Irene turned 2011 into a lemon for most Rondout Valley farmers, but on the day of the storm, Kelder made lemonade.
“We’ve got an opportunity I hope we’ll never have again,” Kelder told his wife and kids right after the storm passed.
Kelder hooked a Jet Ski to a pickup truck and drove to his low-lying fields.
Everybody took a ride, and aside from the corn leaves getting stuck in the watercraft, they all temporarily let go of their troubles.
– Hira Ismail contributed to this story.
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Emergency preparedness is not just for the doomsday crowd.
In a region that has seen more than its share of serious floods, said Lynda Cummings of the Marysville Police Department on Monday, “we should be able to take care of ourselves for at least a few days.”
Cummings, a certified Community Emergency Response Training instructor, began a series of informal workshops last month for Police Department employees and their families to help promote emergency readiness.
“I’m not worried about the end of the earth,” she said. “But my three-day ‘bug-out’ kit goes in my car. It goes everywhere I go.”
Even a minor power outage, which the region sees several times a year, can send unprepared families scrambling.
“If I have no power, I still want to be able to prepare a meal for my family and get a drink of water,” Cummings told a group of about 15 police volunteers, officers and their family members.
She said disaster preparedness became a key priority for her after she and her family were evacuated in storms that resulted in the 1997 flood.
“Nobody is going to come and help you when you’re trying to get your family out of town,” she said of the experience.
On Monday, the second of Cummings’ workshops included a demonstration of food dehydration and storage techniques, as well as on-the-spot preparation of meals ready-to-eat.
She has acquired a small supply of disaster-ready tools on the cheap, Cummings said, from thrift stores and she makes sure she has a tent, sleeping bags and woolen clothing for emergencies that could force her to live outdoors. She keeps sterno cans on hand and a sterno folding stove she bought at a flea market, she said.
Readiness, Cummings said, includes being able to protect your supplies from those who may be unprepared, and desperate during an emergency situation.
Next month’s workshop will focus on firearms, knives and personal protection during emergencies.
Cummings said she wanted to be careful not to promote a sense of paranoia, but to be realistic.
Hunters, she said, often believe their skills will save them during a disaster.
“But if there are three million people out there, you’ll be shooting each other over the same deer,” Cummings said.
Keeping nonperishable food on hand is more practical, she said.
Cummings had reminders for residents on the more nonchalant end of the preparedness spectrum too.
“The pizza place and the deli will be closed. The grocery store will empty out in 15 minutes,” she said.
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March 5, 2012
by: Andrew Schneider
With tornadoes ripping across the South and Midwest and hurricane season approaching, disaster preparedness officials are sounding the alarm for Houston businesses.
The start of the 2012 hurricane season is still nearly three months away. But that may be barely enough time for local companies to prepare themselves.
Anthony Pizzitola is facilities and disaster recovery manager for Houston-based Goode Company. He says even a short disruption can prove fatal to small businesses.
“Seventy percent of all businesses — small businesses — that suffer a three-day crisis will eventually fail. What they need to do to prepare is to have a disaster preparedness and recovery professional ID at their locations what they need to be doing to protect against natural and manmade disasters.”
Last year, U.S. businesses suffered billion in damages from manmade and natural disasters. That included more than 340 tornadoes.
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