Texas Hurricane Conference

The 2010 Texas Hurricane Conference will be held in McAllen May 18-20. The Texas Hurricane Conference offers the emergency management community a wide variety of presentations, workshops, work sessions and training classes on all aspects of catastrophic storms. Featured topics include evacuation and sheltering for special needs populations, role of voluntary organizations, private sector support, mass care, planning for children in hurricanes, evacuation tracking, disaster communications, shelter hubs, hospital evacuations, donations management, managing mega-shelters, animals in disasters, role of 2-1-1 Texas, resource staging, re-entry operations, lessons learned from past storms, the State Hurricane Plan, and much more.