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Regional Disaster Recovery Planning

The Portland metro area is engaged in regional disaster recovery planning.

THIS IS AN INFORMATIONAL ITEM ONLY — YOU CANNOT REGISTER TO ATTEND

As noted above, you can't register to attend this two-day workshop, but I thought the effort and topics are of interest to others contemplating doing regional disaster recovery planning. 

Too few individual jurisdictions and hardly any regions engage in the task of recovery planning that goes beyond the required FEMA administered recovery programs.

Check out their agenda for topics and the approach they are taking to regional recovery planning: Regional Recovery Conference.

Don't laugh at the Emergency Toilet Project. These items were gifts to my children at Christmas. They were "thrilled" to receive them. And, in Japan — they have a Minister of Toilets.

Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.