New Orleans & Company Update
Emergency Updates
Colleagues and Friends,
We have taken a catastrophic hit with Hurricane Ida. I hope each and everyone of you is safe and that you have sustained only light structural damage to your residences. Many hundreds of thousands in our region are not lucky at all.
First, the building will be closed at least until the day after Labor Day. Brian and Paul will secure the building. It could be two weeks or longer. We will let you know. Our team is comprised of all stars who can work incredibly effectively from a remote location. Let’s show the world again that we are best in class.
Our team is a different kind of first responders. We are economic ones. To continue our mission in this catastrophic time, we need to ask you to do the following:
1. It may take 10 days, two weeks or possibly much longer to restore power to our region. Be prepared for if it is sooner.
2. We have much work to do for us, our members, our hotels and restaurants. Without the horrific water damage, this is a little like post Katrina.
3. Our team must assist in getting first responders into those hotels that can take them. There will be thousands. Then we must assist in getting them fed.
4. We have a serious communications responsibility to our customers, industry and others nationally who will have hundreds of questions. We must be the go to trusted source for information. We must create teams to build that content.
Therefore, we ask that all of you who are able to relocate out of the region so you have power, internet, a/c, email and phone access. Let your supervisor know where you are and all alternate ways to reach you.
Supervisors, organize your people into teams with task units.
There is a possibility it could be two weeks, more in a handful of places, before we can return. But, we must be working and helping our industry. So go get set up. Take care of yourself and your family. You cannot live in this heat for up to two weeks, so find every possibility location opportunity with family and friends in another unharmed area.
God speed. Be safe, hug your family, make good decisions. Your supervisors will communicate what we need you to do once you find a safe location. Make sure we know you are safe and where you are.
Our website team must keep NewOrleans.com with the most up to date information on our on ground conditions. Everyone in the nation in our industry and all of our customers will seek info on the website. It must be the new information source for the next two weeks. After Katrina, our website information became the go to source for real-time info on New Orleans.
Get going if you are able. We have a tough stretch ahead, but we know how to triumph in the face of horrific adversity.
Love all you guys, am so proud of all of you, and worry about you all. Let us know how you are.
All the best,
J. Stephen Perry
President / CEO
New Orleans & Company
+1 504 566 5049
Stephen@NewOrleans.com