Houston Agencies Cope with Harvey: 'Pray for Our City'
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Houston-area ad and PR agencies are among the businesses dealing with the epic storm that has deluged parts of the region with as much as 30 inches of rain since Saturday night. Some agencies remain closed on Monday as the city copes with the havoc wrought by Hurricane Harvey, freeing employees to pitch in on volunteer efforts as rising floodwaters displace thousands of residents, with no immediate end in sight.
Brenda Love, president of independent, Houston-based creative agency Love Advertising, and a native Houstonian, writes in an email that she has never before seen anything like Harvey: “Our client Jim McIngvale of Gallery Furniture opened his two huge stores as shelters [and is] using his furniture delivery trucks to rescue people. Our PR department has been busy getting the word out. Our new building had flooding. Please pray for our city.”
The Houston office of PR giant FleishmanHillard was among the shops that shut down. “We’re very thankful that all of our employees and their families are safe and out of harm’s way,” says a FleishmanHillard spokeswoman. The agency has reached out to the Houston Food Bank to offer assistance and is also “providing information to our employees across the country with information on how they can donate to rescue and recovery efforts,” she says.
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