Roughly $80,000 in registration fees from the TRSA Annual Conference that was canceled in September 2017 are on their way to three charities helping devastated communities and their residents recover from the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, the fifth most active since recordkeeping began in 1851.

The Annual Conference, scheduled for Sept. 12-14, 2017, in Miami, was called off due to Hurricane Irma. On Aug. 26, Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas. On Sept. 20, Hurricane Maria arrived in Puerto Rico. These were the most significant of 10 hurricanes in the region from June 1-Nov. 30, 2017, the greatest number of ...