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A SAFER FUTURE: Reducing the Impacts of Natural Disasters
Even with advance warning, sometimes there are still devastatinglosses to natural disasters. Homes — often whole communities — are destroyed and disrupted,leaving traumatized survivors to cope and rebuild.
