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Can your community handle a natural disaster and coronavirus at the same time?

  • Written by Mark Abkowitz, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Environmental Management Studies, Vanderbilt University
Can your community handle a natural disaster and coronavirus at the same time?When deadly tornadoes struck the Southeast in April, residents in Prentiss, Mississippi, struggled to keep up coronavirus precautions while salvaging what they could from their damaged properties.AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis

The tornadoes that swept across the Southeast this spring were a warning to communities nationwide: Disasters can happen at any...

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