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Sanford Bishop: “We can't stop Mother Nature, but we can mitigate the devastation that she wreaks, at least to some extent.”

On the recordFebruary 26, 2019
We can't stop Mother Nature, but we can mitigate the devastation that she wreaks, at least to some extent.
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Sanford Bishop
Democratic · Georgia

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Bishop discusses the importance of disaster mitigation in the face of natural events.

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