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  • "This is the event I'm really concerned about," Ms. Dengler said. "This is the event [in which] we need to put our energy and preparedness. ... This event requires everyone to understand nature's warning. It requires everyone to understand that they need to take immediate action if they're in harm's way and get out of it."

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  • "Sometime in the next 200, 300 years," she said, "and it could be this afternoon."

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