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Human history is marked by our attempts to dominate the natural world.

To hold back rivers, to level mountains, and to build

in the most inhospitable environments. Progress has often been measured by how effectively

we can bend nature to our will with advancements in medicine, engineering, and technology.

But time and time again, it takes tragedy to remind us just how powerful

nature really is. Nature isn't something we can conquer. It's something we're a part of.

We experience natural disasters often today. Things such as devastating wildfires and floods

continue to demonstrate how fragile the illusion of control

really is. And in so many of these cases, the tragedy is compounded by the fact that we saw

these things coming. At the turn of the 20th century, one such tragedy struck in the Cascade

Mountains of Washington State. It was an avalanche disaster that to this day,

115 years later, is still the deadliest in U.S. history. But what makes the story even more

haunting is the lingering question. Was it simply an unexpected event of nature, or were the people

involved responsible?

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