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The Fire and the Soil
The “individuation” of American tragedy continued as the ice melted. Before the nation could even perform a “forensic” audit of the storm damage, the “aftermath” of a record-breaking drought ignited. A wildfire of unimaginable intensity erupted across the parched grasslands of the West and the forests of the Southeast. This was the “soil and the steel” being consumed at a rate that baffled fire marshals.
