By Lynda La Rocca “It’s what you fail to imagine that kills you.” This quote, from Michael Lewis’s new book “The Fifth Risk,” refers to the dangers facing America under the Trump administration, specifically those posed by incompetent and unqualified government leaders. But it also applies to the residents of the southern Lake County hamlet of Twin Lakes, who could never have envisioned the deadly tragedy that literally tore their community apart 57 years ago. In the early morning hours of Sunday, January 21, 1962, an avalanche roared down a mountainside just west of this bucolic village. The massive snowslide, ...
