Everything in Its Path: Destruction of Community in the Buffalo Creek Flood

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ISBN: 9780671240677
Publisher: Touchstone Books
Language: English
Page Count: 284
Publication Date: 4/1/1978
Size: 8.07" l x 4.99" w x 0.95"
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On February 26, 1972, 132-million gallons of debris-filled muddy water burst through a makeshift mining-company dam and roared through Buffalo Creek, a narrow mountain hollow in West Virginia. Following the flood, survivors from a previously tightly knit community were crowded into trailer homes with no concern for former neighborhoods. The result was a collective trauma that lasted longer than the individual traumas caused by the original disaster.

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