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

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The 1977 Sorokin Award–winning story of Buffalo Creek within the aftermath of a devastating flood.

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 prior to now tightly knit community were crowded into trailer homes with out a concern for former neighborhoods. The result was once a collective trauma that lasted longer than the person traumas resulting from the original disaster.

Making extensive use of the words of the people themselves, Erikson details the conflicting tensions of mountain life normally—the tensions between individualism and dependency, self-assertion and resignation, self-centeredness and group orientation—and examines the lack of connection, disorientation, declining morality, upward push in crime, upward push in out-migration, and so on., that resulted from the sudden lack of neighborhood.

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