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The Buffalo Creek Disaster

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Author : Gerald M. Stern
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-01-26

The Buffalo Creek Disaster written by Gerald M. Stern and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-26 with Social Science categories.

One Saturday morning in February 1972, an impoundment dam owned by the Pittston Coal Company burst, sending a 130 million gallon, 25 foot tidal wave of water, sludge, and debris crashing into southern West Virginia's Buffalo Creek hollow. It was one of the deadliest floods in U.S. history. 125 people were killed instantly, more than 1,000 were injured, and over 4,000 were suddenly homeless. Instead of accepting the small settlements offered by the coal company's insurance offices, a few hundred of the survivors banded together to sue. This is the story of their triumph over incredible odds and corporate irresponsibility, as told by Gerald M. Stern, who as a young lawyer and took on the case and won.

The Buffalo Creek Disaster

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Author : Gerald M. Stern
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2008-05-06

Everything In Its Path

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Author : Kai T. Erikson
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-04-10

Everything In Its Path written by Kai T. Erikson and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-10 with Nature categories.

The 1977 Sorokin Award–winning story of Buffalo Creek in 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 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. Making extensive use of the words of the people themselves, Erikson details the conflicting tensions of mountain life in general—the tensions between individualism and dependency, self-assertion and resignation, self-centeredness and group orientation—and examines the loss of connection, disorientation, declining morality, rise in crime, rise in out-migration, etc., that resulted from the sudden loss of neighborhood.

The Buffalo Creek Disaster

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Author : Gerald M. Stern
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976

The Buffalo Creek Disaster written by Gerald M. Stern and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with History categories.

Behind-the-scenes account by the attorney from the Washington D.C. law firm that represented the Buffalo Creek Disaster survivors in a lawsuit. There were over 4,000 survivors of the flood that devastated over 16 small West Virginia communities and took 125 lives.

Prolonged Psychosocial Effects Of Disaster

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Author : Goldine C. Gleser
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2013-10-22

Prolonged Psychosocial Effects Of Disaster written by Goldine C. Gleser and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-22 with Family & Relationships categories.

Prolonged Psychosocial Effects of Disaster: A Study of Buffalo Creek disseminates the findings of an investigation into the psychosocial effects of a specific disaster - the collapse of a slag dam that inundated the valley of Buffalo Creek in West Virginia on February 26, 1972. Based on interviews with more than 600 men, women, and children for whom psychic impairment was claimed, this volume examines the relationships between the individual disaster experiences of the survivors and their later psychological functioning. Comprised of nine chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the psychosocial consequences of disasters and an account of the Buffalo Creek disaster itself, along with the subsequent lawsuit against the coal company. The next chapter explains how the psychopathology and stress of the survivors were scaled and gives some information regarding the reliability and validity of the data. Symptoms, sleep problems, family disruption, and traumatic dreams are considered. The findings on these data and the follow-up studies are discussed. The final chapter contains a summary of the findings and proposes specific suggestions as well as a model for future disaster studies. This book will be of most practical importance to mental health scientists and clinicians working with the victims of stress and disaster, and should also be of considerable interest to social and behavioral scientists and, more generally, to administrators of government activities.

Buffalo Creek

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Author : J. Dennis Deitz
language : en
Publisher: Mountain Memories Books
Release Date : 1992

Buffalo Creek written by J. Dennis Deitz and has been published by Mountain Memories Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Buffalo Creek (Logan County, W. Va.) categories.

Summary Of Gerald M Stern S The Buffalo Creek Disaster

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Author : Everest Media,
language : en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date : 2022-09-09T22:59:00Z

Summary Of Gerald M Stern S The Buffalo Creek Disaster written by Everest Media, and has been published by Everest Media LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-09T22:59:00Z with Law categories.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 In the early 1960s, I traveled around Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana trying voting discrimination cases for the government. I was too shy to ask for something for myself, but I was always able to speak up for others. #2 I was too shy to ask for something for myself, but I was always able to speak up for others. I ended up representing the Buffalo Creek survivors in a case that made me a folk hero in the hills of West Virginia. #3 Charles Cowan, Jr. , the local football hero, was elected chairman of the Buffalo Creek Grade School committee that was going to file a lawsuit against the coal company. #4 The Buffalo Creek disaster exposed the shortcomings of private law firms and how they fail to protect the little guy.