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The Buffalo Creek Disaster

2008-05-06 Social Science
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Release : 2008-05-06
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Buffalo Creek Disaster by : Gerald M. Stern

Download or read book The Buffalo Creek Disaster written by Gerald M. Stern. This book was released on 2008-05-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "suspenseful and completely absorbing story" (San Francisco Chronicle) of how survivors of the worst coal-mining disaster in history triumphed over corporate irresponsibility—written by the young lawyer who took on their case and won. 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.

The Buffalo Creek Disaster

2011-01-26 Social Science
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Release : 2011-01-26
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Book Synopsis The Buffalo Creek Disaster by : Gerald M. Stern

Download or read book The Buffalo Creek Disaster written by Gerald M. Stern. This book was released on 2011-01-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Everything In Its Path

2012-04-10 Nature
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Release : 2012-04-10
Genre : Nature
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Book Synopsis Everything In Its Path by : Kai T. Erikson

Download or read book Everything In Its Path written by Kai T. Erikson. This book was released on 2012-04-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Prolonged Psychosocial Effects of Disaster

2013-10-22 Psychology
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Release : 2013-10-22
Genre : Psychology
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Book Synopsis Prolonged Psychosocial Effects of Disaster by : Goldine C. Gleser

Download or read book Prolonged Psychosocial Effects of Disaster written by Goldine C. Gleser. This book was released on 2013-10-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Death at Buffalo Creek

1973-07-01 History
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Release : 1973-07-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Death at Buffalo Creek by : Tom Nugent

Download or read book Death at Buffalo Creek written by Tom Nugent. This book was released on 1973-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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