Everything in Its Path : Destruction of Community in the Buffalo Creek Flood (9780671240677)

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.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 284 pages
• Dimensions 140 x 216 x 18.29mm | 386g
• Publication date 15 Apr 1978
• Publisher Simon & Schuster
• Imprint Pocket Books
• Publication City/Country New York, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note illustrations
• ISBN10 0671240676
• ISBN13 9780671240677
• Bestsellers rank 1,044,640

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