num_pages: 304
description: 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.
language: English
title: Everything in Its Path
titlecomplete: Everything in Its Path
genres: Environment, Law, School, Grad School, Cities, American History, Nonfiction, Sociology, History
ratings_count: 379
awards: awardedAt: 252489600000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Contemporary Thought, awardedAt: 189331200000
name: Weatherford Award, awardedAt: 220953600000
name: Sorokin Award
publisher: Simon & Schuster