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

This tells the story of the 1977 flood of Buffalo Creek, a mountain hollow in West Virginia, it also tells the story of the aftermath of a devastating flood in 1972. The flood caused a collective trauma, with survivors crowded into trailer homes without concern for their former neighborhoods. Erikson uses the words of the people to explore the conflicting tensions of mountain life, such as individualism and dependency, self-assertion and resignation, self-centeredness and group orientation, and the loss of connection, disorientation, declining morality, crime, and out-migration that resulted from the sudden loss of neighborhood.

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