What was the Buffalo creek disaster in West Virginia.?
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Twenty-five years ago, one of the deadliest floods in U.S. history occurred in southern West Virginia's Buffalo Creek hollow. Negligent strip mining and heavy rain produced a raging flood. In a matter of minutes, 118 were dead and over 4,000 people were left homeless. Seven were never found.
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I live here in Philadelphia, Mississippi where that happened. \nYou might try our local newspaper. They have a continuing series about all the events of that incident. Feel free to e-mail me @ yahoo if you have any more questions.I was a small child but I remember some things.\nHope this helps. Blessings...
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I wasn't sure of what level of detail you were looking for.\n\nEasier to understand:\nhttp://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/wwvisit.html\n\nhttp://www.humboldt.edu/~ere_dept/marsh/flow1.html\n\nMore difficult to understand:\nhttp://waterhome.brc.tamus.edu/texasyst/household.html\n\nhttp://www.knovel.com/knovel2/Toc.jsp?SpaceID=10086&BookID=290
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Wow..that thing has been closed for years. Used to be part of the infamous "black triangle" smelters in US and Mexico. The town still hasn't recovered from the closing and Phelps Dodge leaving. Whats the scoop?
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Back in my wandering hippie days a busload of us crashed at an old house in Boulder Colorado.  One of the women awoke from a nap upstairs screaming, saying a little girl was trying to steal her body. \n\nOur host passed a couple of joints around and told the story of the original residents.  It seems their young daughter had died of typhoid, and they were in such denial of it that they just left her body to rot in her upstairs bedroom. Deprived of a proper burial, the girl's spirit never left the house.  The next owner had walled off the room, even going so far as to seal it with lead.  We were starting to have some fun with the story when there was suddenly a loud bang from the wall in question, causing a number of things to fall down.\n\nWe decided then to go out for ice cream, and we all slept downstairs on the living room floor that night.
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buffalo. \n\nEdit: second word is drought.
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West by God Virginia!
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As for North and South Dakota/Carolina, the answer has been given. The story with VA and WV is related to the issue of slavery and the period leading up to the American Civil War.\n\n(In short: What used to be "eastern Virginia" was mostly inhabited by slave-owning plantation holders. The part that is now West Virginia was inhabited by small farmers etc. The situation threatened to split the state apart, so the people voted to split it up in two states: WV for the Union, VA for the Confederacy.)
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It was a mess for my grandfolks.  Truly a disaster.
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Horrible part of American history:\n\n The Trail of Tears refers to the forced relocation of the Cherokee Native American tribe to the Western United States in 1838, which resulted in the deaths of an estimated 4,000 Cherokee Indians. In the Cherokee language, the event is called Nunna daul Isunyi—"the Trail Where We Cried."\n\nThe Trail of Tears resulted from the enforcement of the Treaty of New Echota, an agreement signed under the provisions of the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which exchanged Native American land in the East for lands west of the Mississippi River, but was never accepted by the elected tribal leadership Chief John Ross, or majority of the Cherokee people. Nevertheless, the treaty was enforced by President Martin Van Buren, who sent federal troops to round up about 17,000 Cherokees in camps before being sent to the west. Most of the deaths occurred from disease in these camps. After the initial round up, the U.S. military played a limited role in the journey itself, with the Cherokee Nation taking over supervision of most of the emigration. The Treaty of New Echota was signed by a small faction of prominent Cherokees, Major Ridge, Elias Boudinot (Buck Watie), and Stan Watie, and their followers willingly left Georgia for Oklahoma Prior to the forced removal. The signing of the Treaty entailed accepting payment from the government for their land in Georgia and relocating to Oklahoma. This touched off what is known as the "Blood Feud" between the two factions in which Elias Boudinot (Buck Watie) and Major Ridge and his son were murdered in Oklahoma after the removal of John Ross and his factions of Cherokees to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears. This split the Cherokee Nation into two factions, the Western Cherokee's led by Major Ridge and the Eastern faction who continued to recongize Chief John Ross as the Chief of the Cherokee Nation.\n\nThe Cherokees were not the only Native Americans forced to emigrate during this era, and so the phrase "Trail of Tears" is sometimes used to refer to similar events endured by other Indian peoples, especially among the "Five Civilized Tribes." In fact, the phrase "Trail of Tears" may have originated as a description of the removal of the Choctaw nation. See Indian Removal for more details.
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I'm from West Virginia and I'm not sure what you mean. What time span are you talking about? The kids worked around the homes/farms back in the 60's and they still do. Other then doing odd jobs...I haven't heard of anything. As for when the kids got older the coalmines were the place to work at & still are in my areas.
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The largest event recorded was the Giles County earthquake in 1897. ... in Virginia\n\nLarge Earthquakes in the United States and the World \n\nPrince William Sound, Alaska \n1964 March 28 03:36:14 UTC (local time: March 27 05:36:14 p.m.) \nMagnitude 9.2 \n\nLargest Earthquake in Alaska \n\n\nIsoseismal Map \n\nDamage Photos: 1   2   3 \n\nSeismograms \n\nCommunity Internet Instensity Map \nThis great earthquake and ensuing tsunami took 125 lives (tsunami 110, earthquake 15), and caused about $311 million in property loss. Earthquake effects were heavy in many towns, including Anchorage, Chitina, Glennallen, Homer, Hope, Kasilof, Kenai, Kodiak, Moose Pass, Portage, Seldovia, Seward, Sterling, Valdez, Wasilla, and Whittier. \n\n \n\nAnchorage, about 120 kilometers northwest of the epicenter, sustained the most severe damage to property. About 30 blocks of dwellings and commercial buildings were damaged or destroyed in the downtown area. The J.C. Penny Company building was damaged beyond repair; the Four Seasons apartment building, a new six-story structure, collapsed; and many other multistory buildings were damaged heavily. The schools in Anchorage were almost devastated. The Government Hill Grade School, sitting astride a huge landslide, was almost a total loss. Anchorage High School and Denali Grade School were damaged severely. Duration of the shock was estimated at 3 minutes. \n\nLandslides in Anchorage caused heavy damage. Huge slides occurred in the downtown business section, at Government Hill, and at Turnagain Heights. The largest and most devastating landslide occurred at Turnagain Heights. An area of about 130 acres was devasted by displacements that broke the ground into many deranged blocks that were collapsed and tilted at all angles. This slide destroyed about 75 private houses. Water mains and gas, sewer, telephone, and electrical systems were disrupted throughout the area. \n\nThe earthquake was accompanied by vertical displacement over an area of about 520,000 square kilometers. The major area of uplift trended northeast from southern Kodiak Island to Price William Sound and trended east-west to the east of the sound. Vertical displacements ranged from about 11.5 meters of uplift to 2.3 meters of subsidence relative to sea level. Off the southwest end of Montague Island, there was absolute vertical displacement of about 13 - 15 meters. Uplift also occurred along the extreme southeast coast of Kodiak Island, Sitkalidak Island, and over part or all of Sitkinak Island. This zone of subsidence covered about 285,000 square kilometers, including the north and west parts of Prince William Sound, the west part of the Chugach Mountains, most of Kenai Peninsula, and almost all the Kodiak Island group. \n\nThis shock generated a tsunami that devasted many towns along the Gulf of Alaska, and left serious damage at Alberni and Port Alberni, Canada, along the West Coast of the United States (15 killed), and in Hawaii. The maximum wave height recorded was 67 meters at Valdez Inlet. Seiche action in rivers, lakes, bayous, and protected harbors and waterways along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas caused minor damage. It was also recorded on tide gages in Cuba and Puerto Rico. \n\nThis great earthquake was felt over a large area of Alaska and in parts of western Yukon Territory and British Columbia, Canada. \n\n  \n\nAbridged from Seismicity of the United States, 1568-1989 (Revised), by Carl W. Stover and Jerry L. Coffman, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1527, United States Government Printing Office, Washington: 1993. \n\n \nTravel times (in hours) are shown for the tsunamis produced by the 1960 Concepción, Chile, earthquake (purple curves) and by the 1964 Good Friday, Valdez (Anchorage), Alaska earthquake (red curves). The 1960 tsunamis killed 61 people and caused about $24 million in damage. \n\nAdditional Links \n\nThe Great Prince William Sound Earthquake of March 28, 1964 \n\nThe Great Alaska Earthquake of
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New Orleans.... Looking for help... experience in levee wall building and maintaining preferred.  \n\nBring a bullet proof vest.
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This scenario was breached in a recent book, "Assured Response", I forgot who the author was. It was pretty devastating.... actually they blew up four dams on the Colorado in sequence, causing a 200 ft high flash flood through the Grand Canyon.
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East.... Right through West Virginia
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I grew up in West Virginia.  In the seventh grade, our Civics textbook referred to pockets of poverty in the "mountains and hollows" of West Virginia.  I raised my hand and asked what a "hollow" was.  Everybody laughed real hard at me!  I knew what a "holler" was, but I never heard of a "hollow!"
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ZERO.  And allow me to say that I am really surprised at the ignorance about this.  If anyone would care to look it up, this was yet, another horrible thing that was forced upon the true Native Americans (Cherokee) by Andrew Jackson with the so called Indian Removal Act.  4,000 men, women and children died.  This was a forced death march from the East all the way into Oklahoma.  Some managed to escape but most did not.  This story breaks my heart.