The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the survivors of one of the worst disasters in coal-mining history brought s uit against the coal company--and won Cover
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The Buffalo Creek Disaster How the survivors of one of the worst disasters in coal-mining history brought s uit against the coal company--and won

Gerald M. Stern

The "suspenseful and completely absorbing story" ( 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 on...

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It was a novel read in middle school that was set during the San Francisco earthquake and highlighted the catastrophic and chaotic events that transpired in a short timeframe.

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And I also remember and I'm not going to be able to summon the name of this book. But when I was in like middle school, we were assigned to read a book about the San Francisco earthquake.

— Episode: Seismic Anomalies, with Sarah Wayne Call...

Episode: Seismic Anomalies, with Sarah Wayne Callies

It was a novel read in middle school that was set during the San Francisco earthquake and highlighted the catastrophic and chaotic events that transpired in a short timeframe.

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And I also remember and I'm not going to be able to summon the name of this book. But when I was in like middle school, we were assigned to read a book about the San Francisco earthquake.

I think it's called disaster disaster from Dan Kurzman.

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