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Buffalo Creek

Stories of Appalachia
Stories of Appalachia
Episode • Apr 22, 2017 • 12m
The winter of 1971-72 saw large amounts of rainfall throughout the central Appalachians. By February, 1972, the ground was saturated, and the rivers were overflowing. And a gob dam located on Buffalo Creek in West Virginia which wasn’t designed to be a dam gave way in a rushing wall of water, muck and black death […]