Everything In Its Path: How People Lived In Buffalo Creek

Summary
Everything in Its Path, I read that the people that was a part of the Buffalo Creek flood. The people were wounded in spirit, children did not act like children because of what the flood had done to their home. The people that lived in Buffalo, Creek loved the place they called home. Buffalo, Creek is mainly a place where coal mining go on. On February 26th, 1972 the place that was a nice honest place as the people from Buffalo, Creek would say that statement came to an end on that day. There was cheap coal that was dug up and the disposal of the low-quality coal was not handled the way that it needed to be handled. The coal was dumped down mountains or in hollows that
A disaster will affect peoples psychological state. Many people developed conditions such as nervousness, anxiety, depression, and attacks of post-traumatic stress disorders. Medical experts examined several of the survivors and several of them developed some type of psychological disorder. After the flood was over there were six hundred and fifteen survivors of Buffalo, Creek examined by a psychiatrist. Ninety three percent of the survivors were identified with an emotional disorder. Everything in Its Path is a great book to read about disasters and about how it affects people in a horrific way. A disaster comes to destroy several lives and homes. It does not care about people’s feelings and who they love. A disaster will tear people apart physically and mentally. Communities that was once nice and happy going communities do not always bounce back the way they need to. The disaster made some people not want to be alone and go to their own parent’s funeral when one of them die. All the people that survived the disaster have different feelings toward it and how it makes them feel after it came. A woman by the name of Deborah was affected badly. Before the disaster she was a woman that would cook everyday for her kids and even keep her house looking nice. She even loved being around people, but the disaster changed her feelings fast about everything in her life. She did not cook anymore three weeks had passed by and she still did not cook. She hated being around people, and she even tried to kill herself one day. The attempt was not successful because her husband and little girl came to the car before she pulled off. They drug her out of the vehicle and gave her meds, so she could relax. Buffalo, Creek was a normal community people enjoyed one another’s company and they went to church together. Children would spend the night at their friend’s house on the weekends from Friday to