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Three Forks Bottom and Buffalo Creek Disaster Remembered
Lorainne Chamblee recalls Three Forks Bottom once a springtime paradise now scarred by a slag heap dam. The 1985 Buffalo Creek disaster flooded 15 communities including Three Forks and left 83 missing with 1,700 homes destroyed.
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Man
W. Va
Lorainne Chamblee
Three Forks Bottom
Buffalo Creek Hollow
Three Forks
Saunders Mountain
Guyandotte River
Buffalo Creek
Hell
Lorainne Chamblee’s