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FAVORITE DRINK: Hairy Buffalo (real Tequila with a worm, Rheingold Beer, Hoods Milk, and a twist...
Chris and his mother barely escaped with their lives last February when a badly constructed coal-slag dam gave way and unleashed 130 million gallons of seething water on the mining communities of Buffalo Creek, W. Va., killing 125 and leaving 4,000 homeless (TIME, March 13). Chris was carried to high ground by his father, but his two sisters were swept from their mother's arms and drowned. Last week, seven months after the disaster, much of the physical havoc caused by the flood had been repaired, but the psychological damage to hundreds of families like the Hopsons...
...make psychological help readily accessible to such sufferers, the West Virginia department of mental health has set up a field headquarters in Buffalo Creek Valley. Instead of waiting for clients to come to the office, mental AP health aides ring doorbells throughout the area, especially in the 13 Government trailer camps where 2,200 of the homeless are trying to pick up the thread of their lives. Wary of social workers and psychiatrists, many residents at first deny that they feel stunned or disoriented by their tragic losses. Then, often as the visitors are just about to leave, the survivors...
...door, providing both religious solace and the same "listening therapy" dispensed by the mental health aides. Ordinary medical doctors have been pressed into service, too, serving as listeners while they treat patients for physical ailments complicated by flood-inflicted traumas. One of these, Pediatrician Mark Spurlock, has found that Buffalo Creek children have more nightmares now, and that "asthmatics are wheezing more." Among his patients is a child who comes in at intervals for allergy shots; his mother recounts the story of the flood on every visit. "She doesn't even know she's told me before," Spurlock...
Last week I had lunch with some earnest media businessmen, the kind who deal with music in terms of "product." One of them wondered aloud to our host, from Atlantic Records, if another Buffalo Springfield retrospective would be released. The time was right, he said. It'd make a great product...