Chernobyl

Timstone · #1 April 21st, 2004, 06:00 PM

This must be one of the most beautyful trips ever made. I lack words to describe it. WOW!

Trip to Chernobyl

The woman/girl who wrote this really lookes like my GF. Or does my GF looks like the (very, very, very) nice woman/girl of this story?
Anyway, a downright gorgeous story.

Enjoy these pics and the story.

[ April 21, 2004, 18:17: Message edited by: Timstone ]

Cyclop · #2 April 21st, 2004, 06:11 PM

What an outstanding site and find! This is more educational than any of the stories I've seen. Now that is one true ghost town in more ways than one.
Thanks for the share!

Timstone · #3 April 21st, 2004, 06:13 PM

Don't thank me, but my Polish GF. Her family send us this link. Glad you like it.

Captain Kwok · #4 April 21st, 2004, 07:02 PM

I never realized the full extent of this disaster. Thanks for the link.

Intimidator · #5 April 21st, 2004, 07:17 PM

Impressed,

I remember the disaster, I was 10 or 11 back than.
I life in the Netherlands, some 2000 km from Kiev (maybe more).And even in The Netherlands Rad-levels increased, I remember that all the very old and very young where summoned to their doctors to get some Iodine-salt (I hope I translate this correctly) to withstand the higher Rad-Levels.
So imagine the impact on the people over there still living in the area, HUGE......

Intimidator

[ April 21, 2004, 18:33: Message edited by: Intimidator ]

Timstone · #6 April 21st, 2004, 07:20 PM

Intimidator:
Waar woon jij dan? Ik woon in Noord-Holland in een gat dat Velserbroek heet. Dat ligt bij Haarlem mocht je het niet op de landkaarten kunnen vinden. We zijn nu met 4 Nederlanders op dit forum; Sparhawk, Henk Brouwer, jij en ik. Ik had je, tot mijn verbazing, nog niet opgemerkt. Prettig kennis te maken.

Intimidator · #7 April 21st, 2004, 07:28 PM

Hoi

Ik woon in Arnhem (Gelderland)
Henk Brouwer heb ik al eerder gesproken, maar jij was me nog niet opgevallen (stom, Kleigat : dan moet er toch een belletje gaan rinkelen).

Intimidator

Intimidator · #8 April 21st, 2004, 07:32 PM

Maybe it's not that polite to speak dutch on this open forum

(wordt tijd dat ze ook Nederlands leren)

So you could mail me the next time.

Intimidator

Slynky · #9 April 21st, 2004, 07:58 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Intimidator:
Maybe it's not that polite to speak dutch on this open forum (wordt tijd dat ze ook Nederlands leren)

So you could mail me the next time.

Intimidator

Well, it certainly doesn't bother me at all. It's a global forum so us English speakers should expect there to be some foreign words written here sometimes

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Arkcon · #10 April 21st, 2004, 08:31 PM

The site has been on /. a couple of times, and they really screwed over her host's bandwidth. So be gentle everyone -- share the site sparingly with others.

I really like the (web)site though. Whenever I've been there (the web site, not Chernobyl), I always end up lingering (on the pages) a real long time. Just thinking.

She mentions wild life and has photos of wild horses, which is cool. What I wonder about something I heard 'bout a year after the incident:

A couple secretaries/receptionists were talking in the hallway at college. They said the plant life there was growing weird and misshapen in responce to the radiation. I had to interrupt them. I know a lot of radiation was released, but plants, as I recall, can survive an order of magnitude more radiation than animal life, so it didn't seem plausible to me. They didn't have the specifics -- it was just a rumor for them.

The trees don't look odd in any of the pictures but I'll have to settle this myself. I need a book on Ukrainian botany, lunch, motorcycle, and a radiation gauge. I'm unemployed, so I got time. Did I forget anything else -- oh, wait, money for a flight to Russia

[ April 21, 2004, 19:33: Message edited by: Arkcon ]