I've seen about 5 different version of that site so far, each with more pictures or text than the other. This girl did an amazing job documenting her travel's through the "dead zone". So d!abolic, if you really do have her digits tell her thank you from me.

This is the most chilling picture I have ever seen from the chernobyl area:


I don't know why but it always sends chills down my spine.

I've been trying to find as much information about this disaster as possible. I was in South-Eastern Poland, about 600km from Chernobyl when it happened. I vaguely remember being forced to drink the bitter Iodine solution by my dad. Latelly I've also been wondering how this accident affected me, health wise. It's not an easy question to answer because much of what really happend, will never be known thanks to communism.
During my internet searches I stumbled across many interesting websites that I though some of you might enjoy as well:

http://archive.greenpeace.org/comms...b/cherfoto.html Pictures of Chernobyl area taken in 1996, ten years after the accident by GreenPeace Organization.

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/chernoby...obyl_index.html One woman's return to Pripyat, (the ghost town) She now suffers from cancer believed to be due to Chernobyl. Great pictures of her old neighbourhood in the ghost town can be found by following a link near the bottom of the first page.

http://www.chernobyl.info/en Good Information site about Chernobyl.

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Paul, here's another scary one. Feels like someone staring at you from a different world.



The pics of those guys steamcleaning contaminated parts are also disturbing. They're all dead men. Also, i'm sure you've seen photos of that giant lot where all the abandoned vehicles were left. Note how the hoods are open on nearly every one of them - the engines were removed and sold to unsuspecting people in other cities.

I was in Warsaw at the time this happend; and I remember I had to drink some stuff as well; just in case.

I found this VERY powerful. Thanks for the link - it certainly provided me with some much-needed perspective...

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Wow, that was intensely sobering...thanks for the link. Makes you think.....imagine the dead zone if Pickering ever "rode the Demon"??

A ghost town of 40 thousand is one thing.....imagine all of Toronto completely deserted of human life.

Granted I'd like to think our falesafes, procedures and technologies are much more advanced......let's hope

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Originally posted by d!abolic Also, i'm sure you've seen photos of that giant lot where all the abandoned vehicles were left.

that really is an amazing site

all those cars, trucks, helicopters....just amazing

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thanks for sharing the link, very powerful stuff. Can't help but feel so sad especially when I read the part about the old man who still lives there and refuses to leave risking death rather than abandoning a town that he grew up with and loves.

I've seen that site a few times and it is very eerie.. the whole place is just there preserved, like soemthing out of a zombie movie

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