Chernobyl - A journey to the Ghost City

[Codders]

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chernobyl-revisited/chapter1.html

A friend of mine has sent me a link to this website..
then I thought it would be a good idea to share...


The story is told by the girl from Ukraine who is a biker and loves to cruise occasionally through the famous valley of death..
Both the story and pictures taken by her freeze the blood in one's veins.

I love the way she tells this story, it's well worth taking an hour or so to read through it all. Very addictive reading. All the pictures and stories seem like they belong in a book of our worst fears and dreads, not our history.

Creepy, Creepy stuff...

Also some of memories returned to myself...
I remember I was 5 at the time.. when my mum took me down to the medical centre and I had to drink an awful in taste iodine solutionlike all the polish kids... all to prevent the possibility of getting the thyroid cancer.
Even though the polish border is 450km away from Chernobyl.. the radioactive cloud approached and was spread around...

 

[WetPatch]

Its crazy scary stuff and couldn't even contemplate what it was like for people living there.

Shame that nuclear power is the way of the future.

 

[DUFFMAN]

thats scary stuff, id say the silence is very weird and could really freek you out

great site, thanks codders for putting that up

 

[keith dublin]

Mad

 

[pete]

Its a freaky place, I have a load of pics I found saved on the hard drive.

We get emails about jobs looking for engineers who deal in minerals, oils and a long list of other stuff for countrys near chernobyl. Then at the bottom it says ''Travel may be involved and radioactive engineering'' down the bottom . . . . . . . . Guess where that is
They are to start working there soon.

 

[stevo]

that some scary stuff

 

[Scouserlad2007]

That is well scary, I had shivers run through me at certain points readimng that.

 

[padraic]

well codders thats some reading it looks sureal really and its great to highlight it beacuse people forget about these places and no harm to highlight for fund raising purposes...

the ghost towns and the way things are just droped and left is frighting and how they were so unprepared and lack of knowledge to what was happening....they should have been in their cars going a 100mph in the opposite direction...

 

[derekrx]

Its makes for some interesting reading, it's shocking when you look at the damage it caused, you hear about it in the media & from charity agencies but seldom you actully see pictures of the location & surrounding area's. It's a scary thought to think that Sellafield is only a few hundred kilom's from us & our own goverment were even debating the idea of building a powerplant Imagine what this country would be like in the aftermath of one of these nuke accidents, it does'nt bear thinkin about.

 

[paddy]

scary reading.makes you think doesnt it :sad:

 

[Cill]

Just finished reading the lot, great read and really interesting

My misses is from near the belarus boarder and had to have the solution codders was talking about for years too, doesn't sound nice

Scumbag USSR government not even warning people about it is a disgrace, 7 - 10 days before they alerted their own people!!!!!

Sounds like a great road trip if your brain could handle it!

Nuclear is definitley not the way of the future though, just the best value.... This country could supply the world with power if our sh*t government would just invest in harnessing the infinite wind that bombards us daily, the rest of the world needs to work of hydrogen reactors, anything is better than shitty nuclear

Great post codders

 

[goldenjohn]

Excellent read, spent the past hour or so reading it, the pictures are so vivid and so hard too believe, enen the story on how long it will take before life can actuall start back up there,
Book should be made of that story.
Great Read

 

[mac mac]

quite an eye opener

to the authorities who gave no warning s until too late

 

[B4 soon]

I want to go there. It looks like london at the start of 28 days later or new york in I am legend. Ive read up on The accident a few times-its very very unnerving reading,I dont even know why I feel compelled to go there-Its just interesting to me

 

[Codders]

Yeah..
about the authorities...
I think polish government was pretty quick at this.. the society was alerted within a day.. and the medical centres were well stocked with the iodine solutions almost immediately. Take note that Poland was under siege of communism at the time and its government was totally submissive and dependant on the USSR.

It all shows how FAIL and destructive the system was. The USSR government didn't care about their people.. especially the poor ones in the Ukraine and Belarus (Belarus was the most affected area even the disaster didn't take place on its soil but unluckily there was a strong wind from the south-east carying the radioactive cloud at the time.. )

People were helpless. All of them weren't aware about what was going on.. they didn't suspect this beautiful glow appearing on the horizon was going to kill them within next few days..

 

[stevo]

@B4 soon - can you drive a truck??

once or twice a year about 15 or 20 trucks drive over there from ireland with stuff for the orphanges, my brother does it every year, i think there are always looking for people.

 

[B4 soon]

@stevo-yes I can. Any more info on it?

 

[stevo]

@b4 soon - i see what i can find out, ill get back to you

 

[scoobysub]

never really thought about it when people talk about chernobyl but after seeing the photos and the towns she was in its hard to believe .just imagine if there was a 3rd world was that's what most of the world would look like scary stuff.

 

[finnmcool]

wow... that makes scary reading.
Strange thing is that I remember it quite well.