GHOST TOWN

TrailRider · Post by **TrailRider** » Apr 21st, '05, 11:45

This came out last year, but I still enjoy going back to the site now and then. It's about the area of the former USSR that were poisend by the Chernobyl nuclear facility. It's incredible to think that something like this happened. The pictures and descriptions are MIND BOGGLING. It is truely a GHOST TOWN. Check it out.

http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddo ... ter28.html

snowsprite · Post by **snowsprite** » Apr 21st, '05, 11:51

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andyzee · Post by **andyzee** » Apr 21st, '05, 11:52

Sprite, like the new avatar.

tyrolean_skier · Post by **tyrolean_skier** » Apr 21st, '05, 12:16

Sprite did you change the avatar because now is spring and butterflies are around?

Post by **spanky** » Apr 21st, '05, 12:25

tyrolean_skier wrote:Sprite did you change the avatar because now is spring and butterflies are around?

I love how a thread about a nuclear meltdown can turn into a discussion about "spring and butterflies"

Damn hijackers.

DMC · Post by **DMC** » Apr 21st, '05, 12:33

Saw the thing about the woman on the motorcycle cruising around these places...
weird stuff...

Wild that people still live there...

RossiSkier · Post by **RossiSkier** » Apr 21st, '05, 12:58

That story is so freaking cool and sad at the same time.

I wonder what the bum who was sleeping did for food and water? Freaking amazing.

robrules · Post by **robrules** » Apr 21st, '05, 13:24

DMC wrote:Saw the thing about the woman on the motorcycle cruising around these places...
weird stuff...

Wild that people still live there...

Ditto for Greene Co. NY ;-) (I grew up in Coxsackie)

tyrolean_skier · Post by **tyrolean_skier** » Apr 21st, '05, 14:49

spanky wrote:
tyrolean_skier wrote:Sprite did you change the avatar because now is spring and butterflies are around?
I love how a thread about a nuclear meltdown can turn into a discussion about "spring and butterflies"

Damn hijackers.

I had already read that story previously so I didn't have anything to add to that part of the thread so I just jumped on Andy's bandwagon re Sprite's new avatar.

snowsprite · Post by **snowsprite** » Apr 21st, '05, 14:51

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Dr. NO · Post by **Dr. NO** » Apr 21st, '05, 15:16

tyrolean_skier wrote:
spanky wrote:
tyrolean_skier wrote:Sprite did you change the avatar because now is spring and butterflies are around?
I love how a thread about a nuclear meltdown can turn into a discussion about "spring and butterflies"

Damn hijackers.
I had already read that story previously so I didn't have anything to add to that part of the thread so I just jumped on Andy's bandwagon re Sprite's new avatar.

A likely story you post monger. You posted before Andy so he was jumpin in on your HiJack !

tyrolean_skier · Post by **tyrolean_skier** » Apr 21st, '05, 15:19

Dr. NO wrote:
tyrolean_skier wrote:
spanky wrote:
tyrolean_skier wrote:Sprite did you change the avatar because now is spring and butterflies are around?
I love how a thread about a nuclear meltdown can turn into a discussion about "spring and butterflies"

Damn hijackers.
I had already read that story previously so I didn't have anything to add to that part of the thread so I just jumped on Andy's bandwagon re Sprite's new avatar.
A likely story you post monger. You posted before Andy so he was jumpin in on your HiJack !

Go back and look at the times of the two posts Dr.No. Andy's was before mine.

pizzamoose · Post by **pizzamoose** » Apr 21st, '05, 15:20

one thing to be aware of when reading this though:

I am sorry to report that much of Elena's story is not true. She did not travel around the zone by herself on a motorcycle. Motorcycles are banned in the zone, as is wandering around alone, without an escort from the zone administration. She made one trip there with her husband and a friend. They traveled in a Chornobyl car that picked them up in Kyiv.

She did, however, bring a motorcycle helmet. They organized their trip through a Kyiv travel agency and the administration of the Chornobyl zone (and not her father). They were given the same standard excursion that most Chernobyl tourists receive. When the Web site appeared, Zone Administration personnel were in an uproar over who approved a motorcycle trip in the zone. When it turned out that the motorcycle story was an invention, they were even less pleased about this fantasy Web site.

Because of those problems, Elena and her husband have changed the Web site and the story considerably in the last few days. Earlier versions of the narrative lied more blatantly about Elena taking lone motorcycle trips in the zone. That has been changed to merely suggest that she does so, which is still misleading.

still really interesting.. if anyone can do it, i'd like to take a tour of the area myself.. i doubt my wife will want to come though.

DMC · Post by **DMC** » Apr 21st, '05, 15:24

pizzamoose wrote:still really interesting.. if anyone can do it, i'd like to take a tour of the area myself.. i doubt my wife will want to come though.

Wait till your finished having kids... Otherwise they may come out with three eyes from the radiation...

Dr. NO · Post by **Dr. NO** » Apr 21st, '05, 15:28

tyrolean_skier wrote:
Dr. NO wrote:
tyrolean_skier wrote:
spanky wrote:
tyrolean_skier wrote:Sprite did you change the avatar because now is spring and butterflies are around?
I love how a thread about a nuclear meltdown can turn into a discussion about "spring and butterflies"

Damn hijackers.
I had already read that story previously so I didn't have anything to add to that part of the thread so I just jumped on Andy's bandwagon re Sprite's new avatar.
A likely story you post monger. You posted before Andy so he was jumpin in on your HiJack !
Go back and look at the times of the two posts Dr.No. Andy's was before mine.

SORRY ! I got cornfused.