Pripyat

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Does anyone remember the Chernobyl incident in 1986?

I was only nine months when it happened but my boyfriend remembers it because it was on the news. He was 11 at the time of the incident.


After watching the videos on youtube about the city, I learned 20,000 people died, 300,000 thousand were left injured, sick or with cancer. Not just the city was evacuated, towns around it did too. The city wasn't even that old. It was founded in 1970 and then 16 years later it became a ghost town.

Now they do group tours there and it costs about $200. But you can't go off by yourself because parts of the city are unsafe because of the radiation.

I did not know about this till I today when I was watching Life After People on the History channel. My boyfriend recorded it on tivo and he put it on because he figured I'd be interested but instead I got more focused on this.

I thought Hiroshema was still radiated but an English teacher I met said she worked there and they had a memorial park !

So long as the topsoil is collected and buried the residual radiation isn't too bad.

There's a couple of computer games that feature Pripyat as levels, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Call of Duty 4. Both have the city as it was when it was evacuated. There's a huge ferris wheel in both of them, and a big hotel and swimming pool nearby.

Good gods you just made my wierdness tingles go off the scale; I've been noticing strange references to Pripyat in quite a few places recently - and now I find a thread titled "Pripyat" here on the Wrong Planet?

It is definately a sign, but I'm not sure what of.

Good fortune,

- Icarus wants to move to Pripyat...

Probably one of the greenest towns in the whole country. (Chernobyl in the background)

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Pripyat is very close to my surname. Not many words rhyme with my surname! Unusual.

I was 21 when the Chernobyl disaster happened. At the time, I had an interest in the Ukraine and its history, so I gathered all the information I could find on the subject.

Those photos are eerie. The lead singer of Gogol Bordello is a Chernobyl survivor.