Chernobyl

[JK Walz]

Here is a link to a really good website devoted to Chernobyl as it exists today.

http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/

The young woman who put this together is the daughter of a nuclear scientist who has access to the "dead zone". She has put together this website with tons of photos of the ghost town. Most she takes herself when riding through on her motocycle.

You really should go through all thirty or so pages to get a feel for what is a truly chilling and sad place.

JK

[Emptiness]

Lo ! Death hath rear'd himself a throne
In a strange city, all alone,
Far down within the dim west —
And the good, and the bad, and the worst, and the best,
Have gone to their eternal rest.

There shrines, and palaces, and towers
Are — not like any thing of ours —
O ! no — O! no — ours never loom
To heaven with that ungodly gloom!
Time-eaten towers that tremble not!
Around, by lifting winds forgot,
Resignedly beneath the sky
The melancholy waters lie.

The first 2 stanzas from, The Doomed City, by Edgar Allan Poe

Only poetry seems fit for something like what happened there.

Eric