I'll not post this today. Wait a few days because today is Valentines Day. But this travelogue on Chernobyl called Ghost Town and Land of the Wolves is too powerful and sobering not to see. I quickly gained immense respect for the author, Elena Filatova and recommend you visit her website where she has chronicled other places and events such as the Soviet Gulags.
Elena may have a flair for the dramatic but is still a superb chronicler. Her references to Wormwood should be balanced against Wikipedia information. The entire chronicle may take an hour and a half to read. Each page is a "chapter" in her URL address so you can read a segment and return later to a new section by altering the chapter number in the URL to resume the narrative. Please take a look and then decide how much you want to read.
I also suggest reading more about the Chrnobyl disaster in Wikipedia.
We live about ten miles from a nuclear power plant. I told Hazel if we heard their siren that we would run for the car and drive like hell. On the other hand, there are always risks in our lives, I suspect we are safer living here then driving on the Bay Area freeways. (By the way, you can HEAR that siren!)
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Next time you visit casa del Bill - note the yellow siren on the pole on the right side of Deep River Road where the ponds are. Yep - it's a Harris Nuke Plant siren.
They test it sometimes.
It's LOUD.
Run for the hills!!!!
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