Chernobyl Where were you when it rained?

Geraldine

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I remember the heavy rain while living in London. No warnings were given about staying out of it. We went about our normal daily lives which meant been exposed to the rain.
Now we learn that 30 to 40 years after the event cancers may start to peak. I do have concerns. Do you?
 
No exposure level minute in UK no traceable mortality etc rates in babies :)
 
I was delivering parcels around Manchester and Bolton until approx 2pm then went home on the day it went booooooooooooooooooom.

Afterwards i would be in the same areas from approx 7am to 6pm monday to friday then approx 8am to 2pm saturdays.

Maybe that`s the reason i`m barking mad today.
 
Living in Bergen, Norway. Strongly advised to stay in doors but needed to get out now and again!
 
I lived in Aberdeen then and spent my days out over the North Sea.
 
So it was 1986 over a bank holiday weekend. Maggie was out of the countrie. Those left in charge failed to act until after the event. Areas in Wales and Cumbria still recording high levels of radiation and still have restriction on movement of live stock into the food chain. Only 33 years have passed. I still have concerns.
 
I’d just bought a Honda Goldwing the week before, so was probably out on that riding around Warwickshire.
 
snapster said:
I’d just bought a Honda Goldwing the week before, so was probably out on that riding around Warwickshire.
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Lovely. Hope you had many years accident free. Sold my motorbike after being wiped out by a car switching lanes.
 
Sold it a couple of years later after some idiot in a Montego ran into one of the big luggage boxes at the back
Apparently, he “didn’t see me”......
 
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Sold it a couple of years later after some idiot in a Montego ran into one of the big luggage boxes at the back
Apparently, he “didn’t see me”......
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The guy who knocked me off was banned from driving. He then appealed. All my witness's were fellow motorcyclists who saw the accident. Although I was riding home on my own,in his defence he made out we were like a pack of hells angels!
Anyway he had the original verdict squashed and got away Scot free. I thought I'll be dead next time. So sold the motorbike that same day.
 
First time I fell off ( an earlier bike, Triumph Tiger Cub) I was driving through a gap I
Between two parked cars and an ambulance pulled into the same gap. I ended up in the boot of the nearside car while the ambulance sailed through the gap and away.
 
I was in a tent in the New Forest. I was disappointed that the tent didn’t glow in the dark afterwards.
 
My sons girlfriend lived in the 100 mile zone as a baby and developed thyroid cancer as an adult as a direct result of Chernobyl she was treated in Leeds and and to have radiation treatment. Did anyone watch the film where they went back and thought they would find animals sick and deformed but what they found was although the radiation was still extremely high the miracle of nature had taken over the animals and birds were thriving way beyond the expectations but still the film crew could only go in for short periods and wore protective clothes.
 
I was sailing around the area where Bradwell power station is, was working then but didn’t see any leaks.
 
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