When the Wind Blows
Remember when you were a kid, pulling silly faces and your mum would say "If the wind changes direction, your face will stay that way!" ? Well, she was right - the wind can be deadly. Ironically, Pripyat was lucky in that it escaped direct concentrated spears of radiation. A narrow band just on the outskirts was particularly gamma ray rich in where the wind direction caused it to setle. Here it registers 1.461 R which is approximately two hundred times the usual levels of a normal environment.
Ferris Wheel
Due to open just one week after the accident, the children's funfair hasn't fulfilled its purpose. Here, the ferris wheel lies forlornly still, never to have revolved once with excited kids on board.
All the Fun of the Fair
In London, we have the Millennium Wheel. Like a lot of other sights there, I suffer from tourist-at-home apathy and have never been on it, but now when I spot it, I'll be transported back here and think myself lucky. | Dodge City
Here the dodgems are particulary hazardous, not because there's a slightly unkempt man leaping in between them screaming "watch the ride!", but more so because of the cars' wooden construction. They act like sponges soaking up and retaining the radiation. |
