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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 748 Joined: 22-April 07 From: Vermont Member No.: 11,507 ![]() |
2011 February 9 — EUROPE: Hurricane-force winds push the noxious waters of the North Sea into surrounding bodies of water, affecting several nearby nations. This phenomenon, known as the Black Tide, poisoned so much water that 500,000 people eventually died.
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Shooting Target ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,717 Joined: 23-March 09 From: Weymouth, UK Member No.: 17,007 ![]() |
2004 June — UK: A disaster in Dungeness, England, shows what happens if nuclear power goes bad. A partial meltdown irradiates a section of Kent and kills 6,000 people, and for a time thereafter Europeans are somewhat more tolerant of proenvironmental restrictions.
Excerpts from Eyewitness Accounts of the Dungeness Meltdown Elizabeth Franks, 57: God forgive me for saying so, but it was beautiful. I’ve seen many colors of flames before, but never that deep, rich red. I wanted to stare, but the light and the heat were so intense I had to turn away. I slowly started to comprehend what was happening, what I had seen. First, I realized that something terrible had happened at the nuclear plant. Second, I understood that what I had seen had just killed me. Thomas Michaels, 19: We were annoyed at first, if you can believe it. The ground shook, the whole convention room bucked upward, and pieces scattered. If you know gamers, you know they don’t like having their pieces scattered. So there were curses and mutterings, as if the earth had conspired on purpose to disrupt their games. Then the wave of heat arrived, and we started to understand that we were in for more than just a little annoyance. Matthew Chadwick, 45: I’ve been to metal foundries, where you walk by all that liquid metal, and you inhale and you catch the heat of it and the heavy scent. It’s very indistinct, but it’s there. When you smell it, you can imagine these small particles of steel entering your nose and settling into your lungs, and you feel heavier. Breathing becomes more di cult, and I don’t know if that’s because of the heat or just the mind playing tricks on you. But that’s what it was like. The smell, the heat, and all. It was like that. Meredith Adams, 39: How can you explain the decisions you make after something like that? It’s new, so you can’t base your decisions on any previous experiences. So you do something, and you may not know why, and it’s very possible that it won’t take you long to understand that what you’re doing is incredibly stupid, but you don’t understand that at first because you don’t understand anything about the situation at first. I know I should have left, I should have gotten far away, and instead I went to the middle of town. It was so quiet, like an invisible blanket of snow had fallen over everything. There were no birds singing, no cars, no people talking, nothing. It was like walking on a movie set once the filming has been completed. It was completely eerie but oddly soothing. I felt calm and unhurried. There was nowhere to go, nothing I had to do, because nothing was happening anywhere. |
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Running Target ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,083 Joined: 13-December 10 From: Rotterdam, The Netherlands Member No.: 19,228 ![]() |
Oh crap. We missed it. Come. On all of us Euro types, let's have a flashmob tomorrow at noon GMT and all hop around in various sections of the North Sea, to see if we can get some resonating going. Can someone bring the toxic sludge?
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