A Singular Kind of Ghost Town
Posted at 11:53 PM
My brother-in-law sent me a link today as he often does when something catches his eye on the web. He’s a racing fanatic so I suspected car geek humor when I saw this “Ghost Town” page with the tag line, “a story about a town that one can ride through with no stoplights, no police and no danger of hitting any living thing.”
But it’s not humor. It’s about driving through Chernobyl. Here’s the author’s rationale:
In places where roads have not been travelled by trucks or army vehicles, they are in the same condition they were 20 years ago — except for an occasional blade of grass that discovered a crack to spring through. Time does not ruin roads, so they may stay this way until they can be opened to normal traffic again … a few centuries from now.
It’s an erie journey just reading this. I recommend it highly.
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