Chernobyl
This is something I've known about through references to it in popular (well, not popular per se) culture and from talking to my parents and going to those mostly-boring-but-sometimes-slightly-interested World War museums my pops was always dragging us around to. Though I'm pretty sure that I've never been taught anything about it in school, unless I was sleeping which is very very likely. Anyway, I was watching a show on Discovery or some such TV channel about what would happen to the earth if all the people were gone and they were like, "coming up we'll show you what happens after 20 years of no people. And we know we're not too far off because look we have a real life model!" Blah blah blah, and so I was watching not really because it was interesting (even though it looked like it was gonna be wicked interesting) but mostly because I couldn't do anything except watch TV on account of the post-thanxgiving food coma, which I'm still somewhat suffering from but I took a nap so I'm feeling okay now. The show comes back on and while I was watching I had this wicked sense of deja vu. Considering I don't have any conscious memories of anything related to Chernobyl this was a little strange, and I had definitely not seen this show before which I'm sure of because I had wanted to tape it when it aired initially but either forgot or set the VCR wrong or some dumb thing but i didn't get to watch it.
ANYWAY... I googled Chernobyl to appease my curiosity, not wanting it to kill me like the rest of the cats. I was mostly looking at creepy pictures of a barren waste land of nuclear fallout, but was lured away from the still pictures to videos and news feeds. It was at this point I recognized something. I'm fairly certain that I remember watching a news story about the disaster even though i would have just shy of two years old.
I have several vivid memories from times in my life when I should have been too young to remember anything, and mostly they don't make much sense and are just a string of images and sometimes sounds. But this I remember sitting in a hotel room with my parents who were watching TV and the news had footage of an eerie ghost town recently evacuated. I remember the news saying that the whole area had become inhabitable by humans due to some manner of disaster and it may be hundreds of years before anyone could live there again. BUT, I don't know if there was footage of the surrounding areas after the disaster in any real way to have broadcast it, because it would have been too dangerous for people to be there.
I don't know. it's also possible that I heard the story in my youth and saw pictures at some point in my life and put the two together somewhere in memory. But, I thought it was weird. Also, until looking into it tonight I had thought of this catastrophe happening earlier in time, though I think I must have known that it hadn't.
Blah blah, goodnight.
ANYWAY... I googled Chernobyl to appease my curiosity, not wanting it to kill me like the rest of the cats. I was mostly looking at creepy pictures of a barren waste land of nuclear fallout, but was lured away from the still pictures to videos and news feeds. It was at this point I recognized something. I'm fairly certain that I remember watching a news story about the disaster even though i would have just shy of two years old.
I have several vivid memories from times in my life when I should have been too young to remember anything, and mostly they don't make much sense and are just a string of images and sometimes sounds. But this I remember sitting in a hotel room with my parents who were watching TV and the news had footage of an eerie ghost town recently evacuated. I remember the news saying that the whole area had become inhabitable by humans due to some manner of disaster and it may be hundreds of years before anyone could live there again. BUT, I don't know if there was footage of the surrounding areas after the disaster in any real way to have broadcast it, because it would have been too dangerous for people to be there.
I don't know. it's also possible that I heard the story in my youth and saw pictures at some point in my life and put the two together somewhere in memory. But, I thought it was weird. Also, until looking into it tonight I had thought of this catastrophe happening earlier in time, though I think I must have known that it hadn't.
Blah blah, goodnight.