Anonymous Coward User ID: 1164274 Canada 03/24/2011 10:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "Yellow Rain" From Chernobyl Fallout Witness from 1986 : Caught In The Fallout: [ link to news.bbc.co.uk] The superintendent at the apartment complex we were living at scared the neighbors by saying the yellow powder falling on their cars was nuclear fallout from Chernobyl until we assured him it was just pollen from the pine trees.
We had to show him where the pollen was coming from on the trees before he believed us. I don't think he really believed us until it happened again the following spring!
The ones I really felt sorry for were the people around Chernobyl who were kept in the dark about the danger and ended up with radiation poisoning and numerous diseases resulting from their exposure.
Pollen is a reasonable possibility according "Anne, USA"'s witness account of the aftermath of Chernobyl in the spring of '86. |