Found this website, take a look:
http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/chapter1.html 

This is a picture from it. Can you see what’s odd about this picture? Look closely... notice you don’t see any cars, people, lights, or really any sign of civilization. This is Chernobyl. This lady rides her bike through it because you basically can do what ever you want since it’s a total ghost town.

After flipping through this website for about 5 minutes it hit me. This could be New York in the near future. A dirty bomb could do this. These are they times we live in…

I don't see a bike...DOH! Is this one of dem thar trick photos?

Yo Sylance: Which woman are you talking about, the one with two heads or the one with the third arm growing out of her back? JonR

QUESTION: If the radiation is so bad, why are the trees still alive? And many of them appear to be over 30 years old. Not that I am any kind of expert or whatnot, but I just have no idea.

Thank you for the posting the website. It's very sad, but enlightening.

Sylance...That is a very interesting and disturbing site. You are right it could be New York or LA or any other big city. Not to mention the girl is a hotty too.

sylance- thanx for the link.. interesting

cayman

Wow, pretty interesting. Thanks for the link.

How widespread would the damage from a dirty bomb be?

It depends, experts say—on the type and amount of radioactive and conventional explosive material in the bomb, as well as on such factors as wind, the size of the buildings in the area attacked, and the ballistics at detonation. In one particularly grim scenario—the detonation of a truck bomb containing 100 pounds of one-year-old spent nuclear fuel—the actual acute physical health threat might be confined to a radius of a few city blocks, plus areas under a narrow wind-borne cloud, according to Bruce Blair of the Center for Defense Information. But in the aftermath of September 11, U.S. scientists are conducting more detailed evaluations; they emphasize that such calculations are extremely complicated.

Yo donutboy2000: Are these the same scientist who told us when we were school kids that we would be safe during an atomic bomb explosion if we hid under our desks ? LOL JonR

hey there slim & X, smoking on the roof of that building...

donutboy2000,

I agree with what you’re saying. However, the issue isn’t really the damage done by radiation. In fact, I’ve heard that life, even frogs which are very sensative to this sort of stuff, are doing fine and thriving in Chernobyl.

The real issue is psychological. If a dirty bomb explodes in down town New York, you think anyone will want work or live there... even if “experts” say it’s safe? With the fear of lawsuits in the wind I doubt anyone without a lead suit would be allowed in ground zero. Just look at the lawsuits against the government after 9/11 because a fireman gets winded when he runs.

Is that Flint, Michigan?

stunning....all I can say.

I know where it is. It's Chernobyl...

And guess what, it's coming... Vote Kerry and accelerate it Maven...

A dirty bomb could easily be cleaned up. This incident in Russia was a very large, major incident that was very concentrated in one area and was extrememly hot due to its size.