[coloradan]

Well, I was there. My neighbor's son, a nuclear physicist with the government, called her on the first day of the crisis and told her to GET THE HELL OUT OF TOWN.

She and all the neighbors did just that.

By the second day, all the doctors and nurses left.

Well, given that the accident caused zero immediate deaths, and maybe, MAYBE one statistical death over a background of thousands, I'd say the reaction of all of you was simply hysterical.

By the third day, you couldn't get gas at the gas station or cash from the ATM because all the SMART people had drained them before evacuating.

Nice. Are you feeling happy for yourself, knowing how greatly you inconvienced others - for nothing?

[Palladin]

No, I'm feeling happy for myself because I don't have cancer. The cancer rate went up exponentially in a 20 mile radius aound TMI 20 years after the accident.

Fortunately, I moved out of the area in 1981. Many of my friends who stayed behind have since died of cancer.

You should have seen the freakish farm animals born in York County during the years after TMI.

So much has been covered up.