Prypiat Rain

Currents of rain flow down the discarded drains and abandoned doorways of this desolate ghost town. Like teardrops from the sky, the summer shower brings a moment of hope to the little flowers still struggling to expand beyond the concrete borders that crack and crumble with time. Take your turn strolling down the empty street and sing a tune, because in this forgotten land a happy visitor is a distant memory. Pripyat is a ghost town near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine. Pripyat was founded in 1970 to house workers for the Power Plant. It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979, but was abandoned in 1986 following the Chernobyl disaster. It was the ninth nuclear city in the Soviet Union at its time. Many of the building interiors in Pripyat have been vandalised and ransacked over the years. Because the buildings have not been maintained since 1986, the roofs leak, and in the springtime the rooms are flooded with water. Trees can be seen growing on roofs and even inside the buildings. One notable landmark often featured in photographs of the city, video games, and visible from aerial-imaging websites such as Google Maps, is a long-abandoned ferris wheel located in the Pripyat amusement park. This sound uses the following file from Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=117267