I was newly married in 1979, living in western PA, and toward the end of the year decided to join my husband on a business trip to the other side of the state.
Passing through central Pennsylvania, near Three Mile Island, we noticed so many of the neighborhood yards had placards with skulls and crossbones, and of course For Sale signs. It was an eerie scene.
We visited the “information center” that TMI very quickly set up to explain what happened, very little was said about the cause of the meltdown. We just chalked that up to their public relations strategy, and drove on.
Teresa