{"id":118748,"date":"2023-09-11T11:51:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T11:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/?p=118748"},"modified":"2023-09-11T11:51:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T11:51:59","slug":"people-thought-it-was-snowing-as-nuclear-winter-dust-cloaked-uk-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/world-news\/people-thought-it-was-snowing-as-nuclear-winter-dust-cloaked-uk-street\/","title":{"rendered":"People thought it was snowing as nuclear winter dust cloaked UK street"},"content":{"rendered":"

Residents of a Welsh street were left 'coughing and sneezing' as their homes and cars were covered in a 'nuclear dust', which 'looked like snow.<\/p>\n

Those who live on Berw Road in Pontypridd said the issue began on Sunday, September 3 after the road was resurfaced by council contractors.<\/p>\n

The contractors were initially going to come back to finish the road on September 14, but after residents complained they completed it on September 6 instead.<\/p>\n

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However, the locals still weren't happy as 'significant dust' remained on the street days later on Friday, with some claiming that they were unable to breathe properly.<\/p>\n

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Richard Beer, who lives on Berw Road, told Wales Online: "They put chippings down and left it without watering it down. Because there are trees and houses on each side it looked like snow for a few days and when you walked out of your house it covered you and you looked like someone had thrown a bucket of dust over you."<\/p>\n

He added: "We couldn't breathe properly – I started coughing and had a sneezing fit, it was like having a cold or a bad chest infection."<\/p>\n

Another resident, Clive Hybart said: "It started off with the ripping up the surface of the road, which resulted in vibrations and a lot of noise. Then they got around to resurfacing, and what they applied to it I don\u2019t know, but it generated a mass of dust.<\/p>\n

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"Instead of dampening it, they went over it in a [truck] so it went back into the air, it was like a nuclear winter and you couldn\u2019t see a few yards in front of the vehicle.<\/p>\n

"My car was covered in about an eighth of an inch of dust and I had no option to have it cleaned. When you went outside in it, it left a metallic taste in your mouth and nose."<\/p>\n

The 69-year-old said he knew that a number of his neighbours were "really concerned" about the dust, with some leaving signs outside their properties expressing how they felt.<\/p>\n

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