WEBVTT 00:00.633 --> 00:01.233 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% I lived in Niagara Falls 00:02.100 --> 00:04.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% all my life, and when I marrie my husband was from Niagara Fall 00:04.966 --> 00:06.300 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% We had two boys. 00:06.633 --> 00:11.666 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% We saw this beautiful brick house in Love Canal with one acre of land 00:11.666 --> 00:15.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% all around it, and it sat on a creek 00:15.033 --> 00:17.833 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and it was just it was just ideal. 00:17.833 --> 00:20.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And we were thinking what a place to raise your child 00:22.466 --> 00:25.866 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% Love Canal was government subsidized. 00:25.866 --> 00:28.966 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% My husband wasn't making very much money 00:28.966 --> 00:31.333 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% and they made it 00:31.333 --> 00:35.233 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% a very tasty little deal to move into. 00:35.233 --> 00:40.500 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% And so we felt quite lucky that we fell in at the right tim 00:40.500 --> 00:44.000 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% I moved to the development called Griffin Manor. 00:44.000 --> 00:47.133 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% It was a brand new housing project. 00:47.133 --> 00:49.100 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% It's a beautiful place. 00:49.100 --> 00:50.566 align:left position:35% line:89% size:55% Flowers. 00:50.566 --> 00:52.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% The grass was green. 00:52.900 --> 00:56.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% There was like a little pon that the kids used to play in. 00:57.766 --> 01:00.500 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% It was just such a nice neighborhood. 01:05.866 --> 01:09.666 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% We had a small yard in the front and in the back. 01:09.666 --> 01:14.800 align:left position:12.5% line:77% size:77.5% We would see, I'm going to call it water, but swamp land that just looked oily. 01:14.800 --> 01:19.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% At times it sounds like burnt rubber or a strong cleanser. 01:19.766 --> 01:22.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% On the surface, they had like an oily substance to it, 01:22.366 --> 01:25.100 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% like a green and a blue. 01:25.100 --> 01:30.033 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% And if you dropped something into it, it would bubble up and sink. 01:30.033 --> 01:31.933 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% So we called it quicksand. 01:33.700 --> 01:36.766 align:left position:15% line:77% size:75% People always knew when they were getting close to our home 01:36.766 --> 01:42.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% because we had this horrendous smell behind our house. 01:42.000 --> 01:45.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Actually, the whole neighborhood 01:45.166 --> 01:48.200 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Nobody could get a garden to grow. 01:50.633 --> 01:52.933 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% We had so many animals die. 01:53.266 --> 01:55.200 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% It was unexplained. 01:55.900 --> 01:58.333 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% The fur would just be off of them. 01:58.333 --> 02:00.800 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Or so many of them died of cancer. 02:01.666 --> 02:03.633 align:left position:27.5% line:89% size:62.5% It seems normal 02:03.633 --> 02:07.100 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% because it happened to other people's animals too. 02:08.766 --> 02:11.766 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% And then there was something else strange happening we would see 02:11.766 --> 02:14.966 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% people were developing what they thought was asthma. 02:15.533 --> 02:20.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% People start to have kidney problems, bladder problems. 02:20.400 --> 02:23.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Some of the children had behavior problems, 02:23.900 --> 02:27.300 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% a complete change from how they were. 02:30.966 --> 02:32.900 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% People had no idea that they were living on 02:32.900 --> 02:36.666 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% top of 22,000 tons of toxic chemicals. 02:38.266 --> 02:39.900 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% All of a sudden on a dime, 02:39.900 --> 02:42.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% everything blows up, more people are sick. 02:42.900 --> 02:46.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% There's, you know, black sludge coming into their homes. 02:51.133 --> 02:53.733 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% We were more or less self educating ourselves 02:53.733 --> 02:55.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% with the help of some other people. 02:55.800 --> 03:00.133 align:left position:17.5% line:77% size:72.5% The more you learned, the more frightening it was, the more determined 03:00.133 --> 03:03.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% that we were to succeed at this. 03:03.866 --> 03:06.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% The state held most of their meetings 03:06.200 --> 03:09.333 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% and their press releases and all that stuff. 03:09.333 --> 03:15.066 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% while I was at work and left the wives to fight. 03:15.066 --> 03:18.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% And the state made a big mistake by doing that 03:18.933 --> 03:23.433 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% because the women fought more than any man could. 03:23.433 --> 03:25.733 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% Hell hath no fury like a woman guarding 03:25.733 --> 03:27.300 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% her children.