I lived in Niagara Falls all my life, and when I marrie my husband was from Niagara Fall We had two boys.

We saw this beautiful brick house in Love Canal with one acre of land all around it, and it sat on a creek and it was just it was just ideal.

And we were thinking what a place to raise your child Love Canal was government subsidized.

My husband wasn't making very much money and they made it a very tasty little deal to move into.

And so we felt quite lucky that we fell in at the right tim I moved to the development called Griffin Manor.

It was a brand new housing project.

It's a beautiful place.

Flowers.

The grass was green.

There was like a little pon that the kids used to play in.

It was just such a nice neighborhood.

We had a small yard in the front and in the back.

We would see, I'm going to call it water, but swamp land that just looked oily.

At times it sounds like burnt rubber or a strong cleanser.

On the surface, they had like an oily substance to it, like a green and a blue.

And if you dropped something into it, it would bubble up and sink.

So we called it quicksand.

People always knew when they were getting close to our home because we had this horrendous smell behind our house.

Actually, the whole neighborhood Nobody could get a garden to grow.

We had so many animals die.

It was unexplained.

The fur would just be off of them.

Or so many of them died of cancer.

It seems normal because it happened to other people's animals too.

And then there was something else strange happening we would see people were developing what they thought was asthma.

People start to have kidney problems, bladder problems.

Some of the children had behavior problems, a complete change from how they were.

People had no idea that they were living on top of 22,000 tons of toxic chemicals.

All of a sudden on a dime, everything blows up, more people are sick.

There's, you know, black sludge coming into their homes.

We were more or less self educating ourselves with the help of some other people.

The more you learned, the more frightening it was, the more determined that we were to succeed at this.

The state held most of their meetings and their press releases and all that stuff.

while I was at work and left the wives to fight.

And the state made a big mistake by doing that because the women fought more than any man could.

Hell hath no fury like a woman guarding her children.