Houston is the most populous city in Texas, the fourth-most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the Southern United States, and the sixth-most populous in North America, with a population of 2,304,580 in 2020. Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat and largest city of Harris County and the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area. The city of Houston was founded by land investors on August 30, 1836, at the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou and incorporated as a city on June 5, 1837.[1]
Coverage[]
Houston is one of the main setting in The Bodies Left Behind and a setting for the oil refineries in Roads to Nowhere.
Raging inferno flares at the Houston Ship Channel.
Starting at 1 hour after people, at the Houston Ship Channel, the oil refineries is still running smoothly however the alarm bells ring. Without people, one of the feeder tanks has run dry, a crucial fuel in order to feed the reactor continually and to break down oil to petroleum. William Leffler stated that the conditions in the reactor will be chaotic and the temperatures will escalate up to tens of thousands degrees. It then cause another problem, the reactor isn't entirely empty due to the gasoline vapors causing the runaway temperatures to ignites the reactor and the fumes explode. The fire then rushes through the pipes that connect to a holding tank filled with refined gasoline causing it ignites. It then repeat to the other tanks and within seconds, the whole refinery burns and the entire Houston Ship Channel has become an endless inferno.
In 2 months after people, the oil refineries at the Houston Ship Channel haven't run out of oil and gas thanks to the area processing over 1 million barrels of crude oil every day, allowing the apocalyptic firestorm to continue. At least in 3 months after people, the fires at the Houston's oil refineries have finally exhausted the fuel and have been extinguished by themselves.
The Astrodome after 100 years.
In six months after people, the JPMorgan Chase Tower is shown to begin to crack.
In 20 years after people, Houston is being conquered by nature and is slowly reverting back to the swamp. The JPMorgan Chase Tower looms over the city that is slowly transforming to the swamp. At the Astrodome, it has swelter to 125 degrees in the summer turning it into enormous bat caves. The artificial grass is swallowed up by weeds and muck and the bats contributes to the new ecosystem by dropping guano, allowing predators to move in.
In 100 years after people, the Astrodome have spent 100 years as sub-tropical paradises and after the century of neglect, the entire structure is starting to crack and crumbling causing the 9000 tonne steel and lucite dome to collapse and rains down into the stadium.
The final coverage of Houston is in 200 years after people when the constant hurricanes every 4 to 5 years have cause significant damage to the JPMorgan Chase Tower with the windows blown out and the interior is corroded by rain stripping the building to its steel frame. Eventually it too will corrode causing it to lean and collapse into downtown Houston.
Transformation[]
A gif of Houston degrading.
The only known evidence of the transformation of Houston is in The Bodies Left Behind when the show mentions that the city is returning back into the swamp that it once originally was. The same is true by visually when the city is returning into a swampland, especially the inside of the Astrodome. The entire transformation of Houston would only be speculated by the viewer if its skyscrapers would be turn into hills compose of rubble or any evidence of it would be buried or overgrown into the swamp.
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