Las Vegas, often known simply as Vegas, is the 25th-most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County. The city anchors the Las Vegas Valley metropolitan area and is the largest city within the greater Mojave Desert. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city, known primarily for its gambling, shopping, fine dining, entertainment, and nightlife. The Las Vegas Valley as a whole serves as the leading financial, commercial, and cultural center for Nevada.[1]
Coverage[]
Las Vegas is one of the two main city setting in Sin City Meltdown and briefly featured in the documentary.
Documentary[]
In the documentary, Las Vegas is briefly featured in 1 year after people when the Hoover Dam shuts down cause by quagga mussel. The lights of Las Vegas, the last artificial lights glowing on the planet, to turn dark permanently.
Sin City Meltdown[]
Starting in 1 day after people when the casinos of Las Vegas are empty except for one place that still draws a crowd, Madame Tussauds Las Vegas. After people, works in progress will never be finished and more than 100 completed wax figures are displayed in a 30,000 square foot museum that has an ideal temperature of 70 degrees.
In 2 days after people, power has started to fail along the Las Vegas strip and a new rat pack is prowling the streets. Since the 1990s, rats have been a problem in neighborhoods around Las Vegas and experts believe they came in palm trees that were shipped in to beautify hotels and housing developments. After people, the rats find their way into the casinos for food than rolling the dice.
The figure of Madonna at Madame Tussauds melts.
In 3 days after people, power goes out at the Madame Tussauds Las Vegas. Emergency lighting keeps the figures illuminated but in the museum's utility rooms, the exhaust fans slow to a half, the air conditioning cuts out, and temperature begins to rise. Kurt Moseley stated that the upper floors really compress the heat and will be like an oven. The figures begins melting at 115 and against all odds, the figure of Madonna has no change and within days the material girl dematerializes along with other figures.
At 2 weeks after people, the casinos that once filled with the flashing lights and deafening clamor of slot machines fall silent and dark. Meanwhile, while no humans to exterminate the rats, it has plenty to far from the rat terrier. Patti Wright stated that once the rat terrier are out, they'll start sniffing around, following mice and capture it. She continues that it also have an ability to capture lizards and variety of other kind of small species.
In 2 years ago people, the climate of the Mojave Desert has its desert reasserts itself. Without electric pumps to gather water from Lake Mead 25 miles away, the only water arrives are rain with only 4 and a half inches per year causing only little to grow naturally besides the scrub of the Mojave Desert. 3 miles from the strip, at the Las Vegas Springs Preserve Museum, the voices of man still echo in the halls. Powered by 2,200 solar panels over the parking lots, the recorded narrations at the museum may be the last human voices to be heard in Las Vegas.
The Las Vegas Springs Preserve Museum turns dark as the voice of man is silenced.
However, 10 years after people have let the voice of man begins to strain at the Las Vegas Springs Preserve Museum, where the panels need to be cleaned regularly. Steven S. Ross stated that without people, the solar cells fall prey to dust and debris causing it to degrade seven or eight percent a year. The voltage dips and the lights dim as the voice of man is silenced.
In 50 years after people, water returns to Las Vegas. Rain has continued to fall in the surrounding mountains where water flows down to the Las Vegas valley, permeates a porous layer below denser rock at the surface. Ray Saumure shows an example at the old well where it was built in the early 20th century to pump groundwater sank down to five feet. He continues that after 50 years, water will comes out at the little holes he shows.
The Luxor Pyramid is broken.
At 100 years after people, fine grains of windblown sand are erasing the welcome sign that once greeted visitors to the city of Las Vegas. The blowing sand is actually an unnatural consequence of man's presence a century ago. Before Las Vegas developed, most of the sand was held in place by cryptobiotic crust, a hard layer, formed by soil particles held together by microbes, fungi, lichens, & mosses. Man's shovels and bulldozers disrupted the crust and without it, the winds blow the sand unimpeded. Ray Saumure stated that Las Vegas is well know for its sandstorm and most of the results came from humans moving around the desert and destroyed the cryptobiotic crust causing a lot of sand blowing and erosion. At the Luxor Hotel, shafts of sunlight make their way into the giant atrium and every one of the 28,500 panes in its glass skin is broken, but for its concrete structure, its shape giving it a natural stability.
In 200 years after people, a desert thunderstorm rumbles in and flash floods are common because of its annual rainfall of four and a half inches. Ray Saumure stated there are two ways to die in the Mojave, die of thirst or die of drowning. Flood waters have rushed the Las Vegas Sign in the past 200 years that rust has started spreading into its support beams and 200 years after people have let the wind blow the sign like a sail making the weakened supports to the breaking point and the sign falls flat on the empty crumbling roadway.
The Stratosphere Tower collapses during the earthquake.
At 300 years after people, while the skylines of most cities are stripped of their iconic towers, the familiar skyline of Las Vegas is preserved by the desert. But the artesian water that began bubbling to the surface 250 years ago is bringing new life to the ruins in the desert. Ray Saumure stated that when water returns, there will be vegetation growing around, scattered throughout the valley, and will be quite lush. Plants like the western honey mesquite grow in clumps along the strip whenever the water happens to flow, but the new pockets of groundwater in Las Vegas wreak havoc on building foundations that were designed for the dry desert terrain. Nevada experiences thousands of its own tremors every year and faults near Las Vegas have the potential to unleash events as large as the 1994 Northridge quake. Bob Raynolds stated that Las Vegas is a seismically active area and while the buildings is in a relatively dry climate, many of them will be shaken down. The weakened foundation of the Stratosphere Tower has to endure a violent quake, as it lashes the tower back and forth like a whip before it losses its support then hits the ground at 150 miles per hour. A blanket of dust then hangs over the city's remains as it is now a pile of rubble.
Las Vegas is transformed after 1,000 years.
The fate of Las Vegas is in 1,000 years after people, where Las Vegas is little more than a jagged mound in the desert. Steven S. Ross stated that after a thousand years, even a trained eye would have trouble recognizing there was a city in the Las Vegas valley. Creosote bushes and other rough vegetation have colonized any remnants of buildings remaining under a thousand year layer of desert dust, and the vegetation keeps the wind from forming sand dunes that might deeply bury the remains of the city.
The final fate of Las Vegas is in 1 million years after people where a number of Ice Ages come and gone have transformed the Nevada desert to look like it did when people gambled in Las Vegas. While the city has long eroded away, only the descendants of camels from Virginia City kept a reminder of the once Las Vegas.
Transformation[]
After the many Ice Ages, Las Vegas returned to the state where people once gambled.
Las Vegas has two transformation within two timeframes, at 1,000 years after people, Las Vegas would be little more than a jagged mound in the desert and vegetation such as creosote bushes colonized any remnants of buildings remaining under layer of desert dust, which keeps the wind from forming sand dunes that might deeply bury the remains of the city. This was cause by the reintroduction of water at the mountains of Las Vegas valley in 50 years after people where most of the buildings were never preserved. When the Ice Age hits and gone after 1 million years, it returned to the state where people once gambled in Las Vegas.
Trivia[]
- The blackout was moved from 1 year to simply 2 days after people in Sin City Meltdown, probably an error/retcon.
- The blackout scene have three variants, although the progress of blackout followed the same format. The first variant is used in the documentary with the CASINO BUFFET sign to the left, the second and third variant is used in Sin City Meltdown with the former uses the flight 33 sign, and the latter (1 million years) is noticeable different, other than the COCO's sign, cars can be noticeably seen to be part of the blackout, despite that power doesn't connect to the vehicles' dark.
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