Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat and largest city of Sacramento County. It is located at the confluence of the Sacramento and American River in Northern California's Sacramento Valley. Sacramento is the seat of the California Legislature and the Governor of California, making it the state's political center and a hub for lobbying and think tanks.[1]
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Sacramento is featured in Waves of Devastation.
Sacramento's downtown buildings.
It was introduced in 1 day after people when in California State Capitol, where an action hero once preside over the 8th largest economy in the world, there is a watery disaster big enough to rival any Hollywood blockbuster. Sacramento has many of the same vulnerabilities as New Orleans when in 2005, Hurricane Katrina overpowered the man made levees with devastating effects of storm surge and the reason being that in every winter and spring, heavy rains and runoff from melting snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains turned the rivers in low lying Sacramento into deadly torrents. Jeffrey Mount is standing at the confluence of the American River and Sacramento River encased by levees and explains that they are placed tight against the river and making it a reason why Sacramento is at the most at-risk large city in the United States. However, the raging water isn't the only villain in the developing disaster because there are thousands of accomplices already working to make the impending disaster bigger. Jeffrey Mount stated rodents are the nemesis of levees like ground squirrels that make networks of burrows and beavers, the worst of them all. Animals tunnels were believed to be one of the main causes of a levee failure in the town of Fernley near Reno in 2008 which flooded 600 homes and caused an estimated $4 million of damage and levees of Sacramento share a dangerous flaw with the infernally. The earthen levees were originally built by farmers more than 100 years ago and without repairs by human crews, it won't take long for the water to find a way through.
The levees slide landward.
The lower level of the California State Capitol is flooded with five feet of water.
In 3 years after people, the city is on the verge of a blockbuster disaster. Without maintenance, the earthen levees are threatening to burst especially at a neighborhood south of downtown known as The Pocket which is vulnerable. Kevin Knuuti stated that the houses in the neighborhood are extremely close to the levee with in some places are right up against the levee on one side and since there isn't much land on the water side, the water is right up against the levee on the other. As the river level rises during a winter rainstorm, the first signs of water come not from above but below. Kevin Knuuti stated that one way the levees fail if water seeps underneath and the land in the area has much coarser material under the levee that allows to seep through very easily. The water bubbles up near the homes and without maintenance crews to shore up the weak spots, disaster strikes. Kevin Knuuti stated that it lubricates the area underneath the levee which makes a material that can slide on casing the entire levee to slide landward where it would have such massive amount of water flowing through very quickly that the houses near it were completely wiped out and ripped from the foundations. In other areas of Sacramento, water overtops the levees and breaches quickly spread. North of downtown is the Sacramento International Airport where is inundated by more than 10 feet of water. Jeffrey Mount stated that water would be over the wings and the tails will be sticking out. Meanwhile, the downtown area is more elevated but there's still about 5 feet of water surrounding the California State Capitol. For the dogs managed to survive the first 3 years after people, it presents a deadly challenge for those with certain physical traits and with most of Sacramento underwater, mixes of retrievers, labs, and other well proportioned swimming dogs adapt to the city's repeated floods but other specialized breeds have been wiped out.
The Folsom Dam burst.
The planes are tossed like projectiles.
In 10 years after people, an greater wave of devastation looms at Sacramento just 20 miles away at Folsom Dam at the nearby city of Folsom, where the water level is dangerously high. Without people, the 1950s era dam has accumulated silt and debris around the floodgate and the water is 400 feet higher in elevation than Sacramento. A new winter storm is dumping water in faster than it can flow out. Kevin Knuuti stated if the dam overtopped, water will flow around the sides of the dam causing to erode the abutments and would result in a failure of the dam. As the churning storm waters erode the earthen sides of the dam, it pull down the rest of the structure causing the avalanche of water and debris to reach Sacramento. Kevin Knuuti stated that the levees would be completely destroy and overtop, water would flow through the entire city of Sacramento, and all infrastructure within the city would be completely destroyed. At Sacramento International Airport, the decaying planes have turned into projectiles which slam into the surrounding buildings.
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Sacramento flooded during the dam burst.
The entire city of Sacramento would be completely destroy early in Life After People and any traces of it would be completely gone after the flood swept everything away in the aftermath of the Folsom Dam collapse. What remains of it would be the aftermath of the dam burst which means that Sacramento is most likely to be a flooded plains.
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