The San Antonio River Walk is a city park and special-case pedestrian street in San Antonio, Texas, one level down from the automobile street. The River Walk winds and loops under bridges as two parallel sidewalks lined with restaurants and shops, connecting the major tourist draws. The area within the circumference of the River Walk is the heart of the original 1700s Villa de Bejar outpost, which would eventually become the City of San Antonio.[1]
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The San Antonio River Walk, along with the San Antonio River, is featured in Roads to Nowhere.
An empty barge at the River Walk.
It was introduced in 2 months after people when the San Antonio River streams peacefully through the abandoned River Walk. It was the most popular gathering spot in the city in the time of humans. After people, once packed office towers and hotels look down over empty barges waiting for travelers who will never show. Steven Schauer stated that the San Antonio River is essentially what created the city of San Antonio. However, the tide is about to turn. Steven Schauer stated that the river is highly engineered. All the stands between the river and the destruction of the city is a steady rain, something that's all too common in this part of the country where warm moist air drifting inland from the Gulf Coast collides with cooler, dry air sweeping from the north, setting up frequent rainstorms on Central Texas. Steven Schauer explains that the first rain event that occur following life after people would make the downtown area of the River Walk the first casualty. The buildings at the River Walk stand level with the San Antonio River with some 15ft below the surrounding downtown streets.
At the entrance to the River Walk where the San Antonio River bends into downtown, a three ton floodgate stands guard. Steven Schauer shows the gate door and its function and explains that after people, there would be no one to lower the gate during a rain event. A burst of rain inundated downtown with up to 10 feet of water, killing 50 people in 1921. Steven Schauer shows the river being five to six inches at its lowest point below the sidewalk and explains that it wouldn't take much rain to rise the water level in the area and begin flooding out all the restaurants, hotels, and business space.
The River Walk is flooded.
The fate of the River Walk is revealed in 50 years after people when repeated rains have spawned cycles of flooding along the River Walk with the San Antonio River consuming it with silt and sand inundate the area after the rain, leaving the buildings titling at odd angles caused by waterlogged foundations. Eventually, this cause buildings beside the River Walk, like the Tower Life Building, to collapse.
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