San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th most populous in the United States, with 815,201 residents as of 2021. It covers a land area of 46.9 square miles (121 square kilometers), at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula.[1]
Coverage[]
San Francisco is featured in the documentary and in Bound and Buried. An abandoned locale is examined and featured in Take Me to Your Leader.
Some San Francisco buildings.
In 1 day after people, power went out across the city and the pulleys of the cable cars stop and are frozen in their tracks which is hanging by wire thread.
In 2 days after people, the Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge are silent with the former being cross by a single and silent assassin called fog and the latter being only traffic is dust but it'll bring its own challenges. Nearby at the Port of San Francisco, the only sound are the wavelets lapping at the hull of a cargo ship which is held up by eight ropes made of a synthetic as strong as wire secure the vessel to the deserted pier and can hold 125,000 pounds by each line.
In 1 year after people, wildfires spread across the world including San Francisco, where the stately wooden Victorians and Edwardian houses of the Painted Ladies are only useful as kindling as most of the entire city burns.
A cable car becomes a bullet train and makes mincemeat out of a car.
In 2 years after people, the plain rope of the inner core of the cables has rotted away which is enough for the cable cars in San Francisco to break free. Those that stopped on the city's iconic hills quickly accelerate to become missiles made of wood and steel some eight tons in weight. The most likely object a cable car will encounter first are stopped cars, and thanks to the tremendous speed some accelerate to, it can slice right through it. Meanwhile at the Port of San Francisco, the ropes of the cargo ship are put to the ultimate test in a howling gale where it generates tremendous stress by rocking by the wind and waves causing a line to snap and once a line snaps, the others swiftly follow and the ship sets a course for disaster at the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Steven S. Ross stated that the cargo ship would hit the bridge and once the central part of the hull is hit, it'll take on water, becoming heavier while the two ends of the ship become more buoyant and would snap the ship in half, where it sinks into the bay.
In 50 years after people, the cables of the Golden Gate Bridge begins to rust, paint peels off, and later the wires begin to break, and Alan W. Pense remarks that it would all come down at a point.
The Golden Gate Bridge collapses.
At 100 years after people, the crucible steel of the Golden Gate Bridge is humbled by common oxygen and dense fogs feed the rust which threatens at the point of highest stress, being the vertical cables that bear the crushing weight of the deck. the Golden Gate Bridge can survive the weakening of one of its vertical cables, however its failure quickly triggers others around and with the whole bridge is in jeopardy and unsupported, the twisted steel of the roadways plunges 245 feet into the waters of the bay. Meanwhile, further east at the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, it is located in a dryer and warmer location but moisture triggers another kind of growth. Steven S. Ross stated that it would look like a forest. Without maintenance, dirt clogs the expansion joints and with no room for movement, one of the spans give way and fall to the lower deck.
The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge after 200 years.
In 200 years after people, only the skeletal specter of the soaring towers of the Golden Gate Bridge remain but at the shallows of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, enough debris such as old ships has built up around the piers to form a more permanent passage. Steven S. Ross stated that it will create land by creating an obstruction so the natural silt in the bay would start piling up against the mess which become like an island or a peninsula all by itself.
In 10 million years after people, the episode questions could the remains of the once great city of San Francisco be fossilized like the bones of the dinosaurs before answering to itself that for fossilization to occur, buildings need to be buried before they're are completely eroded away and their fate was decided by whether large sections of the Earth's crust on which it sit are pushing the ground up or down. The regions where the Earth's crust slowly rise would wipe away most of the remains of human civilization but where parts of the crust move downwards would become buried and the forces of fossilization can begin. San Francisco was perched along the San Andreas fault in the time of humans, which marked the boundary between two large tectonic plates. The spot on Earth once triggered punishing earthquakes and after 10 million years, in the extreme slow of geologic movement, it delivered the ultimate blow to the city. Jan A. Zalasiewicz stated that the piece of crust around San Francisco has little chance to survive because the landscape is going up and if the crust goes up, the landscape would eroded and while San Francisco is a beautiful city, it is destined for oblivion.
Transformation[]
The San Andreas Fault, the major contributor to the fate of San Francisco.
The transformation of San Francisco was not clear, however from the perspective of San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, the city would return into a natural forest as seen on the bridge itself. In 10 million years after people, San Francisco would be long gone because the landscape around the city goes up cause by the San Andreas fault and in turn erode the landscape. According to Jan A. Zalasiewicz, the city would be destined for oblivion, since the piece of crust around the city would erase all traces of San Francisco because the landscape would go up and would be eroded away.
Abandoned[]
Main Article: Hunters Point Naval Shipyard
Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, abandoned after 20 years.
Hunters Point Naval Shipyard is featured in Take Me to Your Leader where the place foresaw the loading of the atomic bomb of Little Boy, a decontamination zone for the remaining ships from Operation Crossroads, and a science experiment to study the effects to radiation to everything including living organisms. It was completely shutdown in 1991 as part of a widespread cost-cutting measure.
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