I can't remember where I came across this one, but I suspect it was from The Daily Timewaster. Every Friday that blog's author has an "Open Roads" post incorporating or showing a trail, road, bridge, or highway.
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VIDEO: Largest Prehistoric Copper Mine
The world's largest prehistoric copper mine was at a place called Kargaly, northeast of Caspian Sea. VIDEO: " The Largest Prehisto...
Now imagine it in 100 years . . .
ReplyDeleteGiven the climate, I see it as a little bushier, but still largely intact.
DeleteI am reminded of a section of George R. Stewart's "Earth Abides". 20 years (IIRC) after the great plague that kills almost everybody, a couple young men of the survivor settlement we're following, try to take a road trip across the old US from San Francisco where they are. . They're trying to do what their founder did in the year after. They eventually give up and turn back, because the further east they get the more impassible the roads become, from fallen trees, washed out bridges and the like.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds correct. The biggest issue in the intermountain desert region would be flash floods washing away sections of road, frost heaving breaking up the pavement, or, as you get into the mountains, rock slides blocking the roads. I imagine that as you approach the Mississippi from the west, vegetation would become an ever greater issue in destroying or blocking the roads.
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