Everyone knows the story, more or less. It's the pictures that really bring it home for me. The vast abandoned production plants, the houses in ruins with trees growing in them, etc...
The images resonate with me in a way that words don't.
Do you ever watch Man vs. Wild? Bear Grylls did a special "urban survival" episode where he went to some Eastern European city that had been abandoned.
Seeing the urban explorer guy walking through the remains of Detroit's production plants reminded me of Bear walking around the immense abandoned Soviet production plants.
I have watched 'Man vs. Wild', but I did not see that one. I'm sure I would have liked it.
You're right about the pictures. You hear all the time about a plant being shut down, but you don't give much thought to it after the fact. I guess I just always pictured it with a big lock on the outside, waiting to be reopened one day...nope, it's literally abandoned and free for people to come tear apart.
And seeing the schools messed up was rough.
All the foliage though...I did like the line, "it doesn't take long for mother nature to recapture what's hers"...or something to that effect. It's crazy to think about, but if the human race died out, it really would not take that long for our memories to be wiped clean by the power of nature.
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Very interesting and a good watch.
I really enjoyed the "urban explorer" and his walk through the old and historic abandoned buildings.
I liked that part too.
Everyone knows the story, more or less. It's the pictures that really bring it home for me. The vast abandoned production plants, the houses in ruins with trees growing in them, etc...
The images resonate with me in a way that words don't.
Do you ever watch Man vs. Wild? Bear Grylls did a special "urban survival" episode where he went to some Eastern European city that had been abandoned.
Seeing the urban explorer guy walking through the remains of Detroit's production plants reminded me of Bear walking around the immense abandoned Soviet production plants.
I have watched 'Man vs. Wild', but I did not see that one. I'm sure I would have liked it.
You're right about the pictures. You hear all the time about a plant being shut down, but you don't give much thought to it after the fact. I guess I just always pictured it with a big lock on the outside, waiting to be reopened one day...nope, it's literally abandoned and free for people to come tear apart.
And seeing the schools messed up was rough.
All the foliage though...I did like the line, "it doesn't take long for mother nature to recapture what's hers"...or something to that effect. It's crazy to think about, but if the human race died out, it really would not take that long for our memories to be wiped clean by the power of nature.
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