The San Francisco Bay Area’s Mare Island: The juxtaposition of prosperity and urban decay on the West Coast’s oldest def (Sacramento: houses)

[PixelatedTherapy]

https://medium.com/@abrahamwoodliff/...1-7daf0c48bbf2

Cool photography

[Shelacious]

I went to elementary school on Mare Island, and have many fond memories of my experiences on the island. The post is right--many folks in Vallejo were either directly or indirectly employed by Mare Island (including some of my own family), and Vallejo suffered greatly after the base closure. I was on base recently, and some of the officer's row houses are still intact, and still quite amazing. Other parts of the island were a train wreck.

[Ruth4Truth]

Mare Island is expected to be partially under water in 20 years or so. They shouldn't re-develop it. They could clear some of it, and use it as a park.

[PixelatedTherapy]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

Mare Island is expected to be partially under water in 20 years or so. They shouldn't re-develop it. They could clear some of it, and use it as a park.

Is it really? Link?

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by PixelatedTherapy

Is it really? Link?

This is a cool, interactive map, where you can dial up any number of feet of sea level rise, to see what parts of the Bay Area inundate, progressively. Also note what happens to the north end of the Central Valley.

San Francisco and Bay Area - Global Warming Sea Level Rise Map

[PixelatedTherapy]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

This is a cool, interactive map, where you can dial up any number of feet of sea level rise, to see what parts of the Bay Area inundate, progressively. Also note what happens to the north end of the Central Valley.

San Francisco and Bay Area - Global Warming Sea Level Rise Map

That's crazy!

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by PixelatedTherapy

That's crazy!

Yeah, wild, no? I've read that Bayside towns are already making plans, based on this map. They're designing and implementing flood mitigation measures, like increasing wetlands, which help absorb water and buffer waterfronts.

[w7kkk]

I was born and raised in Vallejo and retired from Mare Island Naval shipyard in 1993. I have been back to visit the island a couple of times since retirement and it's rather disgusting to see how the shipyard's buildings have been marked with graffiti and burned/abandoned. I will not go back. I would rather remember it as it was.
My grandmother had a restaurant on Sacramento Street that she opened in the late 1930s that fed many Mare Island employees during the World War II years. Like many she followed her husband from Nebraska to the shipyard for employment. My grandfather was a pipefitter. My parents also had a mom-and-pop store on Sacramento Street with a contract post office that had service to all of the old federal Terrace housing.
Since the old concrete buildings of federal Terrace have been torn out it's almost hard to recognize the area now.

[Boompa]

I wanted to retire there but the air quality near the refinery made me take my COPD somewhere else