Posts Tagged ‘disaster’

Do The Tennis Courts at the Hamilton Rec Center Look More Like Chernobyl or San Francisco?

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Mother Nature is slowly reclaiming Hamilton Recreation Center at 1960 Geary Boulevard in the 94115. See?

Welcome to the Land of Wind and Ghosts, San Francisco, CA:

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Some cities near Chernobyl, Ukraine were evacuated after Reaktor 4 had a “power excursion” causing the famous Mini Meltdown of 1986 (the one that threw up 400 times as much fallout as the bomb at Hiroshima.) Those ghost towns probably have similar scenes…

San Francisco Hosts Multi-Agency Terror Drill Exercise

Monday, August 18th, 2008

This is what it looked like on Saturday when San Francisco held a dress rehearsal for disaster in the Financial District. Hundreds of people were on the scene. They came from an alphabet soup of local, state, and federal agencies, such as SFFD, SFPD, FEMA, FBI, the Army, etc.

KGO-TV has some video.

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