Modern Ruins of Abandoned Detroit (photos at site) (What Obama wants to bring to America)

The Weather Channel ^ | July 27, 2013 | Matthew Neugeboren and Stephanie Valera

[MuttTheHoople]

Symbolizing the dramatic decline of Motor City, many buildings and structures in the former manufacturing mecca of Detroit, Mich. lay in crumbling and weather-beaten ruins. In his bestselling book, "The World Without Us," Alan Weisman (who has reported from abandoned cities such as Chernobyl, Ukraine and Varosha, Cyprus) wrote that structures crumble as weather does unrepaired damage and other life forms create new habitats. A common structure would begin to fall apart as water eventually leaks into the roof, erodes the wood and rusts the nail, he wrote. Without intervention, many of Detroit's abandoned structures would eventually succumb to nature's elements.

[MuttTheHoople]

Detroit has been run by Democrats since 1957. It was the ultimate laboratory for modern liberalism. This is what America looks forward to with more Obamaism.

[353FMG]

>Detroit has been run by Democrats since 1957.<

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Who voted for these democrats?

[C210N]

Why is a report like this on “Weather” channel?

[GeronL]

Liberal Utopia should announce a free home give away to any leftist who wants to live in paradise. They have to actually live in them for as long as it takes to build the walls and sniper towers around the city.

[Rca2000]

But the pravda tells everyone it was conservatives who ran it into the ground......and at LEAST 50% of the “low information voters”—who make up the majority of the country—BUY it!!

[Busko]

Reminds me of Beneath the Planet of the Apes. Burned out city structures and this wasn’t even done by a military action. Only the actions of the liberal left and those that applauded it.

[broken_clock]

Detroit has been run by Democrats since 1957. It was the ultimate laboratory for modern liberalism. This is what America looks forward to with more Obamaism.

If only the rich could have been forced to pay their fair share.../s

[GeronL]

that is true

[MeshugeMikey]

Although I had seen the photos previously they were well worth a second look particularly when viewed through the filter of obamumism.

Thanks

[MeshugeMikey]

If I had had a Ballroom, it would have been this One In Detroit..[ in its current condition] .Barack Obama Jluy 27 2013

[Fiji Hill]

Interestingly, there are a lot of books at the abandoned library. Looters must not have been interested in them.

[Tonytitan]

They have to actually live in them for as long as it takes to build the walls and sniper towers around the city.

Escape From New York - 1981

Escape From L.A. - 1996

Escape From Detroit - 2013...The Death of Snake Pliskin

[CopperTop]

Reminds me of the "Gears of War" video game series.

I think they call it "beauty ruined". d:^)

[Excellence]

Because the subject is how the weather is distroying the structures.

[blueunicorn6]

And every realtor in Detroit says the same thing.

“Yeah, it’s a fixer-upper.”

[MeshugeMikey]

Location...Location... Location

[Duchess47]

What a depressing testament to the decay of our country.

[fella]

GOP campaign photos?

[jespasinthru]

Those photos are so creepy that they’re downright inspirational. You can almost see the demonic entities lurking in those vast, crumbling interiors.

[Jane Long]

I just googled Detroit, zoomed in to street view, and took a *cruise* around town. Very depressing...abandoned buildings, hardly any cars...freeways all but empty. Sad.