“...without humans to maintain structures, they will be swallowed up by nature pretty quickly.”
I always think that when I’m in Florida! If the humans left it would be taken over by the flora in about 6 weeks time.
Pythons, gators, and kudzu...
Yes...it is pretty impressive when you see a structure that has not been maintained.
I have a small house near me in a wooded area (and this is in the Northeast US) and it has been condemned for about ten years.
With each passing year, it is covered in more moss and mildew, all around is overgrown, the roof is covered with pine needles, and you can see the entire house is just going to collapse...the roof is showing concavities, that kind of thing.
It will in my life time, revert to a pile of rubble, and in a generation, you would be able to walk by it in the woods and not really know there had been a house there except for a pipe or something.
Down in places like Florida, it is accelerated. It is a bit humbling, too.
“I always think that when I’m in Florida! If the humans left it would be taken over by the flora in about 6 weeks time.”