[ActresponsiblyinVA]

I am not going there.

[cgbg]

SF is due for another “big one” in the next few decades.

While many modern buildings may survive most of the city is still a death-trap in a major quake.

It is hilarious when leftists in San Francisco talk about “sustainable development” while they live adjacent to a major earthquake fault line.

[shadowlands1960]

If you have to resort to “hey, we aint as bad as when we were a smoking ruin after the earthquake” you are probably a failure as a mayor.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Breed recounted how even though the city has struggled to return to its pre-pandemic state, downtown San Francisco was in far worse shape after the 1906 earthquake.

That's quite an excuse. "We leftists have emptied out San Francisco and turned it into a zombie-filled wasteland but at least we didn't do as much damage as the biggest earthquake in recorded US history did."

[BookmanTheJanitor]

“You know what? That's OK,” Breed said.

Not OK if you own property or a business there....buy F' em, right London?

[rivercat]

Damn she’s dumb. The population of everywhere in the US (especially in an important port city) was increasing over the next 100 years, so of course it recovered.
Office space is going to get really cheap, or they’re going to have to offer some ridiculous sweetheart incentives to fill them.

[Bob434]

[[San Francisco was in far worse shape after the 1906 earthquake]]

yeah but back then, insanity didn’t reign Supreme in liberals areas quite like it does today. Everyone was able to work together and rebuild. So,etching that seems impossible today

[dfwgator]

But the human feces will remain.

[Herodes]

San Franshithole.

[Newtoidaho]

Ha ha, it’s so bad she has to compare it to the 1907 earthquake to find a worse time. What a moron loser.

[NautiNurse]

Wow—declaring victory because SanFran isn’t the ash heap which followed the Great Earthquake and subsequent fire of 1906. The mayor sets a very low bar for success.

[TexasFreeper2009]

not while democrats are in charge!

[Steve_Seattle]

The idiot mayor is conflating damage from an earthquake with the decay resulting from moral rot and economic decline caused by businesses fleeing a place that is no longer an attractive or safe place to operate a business.

[Ge0ffrey]

It won’t be coming back with that attitude by its fearful leader.

[NittanyLion]

“ Breed recounted how even though the city has struggled to return to its pre-pandemic state, downtown San Francisco was in far worse shape after the 1906 earthquake.”

In truth, it is far easier for a physically ruined city to be rebuilt by an industrious populace than it is to repair complete cultural and moral rot.

[Brian Griffin]

as we knew it

[Carriage Hill]

It was once a beautiful place, back in the 70s, but I wouldn’t go there, at gunpoint, now.

[Billthedrill]

Used to enjoy that city but that was an age ago. The problem here isn’t, as the Dems continue to rationalize, the pandemic. And the difference between now and 1906 is that now the steps necessary to recover are blocked at every step by ideology and bureaucracy. This wasn’t a natural disaster, it was strictly manufactured by people who never learn and are more than willing to drag everyone around them down with them.

[hanamizu]

“In 1907, downtown was mostly rubble and ash. That’s considerably worse than today’s shift in how people are working,”

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Yep, SF came back bigger and better after 1906. There’s a film shot from a cable car going down Market Street a couple of days before the quake (You can find it on YouTube). While there are scruffy looking people, they are all working. There are no passed out ‘unhoused’ people lying about. I seriously doubt that either the city government or the city’s population would have tolerated such behavior in 1906.

Insurance companies made a point of settling claims in gold—real money back in the day. And the idea of the city proposing to compensate victims of slavery (and there well could have been some in S.F. in 1906) would not have been entertained.

So yes, politically things are different now, but not in a good way.

[Rummyfan]

Breed recounted how even though the city has struggled to return to its pre-pandemic state, downtown San Francisco was in far worse shape after the 1906 earthquake.

Well, if that's your comparison....