Alternative History

Here's an interesting alternative history idea: On the golden anniversary of the golden gate bridge, the span flexed and flattened under the weight of 1,000,000 people, and if there was any weaknewss in the bridge, it would have cracked, crumbled, and thousands would have plunged to thier death. Also, the bay area would have been effected greatly, causing traffic from Marin county to San Fran cut down to a near halt, and so on and so forth. Maybe no tech boom in the area, though, thigns tended to recover pretty well after the San Fran earthquake, when there were some 3,000 deaths. But this would be a good 15% of the area's population. Yipes.