On a gloomy afternoon in June 2014, I walked out of the AMC Metreon and was momentarily surprised to find San Francisco still standing. I recalled how the military had turned BART stations into emergency shelters and based their operations in Oakland because San Francisco was a no-go zone. I once asked a friend who was a marketing executive for a Hollywood studio: Why does San Francisco get destroyed so often? I developed a kind of parasocial relationship with San Francisco long before I considered moving here in 1996. Unlike the characters in cataclysms like San Andreas (2015), they’re deeply rooted in San Francisco.