“The population has grown significantly, and we’re really at an inflection point where the number of animals that are reproducing on the landscape is significant,” Hunnicutt said.

In an election night speech to donors and campaign volunteers at a music venue in the Mission, Lurie drew comparisons to that catastrophe and the “inflection point” San Francisco faces today.

It will be 10,000 years before the story reaches that inflection point with, I’m sure, many head-scratching twists and turns along that road that this series never has to deal with.

This autumn marks an inflection point for Olympic organizers as they transition from planning to the nuts-and-bolts of getting things done.

In an interview after he rallied for Democratic congressional candidates two days before the election, Newsom didn’t want to discuss the reality of the election as a critical inflection point in his own political future.