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Originally Posted by porsche4life
Wow. Not good at all. Why isn't more being done in the PNW to prepare for something like this?
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Getting anything at all done in Seattle is next to impossible, between getting people to vote for it, environmental studies, legal challenges from people affected and The Sierra Club... It's a miracle that anything at all can be accomplished.
I used to live in Lower Queen Anne and took the Viaduct to get to work at BFI. When traffic would stop completely I could feel the traffic on the upper level gently shaking the roadway, and I'd often times think about how it would be a really bad time for even a medium sized earthquake to hit. It was right around the time that WS DOT made that video that showed the Viaduct collapsing, sections of Alaskan Way sliding into the harbor, fires starting and things like that.
I thought a good chunk of downtown, basically from the Sound to 2nd Ave was more or less built on fill and the area used to be a marsh?