>>>Tragedies:
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>>>San Francisco 1906
>>>Chicago 1871
>>>Johnstown, PA 1889
>>>Galveston, TX 1900
>>>
>>>Engineering Accomplishments:
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>>>Treasure Island built from dredged material from the bay
>>>Osaka Airfield
>>>Panama Canal
>>>London Thames Barrier
>>>Netherlands
>>>Chicago pipes were once laid on streets and covered with 10 ft of dirt and bldgs raised
>>>Galveston raised 17 feet
>>>Seattle was raised a whole story when the sewers backed up (you can tour undergound)
>>>
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>>Most of the Seattle Underground City Tours has been closed to tourist. It is considered unsafe. The actual tour now consists of mainly walking through basements and museums. They do promise to reopen other sections, but they have been saying that for years.
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>I would not be surprised if there is a city or county department that is well staffed and in charge of one thing – making the decision to open the Seattle Underground City Tour. People will retire and no decision will be made. Or is that just how politics and government work! :)

"There is nothing we can do today that can't be put off till tomorrow."

When I first went on the tour (thirty years ago), I got to see where there was opium dens and place of ill repute. Those places are now close to the public tour.

Do recall the TV show "Here come the brides". It was based on the history of Seattle. Once, Seattle was mainly men, Lumberjacks. They consulted that they need more women in their town. They placed an advertisement in an east coast newspaper looking for women as seamstresses. But when they arrived, they were in fact made into women of ill repute. The original building used as this was recently moved out of Seattle down to Federal Way. There is (or was) a plaque on it stating its history.