[blackdog]

We were in Seattle last week. My daughter was driving at night and several times something struck the car undercarriage. The next day I checked it out and the street sewer access stacks-covers, are either rising upward or the street pavements are sinking down.

Of course they are blaming "large box stores" and their parking lots for the problem. I'm not sure how that thinking goes but I can't entirely dismiss that?

All new construction utilizes vertical steel spines structures with steel siding, over wood-brick-masonry construction due to earthquake considerations in the building codes. That makes for very ugly residential homes.

Brick and block structures are the least resistant to earthquake damage and tend to make more injury and death in such an event.

[Red Badger]

“Of course they are blaming “large box stores” and their parking lots for the problem. I’m not sure how that thinking goes but I can’t entirely dismiss that?”

When in doubt, blame Capitalism................

[Cold Heart]

Parking lots stop rain water from going directly into the soil and concentrate it in areas where it can erode the soil in another area.

[Valpal1]

I think the run off from parking lots from the heavy rainfall that is normal in Seattle is blamed for causing sink holes.