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: Last day of the Seattle Viaduct, which was giving way to a new tunnel and an alternative waterfront for the city.

: “People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.” –Otto von Bismarck

: All Work Is Honorable, the first wave of economic depression hit Seattle around 2009

: The Alaskan Way Viaduct is a defunct elevated freeway in Seattle, Washington, United States, that carried a section of State Route 99 (SR 99). The double-decked freeway ran north–south along the city’s waterfront for 2.2 miles (3.5 km), east of Alaskan Way and Elliott Bay, and traveled between the West Seattle Freeway in SoDo and the Battery Street Tunnel in Belltown. The viaduct was built in three phases from 1949 through 1959, with the first section opening on April 4, 1953. It was the smaller of the two major north–south traffic corridors through Seattle (the other being Interstate 5), carrying up to 91,000 vehicles per day in 2016.[1] The viaduct ran above Alaskan Way, a surface street, from S. Nevada Street in the south to the entrance of Belltown’s Battery Street Tunnel in the north, following previously existing railroad lines. The viaduct had long been viewed as a barrier between downtown and the city’s waterfront, with proposals to replace it as early as the 1960s. Questions of the structure’s seismic vulnerability were raised after several earthquakes damaged similar freeways in other cities, including some with the same design as the viaduct. During the 2001 Nisqually earthquake, the Alaskan Way Viaduct suffered minor damage but later inspections found it to be vulnerable to total collapse in the event of another major earthquake, necessitating its replacement. from- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaskan_Way_Viaduct

: Tim. I simply cannot get over how robust and powerful this man is. So young and so beaten by life. He lost his leg, something to do with rotting bone from an infected wound.

: Ive lived in Seattle since November 25th 2004, and in that time I have seen some slow changes, lost touch with a lot of people who moved on, disappeared left town etc. Its really not until 2013 that the physical changes happened in the city that I could start to think I was living in a dynamic place.

: A man climbed up to the top of the city center ornamental Sequoia, flanked by a small army of medics, police and fire services, some streets were blocked off for the 25 hour period.

: “Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.” ― Brandon Sanderson

: “There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self.” –Henri Frederic Amiel

: Varanasi is the ultimate city sized afterparty for Maha Kumbh Mela. India 2013

: Natures wonders. The oceans tides gorge on the landscapes, throwing monstrous waves during high tides and storms, churning up the local areas, belching up seaweeds into grassy areas mixed with epic tree trunk remains and pebbles matted in a rich tapestry of confusing elements randomly mixed together where ancient land meets ancient ocean.

: “There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self.” –Henri Frederic Amiel