">Seattle</a> was founded, it was on a tidal flood plain in the <a href="http://www.usgs.gov/wa/puget/" class="external">Puget Sound</a>.  If this seems like a bad move, it was; but then <a href="http://www.seattle.com/founders/">the founders</a> were men from the Midwest who didn't know a whole lot about tides.  You'd think they'd have figured it all out before actually building the town, but apparently not.  A city was established right there, and construction work began.
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<h2>A Capital Flood</h2>
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