oating away.
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All this led many citizens to establish their residences on the <a href="http://www.seattle.com/suburbs/">hills overlooking the sound</a> and then commute to work.  Apparently Seattle's always been the same in certain ways.  The problem with this arrangement back then was that the residences <em>also</em> generated organic byproducts, and those were headed right down the hill.  Into the regularly-flooding financial district.  When they finally built an above-ground sewage pipe to carry