The mud flood
Doors and windows below the pavement, in city after city, and the idea that one catastrophe buried the ground floors of the old world. In Seattle, after the fire of 1889, the streets rose and storefronts became basements.
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The Buried Storefronts: Sacramento, Seattle and the Mud Flood
A shop front of the 1860s stood under a Sacramento sidewalk, and storefronts lie below the streets of Seattle. Writers from Philipp Druzhinin to Tartaria Britannica call this the work of a single mud flood. This is what each address records, where mud really did fall, and the test nobody has yet run across two cities.