ГОРОДА США ЗАСЫПАНЫ СОВСЕМ НЕДАВНО. КАК ИХ ОТКАПЫВАЛИ? Что закопало города в США?

Hello everyone! Many people have seen old buildings filled in, but the following questions are not clear — The first question is how much of the buildings were filled in, and what is the maximum level? The second question is: if buildings in cities were filled in, at least by one and a half or two meters, how and with what were they dug up? After all, this is a huge amount of soil. The third question is where to put the removed soil? The fourth question is: why did you need to dig up buildings in the first place? And the fifth question, the most difficult-still because of what, or why, because of what phenomenon the buildings were filled in. If in Russia buildings were buried as we all think on one floor, then in the US buildings were buried a little more. Let's take the example of two American cities: Seattle and Kansas. Both cities are interesting to us because they had buried houses. Seattle is located on the coast at an altitude of only 42 meters above sea level. And Kansas is located inland at an altitude of 269 meters above sea level. let's take a look at the vintage photos: These are photos from Seattle and we see just surreal views. What's going on here? Here is another photo where you can clearly see the pipeline and watering the land with water. In this panoramic photo, the ground is being watered and the house is slightly tilted in a very strange place among the washed-out soil. Why water the earth with powerful jets of water — share your thoughts in the comments. Someone will say that they pour water so that there is no dust. But where does this dust come from - if no work is being done at the moment? In other photos, excavators are working on the ground opposite, but the ground is not watered with water. We see colossal piles of soil, whose flat tops indicate that this was previously the earth's surface. Here's what I found on the Internet: In the early 20th century, Seattle, Washington was rapidly becoming a major center of trade in the Pacific Northwest. Located on a narrow hilly isthmus, the city had to grow in an organized manner. After a fire that destroyed much of the city center, city engineer Thomson took the opportunity to lead a large-scale effort to tame the area around the city and prepare it for a century of growth. Was dug canals, rivers was taken off of the side, and the mountains are shifted. In particular, the glacial hills and ridges that separated the neighborhood from the waterfront in the center of the city were considered a major obstacle to travel and trade and became a major target for removal. From the 1890s to the 1920s, more than 38 million cubic meters of land were cleared using axes, water cannons, steam excavators, and conveyor belts. Most of the displaced land was used to fill in the tidal flats on the waterfront. Very interesting phrase — glacial hills, in the original written Glacial hills, we will discuss this point later. Consider the photo: there are houses at the bottom, apparently wooden. It is quite difficult to understand these houses have always stood at this level, that is, were they built this way, or were these houses dug up? For excavated houses, they look very intact, they have a roof, roofing material in place. There was an idea that the soil from under the house was gradually removed and the house thus gradually sank to the required level. If the house is wooden, this is possible. For example, this photo shows that the house is slightly tilted relative to the horizon, and on the right you can see people who are washing away the ground under the house with a powerful jet of water. Here's what we found on this account: Many of the houses that were to be taken down from the hill did not need to be demolished. They were simply blown up by the flood, and when they fell into the pit, they were set on fire. In our collection there will be several photos of people watering the earth with a powerful stream of water. If in the previous photo they may have washed the ground under the house, then what exactly is happening in these photos is unclear. This photo is captioned Leveling streets in seattle which translates to leveling streets of Seattle.