Sydney really cranked it up to 11 on that jazz solo of an ending :)

"massive" is hyperbole. it's just a normal, run-of-the-mill sinkhole.

I'd think a landslide/earthquake combo is worth a mention considering how often soils are saturated combined with the multiplicity of seismic hazard (Cascadia trench and Seattle fault).

"Based on the most recent data from 2011, women in Seattle make 73 cents on the average white man's dollar, four cents lower than the national average."

It's interesting that in your narrative you don't account for the national median earnings for Asian minorities (including women), which for places the average household income waaaay above that of whites. And considering that within the city of Seattle, Asian minorities outnumber blacks 2-to-1, it's arguably our most significant minority population, yet largely ignored when it comes about the conversation of income equality.

http://www.pewresearch.org/daily-number/…

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/06/1…

Even if there is a traumatic 8.0 magnitude plus to hit the Pacific Northwest, I highly doubt there could a Tsunami waves like in the illustration to hit the Seattle Waterfront. The Puget Sound is pretty shallow for a sea tributary. It is around 140 meters in the average depth, with the deepest on the West Sound Area around Indianola.

Why Japan suffers such horrific Tsunamis because the ocean shelf drops thousands of meters from the coast, that is a large mass of water with little to no barriers to stop Tsunamis on Japan's East Coast..

Basically the math for a Tsunami to destroy the Seattle Waterfront with 40-50 meter waves aren't there. Even if there is a massive surge of water through the San Juan de Fuca, much of the mass would be dissipated as it nails other areas first, before surging in Seattle.

Seattle, however would be devastated by a combo of landslides, fault shifts and like the San Francisco Quake of 1905, fires from gas breaks and general chaos.. Federal Way to Tacoma could be under a couple meters of a lahar as it comes down from the Cascades and the glacier of Rainier..

Why can't we just enact some common sense men control?

What is the male/female ratio on the Stranger staff and management; what is the pay ratio between male and female employees as well?

Um.. There's also that great big volcano-thingy 60 miles south of us.

Umm... There's also that big volcano-thingy 60 miles south of us...