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Decently sized chunks of SF used to be water. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Bay,_San_Francisco

Edit: elsewhere in the thread there’s a nice link to a map from the US coast survey, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/1858_U.S...

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Marshland and lagoons sounds a bit different than ocean, though. Would they not be easier to drain and contain? Or are you saying this past makes it more susceptible to bay/ocean encroachment in the future?

I'm no civil engineer so this is totally out of my realm of knowledge.

Also, I guess I'm lucky to live on one of the highest points in the city.

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