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The Seattle Seahawks football team plays its home games at CenturyLink Field (formerly called Qwest Field) in Seattle’s SoDo neighborhood.

A person who is a long-time resident or native of Seattle is called a Seattleite.

Seattle’s Space Needle is 184 meters (or 604 feet) high.

Nirvana frontman and guitarist Kurt Cobain was found dead at the age of 27 in a room above the detached garage of his home at 171 Lake Boulevard East in Seattle’s Denny-Blaine neighborhood. A suicide note was found nearby and an investigation concluded he died three days prior on April 5th, 1994 from a self-inflicted shotgun wound to his head. Cobain’s wife, Courteney Love, subsequently had the garage demolished and sold the property, located next to Viretta Park, in 1997.

Snoqualmie Casino does not have a hotel. There is a Hampton Inn five minutes away in Snoqualmie, and motels in nearby North Bend.

The first Tacoma Narrows Bridge had the same location as the present day westbound bridge spanning the Tacoma Narrows strait of Puget Sound between Tacoma and Gig Harbour, Washington. Aerodynamic factors caused a substantial collapse of the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge in November 1940, just four months after opening. The new bridge, opened in October 1950, was a complete replacement, only utilizing the original bridge’s concrete piers and cable anchorages. In 1997, a third bridge was built alongside the existing bridge to carry SR 16 eastbound traffic to Tacoma.

On March 22nd, 2014 at 10:37 am, the deadliest landslide in US history engulfed the community around Steelhead Haven, about 4 miles east of Oso, Washington. A portion of tree-covered hillside above the North Fork Stillaguamish River gave way, sending masses of mud and timber flowing across the river, through the Steelhead Haven neighborhood and onto State Route 530. The debris field covered an area of approximately 1 square mile (or 2.5 square kilometers), and was up to 70 feet (or 21 meters) deep in places. The mudslide killed 42 people in the residential area and one in a car travelling on the highway, and left 4 with serious injuries. A memorial at the site includes 43 cedar trees planted in honor of each of the lives lost, and Highway 530 was officially renamed as Oso Slide Memorial Highway. The cause of the mudslide is believed to be soil instability caused by water saturation after heavy rainfall.

Reality TV star Gabe Rygaard was killed in a car accident on US-101 near Port Angeles, Washington on September 16th, 2016, aged 45. Rygaard had previously appeared on seasons two through nine of the History Channel’s reality TV show Ax Men which chronicled the activities of his family-owned logging business.

The capital city of British Columbia is Victoria on Vancouver Island.

A complete loop of Thetis Lake can be completed in around 1 hour on foot, assuming ground conditions are good. Located 10 kilometres (or 6.5 miles) west of Victoria, BC, Thetis Lake is split into Upper Thetis Lake and Lower Thetis Lake, connected by a narrow culvert. The 4.8 kilometre (or 3 mile) long main trail encircles both lakes, beginning and ending at the main beach near the parking area. The trail can be shortened to a circuit of just one of the two lakes by returning via the Trillium Trail which intersects the middle of the lake.

The last major volcanic eruption of lava at Mount Baker occurred some 6,700 years ago. However, it is still an active volcano and there have been significant hydrothermal eruptions as recently as 1880. Since the mid 1970s, reheating has been detected along with increased emissions of hot steam and gases from fumaroles, or vent holes, in the mountain’s Sherman Crater, but no signs that renewed magmatic activity is involved.

The nearest hotels to the Abbotsford Centre are the Travelodge By Wyndham Abbotsford Bakerview and the Super 8 by Wyndham. They are neighbouring hotels located 2.5 kilometres away (5 minutes by car or 30 minutes on foot) on Sumas Way, Abbotsford, British Columbia.