Stop in for a cup of coffee

There's one part of town here that is basically a giant sand dune. Sits all by it self, no way it was deposited by the river on the other side of the valley. When I sent redi-mix trucks in there, they had to be all wheel drive to get around :lol:. The footings under the houses are like 8' deep :eek:. US 101 is on that same dune. I'd love to see the engineering involved in the 60s to do that. They built a new overpass in that neighborhood recently, all the foundations are twice the size of any bridge I've poured concrete for in the past.
From what I've seen over here in Vietnam so far they make the footers very deep also especially if the land has been filled. But even with new construction in Vietnam I always see cracks in the wall at some point somewhere. Must be there construction methods