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36-Years ago today. The San Francisco Bay Area by the Loma Prieta Earthquake, a 6.9 on the Richter Scale.
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It struck just as "Bay Area World Series" was starting. Oakland went on the SF. Giants.
I was fixing dinner when the quake hit. I remember our flat shaking and suddenly going up and then down, but we did not suffer any real damage. My landlord lost most of her Ma Jong tiles and the woman living beneath us had her windows broken.
Gail and I went to work at St. Anthony's Dining Room the next day. We made PB&J sandwiches, gave out over 1,500 bag lunches that day. Like the other volunteers we bone tired after working all those hours. Riding home on bus, going Balboa Street we could see damage and destruction as the bus moved down the street. Some the homes were just rubble, others showed damage if at all. The Marina District was hit hard. For days afterward it burned. Parts of the Bay Bridge collapsed. The Golden Gate Bridge wasn't damaged, but BART was shut down for a week or so.
What a day.
San Francisco earthquake of 1989 | History, Magnitude, Deaths, & Facts | Britannica
San Francisco earthquake of 1989, major earthquake that struck the San Francisco Bay Area, California, U.S., on October 17, 1989, and caused 63 deaths, nearly 3,800 injuries, and an estimated $6 billion in property damage. It was the strongest earthquake to hit the area since the San Francisco...
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It struck just as "Bay Area World Series" was starting. Oakland went on the SF. Giants.
I was fixing dinner when the quake hit. I remember our flat shaking and suddenly going up and then down, but we did not suffer any real damage. My landlord lost most of her Ma Jong tiles and the woman living beneath us had her windows broken.
Gail and I went to work at St. Anthony's Dining Room the next day. We made PB&J sandwiches, gave out over 1,500 bag lunches that day. Like the other volunteers we bone tired after working all those hours. Riding home on bus, going Balboa Street we could see damage and destruction as the bus moved down the street. Some the homes were just rubble, others showed damage if at all. The Marina District was hit hard. For days afterward it burned. Parts of the Bay Bridge collapsed. The Golden Gate Bridge wasn't damaged, but BART was shut down for a week or so.
What a day.
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