17 years past 15 seconds
Oct. 17th, 2006 05:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
17 years since the Earth shattered under Loma Prieta, and only the Giants and A's being in the World Series saved a few dozen dead from being many hundreds.
Loma Prieta Day.
I was about six blocks from the Cypress Structure when the quake hit. I will never forget that sound as long as I live.
So, where were y'all for the Sort-of Big One? If you're not a local, where were you when you heard about it?
Loma Prieta Day.
I was about six blocks from the Cypress Structure when the quake hit. I will never forget that sound as long as I live.
So, where were y'all for the Sort-of Big One? If you're not a local, where were you when you heard about it?
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Date: 21 Oct 2006 03:57 (UTC)The next day, he was back at work in downtown SF, and had to go to the areas built on landfill to assess the damage. I remember him saying that it was really bad. When I was out there a few years later, I remember talking to firefighters who were working on the section of freeway overpass that had collapsed on a section of freeway below it.