October 17, 1989

[yuiyoshida]

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I was 2 years old when this took place.

[Lefthacker]

1. I was

Watching that live. Truly, a surreal day.

[petronius]

2. I always wonder what the rest of the country was thinking when that WS broadcast

went shaky and disappeared. Assuming of course that the rest of the country was even watching a local World Series.

For my part, I was busy trying the catch the dishes that were raining out of the kitchen cabinets. (Turns out that's a bad idea...)

[LWolf]

10. I was in so Cal

making dinner and heard the news on the tv in the other room.

No stranger to big earthquakes, I was thinking about people and hoping they were safe.

[still_one]

3. Yup, I remember that well. Traffic was pure chaos, and the Loma Pieta earthquake occurred at the

worst possible time

[bravenak]

4. I was 8 and on my way to school that moring in Panorama city, Ca, the damn roads looked like waves

It was rolling and we stayed outside on the playground all day. The light poles were waving like palm trees..

[Glimmer of Hope]

12. Wow. I have experienced small earthquakes but nothing like that. I can't imagine.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. I remember that.

[tinrobot]

6. I worked in downtown SF, went home early that day...

The quake hit just as I got home. I was on the hill in Twin Peaks, so the shaking wasn't that bad at my house. Went outside and saw parts of the city on fire.

[RexDart]

7. It was game night

So I would have been in downtown Santa Cruz for a bite before heading over to a friends house to continue the campaign. However I wasn't feeling well and went home. I was in a bookstore in Boulder Creek when it hit.

[bluesbassman]

8. I was standing out in back of my shop in Pleasanton talking with a neighbor.

He ran a towing company and had a 5 ton wrecker parked there. The truck was literally bouncing on its springs.

I was involved with the Jaws of Life rescue tools at the time and was kept very busy for the next week repairing tools that were being used to extricate vehicles and bodies trapped in the Cypress structure collapse.

Devastating event for a lot of reasons.

[Blue_Tires]

9. I enjoyed watching the A's slap SF around...

Fun series...

[panader0]

14. As a giants fan I was bummed that the big delay

between the games in Oakland and the games in SF that allowed the A's to use their two
best pitchers again.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

11. Living on a fault line would scare me to death.

At least living in a hurricane zone we have several days warning, and half the time it ends up being a big nothing anyways.

I do remember that World Series, though, and all the earthquake footage. The home video of the bridge collapsing was haunting.

[davekriss]

13. I was watching the game, live

I've seen too many tragic disasters in my life. This was one. 😔

[Act_of_Reparation]

15. I was six.

I remember watching it live as it happened.