A phonebook? What's that to today's millenials and gen z?
If an earthquake happened today, they would look on their smartphones and the smartphone would be out.
San Francisco? Try Loma Prieta, over 50 miles away.
Thanks. I’ve never seen this.
I was in the earthquake, not 100 miles away in San Francisco.
It was something.
I got a good ride in Cupertino.
I can see them. frantically asking Sirius or Uranus or whatever that is in their little iFag phones and getting silence.
Like the black couple in "Mule" Clint Eastwood come across trying to get a cell signal to get instruction on how to change a flat tire.
Bay Area Quake right in middle of the Bay Area World Series.
That was crazy.
I turned the World Series game on a little later. I still remember the ambulance out on the playing field.
Hollywood Park race call during earthquake.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlXiwR7893M
I watched the central corridor of our Fab twist and wave.
It was way kewl!
Love the 80’s fashion.
Even still then people were not the slobs and worse that they are today.
Just days before the earthquake, I visited the Bay Area to watch the USC-Cal game. My route took me over Cuesta los Gatos, which is not far from the earthquake’s epicenter at Loma Prieta.
I was on the air at a radio station 400 miles away when the quake struck, I felt a swaying motion and saw the speaker monitors on the wall begin gently swinging back and forth. I knew immediately that it was a big one somewhere.
2020 translation: Russia made the earth quake because Trump is rassis...
I was driving on the Nimitz freeway the day before.
I was in Mountain View. In a basement. The drop ceiling was 2-inch concrete, suspended by wires. You know that I dove under my old, very solid Steel desk.
The quake rocked my world.
F ing ZORAN !!!!!
I was staying late at my office in Reno when my chair started rocking. At first, I thought someone was behind me shaking the chair.
Remember this well.... I was a student at a Carson City Community College 230 miles away and I felt the lightest barely perceptible wave like motion. 10 minutes later the TV lounge was a buzz with pics of the collapsed bridge. Man...30 years ago. wth happened?
HOLD ON BUCK, became a famous saying
Yeah I was watching the World Series game on TV in Chicago. I was at that time working on a contract for the local telephone company, so I was staying in an efficiency apartment supplied to me by the consulting firm I was working for. When the screen went to green, for what seemed like forever, I had no clue as to what the problem was. Just knew that the series TV coverage was not there. When they came back on, is when I then found out what had transpired.
The reactions of the announcers on the field is classic earthquake. You turn to someone else as if to say, “Did you feel that?” It takes a few seconds to realize what is actually happening.
Early in the video coverage, they showed the collapsed Nimitz Freeway (Is there a move afoot to rename it since he was so mean to Japanese—people of color?) and the New York announcer not realizing it was double-decked and it had collapsed. Made my blood run cold, imagining being on the lower portion when it crashed down.