Post hoc ergo propter hoc?
I recall the news coverage of the earthquake. Some of the people on the major networks did not know that Oakland was on the other side of the bay from San Francisco.
There was one dramatic case of a man who was trapped in his car under a collapsed bit of freeway in the East Bay. For several days it wasn't known if the rescuers would be able to get him out. Finally they did and there was a big sigh of relief. But there was much less attention to the news that the man died a few weeks later from his injuries.
What were the odds though it would happen right at the time of a World Series Game between the two Bay Area teams?
Of course, not even an earthquake was going to stop the A’s that season.
“”There was one dramatic case of a man who was trapped in his car under a collapsed bit of freeway in the East Bay. For several days it wasn’t known if the rescuers would be able to get him out. Finally they did and there was a big sigh of relief. But there was much less attention to the news that the man died a few weeks later from his injuries.””
There was so much coverage of it in CA that I have trouble remembering all of it but I do remember a man being trapped between two collapsed lanes of highway or bridge...I thought that he had to have an arm or leg amputated to free him??? Can never forget the pictures of the Bay Bridge collapsing and the highway on the Oakland side...
I remember an old friend saying that he drove that highway every day when he was in college in San Jose State - engineering student - and he said he told everyone that the highway was in big trouble some day if they didn’t do something about the way it was constructed.
I believed him. He was the kind of guy who actually used a ruler to make perfect pie crusts...