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Yes and it gets better.

I took orders to a VP squadron out of Moffett Field CA. ( which also means I did’t get to be in the Final Count down movie) And stayed out there after I got off of active to 1990

So I was out there when the Big One Hit in 89. at the time I lived north of San Francisco. And on that day I was down in the south bay installing some equipment. As I left to head back home. I go to my self “ what the heck why fight traffic let’s stop at St. James and have a beer & burger” ( a place right outside Moffett) ( I could kick back for two hours but only get home a 1/2 Hr. later)

Because I was more on the east side of the bay. If I would have went right home I would have taken the freeway that runs up the east side the bay.
And because of that decision I was playing a new sit-down race car driving video game. That as I rounded a corner to “fast” and started to run off the track. The game starts shaking. I’m going “ Cool” Then as the car begins to flip the game starts bang the wall. Wait a minuet here. Look up to see all the glasses flying off the shelves behind the bar. and go ops. it’s not the game
EARTHQUAKE!

So I grab my beer and head out the door. Only to see the need to time my exit between the cars in the parking lot. Which are rolling together and apart.

After it was all over. And get back inside, get a TV working. And see the reports of the large section of the double deck portion of 880 freeway had collapsed.
Now the timeing was that if I haden’t stopped. I would have been in the middle of it. ( And north bound traffic was on the lower deck) Or at best a mile either side!
And do you know what the name of the freeway was??
The Nimitz Freeway!