Yes. The October 17 Loma Prieta earthquake at 5:04 pm was a brutal 6.9. I remember it well since 5pm mass just started in Berkeley and the priest when under the altar, all of us went under the pews, waited, and then ran toward the sturdy walls.
Then two years late the October 20 Oakland firestorm ripped three thousand homes. I went to Ocean beach and watched the smoke just pile up into the air for hours. Brutal.
I’ll never forget going to coffee one morning the following week and a young wealthy couple were at the next table with an architect, blue prints on the table and discussing their new multi-millon dollar home. To them it was like replacing four tires.
I was driving down Sir Francis Drake Blvd In San Anselmo and my VW convertible was having its shocks tested by the rocking
I lived in an apartment building atop a jail near the corte madera an tiburon border...and had a rather bizarre wide view of the city burning
Waiting the fires and listening to AM radio in the Ragtop..as there wasn’t any electricity in my neighborhood that night