On Shaky Ground: The 1989 San Francisco Earthquake | Retro Report | The New York Times

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1. I was in 3rd grade when this Quake happened and my mom had just driven off The Cypress Freeway 5 minutes before it collapsed.

   We lived only 5 minutes away from The Freeway.

   My mom and I were outside of our house in the garage; when a few neighbors came around too talk, that's when two teenage young men came around and told Us the Freeway had collapsed.

   It was quite shocking, I mean we had just gotten off that Freeway.

   In the weeks following my mom describes it like Vietnam because of the Helicopters flying over every night and the smell of the dead bodies, accept I truly don't remember smelling anything.

   My allergies were so bad then I couldn't smell a thing mom could.

   After, everything had been removed from the Freeway; it became a rather Eye Sore it seemed like it took forever to tear down That Double Decker Cypress Freeway.

   Oh one other thing someone may find this interesting at the Time Oakland, San Francisco had its Quake, in 89, China had one too it killed 20 people.

   I sort of wondered if California and China shared a Faultline somehow.

   Hey who ever posted this piece on the World Series Quake, 1989, Don't forget too do The Oakland, CA & Berkeley Hill Firestorm.

   Where the only thing not burned by that Fire is The Claremont Hotel, and the fact the Fire Hopped The Freeway.

2. That's done ..NEXT.. thxs for.stopping bye

3. It sounded like he said growing up not throwing. Mommy I'm a big kid now!!

4. Oh man, my parents lived through the '94 Northridge quake. They had to live in a tent in the yard for week because their floor buckled.

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6. My mom told me the town we live in is right on top of the fault lines in kentucky.. 😬

7. Shout out to all Northern California 🤘🏽💯

8. Katherine Couric

9. My sister and son in law lived in Walnut Creek and crossed the baybridge 20 min before the quake hit!!! I remember the event vividly when the poor man was trapped in the vehicle

10. I was 7, and thought the world was ending. I then was given a big bowl of ice cream with cookies and all was well.

11. it will happen in may 2022. cascadia earthquake

12. World Series have a lot of lives. At 5:04 p.m. on a Friday the freeways would have been an absolute gridlock. Thousands would have been crushed by the Nimitz overpass freeway collapse. And the World Series being played between the two cities affected by the earthquake find the game in San Francisco where the epicenter was in Oakland. And to make it even more surreal, and this I think it's really strange. That day was my wife's birthday and she predicted earthquake on her birthday 10 days prior. And furthermore, and very strange, my birthday falls on a major California earthquake that was a 7.9 to 8.2 and possibly the largest earthquake recorded in the lower 48. My brother was born on the same day as the big one in San Francisco which is where we live and I was born. Both those quakes what's 7.9 Loma Prieta 6.9. All of them in California and my wife's name is Kali. I think it's pretty strange and the odds are probably astronomical. I don't know, what do you think?

13. Nothing about California is modern, liberal, or fair. It's a sham sold to frustrated East Coast types. Fires make the air unbreathable, too. Oregon, best get fixed, I'm coming in 20 years, if I can save by then on pittance SSI…OR America could not keep starving disabled people and making them live on an average of 10k a year…report on that anytime, NYT

14. They say Prepare prepare. But the truth is we will never be prepared for An Earthquake or the Big one it will always be chaotic because no one knows exactly when or where it will happen it's one of those natural disasters that cannot be predicted it's not like one of those natural disasters that come around once a year like a Tornado 🌪️ or Hurricane 🌀 that can be predicted

15. Katherine couric! I was 12 years old. Will never forget it. And I live in Massachusetts

16. I was at home in Oakland and my husband just left work in San Francisco and trying to get on Bay Bridge when it happened. He couldn't get home all night and was wandering dark streets of San Francisco and couldn't even call me because phones were out (we didn't have cell phones then). Yesterday we had a 3.5 earthquake on the local Hayward fault and 3.2 the day before, I hope it will be quiet now for a while.

17. In remember this‼️ that bridge collapse haunted me for years. My Auntie lives in Burbankl, and all I could think about is she OK?!?!?

18. Man that crazy [COMMENT #918] EARTHQUIT (aka SAN FRANCIS.K.O

19. I was there…crazy!

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21. I lived through the Whittier one in 1987, Landers in 1992, and Northridge in 94. I've learned since then, that the media can exaggerate when it comes to quakes. In 92, they treated the Landers as if it was a warning of the Big one.

22. I live on the first floor of a 4 story 100 year old building in Oregon. My earthquake plan is a prayer

23. October 17Th Iz My Birthday

24. Same Year Az Tha Song SWV Weak

25. "Kathrine Couric" hmmmmm!

26. If humans forget that we ourselves are animals then they def forgot about the fault line lmao

27. Came here to learn about the '89 San Francisco earthquake, but Oregon had to go and make it about them. lol

28. One thing I appreciate about Florida is that everything is hurricane proof.

29. It's what we call the ‘Ostrich Syndrome'. Bury your heads in the Sand and suffer the consequences 😞

30. TRIVIA: Al Michaels of ABC Sports was the only voice out of SFO after the quake. He was on-air for almost 36 hours and got an Emmy for news reporting for it.

31. Nice

32. Katherine Keurig 😂 she tried a thing. We see you Katie

33. I was 4 years old and still vividly remember this and how worried my mother was because I was at a friends and she couldn’t find me, different times back then.

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