Between Oakland and San Francisco? Just saw a 30 for 30 on it.
Who on here remembers the 1989 earthquake in San Francisco before game 3 of the world series
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As one that had just had my electricity restored due to Hurricane Hugo, I remember it very well. We literally had our power restored just a day or two and then a major earthquake. Al Michael’s stated something like “we’re experiencing an earth......and the signal dropped from the stadium, picture went blank.
Having dinner with friends. Small TV on the kitchen counter where we could watch it from the table. The screen goes blank.
I remember that and I remember the freeway collapse. Very sad for so many people who lost their lives and loved ones.
I remember it well… standing in line to pay a cable bill, and coverage was running live - pancaked cars between overpasses were gnarly
my grandparents were in SF when the earthquake hit and also that same year were here for Hugo. I remember someone giving them t-shirts saying we survived the SF quake and Hugo
I had a sales job on the west coast at the time. I was in Seattle when it happened. My boss in LA said he had a postal scale on his desk that started rattling when it happened. 10 days earlier, one of the other sales guys had driven me across the overpass that collapsed during the earthquake.
I was in Charleston helping our office there get back up and running after Hugo. Had just checked into the Omni hotel (now Charleston Place)
mainly because it was one of the few hotels fully up and running. flipped on the tv just as Al Michaels said “I think we’re having an earth…” a while later they came back on the air and players with their families and fans were on the field fearing the whole place may fall in. Then cameras on top of the stadium panned across town and smoke was rising from many locations. Then the pancaked double overpass scene was amazingly awful.
mainly because it was one of the few hotels fully up and running. flipped on the tv just as Al Michaels said “I think we’re having an earth…” a while later they came back on the air and players with their families and fans were on the field fearing the whole place may fall in. Then cameras on top of the stadium panned across town and smoke was rising from many locations. Then the pancaked double overpass scene was amazingly awful.
I do, Kirk Manwaring from Coastal Carolina was behind the plate for the Giants.
I saw the game live on TV when it happened... That was a time when I loved watching baseball...
I always resented it because SC and the Hugo disaster was front page, and then it was completely forgotten. But yes I remember it well.
Definitely remember watching it on TV. That was a crazy time. The fact that it happened when the A's and Giants were playing each other for the title just added so many layers.
I lived in Georgetown at the time. I was watching the WS and remember the announcers being alarmed when the shaking started.
That was a strange fall and winter. Hugo, the earthquake and then 22 inches of snow along the coast of SC.
That was a strange fall and winter. Hugo, the earthquake and then 22 inches of snow along the coast of SC.
The thing I remember most is the reaction from Al Michaels on the live broadcast ... "Oh sh!t, its a f^@king earthquake!"
remember it well, had just settled in to watch on our porch in Key Largo. I was amazed and saddened all together.
That’s a scary feeling. We lived in NoVa at the time of the Potomac River plane crash. My mother had literally just crossed the bridge that the plane clipped. She could see it in the rear view mirror.
That’s a scary feeling. We lived in NoVa at the time of the Potomac River plane crash. My mother had literally just crossed the bridge that the plane clipped. She could see it in the rear view mirror.
I remember that day far too well: My wife picked the wrong morning to get her wisdom teeth removed at the Naval Hospital in Oakland. That afternoon, she was "nauseated" on painkillers when our walls started vibrating. She quickly sobered up, grabbed our son, and started praying up a storm.
Then I was recalled to work to work the Onizuka AFB Battlestaff, and clean up one of our satellite mission control complexes, thanks to a busted water line. People asked me for geology (aftershock) answers, but I was simply their meteorologist. Fun times.
Then I was recalled to work to work the Onizuka AFB Battlestaff, and clean up one of our satellite mission control complexes, thanks to a busted water line. People asked me for geology (aftershock) answers, but I was simply their meteorologist. Fun times.
USCBatgirl21
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Junior year high school.
A bunch of us were at the Fair that night, and stopped to watch the news at the old CHS Bandstand.
A bunch of us were at the Fair that night, and stopped to watch the news at the old CHS Bandstand.
I remember it well. The image I most remember is that of the cars crushed on bottom level of the multi-level bridge when it collapsed. It looked unsurvivable.
Damn!
If you live long enough you will have some close calls with disaster. I've narrowly missed a few.
Was watching it live when it happened. Al Michael was doing the game, even though more known as a football guy. He wasn't rattled at all when clearly everyone around him was.
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