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Happy Loma Prieta Day

On October 17th 1989 at 5:05 pm, The San Francisco Bay Area was struck by a large earthquake. And where was I? under the Bay Bridge(pictured above- the 'after' version), under the bay itself, standing inside a packed BART train. We felt a bump, and then about 3 minutes later the train stopped and we waited well inside the dark train tunnel just under the shore of West Oakland.

Inside the tunnel, we waited for what we thought was just a typical daily, dead simple no big deal delay to clear, so we could get home. Baseball fans took out their portable tv's in hope to catch a few minutes of the World Series Game that was being played just a few miles to the south of us, as they travelled home.

My wife was on the train just 10 minutes behind mine. When we left work that day, we thought it would be a typical hour long trip home.

We were wrong.

(I'll be back later to finish the story.)

Posted @ October 17, 2007 04:25 PM | Current Affairs