Posted on 08/08/2020 1:27:42 PM PDT by DallasBiff
I was driving on the Nimitz freeway the day before.
I was in Mountain View. In a basement. The drop ceiling was 2-inch concrete, suspended by wires. You know that I dove under my old, very solid Steel desk.
The quake rocked my world.
I was hoping I was mistaken, but it took CBS and Dan Rather half an hour to realize that the freeway had pancaked despite ample video. I had been developing awareness of the stupidity of anchormen for some time, and this clinched it. Granted, they were assimilating dozens of reports, but didn’t know what the video was about for a long time, wondering what the deal was. Wish I had been wrong.
F ing ZORAN !!!!!
Same here. good ride in south San Jose. $51,000 damage to my house which was somewhat covered by earth quake insurance. Escaped San Jose in 1991 to an undisclosed south eastern state location.
Crazy.....seeing all those people rushing out of the stands and onto the field in Oakland.
I was staying late at my office in Reno when my chair started rocking. At first, I thought someone was behind me shaking the chair.
Remember this well.... I was a student at a Carson City Community College 230 miles away and I felt the lightest barely perceptible wave like motion. 10 minutes later the TV lounge was a buzz with pics of the collapsed bridge. Man...30 years ago. wth happened?
HOLD ON BUCK, became a famous saying
The 80s were mostly very good.
As much as enjoy Starsky & Hutch reruns, the clothes are mostly hard on the eyes.
Yeah I was watching the World Series game on TV in Chicago. I was at that time working on a contract for the local telephone company, so I was staying in an efficiency apartment supplied to me by the consulting firm I was working for. When the screen went to green, for what seemed like forever, I had no clue as to what the problem was. Just knew that the series TV coverage was not there. When they came back on, is when I then found out what had transpired.
Hold on Buck......
Wasn’t there a man named Buck that was trapped on the lower level of a freeway and he was stuck in a tiny geo metro and it took forever to get him out?
The reactions of the announcers on the field is classic earthquake. You turn to someone else as if to say, “Did you feel that?” It takes a few seconds to realize what is actually happening.
Early in the video coverage, they showed the collapsed Nimitz Freeway (Is there a move afoot to rename it since he was so mean to Japanese—people of color?) and the New York announcer not realizing it was double-decked and it had collapsed. Made my blood run cold, imagining being on the lower portion when it crashed down.
Al Michaels was as cool as a cucumber.
Crazy. I was in the process of moving up to Lafayette. It was apocalyptic bad up there. Then after I moved back to LA I got a twofer, the Northridge quake. SCORE!
Yes died about a Month later, but did get him out .He had quite a sense of Humor.
I had driven there the day before the quake. My wife had to take BART from Fremont to SF every day. I couldn’t imagine being in the tunnel during an earthquake or stuck there.
I was living in Santa Clara.
Dove under my work desk and calmly wondered if I was going to know what it was like to die.
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