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- ShingoEX, on 10/17/2009, -0/+12I remember watching it happen live.
The TV camera just started shaking, then cut off. They went to commercial, then came back with a news update of the situation. - laserman92027, on 10/17/2009, -0/+9I lived 45 mins south of SF and much closer to the epicenter. I thought my house was going to collapse around me. A wave of water came out of my swimming pool. It came in the patio door carrying a bushel of mulch. At the same time my 55 gallon aquarium fell off its stand and smashed. The drywall either buckled or tore apart at the seams. My chimney fell down.
I did not drop my beer and finished it in the front yard :-) - sinembarg0, on 10/17/2009, -0/+8You know you're an alcoholic when...
- Gojirra, on 10/17/2009, -0/+6http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOAP8p7ux_Y
- TheTyPod, on 10/17/2009, -0/+4Good article. I was about 3 months old and my parents lived in Corde Madera at the time.
We moved to Minnesota after this. - boogerthecat, on 10/18/2009, -0/+4Dugg for awesome beer save. ;)
- InitialDMP5, on 10/17/2009, -0/+3I live 2 hours NE of San Francisco, but we definitely felt that quake still. I was 8 years old when it happened and I had never experienced anything like it. Light poles swayed and roads rippled. It was crazy. I went to art school for 4 years living in the Union Square area of San Francisco city and only felt small quakes, nothing on that scale. My mom was happy for that.
- JoeHague, on 10/17/2009, -0/+3I think of this every time I'm on the Bay Bridge. If an earthquake can happen during the World Series it could certainly happen while I'm driving/
- JakeBC, on 10/17/2009, -0/+3The exclamation point in the description seems out of Place!
- LeeJeremyR, on 10/18/2009, -0/+3The Oakland A's and SF Giants both made to the World Series. Before the game started, there was a massive earthquake.
- sinembarg0, on 10/17/2009, -0/+2RTFA *****, and it shall become obvious that this story was not stolen from ESPN.
- agequodagis, on 10/17/2009, -0/+2I was a in a car on Steven's Creek Blvd. on the way to Nob Hill groceries when the quake hit. It's a good thing we were stopped at an intersection but I've never seen the traffic lights wave around like they were tree branches in a gale before or since.
Because kids need their milk while watching the World Series, and we were out damnit! - PopeSmoker, on 10/17/2009, -0/+2It's the 20th anniversary of the quake, so I imagine more than one news source is going to run a feature about it. Especially a newspaper FROM San Francisco.
- hyp36rmax, on 10/18/2009, -0/+1Wow, i remember this earthquake vividly, i was at soccer practice when the ground shook, as we all laid for cover i could see the light post that usually light the soccer field swing back and forth and a large emergency siren went off. As i was going home with my pops we tuned into the radio and it was total chaos from the news to the streets filled with people recovering from shock. I saw countless reports from that world series game, downtown San Francisco, and local news. damn as if it happened yesterday...
- TrouserNinja, on 10/19/2009, -0/+1My dad was on one of the top floors of the Bank of America Building when this quake hit. He watched his desk slide across his office, and then he felt the whole building start lurching back and forth.
I was 10 months old at the time, so... y'know. Slept through that. - wpennb, on 10/18/2009, -0/+1You missed my point. The game is not a world series.
- bkvideography, on 10/18/2009, -0/+1they did it for the show.
- HtomSirveaux, on 10/18/2009, -0/+1Fun fact: the Goodyear blimp covering the game actually bounced in the air during the quake.
Too bad San Francisco has too many snobs for its own good. Large sections of the city are developed with old style historical housing which the community won't allow to be retrofitted. They just built over the old 1906 earth quake rubble that will probably turn to quicksand when the next one hits. - gkiltz, on 10/18/2009, -0/+1Hard to believe that's been 20 years.
Sure doesn't seem like it! - Hermmunster, on 10/18/2009, -0/+1I lived in Pleasant Hill, CA. I had managed a half day off and was in my apartment when it happened. Things shook pretty well, but nothing was broken. I called a friend and told him. He said it was minor. I told him that it seemed to be a major quake. Power went out all over. My sister tried calling but the lines were all tied up. The radio indicated there was a major quake.
A friend from work told me she had been at the game. She said she saw the stadium stands move.
It was a terrible quake that affected a lot of lives. - nashio, on 10/18/2009, -1/+1Earthquake, sad moment, World Series, not important
- ReallyFunGuy, on 10/18/2009, -0/+0I was 6 years old, living in San Rafe (Marin County) when this happened. I was riding a bike, and it knocked me off. Mother nature is MEAN.
I few years before, I lived in Oakland when a smaller quake hit. I was in the living room, and it made the dining table move. I told my sister to stop moving the table, but then when I looked and found that she wasn't, I freaked out. - wpennb, on 10/17/2009, -3/+2World series?
- heyjohnsullivan, on 10/17/2009, -4/+2I remember when they stole this article from a ESPN 30 for 30 episode from Thursday night.
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