23 years ago today
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Wed Oct 17, 2012 4:06 pmby BE58D
23 years ago today, at 5:04pm local time the San Francisco Giants versus the Oakland A's in the World Series... a magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit the San Francisco Bay Area... oh yeah, I felt it!!!
Re: 23 years ago today
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Wed Oct 17, 2012 4:28 pmby Fozzer
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/1 ... 74206.htmlI remember the collapse of Bay bridge, and all the motorists crushed beneath the upper and lower levels. A terrible sight!
Photos of Bay Bridge...>>>
http://photos.mercurynews.com/2012/10/1 ... ame%20hereNot quite as big as the 1906 San Francisco earthquake...
...!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_San_F ... earthquakeNow
THAT was a REALLY big one!
I collect lots of details of that one.
Paul.
P.S...Thanks for the reminder, BE... [smiley=thumbsup.gif]...1
Re: 23 years ago today
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Wed Oct 17, 2012 4:32 pmby wifesaysno
My parents were supposed to go there for their honeymoon but something came up that changed their plans... I guess the place they were going to go to was destroyed so if they had, I gone, I would not be here!
Re: 23 years ago today
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Wed Oct 17, 2012 4:39 pmby Fozzer
My parents were supposed to go there for their honeymoon but something came up that changed their plans... I guess the place they were going to go to was destroyed so if they had, I gone, I would not be here!
The 'friscans are daily waiting for the next BIG ONE...!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Andreas_Faulthttp://geology.com/articles/san-andreas-fault.shtmlWhat with Earthquakes, Wild Fires, and Land slides, etc, Cal is an "interesting/fascinating" place to live!
I keep my little Cessna 150 well above the danger areas, (except the Vineyards!)..
...!
Paul... 8-)...!
Re: 23 years ago today
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Wed Oct 17, 2012 4:52 pmby BE58D
My parents were supposed to go there for their honeymoon but something came up that changed their plans... I guess the place they were going to go to was destroyed so if they had, I gone, I would not be here!
Glad there was a change in plans!
Re: 23 years ago today
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Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:35 pmby expat
The following summer I was on holiday with my wife (then girlfriend) in San Francisco (Hotel Aunty). We were driving around the water front with a map on my wife's knee (well before satnav) trying to find the Embarcadero. We drove around the same roads three times before we realised that the Embarcadero was in fact the pile of rubble that we had been driving past for the last 45 minutes...................
Matt
Re: 23 years ago today
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Wed Oct 17, 2012 10:05 pmby wifesaysno
My parents were supposed to go there for their honeymoon but something came up that changed their plans... I guess the place they were going to go to was destroyed so if they had, I gone, I would not be here!
Glad there was a change in plans!
me too!
There are some other big ones that are over due to hit. Particularly near Washington state.
Re: 23 years ago today
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Fri Oct 19, 2012 3:34 amby BE58D
The following summer I was on holiday with my wife (then girlfriend) in San Francisco (Hotel Aunty). We were driving around the water front with a map on my wife's knee (well before satnav) trying to find the Embarcadero. We drove around the same roads three times before we realised that the Embarcadero was in fact the pile of rubble that we had been driving past for the last 45 minutes...................
Matt
I was only 16 years old when it happened! two years later (1991, ironically 2 years and 2 days after the earthquake), there was a major fire in the City of Oakland!
Wikipedia link about the fire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_Firestorm_of_1991Bing images of the fire
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=oakland+hills+fire&qpvt=oakland+hills+fire&FORM=IGREThere are some images that are completely unrelated to the fire :-/
Re: 23 years ago today
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Fri Oct 19, 2012 3:52 amby Fozzer
For some strange reason, Californians seem to love building houses amongst trees and undergrowth, and then wonder why their houses burn down every Wildfire Season!
I remember the disastrous wildfire around Lake Tahoe a few years ago, with all the houses built amongst the trees in the Forest!
Houses surrounded by trees are an impending disaster!
Paul.... 8-)...!
Every Fire Season I follow the CAL news, and take my Sim Cessna 150 to explore the affected scenes each time.
Re: 23 years ago today
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Sat Oct 20, 2012 8:58 pmby BE58D
For some strange reason, Californians seem to love building houses amongst trees and undergrowth, and then wonder why their houses burn down every Wildfire Season!
I remember the disastrous wildfire around Lake Tahoe a few years ago, with all the houses built amongst the trees in the Forest!
Houses surrounded by trees are an impending disaster!
Paul.... 8-)...!
Every Fire Season I follow the CAL news, and take my Sim Cessna 150 to explore the affected scenes each time.
No one ever said we were the bightest crayons in the box! LOL