GC14KRB Earthquake! (Unknown Cache) in Oregon, United States created by Mr. & Mrs. Kensquach & Spencersb

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GC14KRB ▼

A cache by Mr. & Mrs. Kensquach & Spencersb Message this owner

Hidden : 9/3/2007

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Congratulations to Candum for being First to Find!

The following story is a true account of my experience of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and is not meant to belittle the loss of surviving family members or the hero’s involved if the rescue and recovery efforts.

It was about 5:00 pm and like clockwork my dad walked in the door from work. Dinner wasn’t ready yet so in rare form the old man cracked a beer and waited for the dinner bell. It was 5:04 when he stood at the counter to drop a heaping spoonful of spaghetti on his plate when the plate shifted about a foot to the left leaving his evening meal all over the counter. He looked at my mom and said "damn I only had one beer!" It was then in my 17 year old exuberance I yelled out "IT'S AN EARTHQUAKE!" and out the door I ran. By the time I reached the street in my home town of Napa Ca. I saw the ground slowly roll as the cars on the street were rolling back and forth. It soon came to our realization that this was no minor quake. None of the TV or radio stations were broadcasting and the local telephone service was down as well. It wasn't until about 7:00pm that night when we saw the first pictures of the devastation that this 6.9 magnitude quake had caused. This really made me REFLECT on just how lucky we were to be so far from the epicenter and not be among the 62 that did not escape with their lives. The PICUREs we saw on the news were truly horrifying. AT the Cypress section in Oakland an acquaintance of my fathers was caught RIGHT in the middle of the whole collapse in a wine delivery truck stuck in the evening commute and was among those unlucky 62 and over to the west the was the bay bridge collapse that left a section of the upper deck sitting at an ANGLE to the lower deck.

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