San Francisco Shaken: The 1989 earthquake (2014)
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Published 2023-12-03
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Seriously what are the mathematical odds that the same person would be on the Bay Bridge at the exact spot where the bridge dropped off during an earthquake AND then be in the World Trade Center on 9/11 AND surviving both incidents? That’s astounding
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Watching in 2024. 35 years after the disaster
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They should have interviewed George Santos. He was there. He jumped out of a collapsed and burning school building holding three kids in his arms. He returned to the building and saved dozens more!
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The thought of jumping from your crushed house with a completely shattered leg and having to leave your wife to die.... That's all just so effing horrifying and painful...
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I felt the sadness in my soul watching him tell the story of not being able to save his wife 😢
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As a Critical care RN, I wish the nurses would have told Desiree that people can still hear you when they're out and on a vent. Many patients who were comatose complained that I talked their ears off.
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That firefighter that saved that older lady is a Real Hero. We need more people like him in this world.
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I was trapped in an elevator in downtown San Jose. I still have trouble going into high rises, elevators, and buildings where I don't see a clear "escape path,"
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Just like in 1989, the media covered wealthy Marina yet over 3000 homes in poorer Oakland were destroyed but largely ignored in coverage.
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I was working in San Francisco when the earthquake hit. All the roads out of the city were closed. The Marina burned. I lived near the epicenter and could not leave San Francisco. I will never forget that day.
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To the Daughter of Buck…..As a Dad with a daughter there was and never will be anything that you say to your Dad that would ever change his love for you!!! We were all kids once and Dads remember and are also the most understanding when your kid is just being a kid. You were mad because you wanted to spend time with him. That cancels out everything else. He never even gave it another thought.
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Incredible stories! My uncle survived the big one in Mexico City in 1985 and decided he needed to move to safer ground. He moved to San Francisco in 1989.
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I will never forget that day. I was really sick from a ear infection. I was getting ready for the battle of the bay game. I was in the kitchen when it hit and I thought "man I'm sicker than I thought " when I saw people on TV running and the water in my 25 gallon fish tank sloshing out. I started screaming for my children to get away from the shelves and tv
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I was in the Tenderloin on a job interview. We were in a coffee shop in the culinary institute. I ran out the doors to be surrounded by hundreds of people in white chef’s outfits. Thousands of aftershocks afterward, I stayed home in my studio in Petrero Hill for the next five days, trying not to drink. My little glass vase on top of the bookshelf fell to the floor and landed right on top of a pile of dirt from my broken flower pot, which saved the vase from breaking.
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I had to stay late at work. There was a big rush of customers trying to get their oil change done, so they could go home and watch the game. We had just finished the last car. It started small. It kept going. I got to see the concrete driveway ripple. About half of the time I would drive home on the cypress structure. If not for the pre ball game rush, I could very well have been on the cypress. Baseball saved a lot of lives that day.
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I was really upset at my dad and mean to him before he died suddenly. So. I feel for this girl who lost her dad. Took some therapy but I eventually forgave him and myself. But you never forget, and you carry it with you forever.
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7:00 this guy was just like my Dad, thought he had flat tires. My Dad was traveling from Silicon Valley on 880 and thought the same things and wondered why cars were all starting to pull over on the road. But he kept driving so he could get home faster. 😢 My sweet dadd
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wow that one guy. it's rare enough to live thru one national disaster but dang, two? 9/11? and he and his wife both survived? goodness.
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I felt the sadness from Bill when he talked about his wife and the way he lost her. Jerry, god bless him for saving that older lady
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I was actually watching the World Series at my house in Ohio with my 13 day old baby girl when the earthquake happened. 64+ people lost their lives 😢, it could have been so much more.
