25 Years Ago Today: Loma Prieta Earthquake.

We were supposed to fly from Charleston SC to San Francisco earlier that week for a business conference, but because we had been slammed with Hurricane Hugo on Sep 22, with major damage, my husband decided we wouldn't go because in his position he needed to be home to direct repair efforts. (He was with the water utility) When we saw about the earthquake, I was so thankful we did not go, because that is one thing I have a real fear of! Several of John's employees did go, and they were in a very tall hotel (I don't remember which one) in the downtown area and were pretty upset about being there. 1989 was a strange year, we even had snowfall on Christmas Day, and Charleston hardly ever gets any snow that actually sticks! I made a small snowman out of small snowballs and put it on the porch railing and took a picture.

Glad you weren't hurt.

Rebecca

I was living in Santa Cruz at the time, and remember it quite well.

That was an interesting read, James. I lived in San Jose during the quake, and our house twisted off the foundation. Cars were bouncing up and down on our little street, alarms were going off, doors flying open, boxes of food flew out of the shelves. My two-year old son and I rode it out in a doorway. My ex was at the top of a high rise, and made it down the stairs with women screaming all around him. He knew he was going to die, but of course, they made it down. We weren't even the worst hit. Hope to never have to do that again.

I found your story to be incredibly interesting. Thank you for sharing it!

Thank you for sharing...very interesting.

I'm glad you guys found my story interesting.

Rebecca, looks like you dodged a bullet.

Patricia, I think San Jose was a lot closer to the epicenter than Monterey. It was scary enough here. I can't imagine what it was like with stuff flying out of cupboards! My in-laws lived in San Mateo, on bay fill, and they had a grandfather clock and a couple bookshelves topple over. After some professional repair, the clock was good as new.