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Originally Posted by Hammerhands
Thw World Series Quake..."We're having an Errr..." aka 1989 Loma Prieta, but I remember being called something else, Bay something.
Still remember that day very vividly. I had a fever, and stayed home from school because of it. So when everything moved, I thought it was just me being woozy. When my sister reacted, and then I heard Al Michaels get cut off on the broadcast (he was delayed by a few seconds), we knew what had happened. The coolest part at our house was seeing the water in the pool sloshing over the side.
I still always marvel at the timing of that thing, though. With the A's and Giants playing each other in the Series, an inordinate number of people in the Bay Area had gone home early to watch the game. On any other day, that would have been rush hour. I can't imagine how many more people would have been caught in the MacArthur Maze when the chunk of the Nimitz Freeway collapsed, or how many more cars would have been stuck in the usual Bay Bridge logjam.