[PRCo] Quake & Bake

[Jim Holland]

The only earthquake in the last 31+years in SF was in 1989  --  that 
brought down a freeway but didn't not do nothing to track  --  Not Even 
BART was affected.     All rail stopped service until infrastructure was 
checked but it was right back up running.   All that 1989 quake did was 
knock one book off the shelf in my place  --  and I have Mucho Books - 
seven 6-foot tall book cases.     It stopped a baseball game, knocked 
over some expensive real estate in the Marina that sits on Bay Fill, and 
knocked out windows elsewhere as well as electric, phone etc.  Good 
Golly  --  I was sent to Kodiak Alaska by Uncle Sam just after that 
tremendous earthquake they had which produced a tsunami that came down 
the coast - that hit the north coast hard but the land is still there.   
  Tremors and aftershocks of that Alaskan quake were stronger than 
anything I felt here in SF and all it did was rattle and roll  --  
nothing knocked down and out.     Haven't lost any land in the last 
several hundred years  --  donut know who is so sure about it falling 
into the ocean.     Not in our lifetime certainly~!~!~!~!~!
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We had tremors in the late 1970s and early 1980s but not an earthquake.
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THE   Worst earthquake in North Am was near St.Louis in the late 
1800s.     That Fault runs up through Chicago, arches over the Great 
Lakes, then down into NY somewhere.     This fault or others near there 
have rumbled in the last couple decades as well.     Maybe the surprize 
is That One will act up before anything out here.
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My Dad feared quakes but then slept through a bad one in SoCal after 
they moved out here  --  Mom shook him a number of times, he said he 
felt it, and went back to sleep.     Unusual for him for he never missed 
anything when he was asleep.      Sometimes our imaginations are much 
more worse than reality.
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 > Herb Brannon wrote:
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> My only trip there was in 1980. Just in time for an earthquake. I 
> never knew a frame house could sway back and forth that much and still 
> remain standing or that steel trolley tracks could look like four 
> snakes writhing back and forth then straighten out 
> again.............never again !
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> Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote: It's a city you can 
> easily learn to love.
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Jim  Holland
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Studying Pittsburgh Railways Company
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....................From 1930 -- 1950
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Pennsylvania  Trolley  Museum  (PTM)
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http://www.pa-trolley.org/
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N.M.R.A.
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http://www.nmra.org/