[PRCo] Re: Quake & Bake

[Jerry Matt Matsick]

Jim the "earthquake of 1989" was something else, just two days prior to the quake I  drove on the freeway that collapsed, out on a business trip to Walnut Creek, we drove several times on that freeway in and out of the bay area, and would you believe there was a trolley strike in San Francisco, correct me if I am wrong.  I was traveled to the Bay Area 
several times in 1989 so I may be mistaken.
--
Jerry "Matt" Matsick 
Jacksonville, Florida

-------------- Original message from Jim Holland <PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com>: -------------- 


> 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~!~!~!~!~! 
> . 
> We had tremors in the late 1970s and early 1980s but not an earthquake. 
> . 
> 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. 
> . 
> 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: 
> > 
> > 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 ! 
> > 
> > Fred Schneider wrote: It's a city you can 
> > easily learn to love. 
> > 
> ^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^ 
> Jim Holland 
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