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Date: October 17, 2023 at 11:31:06
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Loma Prieta 1989 quake anniversary |
URL: https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/video/looking-back-at-the-loma-prieta-earthquake-34-years-later/ |
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...and today is the anniversary of the 1989 Loma Prieta
quake.
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Date: October 17, 2023 at 18:14:36
From: eaamon, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Loma Prieta 1989 quake anniversary |
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I stuck a 5 hour video tape into my recorder.
I later a few years after it watched it in horror. 5+ hours of terror.
PTSD lasted for years after it. I lived at the base of the Los Gatos foothills
about 5 miles away from the epicenter.
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Date: October 18, 2023 at 10:02:21
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Loma Prieta 1989 quake anniversary |
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Yeah, there was definitely a little PTSD involved.
Every time I heard a siren, I would break out in tears
for about 2 yrs after the quake.
Weird thing, I don't remember noting the sirens at the
time. I was too busy trying to get to my family
members.
It took me a few times to understand why I was
crying..I'd hear the siren, would feel panic and tear
up--and didn't have any idea why until we put it
together a month or so later.
The brain is a strange thing, huh?
I rode that one out while working in Scotts Valley
(about 4 mi as crow flies from epicenter), just on the
other side of the mountain from you. I was at work in
my office on the 2nd floor. I watched a 500 pound file
cabinet "walk" across the office by itself during the
quake. Our shipping clerk downstairs had to be carried
out with a broken leg.
Gratefully, all my family members were uninjured. I
hope you and your family also were uninjured (at least
physically--there were a LOT of people walking around
with PTSD in the weeks after the quake).
It was definitely an event that I use as a marker in
my life. After that, there were "before the quake" and
"after the quake" designations in time.
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Date: October 18, 2023 at 18:22:46
From: eaamon, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Loma Prieta 1989 quake anniversary |
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I worked at VTA the SC transit agency. every time certain coaches entered the shop
it rumbled like the quake did when it went through my house, I would run out of the shop.
my super and foreman would laugh at me and say it was the fastest they had ever seen me move.
it lasted longer than 4 years before I moved out of that shop not to mention
every after shock that got me moving. I finally had to change the shop I worked at
further away from the epicenter.
even here in TN now I still feel small quakes.
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Date: October 18, 2023 at 21:40:09
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Loma Prieta 1989 quake anniversary |
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Oh yeah, I remember that kind of thing. We had a
salesman...very large man, who would run up the wooden
stairs and you could feel the room shake. About day 3
after the quake (while we were still cleaning up), he
ran up and I lost it. "STOP IT! JUST STOP IT! If you
come barreling up those stairs one more time, I'm gonna
roll you back down them!"
He tip toed up the stairs after that lol.
It wasn't just us humans, I had a cat then that we used
as a seismic gauge. After the quake, his little head
was on a swivel and any truck passing by would send him
scrambling right up a wall. I swear to God I saw that
cat levitate straight up, make a 90 degree turn midair,
and attach himself to the back door screen during an
aftershock once...defying the laws of physics.
We also wrote a little earthquake song to sing with the
kids when an aftershock would come..
"What do you do when you are thrown out of bed,
And you find yourself a-kissin' the floor?
What do you do, you think you're out of your head..
Because you think you hear a train engine's roar?
You do the San Andreas shuffle just as fast as you can.
You roll your eyes and cover your head.
And then you sway to the left..
You sway to the right..
You dive for a doorway with all your might..
(there's three more verses, I'll spare you)
It was a way to laugh at ourselves and take a little
fear and tension out of the moments.
Yeah, it takes a while to get over something like that,
and those experiences will always be in the back of the
head...especially if a large truck rumbles by.
My 40yr old+ kids still can sing that song, too lol.
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Date: October 19, 2023 at 19:33:33
From: eaamon, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Loma Prieta 1989 quake anniversary |
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we used our dog as the quake forecaster. he hid under my bed for three days before
the quake. when any off us got home he would run out stop short pee and run back
under the bed. might have thought he was sick or some thing.
after the quake I could not get him out of the car for a couple of days.
I think he thought we might move or something.
interesting song...
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Date: October 21, 2023 at 13:24:45
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Loma Prieta 1989 quake anniversary |
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yeah, we couldn't find the cat either...the cat had
clawed up from the bottom of the mattress and had been
hiding "inside" the bed for three days.
Our other cat just rode around inside my sweater. My
dogs, while "on edge", wasn't quite as panicked as the
cats.
*note to other readers: when putting together an
emergency kit, don't forget your pets and their needs!
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