10/18/2004
To this day I remember the distant rumbling for seconds before the apartment lurched, sending hot cooking oil into a fire on the stove; artwork literally flying off the walls; the concrete floors rippling in matter-defying waves; and the water in the apartment building's swimming pool crashing up, out of the pool, against the building's walls. I can't believe it was 15 years ago today, but images like this, this, and this are still burned in my memory.
Posted 1:40 AM EST by Andy Towle in Elsewhere | Permalink
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Would have completely forgotten if you hadn't written about it. I was actually at the World Series; just getting out of the car at Candlestick Park when the ground started to shake. It took us something like 8 hours to get home that night. We lived in the Marina; which wasthe hardest hit neighborhood in the City. When I finally went to bed that night, it was the beginning of a very surreal couple weeks, and a much longer period of rebuilding. Wow...crazy times!
Posted by: Jono | Oct 18, 2004 8:21:20 AM
I lived there at the time of the quake. Yes, you never forget it. At least you weren't IN the pool *(like my friend who broke her leg)
Posted by: M@ | Oct 18, 2004 9:21:15 PM