26 years ago today!! 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake

[alittlelark]

12. I was getting ready to go to work.....

My cat, Tara, suddenly jumped off the couch and through the cat door - was on phone w/ sister and laughing about it.... 15 or so seconds later the first thing I noticed was the CD drawers flew open - the CD's were flying out like cards. The 50 gallon aquarium tipped up about 2 inches and when it hit back down the top came off w/about 6 gallons of water and some fish. I had fallen to my kness and everything was shaking and/or falling. The phone conn. w/sis was still OK - she and a friend were watching the world series and the camera had gone sideways and blacked out.

I got the fish back in the tank and went outside to look for Tara. We were living in an apartment complex in Mountain View (turns out Mountain View was built on top of "fill' which is why it shook like jello.... There was an E Indian couple that lived across from us w/ one of their mothers. I had almost never seen the mother - but she came out of the apt w a pipe and a grin - it was quite surreal.... She saw me staring at her and offered me her pipe - I took a hit, still not sure what it was... she said something in a language I did not understand and walked off laughing and smoking her pipe.

After that it was a chaotic few weeks....