It was 20 years ago today...

[styxfanhouston]

No, not Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, silly.

The Loma Prieta Earthquake (sometimes incorrectly called the "San Francisco Earthquake" or the "Bay Series Quake".

5:04 p.m., October 17th 1989.

If you want a sense of how it felt and the panic it caused, look here.
Or, read on.

I was married at the time, living in a townhouse in Campbell, a small

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[anonymous]

That was a scary day. I was fortunate to have someone driving me home, and I was so glad to see you and Sheba were OK. I wasn't even worried about the house at that point