where were you on october 17th?

where were you? i was on my way to soccer practice just a few miles away from the epicenter. i was driving with my mom and all of a sudden it felt like we had four flat tires. we pulled over and stopped the car and the car was still shaking. i remember looking over at a guy drinking coffee next to a small coffee shack and he was bouncing up and down like as if he was on a trampoline. that was my first earthquake experience.

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[stormdragon27]

I was in a synagogue in Walnut Creek. I was taking a test on script Hebrew. I was nine at the time.

[citizenstand]

and you felt it big time?

[citizenbybike]

i need to bookmark this video already. fyi, it's my mom's favorite stand.

[citizenstand]

that's funny. i wasn't so sure i liked it cause i move so much. but if your mom can dig it then i guess i can dig it 2!

[mysryael]

I was on the base at Alameda. What I saw and went through the next 19 days was life changing and I don't go a single day in my life without seeing some very graphically tragic images in my mind. I'm grateful for those who were saved. They became my lifeline.

[citizenstand]

that was a pretty intense time in our history. i was only 8 but i remember so many people's lives changing forever seemed like.

[cvzxcbcvbcxvbn]

Well I was in the restroom taking a big'o chunk of shit after some bad tacos ;D

[whatinthewerld]

I was in Alameda on that day, surfing in my living room which looked like waves going down the middle of the floor, then running to the door and watching a couple of two story high cement pillars shake like wet noodles on the house next door. They just can't capture what it really looks like on film, it does way more than shake.

[MegaFortman]

Shoe store that is :)

[MegaFortman]

I was crossing the parking lot to get to that record store that is across from the mall on 41st ave. There is a fast food burger chain next to it and a show store on the other side. I left santa cruz in 2000 so cant remember the store names too well. That quake ripped santa cruz apart. Downtown will never be the same.

[bluerheno]

I was getting ready for work at SFO tarmac....I saw a plane taking off as the earthquake began...........

[sprigglebot]

i was only two years old. i don't remember anything. my mom said she was watching the world series at home when the whole apartment swayed and the tv shut off. we lived in the valley so it wasn't as damaging.

[Coastergeekperson04]

Me too!

[amayogreen]

I was at work waiting to get off, I saved my coworkers life, she was almost crushed by a huge falling bookcase filled with medical records. I remember going down the stairs of the very old office building and the walls were all cracked.

I got pieces of my smashed dresser mirror in my foot when I got home and had to have surgery . . . oh the memories

[GummelDummel]

XD i was born at the 03.01.1990 to late for this^^