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Can confirm- I was just outside SF when it happened. The entire Bay area was as dead as could I've ever seen it, being Sunday at 5pm, with everyone around TV to watch the game.
Had it happened 24 hours later probably many thousands would have died. When I finally made it over to the city several days later, they were still cleaning up the broken glass that had fallen out of the highrise buildings in the Financial District.
The Loma Prieta earthquake struck on October 17, 1989 at 5:04 p.m. Game 3 was scheduled to start at 5:35 p.m. at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, and thousands of people were already in the stadium when the quake occurred. Because of the coincidence of timing, it was the first major earthquake in the United States ever to be broadcast by live television. Experts credit the timing of the Series as a lucky break that prevented massive loss of life in the city; key in reducing the loss of life was the fact that many people had left work early or were staying late to participate in after-work group viewings and parties, reducing the traffic that would otherwise have been on the collapsed freeways (initial expectations were that hundreds of people had died in the collapse of Interstate 880 in Oakland; the final death toll from that event was 42).
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[–] srgmpdns 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Can confirm- I was just outside SF when it happened. The entire Bay area was as dead as could I've ever seen it, being Sunday at 5pm, with everyone around TV to watch the game.
Had it happened 24 hours later probably many thousands would have died. When I finally made it over to the city several days later, they were still cleaning up the broken glass that had fallen out of the highrise buildings in the Financial District.
[–] fricknmaniac [S] ago