Reply #20: (It's a Christmas gift to think about 'home' now.) I was down at Santa Teresa for Loma Prieta [View All]

[TahitiNut]

... working at the IBM programming laboratory. I rode the quake standing against a load-bearing wall on the 4th floor of one of the 4-story towers and watched out the window at the large expanse of plaza/patio undulating like it was liquid in a bowl. It was one helluva ride so close to the epicenter. I had quite a mess to clean up at home in Cupertino/Monte Vista - sticky liqueur from busted bottles, toppled floor speakers, books, etc. (And one traumatized Labrador Retriever.)

I'd trade these Michigan winters for one of those quakes (w/o the Cypress!) every 10-15 years in a nanosecond, though, to live back in the Bay Area. I <heart> it there.