Which kind of natural disaster took place just before Game 3 of the 1989 World Series?
Correct answer: Earthquake
MoodyChef92025
I remember that day Iwas inmy bedroom.as a teenager my cat started acting really strange, jumping at the walls and slinding back down I picked her up and sat down with her then I felt it .i live in California and have always felt them but nothing like that before
CyndiWig1
MoodyChef92025, I was there too. I was at work in Mountain View and had to cross the Dumbarton to get home. Never been so scared in my life because I knew a portion on the Bay Bridge had collapsed and the Dumbarton is much older. You could see people in other cars breathing a sigh of relief when we reached the other side.
Player #22599183
I was sitting 6 rows back behind home plate. It swayed so much then the stadium got so loud. I thought the blimp has exploded or something. People was dead silent until it stopped. About 30 seconds. Close to pure panic. Then it stopped and everyone cheered like someone hit a home run. We waited over an hour for the game to start. There was no PA system. No one knew the game was cancelled. Took us over 5 hours to get home where normally it would only take an hour. Will never forget that day.
RKC69
I remember that horrible disaster: especially when I saw the collapse of the double freeway and a portion of the Golden Gate Bridge collapsed.
Player #6563898 Alex
I remember one of the players wives, Jose Canseco's I think, said she's going back to Miami in a broad nasal New York accent. I laughed myself silly.
KookyOrangutan5005
I had a 2 year old and a 1 month old. scared me bad. I was in the Hayward Hills. that thing rolled for what seemed like 15 dang minutes!!
luckycatfay
MoodyChef92025, must be terrifying we had a very slight one in England that woke me up the central heating boiler was shaking from inside the cupboard I thought someone was hiding in there at first. Then the next day they said it was a mild tremor.
SneakyMole92698
MoodyChef92025, I was in Sacramento and everyone felt it.
Ezalb17
MoodyChef92025, I am from Ohio, and was visiting Santa Clara for a convention. What an experience!
RagingCosmonaut54784
I was there... it was a 7.2 earthquake
Player #130998363
I remember seeing footage of interstate highways stacked on top of each other
Player #125741968
MoodyChef92025, our cat took off the night before he got all crazy tried to jump out of a closed window I opened it and off he went didn't come back until he next evening.
RABBIT
MoodyChef92025, I was watching the game when Marv Albert started freaking out and the TV screen went blank. Of course I had no idea what had happened. I didn't find out until later that evening. Thank goodness so many people were at the game.
Bunny22
I was on a date at a resturant awaiting our table when the news came over the tv. The pics showed the terror of the situation. our evening was very sad instead of fun.
mtstrong
I was in Stockton CA when it hit. Under the freeway where it intersected. All the streets were rolling like waves on the ocean. Totally scary!
Julie
I was watching the game on TV when I heard the announcer say they were having a quake. I was in So Cal, and I was concerned for my family who lived just outside of San Fran. That was a bad one!
Yknip7
It was on October 17th. (Which happens to be my birthday.)
karen
I live in Stockton, Ca. it's about 80 miles away from San Francisco, but we felt it! I was in a bus, sitting in the back. A group of teens were seated near me, when the bus began to shake, the bus driver yelled at the kids! H thought the teens were responsible for the shaking. A kid got on at the next stop and yelled, Did you feel the earthquake?? Everyone on the bus started yelling! The bus driver apologized to the teens for yelling at them.
Player #115375539
AffableViewer12, that's where we were when earthquake struck. tv blacked out and house started shaking. can't believe you didn't feel it. I'll never forget it. btw lived in Richmond a good portion of my life growing up then after I got married. still in Richmond? lived off of McBryde Avenue not too far from wildcat canyon.
Player #115375539
RKC69, not the Golden Gate but the Bay Bridge...upper level about 50 ft of it collapsed
Player #115375539
luckycatfay, I remember. my husband worked iñ SF and took the bay bridge to and from work. I was worried he was on the bridge at the time. he stayed in SF that night. we lived across the bay and our kids and I were getting ready to watch the game....all of a sudden the TV went black and my first thought was that we wouldn't be able to watch the game....then our house started shaking... everything was fine but it was very unnerving. now I live in Louisiana and have to think about hurricanes and an occasional tornado....think I'd rather have an earthquake...
Megi!
Standing on my front porch getting my mail and I turned to seethe row of trees along the sidewalks weaving back and forth and the street coming at me in WAVES! A stunning sight indeed!!!
poon
RKC69, the bay bridge is the one that collapsed. the GGB stood fast as always:)
Jim
I was watching and listening to Al Michaels during the pregame when all the sudden the swag lamp above my console 25-in standard definition TV started to sway back and forth between that and the reaction of the people at the stadium and Al Michaels I knew it was bad!
ThatOneGuy
I was not there. However, I was watching the world series and watched as the cameras shook
Natasha
Isn't it weird that we call it the World Series, but we never actually play teams from other countries?!
SnahG
Player #14993519. my mom was close to that epicenter and she is still traumatized. we all keep getting warned about "The Big One" so if course we think this is it.
SnahG
I was watching this series on TV when it hit. it's true it initially seemed that little damage had been done, but then the reports start coming in..... on live tv
Vic
MoodyChef92025, Animals can sense things we can not, people need to know more about our animal friends,,
Sport
I worked in Riverside and we felt it a tiny bit.
Katy Jo
Player #14993519. , This is very true! I watched the ants getting on leaves & thought that strange! Not there as we went to a family get together in Oklahoma! & I still Thank GOD for that! SCARY!!! Is a under statement!!!
Teresa
I lived in Union City , my teenage children were doing their homework, the condo shook , the chandelier started rocking, me and my babies ran out It was crazy!!!
Mea
It only lasted 15 seconds, seemed so much longer
SuZu
Was in San Mateo, on the peninsula, changing clothes (of course!)-I stood in the doorway until I started to hear stuff falling off shelves, then I bolted outside, nearly slipping on dishwater-that had splashed out of the sink! There was a ton of water pouring down our neighbors driveway from his in-ground swimming pool!! Terrifying!!
Player #37850547
RKC69, a portion of the Bay Bridge collapsed, not the Golden Gate…
zaboo
I remember that day. I had just learned I was pregnant with my third and last child.
Mary J Brockenshire
remember it well, I was watching it on tv on the East coast.
Player #49017017
RKC69, the bay Bridge not the golden gate
AgileXylophone1731
My father and brother were in Oakland filming the Cypress structure collapse for the news. My wife and I had just rented an apartment in Hayward 2 weeks prior.
Player #43223203
My brother had gone to the game that day ,my mom and sister thought he was on the bridge that collapsed because he would use it all day for work , but I felt he was ok.I remember my sister was so hysterical when he came driving up she ran up to him slapped him ,grabbed him and cryed.It was horrible the people that were trapped, screaming crying and dying.