I was working at Yosemite National Park in the valley when it happened, and when I ran outside of the building (which was shaking violently, I had a clear view of the valley floor and witnessed the ground ROLLING LIKE WAVES! That was something I will always remember.
Different quake, October 1990 -- I was in Bridgeport when an earthquake epicentered down the road north of Lee Vining happened. The paneling in the room popped and squeaked as the floor yanked one way (the "P-wave" coming through), then perpendicular to that (the "S-wave") ... and then the floor started rolling waves. I was by chance right in the doorway between two rooms, so I just braced myself and watched the room bounce in front of me. Right time, right place .. and very cool to see.
I met a lady in San Francisco in 1994 and she was telling me her life story. She said, "I remember the Earthquake you know". Being British I said, "Well it was only five years ago". "No, she replied, The one in 1906"!
I was watching the game in my dorm room in Albuquerque when this happened. Will never forget that exact moment and hearing Al Michaels say "earthqua...." then silence.
The static and the like from THIS quake is from tv stations from THIS quake - this was the first broadcasted Quake in the united states - last major one was in Alaska 1964 - and not much of footage of that as it happened existed, least not televised. So yes MikeyBoi and Josh Landers - you are right!
Personally, I was kind of hoping the entire west/left coast (from Eureka to Tijuana) would fall into the ocean. Sadly, god (if you believe in him) moves in strange ways and that was not to be. Lol.
My hat's off to you. My mother survived an Earthquake in Manila in 1968 while pregnant with me. Scary. 30 years ago today I was in the undergrad library at UC Berkeley when the building started to twist, then jolt.
my sone had just been born when my EX and i were watching the game, when we saw the quake hit, people didnt have a chance to react on that overpass as in collapsed, on people driving on the lower level
right, they shoulda went on with limp hair and shuffled shoulder pads to make it look authentic right LMAO wait a minute, this doesn't look like an emergency, look at the hair bwahahahahaaa!!! someone needed some fake blood to simulate a cut for sure.....lolz if you couldn't tell I;m being a smartass to the N'th degree lol
@@mikebtrfld1705 ehhh, the fatties didn't come in until the 2000's but at least for me every school lunchroom I saw always had fatties in the kitchen but if you wanna get technical every generation has had fatties......we just hid em better in the past LMFAO
6:15 - Notice anchorwoman Anna Chavez running through the newsroom to get to Cheryl Jennings making sure vital information was communicated to the viewers watching and then afterwards you see her running back to grab any new details from the story. This was the sign of true journalism in the late 80s, This was a continuously-breaking story so every second counted on giving possibly life-saving information to the viewers and that definitely shined in this video.
As opposed to 2019-20 when our President scribbles on a hurricane map with a Sharpie and presents it on TV, providing dangerous disinformation, rather than admitting he was wrong...
Cherly and Anna where battling it out to be number 1. Anna was trying one up Cherly every chance she could. Cherly was ready to get her off the air as fast as she could. I clicked on the video for the earthquake and stayed for the epic showdown between these 2 reporters.
@@monke3776 get a grip. Trump lied about the hurricane & presented that Sharpie map in an official Oval Office briefing. It was on every TV channel and every channel (including Fox) followed up by saying his info was incorrect & the hurricanewouldn't hit Alabama. Sorry you've been so brainwashed by your false idol...
'Not only very professional and largely unfazed by the situation but Cheryl also was incredibly articulate and delivered important messages extremely effectively. 'Remember that she was working entirely without prepared notes and certainly wasn't using a teleprompter! Bravo Ladies and Gentlemen of KGO (?) San Francisco!!
And they just stopped making phone books! I only say that because I was just starting to get frustrated with trying to get info in my new city, and what was once an annoyance is now only online....
This is how MOST pro reporters handled things like this anytime before say 2005. It's like around 05 the bosses said do the opposite and TRY to panic the audience
This is a pretty amazing time capsule. And you've gotta give props to that anchor, even though the aftershocks and people running around behind her and such, she was able to keep it straight and professional.
Yes, she was cool and coherent throughout. Easy on the eyes as well. An earthquake is about as unique an event as can happen, let alone be reported on as it is happening. Unpredictable and potentially life threatening in so many ways, as collapses, gas explosions, water main breaks with downed electrical lines with countless other dangers, as aftershocks ensue after the initial jolt. She was remarkable. I lived here in NY (about 6 miles from the World Trade Center, in Brooklyn) during the 9-11 attacks and I'm certain the Loma Pietra quake would have freaked me out a lot more, because of the blanket effect of a quake. I never felt that I was in any imminent danger as I might have in this quake, because of the unpredictability and potentially massive force of the aftershocks.
Yes, it was and she was awarded an EMI for her composure and more importantly her direction, getting information in from the field and out to the viewers. Unfortunately we didn't see any of this due to the loss off power. We had a transistor radio, which was even more scary, because the mind tends to create very dramatic images.
I wonder how many lives were saved by that World Series game. The fact that Candlestick park *didn't* collapse, and the fact that those 60,000 people weren't in traffic or elsewhere where they could've been in grave danger, almost certainly saved many lives that day.
So true. It saved my father's life. As a retiree, he was at home. He had been on the roof doing some repair work, and came down early to watch the game. He lived in a suburb just south of San Francisco. He was in his recliner and said the quake caused such movement, he couldn't get out of his chair. He said it was like being on a boat. He also thought it was the "big one" and death was imminent. I was living in Sacramento and we felt it there. Most of my family still lived on the peninsula and I couldn't reach anyone for 24 hours because the phone lines were down. The news made it seem like everything had collapsed and was on fire.
+Elaine Marie I was sitting in my office, at home in Los Gatos (the zip code for the epicenter) when I got popped across the room! Knowing that my sister in Auburn would be frightened about her 4 Bay Area siblings, I immediately called her & got through! Then, the phone system went down after I told her we were likely OK! I watched the 60 foot Redwood tree in my neighbors yard whip back & forth enough that its top almost touched the ground with the aftershock! I could also watch the wave of power poles down the street swaying almost 45 degrees! I and many of my neighbors ended up at the nearby liquor store only to see a 2 inch deep broken glass and booze cocktail across the floor! Although it sounded & felt like a large truck had slammed into my house at 40 mph, the only property damage was to my stereo system and the bookcase that supported it. It was actually kinda fun! I was also in the process of buying another house in the mountains about 4 miles from the epicenter; the builder was slightly behind schedule finishing, so he'd just extended the escrow! But that's a whole other story!
2024 marks 35 years since this earthquake and I remember it like it was yesterday. I was 8 years old and my mom yelled for my sister and I to get under the doorway. The longest 15 seconds ever. Shout out to the award winning Bay Area news stations. We were glued to the TV all night for updates.
News was so serious, cautious, and accurate back then. Now it's nothing more than a scripted reality show that tries to appease viewers by generating drama with exaggerated or even falsified information. Watching this clip makes me realize again that news in the US really has fallen from the source of information in the past to the mere source of entertainment today.
@@victoriaaldrich8952 Local news majority wise is still very well reported. The problem is BOTH Fox News and CNN have successfully sold to us viewers that their after 7 political opinion shows are news shows. Before 7,both networks have some true good news reporting. It's just, Tucker,Hannity,Lemon do oftentimes give more slanted political opinions and are rude to their guests. Really shouldn't be like that!
The 3 Prankskateers He does that all by himself. Why is that so hard to understand? He’s been a white collar criminal his whole life. Do you realize he’s told over 12,000 lies in two and a half years as PUSA? That’s far worse than any politician in history- and that’s saying something.
These reporters were so incredibly calm and professional, considering they were hit by the quake too. Just incrediblly good reporting of information so quickly after the main shock. Who then would have guessed we'd be watching them 34 years later.
This was the norm in television news from the beginning and into the early 2000s. I was born in 1980, have been paying attention since the mid '80s, and have watched plenty of coverage recorded before my lifetime. Something changed in the 21st century, certainly by the 2010s: American television and radio news has been sucking, hard, for more than ten years now. (Today is 27 May 2023.) It's really discouraging.
@@CadgerChristmasLightShow There's no telling how long this video, and maybe these comments, will be available. We could be truly ancient comments on an even older video in 100 or 1000 years.
At around 18:50, when she realizes what she's looking at and that the bridge collapsed, you can almost hear a hint of dread - like in that moment, despite saying that she hopes no one was injured, she realized without a doubt how many people were now trapped and dying in such a horrible situation. And still, she carried on without missing a beat. Cheryl is completely professional and admirable in how she handled and covered this
At 18:50 in the video is the serious part. Cheryl thought it was a fire in Berkeley but it was the Cypress Freeway (880) in north Oakland. The Bay Bridge was a big deal also as they sort out the damage from the Loma Prieta quake.
The worst was the "pancaking" of the double deck interstate. So many cars crushed, so many lives lost. And heros emerged to help, even with the danger. RIP
@@JackF99 I kept waiting, and waiting, and waiting for the full scope of that Nimitz Freeway footage to suddenly dawn on those reporters…. but that moment of realization never came.
There's still a section of double deck freeway where 101 and 280 intersect. I don't mind driving on the southbound/upper section, but driving the northbound/lower section makes me nervous.
My stepfather was 16 when it happened. He was at the gas station with his mom getting soda while she was in the car, he described it like ocean waves rippling under the blacktop when he looked out the window. His sister was asleep at home at the time, she had gotten up because the cat was meowing and going absolutely bonkers and she had to pee. When she came back from the bathroom, the earthquake had toppled a huge bookshelf she had in her room with dozens of heavy textbooks, it crushed her bed right where she had just been laying down. Their cat basically saved her life.
I was in a glass atrium / staircase of a computer hard drive manufacturer (SCO) in Santa Cruz, rather closer to the epicenter at Loma Prieta. It started as a 'slow roller', people joking that they should grab a handrail, then the abrupt and violent actions occurred. All bets were off as the priority became getting everyone out of the building. "Is it safe?" called secretaries huddled under their desks at the ground floor. "Hell no, get out now!" said I as I ran behind them and pulled / pushed them out. Once on the street outside, waves could be seen going through concrete sidewalks as each phone pole kicked as the wave went by. There was a pall of brick dust rising from the Pacific Garden Mall and hearts sank as the meaning of such was clear. There was damage, there was death. The beloved Cooper House was soon to be a memory. A stand of eighty year old redwoods at Loma Prieta had broken at mid height like toothpicks. Highway overpasses dropped through their pilings onto the roadway below. Hollister and Watsonville were severely beaten. Soon people of divergent backgrounds, ideologies, attitudes were neighbors working together for a common cause. The spirit of gadugi prevailed for a period of weeks / months before humans settled into their former petty differences.
One of the most terrifying times in my life. I was driving truck at the time and I was heading to Berkeley from Walnut Creek I was on the transition ramp from 780 to 80 in bumper to bumper traffic when I witnessed the road and vehicles in front of me rolling in a waving motion when I heard a load crash and explosion and I turned to my left and I witnessed the Oakland overpass falling down upon itself it was as if a person pushed the top down on the lower half with smoke and flames issuing from it. I will never forget that day
Oh man! I cannot even begin to imagine what you were feeling! I live up here in the Lynnwood/Edmonds area of Washington state...had just come home from work a few minutes before 5 before my other roommates did, turned on the TV for the game while I pulled out some Halloween decorations to play around with - and then I heard the weird static! This was the channel I was watching, so I remember everything! I was like, “What the HELL??”
@@dawnwelch6579 I'm in Olympia and I worry about the next big one hitting here in Wa. My 1st earthquake was the one in 2001. I had just moved here from Arizona and I've wanted to move back ever since that day, but I'm still here. I will say this though, I'd take an earthquake over Inslee being elected any day 😁
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Total professionalism. Live and I remember this. This is what TV was supposed to be about. Public service and in a way, leadership. Excellent job. Miss this kind of tv.
This woman is remarkably professional. Working in such an intense climate of stress requires courage, especially if she has children, she too would like to know what is going on with her family and loved ones, but it is her job above all.
And then cheering and whooping it up afterward when Al Michaels gets back on the phone line from the Stick. Sounded like the crowd was having a pretty good time once the shaking stopped. Can't blame 'em really. I doubt anybody there knew in the immediate aftermath just how bad it was.
The problem is these days everyone with internet access thinks they are an expert and only believe what they want to believe no matter how wrong they are. No matter how good or honest the news reporting is, people don't care. That only care about what they want to believe. If this happened today the conspiracy theorists would be going crazy.
Nonsense. The news was just as fake back then. They were just better at concealing the leftist propaganda and rhetoric. For example, all the networks ignored the looting and violence throughout the city afterwards.
@@mikeking1948 .. And disclaiming that, despite overwhelming evidence, is the battle cry of the idiots on the left. If CNN told you children are born in trees, you'd go out to try to abort it.
JOHN MCCLINTOCK Yes super hard to read from a piece of paper. The bar for human beings is really set high. You people act like her building was crumbling around her.
@@Anthony-nv7gd She wasn't reading from a paper. She was getting it in her ear and trying to formulate it live. That's incredibly difficult to do for half an hour after monitors just fell around you.
Next thing you know in like 15+ years or so people will be grabbing some new technology device or something new that replace Google and even phone books 😆
Had lunch at the marina, headed back home. Crossed the bridge, the highway, traveled the route of the quake. Got home turned on the TV to watch the game..................looked up and saw the Chandalier swaying, headed out the door to the street where neighbors were gathering. Looked back at our building swaying as the earth trembled under us. Left for the east coast the following week. Shook to the core................🌎💝saw the best in humanity arise to the need of their fellow humans. Volunteers were asked to stay home because their were more than needed. Hearts opened with compassionate actions that led the way to healing🙌💝
That opening is like a movie, very eerie. The way the pictures cuts in and out, the sound of static, the announcer stating, "I'll tell ya what, we're having an earth-" and it all goes silent.
I was in San Jose when the earthquake hit. I was 14 miles Northeast of the epicenter. We got hit real real hard. Our power was out until about 10:00 p.m. There were constant aftershocks. Right after the main quake, there were several large aftershocks. I remember the aftershocks kept coming about every 90 seconds to 2 minutes. It wasn't until about 11:00 p.m. that the aftershocks were not able to be felt. The constant aftershocks were so nerve-wracking. Especially when you are riding them out in complete darkness. I remember the San Jose police department going around on their loudspeaker telling everybody not to burn candles. This was due to the possibility of gas leaks in the area. So, we had no light at all until about 10 pm when the lights came back on. All we had was a battery operated radio to listen to. KGO radio was off the air because their Tower collapsed. So we were listening to KCBS radio. I will never forget that night as long as I live.
I was in a glass atrium / staircase of a computer hard drive manufacturer (SCO) in Santa Cruz, rather closer to the epicenter at Loma Prieta. It started as a 'slow roller', people joking that they should grab a handrail, then the abrupt and violent actions occurred. All bets were off as the priority became getting everyone out of the building. "Is it safe?" called secretaries huddled under their desks at the ground floor. "Hell no, get out now!" said I as I ran behind them and pulled / pushed them out. Once on the street outside, waves could be seen going through concrete sidewalks as each phone pole kicked as the wave went by. There was a pall of brick dust rising from the Pacific Garden Mall and hearts sank as the meaning of such was clear. There was damage, there was death. The beloved Cooper House was soon to be a memory. A stand of eighty year old redwoods at Loma Prieta had broken at mid height like toothpicks. Highway overpasses dropped through their pilings onto the roadway below. Hollister and Watsonville were severely beaten. Soon people of divergent backgrounds, ideologies, attitudes were neighbors working together for a common cause. The spirit of gadugi prevailed for a period of weeks / months before humans settled into their former petty differences.
I was living in Mountain View at the time getting ready to watch the World Series. And then watching the dining room ceiling light swinging back and forth and running out into the yard watching the lawn rolling. That was a scary moment.
@FollTrace I do remember hearing the "we are having an earthquake", so yeah. But I do remember that the video I saw was a little different. (again, I saw it from the ABC affiliate in Buffalo whereas this was video is from the Bay Area affiliate). From what I remember when they restored power they were back in the stadium. I remember the stadium lights were off but they had the dim emergency lighting On. Players from both teams were in the Infield just wondering what to do next. Camera was panning to the crowd and they filing out of the stadium. No panic, no stampede though. Then they cut to the news reports for the rest of the night.
My husband was in the Army and stationed in California when this happened and he said that the sidewalk was moving up and down in a huge rollercoaster type motion and he said it was very scary!!! I'm glad he made it out safe because he's the best thing that's ever happened to me!!!!
Your husband is 100% right. The first few seconds of the quake felt like someone lifted up a blanket and fluffed it in the air because of the way it rolled like the blanket would roll. I was standing in a doorway looking onto a street and literally saw the pavement rolling like 4 feet in the air. It was scary shit
My husband said he was driving, and he was driving. He thought he had a flat tire and the radio went out, and he noticed everyone pulled on the side of the road... he said it was very odd, and everyone knew something bad had happened, like the end of the world ?
I was 10 at the time. I will never forget running out of the house and seeing the streets rolling and heaving like waves on the ocean. Feeling the ground underneath me moving in a steady rhythm up and down. I'm not glad it happened, but since it did I'm glad I was able to experience what I did that day.
@@brownie3454some are. Most are in fact. I've seen multiple quakes where the ground appears to be rolling. And with this particular earthquake it was much more than tremors. I was there...if you weren't you should shut up instead of calling people liars. If you were there, you must have fried your brain on drugs and cant remember what it was like.
My late uncle was a traveling engineer for a company that built equipment used in factories all over the country; when the machines broke down, my uncle was dispatched to fix them. (He amassed more frequent flier miles than I could ever dream of having.) He was in San Francisco during this quake and claimed that, had he not gotten held up for a few extra minutes with whatever he was doing, he may well have been driving on the Bay Bridge when it collapsed.
I love how Cheryl Jennings handled this whole situation. Media these days are all dramatic, want emotion, or want that shock value, not her. She was calm and very informative, despite having very limited resources. Take notes mainstream media!
What exactly is “mainstream media” mean?? I know a lot of republicans use that term when referring to cnn and msnbc but is foxnews also considered mainstream media?
Andrew Diaz any news source you see on Tv. Like ABC, CNN, CBS, and Fox News. Those are mainstream, and let’s not before this gets any more political than what it should be.
Thats how the news was in the 80s, it was quite professional and more about important things for people, as we didnt have internet back then. It was actually a much better time in a lot of ways to be honest, I miss it a lot.
You can hear the horror in her voice when she sees the Cypress Freeway and realizes that there are fatalities there for sure, but she totally kept her cool. THAT is professionalism.
I was working in downtown SF, and a lot of people had left work early to go to the game. I was still at the office when the quake hit, and it was so much bigger than any I’d ever felt as a CA native. No one in SF saw the coverage that the rest of the country saw because the TV stations got knocked off the air. Such a scary day.
I was working in downtown SF, and a lot of people had left work early to go to the game. I was still at the office when the quake hit, and it was so much bigger than any I’d ever felt as a CA native. No one in SF saw the coverage that the rest of the country saw because the TV stations got knocked off the air. Such a scary day.
I don't know why phone books went away. I think that they still serve a purpose. If your internet is down at least you would still have info to fall back on.
Smiled @ that too. Thought if we lost power my internet would go. But living in a small rural county with a phone co-op we still get a phone book in 2020, which, thankfully, has all sorts of what to do emergency information.
Yeah you could use the phone books for lots of things! I was born and raised in California and my sister used to drive us on the freeway that collapsed. I used to "joke" with her about how nervous I was to be underneath the top section and talked about what would happen if an earthquake made the freeway collapse. We had a lot of unsafe roads and bridges back then!
Watching this nowadays I'm just as amazed by the footage of when San Francisco was still San Francisco. Who would have thought, there were actually working class neighborhoods in SF at one time. A lot of these neighborhoods have been totally redeveloped since, and are now the domain of rich tech industry professionals.
the anchor lady and other lady with brown hair are a perfect example of how Hemmingway defined courage as grace under preasure, these ladies are heros.
Them relaying information this well probably saved hundreds of lives whereas biased “news” (propagandist) stations today would blame a natural event on the other political part and not give any important information
@@edwardfights4900 ...are you implying climate change isn’t real? It’s a pretty well established concept with people in the sciences, backed by an abundance of evidence.
@@edwardfights4900 Weather and climate are different things. Climate affects weather, but bad weather doesn't necessarily mean a bad climate. BUT when you're getting record numbers of natural disasters, more powerful natural disasters, odd disasters not typical for a specific climate, that is what is important about climate change. Also, it has been getting increasingly warmer globally since the industrial revolution, causing oceanic temperature shifts, which also affect the weather (hurricanes, monsoons, tropical storms). It can cause major flooding, and it is recorded that the polar ice caps ARE melting as a result of global warming.These aren't problems we are likely to face in our lifetimes, but our children and grandchildren will face them TLDR Weather and climate are not the same thing, ya dingus. Climate change is a threat, weather is related, but they are not the same
We do. If there is a 'as it happening event' like this our different forms of media will (& do) provide us with the best information they can. It is what they do to the best of their technologically available resources. And it is a requirement by FCC rules. Even simulcasts will be happening, meaning different forms of the media will share information, i.e., tv reports going out on/over radio. Nothing has changed, I will bet high dollar on that.
News today just sucks! It is because of politics. I am a Democrat you typically hear Republicans say that, but they need to focus more on news and things happening then politics. I think politics is very important however they don’t talk about news like they anymore. Like all of these important news things that are going on International like in Nigeria and Yemen need to be reported on.
@rkm isacunt I’m in my mid-thirties and smack dab in the middle of the millennial generation. No offense meant to you specifically, but I get so sick of people constantly using millennials as scapegoats for the problems of this world. It’s a shame because I happen to think we bring a lot of good to the world. Are you aware that the very youngest of the millennials are now in their late twenties? I do find a lot of people also simply don’t realize that millennials are as old as we are now. The oldest are bumping forty. We are invested in our communities, and a good number are hard-working, mortgage and taxing-paying citizens just like you. The “kids” in college and just a bit older still sponging off their parents right now aren’t millennials.
I was born in the bay area and go to the san Francisco bay all the time my 80 yr old grandparents where much younger then survived this and are still alive today
I was a little kid living in the Bay Area when this happened. It was terrifying! And despite living in California nearly my entire life and experiencing many earthquakes, to this day,the Loma Prieta quake is still the strongest I’ve ever felt. It was violent. And even thought it wasn’t exactly a long quake, it seemed like it went on forever
if you ever get a chance watch the 70s movie earthquake, the movie setting resembles that day minus buildings crumbling to the ground, there was a few movies back then one was about a fire in a high rise building with partiers trapped in the middle of the building, it was before sprinkler systems were on every floor!
Wow this newscaster was incredible. Calmly passing her microphone around as people ran in and out of shot giving as much information as they could while they couldn't see anything they were showing.
it's my understanding cheryl won an emmy for this reporting. anna should have won it for that awkward smile when she was caught holding up that printed map graphic for a second lol
@@zubetpspot on. Lol. And crew should’ve won a creative Emmy for how quickly they got that crisp color map printed. Dot matrix was still the consumer level print standard at the time!
My husband and I had to cut our trip to SF short when I got sick. We got home to Vancouver around the same time we were origionally scheduled to depart Oakland on Amtrak. The quake hit about the same time our train would have left the station, but we were home and unpacking and watching the news and worrying about our friends there. I've never told anyone this, not even my husband, but for a week before our trip to SF I kept having dreams about redwoods shaking and hearing rumbling sounds as we were trying to get away from something big. We called our friends in SF three days later to find that everyone was okay. Just one traumatized cat that needed a lot of lap time.
I was 9 years old living in San Jose at the time, and my buddy and I were heading out to have a catch before the game. I remember every moment up to seconds before, during, and the days after. For those of us who lived through it, this truly was one of those events and moments that stays with you forever.
Yup. I’m right there with you. I was 12 in Gilroy. About to watch the bash brothers…. Jose Canseco, and Mark McGuire. Do a number on the Giants. And holy shit!!!!! All fucking night aftershocks hit. A lot of people don’t ever talk about that. Some were HUGE!!! We slept in the front yard on sleeping bags!!!
Worst quake I ever experienced having lived in San Francisco my whole life. I was visiting a friend at Mt. Zion Hospital on Divisadero Street. I wasn't afraid until I saw the wall cracking from the floor up the ceiling.
You're right. The boys and girls cared about how we looked before we left the house. Never seen anyone at the store in their pajamas and slippers with messy hair back then.
Me toooo Kath!!!! Totally! My 13 year old daughter wishes she could have been a teenager in the 80’s! She LOVES every outfit she has seen me in in pictures! She love bold bright clothes!!! She gets a little taste every year at school when they have a dress like your favorite decade day! She ALWAYS picks the 80’s!
I was 10 years old. I was sitting in my home in Novato, CA, which is in Marin County, just 25 miles north of San Francisco. My mom and sister were downstairs. My dad was in a shopping mall shooting a commercial with a production company. I'll never forget the shaking, our dog barking frantically, my mom and sister running outside with me, and my dad, trying to get through to us in all the confusion. It's an unforgettable feeling and experience for sure. Days later, we went down and walked around the Marina District and the Cypress Structure. Again, I was 10. This was 27 years ago, and I can remember the sights, the smells and the emotions like it was yesterday.
So your family made it a field trip? That's messed up. We couldn't get the emergency vehicles around quick enough because of people like your family....Way to go...Hope you got some good pictures.
I remember this so well. I was worried about my Grandma in San Francisco but I finally got to speak to her and she says she was alright that they got under a doorway. She was happy to hear from me and sounded so calm. She was about 89 to 90 years old. I always worried about her being in California. I remember people were buried under the Rubble of their apartment buildings and seeing those ppl stuck under the bridge 🌉 scary.
I remember this so well. I was worried about my Grandma in San Francisco but I finally got to speak to her and she says she was alright that they got under a doorway. She was happy to hear from me and sounded so calm. She was about 89 to 90 years old. I always worried about her being in California. I remember people were buried under the Rubble of their apartment buildings and seeing those ppl stuck under the bridge 🌉 scary?
I live in the Netherlands, and I remember this so well, just a couple of months before this quake we got our first commercial television station, and it was going to broadcast this ballgame live on tv. So we were glued to the tv because this was something totally new! now for us it was 2 am, so not many people saw it, but seeing the news unfold live on tv was something special. I missed school the next day :)
Scared the crap outta my friend in Florida, too, when it happened on live TV. Until the sound kicked back in a minute later, he thought we all were dead. Definitely one of the creepiest events of that day.
I was two when this happened and watching the WS with my dad. I thought the world was coming to an end and any second the same would be happening in Texas. First time I had ever heard of an earthquake. I'm sure some cheese dick will try and say there is no way you can remember that, like somehow he knows my own memories better than I do. Fear can make a memory extremely strong. I remember when the USSR ceased to exist and the country thought "This is when the bombs will drop". Hard to forget being a child and every adult you know in life is terrified.
I had just turned 14 when the earthquake of 1989 hit. At that point I was living in San Francisco it was one of the most terrifying experiences of my life I cannot explain the feeling of that jolt the panic of seeing my entire neighborhood tear apart seeing Windows shattering and seeing streets just completely buckled up and open right in front of where I lived immediately after seeing houses across the street completely falling apart some of them with the living rooms in the street because they completely fell into the street I cannot explain to you how terrifying it was to live through that moment
I was in a glass atrium / staircase of a computer hard drive manufacturer (SCO) in Santa Cruz, rather closer to the epicenter at Loma Prieta. It started as a 'slow roller', people joking that they should grab a handrail, then the abrupt and violent actions occurred. All bets were off as the priority became getting everyone out of the building. "Is it safe?" called secretaries huddled under their desks at the ground floor. "Hell no, get out now!" said I as I ran behind them and pulled / pushed them out. Once on the street outside, waves could be seen going through concrete sidewalks as each phone pole kicked as the wave went by. There was a pall of brick dust rising from the Pacific Garden Mall and hearts sank as the meaning of such was clear. There was damage, there was death. The beloved Cooper House was soon to be a memory. A stand of eighty year old redwoods at Loma Prieta had broken at mid height like toothpicks. Highway overpasses dropped through their pilings onto the roadway below. Hollister and Watsonville were severely beaten. Soon people of divergent backgrounds, ideologies, attitudes were neighbors working together for a common cause. The spirit of gadugi prevailed for a period of weeks / months before humans settled into their former petty differences.
You are right. Nowaday the media tries to terrorize you the most they can making a HUGE deal out of things NOT THAT BIG, while their owners's partners somewhere in a powerful charge try taking advantage of that and take away all your liberties in the name of your "safety".
I was in a daycare with my sister in San Francisco at the time. Our parents were working on the other side of town. My mom says it took her over 4 hours to get to us and the whole time she didn’t know if we were alive or dead. When she was stuck in traffic she tried to use someone’s car phone to call the daycare but the line was disconnected. She finally got to us and we were sitting with some other kids and the workers on a hill outside of our destroyed daycare. We moved away from California and our mom worked from home from then on.
@@rosedowner7529 alright you out of context boomer. First off, you being there doesn't correlate to anything related to my intelligence. Nice rebuttal. I'm not saying that people dying is a funny thing to witness. I'm saying the context of the event is amusing. You wanna grief over everyone's pain on an America's Funniest Home Video? I'm sure not all those events were enjoyable.
FlowersInHisHair they're cheering. People who were at Candlestick were fortunate enough to be in a strong structure that could survive a major earthquake. When the quake finished people were delighted and longed to continue the game in true American spirit. They had no idea about the damage which lay outside the park...
At the moment of this earthquake my Dad was at the VA hospital getting an angiogram. The nurses threw their bodies over my Dad and held onto the swaying instruments and the doctor ran out. Thanks to all hidden heroes!
I worked a couple blocks from the Cypress collapse. The sound was horrendously awful. Many of us ran and boosted and climbed up to try and help people. It was a nightmare. All these years later and some stuff you can't unsee. Grew up there and lived through many quakes...right away you knew this one wasn't like all the others before it.
Been living in CA for about 66 years. That was the worst quake I've ever experienced. I was the building warden for a Pac Bell office at the time, and no supervisors were present. When I felt it, I called out for everyone to get under their desks, "It's a bad one." Found out the next day there was a gap between two corners of the building a foot wide.
I was in the Civic Center Bart Station. About an hour later, when I had walked downtown to the bus terminal and was sitting on a bus, waiting to see if the Golden Gate Bridge was okay for the driver to take that route to get us to the east bay, a woman announced, "Cypress Structure has collapsed. Anybody know what that is?" She was on an early primitive cell phone and someone told her. I knew immediately what she was talking about. They don't mention the Cypress Structure by name in this broadcast and don't seem to understand yet that an upper deck has fallen upon a lower deck, crushing people in their cars.
This is fascinating to watch (for the first time) almost 30 years after the quake. I was on BART under the bay. The train was packed. Kudos to the train engineer who stayed calm and thus kept us calm. She was fantastic.
Gwyn Dekker Not the train I was on. It was chaos. We had just embarked the Embarcadero station from the east bay. Thank God bcoz I don’t know how I would’ve gotten home.
@ GwenDekker.. I was never a fan of riding bart before this happened. After, you couldn't get me on Bart. Itbtook me months before I would walk under an overpass.☺ I kid you not!!
I was in east oakland at the lucky's with my mom...the whole store smelled like wine pickles and whatever you store in glass jars cuz they all came crashing off tge shelves
Fate spared my husband & I that day. We both should've been on the Cypress structure. Where many people died horribly. 🌉 Even though we were 25 miles east, we still felt the earthquake STRONGLY. Condolences to the families that lost someone. 🙏🕊️
I was watching this while in college playing pool in a dorm. We were all silent as the TV went off the air. This is exactly how it happened, the only cut was the commercial break at the game. This World Series potentially saved countless lives. That earthquake happened at the peak of rush hour. Being that that Series was between the two cities on the bay. I remember reading that most companies let employees go home early so they could catch the game, or even go the "The Stick". Imagine if that double decker expressway had been jammed with traffic. The death toll on that bridge alone would've been catastrophic.
This reporter, Cheryl Jennings, did a magnificent job on this day. She stays so calm and professional. My commute bus crossed the Golden Gate Bridge between 5:10 to 5:15, it was open and traffic was flowing normally. We were holding our breath! The driver did sort-of ask us whether to attempt a crossing first, but unfortunately Go and No sound an awful lot alike, he only heard Go! The bridge also performed magnificently, my house in Marin had minor and structural (porch) damage, but the worst thing was my poor terrorized cat. She jumped straight into my arms at every aftershock and couldn’t really relax for months.
You see around 6:30 the people running and scrambling in the background of the newsroom..trying to get the information out to us. Quite a day that I will never forget!
I lived in Alameda at the time of this awful earthquake (Bay Farm Island). It was the strongest earthquake I ever felt by far (I also was in Southern California for the 1971 Sylmar quake). I routinely drove across the Bay Bridge and Cypress Structure for work, but that day I thankfully was home early and getting ready to watch the game. I did drive the upper section of the Cypress Structure a few hours before the earthquake. We had no damage at our home, and never lost power. We were able to watch this news coverage live. It amazed me at the time that they didn't seem to realize that the big story was the collapse of the Cypress Structure freeway in Oakland. Watching this news coverage 32 years after the fact is still an emotional experience.
I was 10 years old and in the family home in Van Nuys on Feb. 09, 1971. On October 17, 1989 I was in a glass atrium / staircase of a computer hard drive manufacturer (SCO) in Santa Cruz, rather closer to the epicenter at Loma Prieta. It started as a 'slow roller', people joking that they should grab a handrail, then the abrupt and violent actions occurred. All bets were off as the priority became getting everyone out of the building. "Is it safe?" called secretaries huddled under their desks at the ground floor. "Hell no, get out now!" said I as I ran behind them and pulled / pushed them out. Once on the street outside, waves could be seen going through concrete sidewalks as each phone pole kicked as the wave went by. There was a pall of brick dust rising from the Pacific Garden Mall and hearts sank as the meaning of such was clear. There was damage, there was death. The beloved Cooper House was soon to be a memory. A stand of eighty year old redwoods at Loma Prieta had broken at mid height like toothpicks. Highway overpasses dropped through their pilings onto the roadway below. Hollister and Watsonville were severely beaten. Soon people of divergent backgrounds, ideologies, attitudes were neighbors working together for a common cause. The spirit of gadugi prevailed for a period of weeks / months before humans settled into their former petty differences.
I was in the Sylmar earthquake in 1971 also. We had to evacuate as they thought the Van Norman Dam was about to collapse. We were right in the path if it did collapse.
@@robbiemarcum8878 my grandparents lived in Sylmar at the time. Their home suffered no substantial damage but a lot of their belongings were ruined when they fell to the floor. Their home was just up the hill (on Harding St.) from the 210 freeway - that freeway was severely buckled from the earthquake and unusable. I lived in southern Orange County at the time, and while there was no damage down that way, the shaking was quite frightening to me as an 8 year old boy - and it went on for over a minute…
@tquist61 That is sad they lost things like that. My Dad had built his house. Our bedroom at the back of the house had wooden framed windows that opened sideways. It used to be a screened in riloom so there were many windows. Each window opened a few inches. When he built thongs they were done right. He had a long brick fence. He put rebar in the holes and poured cement in also. He had one brick fall off the top. I would rather be in an earthquake than a tornado though.
I live in Michigan, I'm 56 and I remember this. Not this particular broadcast though. I also remember Peter Jennings reporting 9-11. I miss true journalism!
I was there in San Francisco in July of 89 my first time visiting The City. It was hard to imagine anything happening to the most beautiful and breathtaking area in the entire country! I went back East for my sophomore year in undergraduate school and a girl I dated at the time ran into the college library were I was working and told me about the quake from watching the World Series! I couldn’t reach my friend who lived in Sacramento for like 2 weeks! Many mixed emotions as I watch this video and the profound sadness I felt about that marvelous city! But also encouraged by the bravery shown by all citizens to help out! God bless San Francisco!
Little do these people realise that their coverage is still being watched decades later in 2021.
Look at that social Distancing
Because CoViD-19 cancelled the 2020 World Series
@Copenhagen why do you say that?
Oh no, there will still be a World Series in 2020!
@@nathanos42 there is not a speckle of social distancing in that crowd.
I was sitting on a toilet on the second floor of Pier 41. Yes, as a matter of fact it scared the shit out of me.
Kroban3 nice
very nice
No you weren’t. Liar
lol I get it... 😂
😂😂
I was working at Yosemite National Park in the valley when it happened, and when I ran outside of the building (which was shaking violently, I had a clear view of the valley floor and witnessed the ground ROLLING LIKE WAVES! That was something I will always remember.
I witnessed a pool rolling during an earth quake in Mexico once .. I felt so small & at the mercy of the power of Nature
Different quake, October 1990 -- I was in Bridgeport when an earthquake epicentered down the road north of Lee Vining happened. The paneling in the room popped and squeaked as the floor yanked one way (the "P-wave" coming through), then perpendicular to that (the "S-wave") ... and then the floor started rolling waves. I was by chance right in the doorway between two rooms, so I just braced myself and watched the room bounce in front of me. Right time, right place .. and very cool to see.
That is WILD. I can only imagine how weird that must have been.
That would be terrifying, but amazing!
Did you feel it at the Yosemite National Park ?
I met a lady in San Francisco in 1994 and she was telling me her life story. She said, "I remember the Earthquake you know". Being British I said, "Well it was only five years ago".
"No, she replied, The one in 1906"!
There's footage on RUclips of side-by-side film going down the road before the earthquake and after the earthquake in 1906
@@caras2004 yes I have seen that one👍
Wow! That's amazing :)
Wow
That's amazing! I did a book report in HS on the 1906 quake. It was such a tragedy and will happen again.
"I'll tell you what, we're having an earth--", and then static. Haunting.
terrariachest are you positive it’s not a Jupiter?
@@stereotypedmoped8081 Any possibility that it could be a Neptune?
I was watching the game in my dorm room in Albuquerque when this happened. Will never forget that exact moment and hearing Al Michaels say "earthqua...." then silence.
I was watching that game when it happened and I looked at my wife and said they just had a bad earthquake
Dude yes! I was thinking the same thing
The static when the earthquake hits is like something out of an apocalypse movie
Well I guess we know how they came up with the imagery...
2020......
The static and the like from THIS quake is from tv stations from THIS quake - this was the first broadcasted Quake in the united states - last major one was in Alaska 1964 - and not much of footage of that as it happened existed, least not televised. So yes MikeyBoi and Josh Landers - you are right!
Personally, I was kind of hoping the entire west/left coast (from Eureka to Tijuana) would fall into the ocean. Sadly, god (if you believe in him) moves in strange ways and that was not to be. Lol.
With 2020 having this wouldn’t surprise me lol
I was pregnant and was with my husband at the world series. My son is 29 now.
My mom jus had my brother on Valentine s day. She was on Geneva n Mission. My brother 30 now. I wasnt even born yet
My mother in-law was there with my husband when he was a year old maybe a year and a half . My husband is now 31
My hat's off to you. My mother survived an Earthquake in Manila in 1968 while pregnant with me. Scary. 30 years ago today I was in the undergrad library at UC Berkeley when the building started to twist, then jolt.
I was 1 1/2.
Joanne Piatte - I was in the middle of making my wife pregnant...that earthquake jolt helped my “reach my mountain top”.
“I tell ya what, we’re having an earth-“ is one of the wildest lines in TV history.
Agree, noticed it also...
Having an earth? What does it mean Johnson?
@@brownie3454they were saying “earthquake” but it got cut off in the footage bc of it
Screen writers dream of producing such an opening scene.
my sone had just been born when my EX and i were watching the game, when we saw the quake hit, people didnt have a chance to react on that overpass as in collapsed, on people driving on the lower level
Ah, the 80s. A massive earthquake shakes an entire city, but the hairspray and the shoulder pads are unmoved. Total professionals.
right, they shoulda went on with limp hair and shuffled shoulder pads to make it look authentic right LMAO
wait a minute, this doesn't look like an emergency, look at the hair bwahahahahaaa!!!
someone needed some fake blood to simulate a cut for sure.....lolz
if you couldn't tell I;m being a smartass to the N'th degree lol
Not the fatties of your generation.
@@mikebtrfld1705 ehhh, the fatties didn't come in until the 2000's but at least for me every school lunchroom I saw always had fatties in the kitchen
but if you wanna get technical every generation has had fatties......we just hid em better in the past LMFAO
😂😂😂 that’s hilarious
When the next earthquake happens, if water rushes in to the streets the quake will be called "The Great Flush of Shit Francisco".
"Well I'll tell ya what we're having an earth-"
signal cuts. gives me chills. couldn't script a movie as well as that
Yeah, Classic
LOL I had the EXACT same reaction and said the same thing myself!
theVHSvlog I was studying epicenters that day layed out my books flipped on the tv. Didn't need to study.
Challenge accepted
Tara Gragg *LAID
6:15 - Notice anchorwoman Anna Chavez running through the newsroom to get to Cheryl Jennings making sure vital information was communicated to the viewers watching and then afterwards you see her running back to grab any new details from the story. This was the sign of true journalism in the late 80s, This was a continuously-breaking story so every second counted on giving possibly life-saving information to the viewers and that definitely shined in this video.
As opposed to 2019-20 when our President scribbles on a hurricane map with a Sharpie and presents it on TV, providing dangerous disinformation, rather than admitting he was wrong...
Cherly and Anna where battling it out to be number 1. Anna was trying one up Cherly every chance she could. Cherly was ready to get her off the air as fast as she could. I clicked on the video for the earthquake and stayed for the epic showdown between these 2 reporters.
@@Shelsight happier now?
@@Shelsight wasn’t disinformation, your just watching crappy news
@@monke3776 get a grip. Trump lied about the hurricane & presented that Sharpie map in an official Oval Office briefing. It was on every TV channel and every channel (including Fox) followed up by saying his info was incorrect & the hurricanewouldn't hit Alabama. Sorry you've been so brainwashed by your false idol...
'Not only very professional and largely unfazed by the situation but Cheryl also was incredibly articulate and delivered important messages extremely effectively.
'Remember that she was working entirely without prepared notes and certainly wasn't using a teleprompter!
Bravo Ladies and Gentlemen of KGO (?) San Francisco!!
Ana Chavez did a good job as well
And they just stopped making phone books! I only say that because I was just starting to get frustrated with trying to get info in my new city, and what was once an annoyance is now only online....
@@gohawks3571they still make them, you just have to call and order one
it is 2020 and I am amazed how calm the TV announcer was during all of this chaos. A real pro
This is how MOST pro reporters handled things like this anytime before say 2005. It's like around 05 the bosses said do the opposite and TRY to panic the audience
@@AkronJosh this is another example out of many examples of the slow dumbing down of America.
This was tv BEFORE todays BS tv
Al Michaels is a legend
@@AkronJosh Timing seems to coincide with when the news media business model shifted to online clicks, page views and related advertiser revenue...
This is a pretty amazing time capsule. And you've gotta give props to that anchor, even though the aftershocks and people running around behind her and such, she was able to keep it straight and professional.
Yes, she was cool and coherent throughout. Easy on the eyes as well. An earthquake is about as unique an event as can happen, let alone be reported on as it is happening. Unpredictable and potentially life threatening in so many ways, as collapses, gas explosions, water main breaks with downed electrical lines with countless other dangers, as aftershocks ensue after the initial jolt. She was remarkable. I lived here in NY (about 6 miles from the World Trade Center, in Brooklyn) during the 9-11 attacks and I'm certain the Loma Pietra quake would have freaked me out a lot more, because of the blanket effect of a quake. I never felt that I was in any imminent danger as I might have in this quake, because of the unpredictability and potentially massive force of the aftershocks.
Yes, she was the ultimate professional. Can you imagine today's newsreaders being this good? No way.
Cheryl Jennings is much loved here in the Bay Area. She only recently stepped away from anchor duties after a long career at the desk.
She won an award for this. Either a Peabody or Emmy
Yes, it was and she was awarded an EMI for her composure and more importantly her direction, getting information in from the field and out to the viewers. Unfortunately we didn't see any of this due to the loss off power. We had a transistor radio, which was even more scary, because the mind tends to create very dramatic images.
I wonder how many lives were saved by that World Series game. The fact that Candlestick park *didn't* collapse, and the fact that those 60,000 people weren't in traffic or elsewhere where they could've been in grave danger, almost certainly saved many lives that day.
So true.
It saved my father's life. As a retiree, he was at home. He had been on the roof doing some repair work, and came down early to watch the game. He lived in a suburb just south of San Francisco. He was in his recliner and said the quake caused such movement, he couldn't get out of his chair. He said it was like being on a boat. He also thought it was the "big one" and death was imminent.
I was living in Sacramento and we felt it there. Most of my family still lived on the peninsula and I couldn't reach anyone for 24 hours because the phone lines were down. The news made it seem like everything had collapsed and was on fire.
+Elaine Marie I was sitting in my office, at home in Los Gatos (the zip code for the epicenter) when I got popped across the room! Knowing that my sister in Auburn would be frightened about her 4 Bay Area siblings, I immediately called her & got through! Then, the phone system went down after I told her we were likely OK! I watched the 60 foot Redwood tree in my neighbors yard whip back & forth enough that its top almost touched the ground with the aftershock! I could also watch the wave of power poles down the street swaying almost 45 degrees! I and many of my neighbors ended up at the nearby liquor store only to see a 2 inch deep broken glass and booze cocktail across the floor! Although it sounded & felt like a large truck had slammed into my house at 40 mph, the only property damage was to my stereo system and the bookcase that supported it. It was actually kinda fun!
I was also in the process of buying another house in the mountains about 4 miles from the epicenter; the builder was slightly behind schedule finishing, so he'd just extended the escrow! But that's a whole other story!
LMacNeill my two aunts and grandpa were there when it happened
SIMKINETICS ...I Was a 20 Y/O EMT Living In Alameda,My Husband Was Stationed at NAS Alameda,and I Worked At North Shore Hospital
LMacNeill 8/11/2019 it’s happening again
2024 marks 35 years since this earthquake and I remember it like it was yesterday. I was 8 years old and my mom yelled for my sister and I to get under the doorway. The longest 15 seconds ever. Shout out to the award winning Bay Area news stations. We were glued to the TV all night for updates.
News was so serious, cautious, and accurate back then. Now it's nothing more than a scripted reality show that tries to appease viewers by generating drama with exaggerated or even falsified information.
Watching this clip makes me realize again that news in the US really has fallen from the source of information in the past to the mere source of entertainment today.
@Shufei Well, they cater to their audience. If we demand entertainment, that's what we'll get.
That's an exaggeration. Lots of local newscasts are producing quality work. Quit watching Fox!
@@victoriaaldrich8952 "Quit watching Fox" - well that's ironic, when talking about fake news.
@@victoriaaldrich8952 Local news majority wise is still very well reported. The problem is BOTH Fox News and CNN have successfully sold to us viewers that their after 7 political opinion shows are news shows. Before 7,both networks have some true good news reporting. It's just, Tucker,Hannity,Lemon do oftentimes give more slanted political opinions and are rude to their guests. Really shouldn't be like that!
victoria aldrich local news like the bottom of the barrel when it comes to televised news lmao. You’re a dope if you watch that junk
The '80's might be funny in some ways, but news reporting was wonderful. Professional.
Aahh, to have real news reporters again
I KNOW!
Better than CNN!!
@@the3prankskateers704 actually, CNN is pretty much what you saw in that clip...only with much better graphics.
qwipperty no I mean they’re actually talking about news, or instead of trying to find new ways to impeach the president
The 3 Prankskateers He does that all by himself. Why is that so hard to understand? He’s been a white collar criminal his whole life. Do you realize he’s told over 12,000 lies in two and a half years as PUSA? That’s far worse than any politician in history- and that’s saying something.
These reporters were so incredibly calm and professional, considering they were hit by the quake too. Just incrediblly good reporting of information so quickly after the main shock. Who then would have guessed we'd be watching them 34 years later.
This was the norm in television news from the beginning and into the early 2000s. I was born in 1980, have been paying attention since the mid '80s, and have watched plenty of coverage recorded before my lifetime. Something changed in the 21st century, certainly by the 2010s: American television and radio news has been sucking, hard, for more than ten years now. (Today is 27 May 2023.) It's really discouraging.
34 years…
I'm sorry to inform you it's been 34 years since 1989. 1999 would be 24.
@@CadgerChristmasLightShow It was a typo, I meant 34.
@@CadgerChristmasLightShow There's no telling how long this video, and maybe these comments, will be available. We could be truly ancient comments on an even older video in 100 or 1000 years.
“I tell you what we’re havin’ an earth-“
Television goes static.
Movie writers dream of coming up with such a chilling opening scene.
the screaming/cheering a bit later definitely adds to it
At around 18:50, when she realizes what she's looking at and that the bridge collapsed, you can almost hear a hint of dread - like in that moment, despite saying that she hopes no one was injured, she realized without a doubt how many people were now trapped and dying in such a horrible situation. And still, she carried on without missing a beat. Cheryl is completely professional and admirable in how she handled and covered this
At 18:50 in the video is the serious part. Cheryl thought it was a fire in Berkeley but it was the Cypress Freeway (880) in north Oakland. The Bay Bridge was a big deal also as they sort out the damage from the Loma Prieta quake.
She won an Emmy for this reporting. World class.
The worst was the "pancaking" of the double deck interstate. So many cars crushed, so many lives lost. And heros emerged to help, even with the danger. RIP
Yeah, and some survivors where trapped by just a limb, and they had to do on site amputations to free them.
Clearly at that point the newscasters did not understand what they were looking at.
@@JackF99 I kept waiting, and waiting, and waiting for the full scope of that Nimitz Freeway footage to suddenly dawn on those reporters…. but that moment of realization never came.
There's still a section of double deck freeway where 101 and 280 intersect. I don't mind driving on the southbound/upper section, but driving the northbound/lower section makes me nervous.
Yes I WAS LIVING IN MOUNTAIN VIEW WHEN THE QUAKE HAPPENED
Those two female tv reporters there...(Cheryl Jennings and Anna Chavez)...I have never seen better reporting! True professionals!
back when reporters were hired for their brains and ability to speak.
+Anon Z Yes. Class, true professionals.
Times like this they really earn their money. Great job by all involved.
I love how we see the people in the back hella working to get updates.
@Jeff Goodman Are you triggered? What is the matter? Can't find your pacifier?
My stepfather was 16 when it happened. He was at the gas station with his mom getting soda while she was in the car, he described it like ocean waves rippling under the blacktop when he looked out the window. His sister was asleep at home at the time, she had gotten up because the cat was meowing and going absolutely bonkers and she had to pee. When she came back from the bathroom, the earthquake had toppled a huge bookshelf she had in her room with dozens of heavy textbooks, it crushed her bed right where she had just been laying down. Their cat basically saved her life.
Shout 2 da 😸
Animals can feel earthquakes before people do.
@@leechjim8023 true
Made the cats urge to pee even more
I was in a glass atrium / staircase of a computer hard drive manufacturer (SCO) in Santa Cruz, rather closer to the epicenter at Loma Prieta.
It started as a 'slow roller', people joking that they should grab a handrail, then the abrupt and violent actions occurred. All bets were off as the priority became getting everyone out of the building. "Is it safe?" called secretaries huddled under their desks at the ground floor. "Hell no, get out now!" said I as I ran behind them and pulled / pushed them out.
Once on the street outside, waves could be seen going through concrete sidewalks as each phone pole kicked as the wave went by. There was a pall of brick dust rising from the Pacific Garden Mall and hearts sank as the meaning of such was clear.
There was damage, there was death. The beloved Cooper House was soon to be a memory. A stand of eighty year old redwoods at Loma Prieta had broken at mid height like toothpicks. Highway overpasses dropped through their pilings onto the roadway below. Hollister and Watsonville were severely beaten.
Soon people of divergent backgrounds, ideologies, attitudes were neighbors working together for a common cause. The spirit of gadugi prevailed for a period of weeks / months before humans settled into their former petty differences.
One of the most terrifying times in my life. I was driving truck at the time and I was heading to Berkeley from Walnut Creek I was on the transition ramp from 780 to 80 in bumper to bumper traffic when I witnessed the road and vehicles in front of me rolling in a waving motion when I heard a load crash and explosion and I turned to my left and I witnessed the Oakland overpass falling down upon itself it was as if a person pushed the top down on the lower half with smoke and flames issuing from it. I will never forget that day
Oh man! I cannot even begin to imagine what you were feeling!
I live up here in the Lynnwood/Edmonds area of Washington state...had just come home from work a few minutes before 5 before my other roommates did, turned on the TV for the game while I pulled out some Halloween decorations to play around with - and then I heard the weird static! This was the channel I was watching, so I remember everything! I was like, “What the HELL??”
@@dawnwelch6579 I'm in Olympia and I worry about the next big one hitting here in Wa. My 1st earthquake was the one in 2001. I had just moved here from Arizona and I've wanted to move back ever since that day, but I'm still here. I will say this though, I'd take an earthquake over Inslee being elected any day 😁
@@Cam-i7f Inslee has nothing to do with what I was/am talking about.
@@dawnwelch6579 I was just throwing in a little humor Dawn. Here in Washington state nobody cares for Inslee... or maybe Iam wrong. Lighten up
@@Cam-i7fpfft more like not being able to help injecting politics into just about anything
I believe Cheryl Jennings won an Emmy for her reporting on this event. World class. Amazing how they covered this with such little technology.
@Brandon Taylor - Cheryl was not related to the ABC anchor from New York.
KGO-TV won a Peabody award for its comprehensive news coverage on this event.
THEY WERE SET P TO DO THE 5PM ACTION NEWS THEREFORE THEY COULD DO BASIC GUERILLA STYLE SEAT OF PANTS O THE FLY BROADCASTS MINI CAN CREWS WERE AVAILABLE WITH THE VANS IN FIELD AND PROBLEMS WERE GETTING SIGNAL OUT TO THE SATTS FOR NATIONAL NETWORK FEEDS
Cheryl did an excellent job! Everyone from the newsroom to Al Michaels did a phenomenal job of keeping their composure.
And we mostly didn't get to see any if the coverage in SF. Many of us were without power for days.
Total professionalism. Live and I remember this. This is what TV was supposed to be about. Public service and in a way, leadership. Excellent job. Miss this kind of tv.
I miss TV like this, too; reporting the facts and not trying to be some entertainment show.
This woman is remarkably professional. Working in such an intense climate of stress requires courage, especially if she has children, she too would like to know what is going on with her family and loved ones, but it is her job above all.
That's how it was done.
@@-oiiio-3993 The professional reporting brought tears. I miss real news.
Al Michaels gets the best lines:
"I tell ya what, I think we're having an earth-".
I liked "I'm not sure if we're on the air and frankly I'm not sure I care."
LOL now a days everyone will start swearing cause we're all fake as fuck
"Well folks, that was the greatest open in the history of television, bar none."
Damn, I'd say so.
+jfreezyyy247 dam u really said sum deep shit, the truth suppose to hurt..... it takes a humble n noble man to admit this.. salute u bro.
its a gamequake...😆
This station did such a phenomenal job reporting this as it was unfolding.
It's too bad none of us in the bay area saw it until way later because power was out for days.
Yep, they had no rehearsals before it happened like those reporting 911 did.
KGO and to add KCBS (radio) did an awesome job of covering the quake. Both stations won a Peabody award for its coverage.
I think they also won an Emmy.
You can hear the crowd get louder as it's starting to hit.
And then cheering and whooping it up afterward when Al Michaels gets back on the phone line from the Stick. Sounded like the crowd was having a pretty good time once the shaking stopped. Can't blame 'em really. I doubt anybody there knew in the immediate aftermath just how bad it was.
Very excited🤣
They were probably singing we will rock you by queen
@@linguineboy69 🤣🤣🤣
I miss the days when news reporting was real, true, and compassionate.
AND THE 80S ANCHORS WERE BABESWITH POOFY HAIR SHLDER PADS AND HIRSPRAY...SCHWWWWIIIINNNG!
CNN and company would be telling us that Donald Trump planned the whole thing.
There’s nothing wrong with Mainstream news. The REAL problem is the fringe with their conspiracies & Fox “news” lies & Trump poisoning people’s minds.
Absolutely
The problem is these days everyone with internet access thinks they are an expert and only believe what they want to believe no matter how wrong they are.
No matter how good or honest the news reporting is, people don't care. That only care about what they want to believe.
If this happened today the conspiracy theorists would be going crazy.
When news was presented with some degree of professionalism.
Nonsense. The news was just as fake back then. They were just better at concealing the leftist propaganda and rhetoric. For example, all the networks ignored the looting and violence throughout the city afterwards.
Dwight Stewart how tf do you fake an earthquake
@@dbroyawner5543 .. My comment explains itself. I said nothing about faking an earthquake.
@@dwightstewart7181 "fake news "
The battle cry of the idiots on the right
@@mikeking1948 .. And disclaiming that, despite overwhelming evidence, is the battle cry of the idiots on the left. If CNN told you children are born in trees, you'd go out to try to abort it.
Hats off to this anchor-woman,(Cheryl Jennings). What a superb job concisely explaining all pertinent info as it was happening.
JOHN MCCLINTOCK News wasn’t used back then and not another form of ratings and sensationalism
Cheryl Jennings is in The House! She's GOT This.
JOHN MCCLINTOCK Yes super hard to read from a piece of paper. The bar for human beings is really set high. You people act like her building was crumbling around her.
@@Anthony-nv7gd She wasn't reading from a paper. She was getting it in her ear and trying to formulate it live. That's incredibly difficult to do for half an hour after monitors just fell around you.
She looks like the Growing Pains mom:)
Weird things you don't hear anyone say in the year 2019.
7:03 "Grab your phonebook".
Next thing you know in like 15+ years or so people will be grabbing some new technology device or something new that replace Google and even phone books 😆
I'm faster with a phone book than online. Hmmm. Not sure what that says !
@todd long Shut the fuck up boomer.
@@LucasIsHereYT why be so rude?
@@ismaellopez3963 because he is a little snowflake and the whole world revolves around them you didn't know that
Had lunch at the marina, headed back home. Crossed the bridge, the highway, traveled the route of the quake. Got home turned on the TV to watch the game..................looked up and saw the Chandalier swaying, headed out the door to the street where neighbors were gathering. Looked back at our building swaying as the earth trembled under us. Left for the east coast the following week. Shook to the core................🌎💝saw the best in humanity arise to the need of their fellow humans. Volunteers were asked to stay home because their were more than needed. Hearts opened with compassionate actions that led the way to healing🙌💝
It’s cool how the news anchors stay professional even if a lot of their equipment isn’t working and even all unexpected events
THEY WERE SET UP TO DO 5 PM NEWS AND THIS WAS DONE ON THE FLY
That opening is like a movie, very eerie. The way the pictures cuts in and out, the sound of static, the announcer stating, "I'll tell ya what, we're having an earth-" and it all goes silent.
John Marston It is a movie. You live in the 'Truman Show'...
John Marston 8/11/2019 it’s happening again
Cheryl saying "this is a very frightening situation" as she smiles and remains the calmest person in the world.
Brandt cheryl is a class act you don't see reporting like this anymore
I was in San Jose when the earthquake hit. I was 14 miles Northeast of the epicenter. We got hit real real hard. Our power was out until about 10:00 p.m. There were constant aftershocks. Right after the main quake, there were several large aftershocks. I remember the aftershocks kept coming about every 90 seconds to 2 minutes. It wasn't until about 11:00 p.m. that the aftershocks were not able to be felt. The constant aftershocks were so nerve-wracking. Especially when you are riding them out in complete darkness. I remember the San Jose police department going around on their loudspeaker telling everybody not to burn candles. This was due to the possibility of gas leaks in the area. So, we had no light at all until about 10 pm when the lights came back on. All we had was a battery operated radio to listen to. KGO radio was off the air because their Tower collapsed. So we were listening to KCBS radio. I will never forget that night as long as I live.
I was in a glass atrium / staircase of a computer hard drive manufacturer (SCO) in Santa Cruz, rather closer to the epicenter at Loma Prieta.
It started as a 'slow roller', people joking that they should grab a handrail, then the abrupt and violent actions occurred. All bets were off as the priority became getting everyone out of the building. "Is it safe?" called secretaries huddled under their desks at the ground floor. "Hell no, get out now!" said I as I ran behind them and pulled / pushed them out.
Once on the street outside, waves could be seen going through concrete sidewalks as each phone pole kicked as the wave went by. There was a pall of brick dust rising from the Pacific Garden Mall and hearts sank as the meaning of such was clear.
There was damage, there was death. The beloved Cooper House was soon to be a memory. A stand of eighty year old redwoods at Loma Prieta had broken at mid height like toothpicks. Highway overpasses dropped through their pilings onto the roadway below. Hollister and Watsonville were severely beaten.
Soon people of divergent backgrounds, ideologies, attitudes were neighbors working together for a common cause. The spirit of gadugi prevailed for a period of weeks / months before humans settled into their former petty differences.
I was living in Mountain View at the time getting ready to watch the World Series. And then watching the dining room ceiling light swinging back and forth and running out into the yard watching the lawn rolling. That was a scary moment.
Wow really
Imagine people watching it live and then it just cuts out while they are saying "We are having an earthq-". Gives me chills!
Me!
I watched it on the ABC affiliate in Buffalo, NY. (I live in Toronto).
I was watching with my dad. It was surreal.
I was 12 years old about the watch the World Series when it struck. I live on the other side of the country, in Massachusetts.
@FollTrace
I do remember hearing the "we are having an earthquake", so yeah.
But I do remember that the video I saw was a little different. (again, I saw it from the ABC affiliate in Buffalo whereas this was video is from the Bay Area affiliate). From what I remember when they restored power they were back in the stadium. I remember the stadium lights were off but they had the dim emergency lighting On. Players from both teams were in the Infield just wondering what to do next. Camera was panning to the crowd and they filing out of the stadium. No panic, no stampede though. Then they cut to the news reports for the rest of the night.
Right here! Watching from Fairfield County Connecticut with family LIVE.
My husband was in the Army and stationed in California when this happened and he said that the sidewalk was moving up and down in a huge rollercoaster type motion and he said it was very scary!!! I'm glad he made it out safe because he's the best thing that's ever happened to me!!!!
Your husband is 100% right. The first few seconds of the quake felt like someone lifted up a blanket and fluffed it in the air because of the way it rolled like the blanket would roll. I was standing in a doorway looking onto a street and literally saw the pavement rolling like 4 feet in the air. It was scary shit
thats the shockwaves moving through the ground
My husband said he was driving, and he was driving. He thought he had a flat tire and the radio went out, and he noticed everyone pulled on the side of the road... he said it was very odd, and everyone knew something bad had happened, like the end of the world ?
Ok relax now Jodi
Puke
Cheryl Jennings is a legend (Woman in the blue). She handled this like a boss.
She is awsome did a great job
She was a beast did u ever see her under the boards ? No 1 can get a rebound
10:00 shes so relaxed and sexy 😍😍
She is amazing!!
Ultra professional. Calm, controlled, measured.
I was 10 at the time. I will never forget running out of the house and seeing the streets rolling and heaving like waves on the ocean. Feeling the ground underneath me moving in a steady rhythm up and down. I'm not glad it happened, but since it did I'm glad I was able to experience what I did that day.
Wow really
@@samanthagomez7074no they’re exaggerating. earthquakes are just a little earth turbulence that’s all
@@samanthagomez7074yes...the ground looks like waves. It's so bizarre
@@brownie3454some are. Most are in fact. I've seen multiple quakes where the ground appears to be rolling. And with this particular earthquake it was much more than tremors. I was there...if you weren't you should shut up instead of calling people liars. If you were there, you must have fried your brain on drugs and cant remember what it was like.
shhh don't give 2020 more ideas
Coolhusky - roblox LOOL frfr
i swear simpsons now is not the time
There was a major earthquake in Salt Lake City just as more national American quarentine started. I flew put just a day before, lol
It’s going to happen eventually 🧚🏽the fault like passes literally beneath me
IKR!
My uncle told me he was constipated that day........ *Was*
This made my day lol
lmfaooo Dude!🤣🤣😂😆😆😆😆😆😂😂😂😂😂😂
@Singapore Pearl lmfaoooo
Hilarious!! Thank you for that
😂😂
She kept that together really well considering they had no monitors
They didn't have ANY monitors.
Don't people in the stands ever sit down? It's like an ant farm.
reffoelcnu alouncelal who’s she?
@@kp9894 THE WOMAN ANCHOR!
Back in the days when they didn't immediately know where the earthquake was centered or how strong it really was.
My late uncle was a traveling engineer for a company that built equipment used in factories all over the country; when the machines broke down, my uncle was dispatched to fix them. (He amassed more frequent flier miles than I could ever dream of having.) He was in San Francisco during this quake and claimed that, had he not gotten held up for a few extra minutes with whatever he was doing, he may well have been driving on the Bay Bridge when it collapsed.
I love how Cheryl Jennings handled this whole situation. Media these days are all dramatic, want emotion, or want that shock value, not her. She was calm and very informative, despite having very limited resources.
Take notes mainstream media!
What exactly is “mainstream media” mean?? I know a lot of republicans use that term when referring to cnn and msnbc but is foxnews also considered mainstream media?
Andrew Diaz any news source you see on Tv. Like ABC, CNN, CBS, and Fox News. Those are mainstream, and let’s not before this gets any more political than what it should be.
@@andrewdiaz5852 MSM is any news that does not agree with Dear Leader.
Sounds like you only watch one channel. All newscasters I've seen after an event handle it with professionalism.
She remained calm. I can't believe how well she handled it. Great news reporter
This news woman is very professional.
swampzoid cheryl jennings can get this D
Thats how the news was in the 80s, it was quite professional and more about important things for people, as we didnt have internet back then. It was actually a much better time in a lot of ways to be honest, I miss it a lot.
You can hear the horror in her voice when she sees the Cypress Freeway and realizes that there are fatalities there for sure, but she totally kept her cool. THAT is professionalism.
*swampzoid*'
They knew the people needed them and they provided the information everyone had to have.
That's because the bullshit politics weren't in it yet.
4:54
Reporter: "Well Cheryl, obviously people are terribly nervous here..." 🙁😯😥😟
People in background: "Hey! I'm on tv! Whooo! Hi!" 😄😝🙋🏻♂️🤗👋🏼 🥳
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I was working in downtown SF, and a lot of people had left work early to go to the game. I was still at the office when the quake hit, and it was so much bigger than any I’d ever felt as a CA native. No one in SF saw the coverage that the rest of the country saw because the TV stations got knocked off the air. Such a scary day.
I was working in downtown SF, and a lot of people had left work early to go to the game. I was still at the office when the quake hit, and it was so much bigger than any I’d ever felt as a CA native. No one in SF saw the coverage that the rest of the country saw because the TV stations got knocked off the air. Such a scary day.
these gals did a fantastic job relaying information....
7:00 “Grab your phone book!” Funny to hear today lol
I don't know why phone books went away. I think that they still serve a purpose. If your internet is down at least you would still have info to fall back on.
Cell towers are the first to go
Smiled @ that too. Thought if we lost power my internet would go. But living in a small rural county with a phone co-op we still get a phone book in 2020, which, thankfully, has all sorts of what to do emergency information.
I heard "grab your phonebook" and it made me a bit nostalgic.
Yeah you could use the phone books for lots of things! I was born and raised in California and my sister used to drive us on the freeway that collapsed. I used to "joke" with her about how nervous I was to be underneath the top section and talked about what would happen if an earthquake made the freeway collapse. We had a lot of unsafe roads and bridges back then!
Watching this nowadays I'm just as amazed by the footage of when San Francisco was still San Francisco. Who would have thought, there were actually working class neighborhoods in SF at one time. A lot of these neighborhoods have been totally redeveloped since, and are now the domain of rich tech industry professionals.
I hear ya. Kinda sad I can never really go back home, it just doesn't exist any more.
+Rubycon99 that's so sad I couldn't imagine that
liberalism and globalisms effect on the world.
Robert Thomas
Times change.
MrYouarethecancer
You say that like it's a bad thing.
wow this coverage is incredible.. as someone who also works in television i can't imagine how crazy the control room was kudos to this crew
The professional reporting brought tears. I miss real news. Franklin WOKE Smither's, Ohio.
the anchor lady and other lady with brown hair are a perfect example of how Hemmingway defined courage as
grace under preasure, these ladies are heros.
Them relaying information this well probably saved hundreds of lives whereas biased “news” (propagandist) stations today would blame a natural event on the other political part and not give any important information
@@scotto2940 Yep. See! Climate change! Climate change!
@@edwardfights4900 ...are you implying climate change isn’t real? It’s a pretty well established concept with people in the sciences, backed by an abundance of evidence.
@@redmanish "the sciences" lol
Yeah the weather changes lol outstanding observation
@@edwardfights4900 Weather and climate are different things. Climate affects weather, but bad weather doesn't necessarily mean a bad climate. BUT when you're getting record numbers of natural disasters, more powerful natural disasters, odd disasters not typical for a specific climate, that is what is important about climate change.
Also, it has been getting increasingly warmer globally since the industrial revolution, causing oceanic temperature shifts, which also affect the weather (hurricanes, monsoons, tropical storms). It can cause major flooding, and it is recorded that the polar ice caps ARE melting as a result of global warming.These aren't problems we are likely to face in our lifetimes, but our children and grandchildren will face them
TLDR Weather and climate are not the same thing, ya dingus. Climate change is a threat, weather is related, but they are not the same
Why can’t news be like this now?
Mostly because it is an election year this will all come to an end shortly
We do. If there is a 'as it happening event' like this our different forms of media will (& do) provide us with the best information they can. It is what they do to the best of their technologically available resources. And it is a requirement by FCC rules.
Even simulcasts will be happening, meaning different forms of the media will share information, i.e., tv reports going out on/over radio. Nothing has changed, I will bet high dollar on that.
News today just sucks! It is because of politics. I am a Democrat you typically hear Republicans say that, but they need to focus more on news and things happening then politics. I think politics is very important however they don’t talk about news like they anymore. Like all of these important news things that are going on International like in Nigeria and Yemen need to be reported on.
@rkm isacunt I’m in my mid-thirties and smack dab in the middle of the millennial generation. No offense meant to you specifically, but I get so sick of people constantly using millennials as scapegoats for the problems of this world. It’s a shame because I happen to think we bring a lot of good to the world. Are you aware that the very youngest of the millennials are now in their late twenties? I do find a lot of people also simply don’t realize that millennials are as old as we are now. The oldest are bumping forty. We are invested in our communities, and a good number are hard-working, mortgage and taxing-paying citizens just like you. The “kids” in college and just a bit older still sponging off their parents right now aren’t millennials.
@rkm isacunt How did Millennials kill this kind of news?
04:55 Reporter: "Well obviously people are terribly nervous here" *people in background waving on TV
And one guy holding up Jose Canseco's mugshot. WTF? LOL
LMAO
I was born in the bay area and go to the san Francisco bay all the time my 80 yr old grandparents where much younger then survived this and are still alive today
I was a baby the year this happened
I was 5 back then
I was a little kid living in the Bay Area when this happened. It was terrifying! And despite living in California nearly my entire life and experiencing many earthquakes, to this day,the Loma Prieta quake is still the strongest I’ve ever felt. It was violent. And even thought it wasn’t exactly a long quake, it seemed like it went on forever
time is relative
if you ever get a chance watch the 70s movie earthquake, the movie setting resembles that day minus buildings crumbling to the ground, there was a few movies back then one was about a fire in a high rise building with partiers trapped in the middle of the building, it was before sprinkler systems were on every floor!
Wow this newscaster was incredible. Calmly passing her microphone around as people ran in and out of shot giving as much information as they could while they couldn't see anything they were showing.
it's my understanding cheryl won an emmy for this reporting. anna should have won it for that awkward smile when she was caught holding up that printed map graphic for a second lol
@@zubetpspot on. Lol. And crew should’ve won a creative Emmy for how quickly they got that crisp color map printed. Dot matrix was still the consumer level print standard at the time!
When news still did news. Now it would be democrats blaming republicans for the damage
They sure don't make journalists like this any longer...
mktarrant if this happened today they would just have it scrolling on the bottom of the screen while they continued to bash trump.
@@goatsmiserable555 they would have Twitter reactions scrolling too..
Bash Trump???? You idiot.
Ones who report on earthquakes?
Donald J. Trump boo boo your idol gets some hate. Get over it snowflake.
My husband and I had to cut our trip to SF short when I got sick. We got home to Vancouver around the same time we were origionally scheduled to depart Oakland on Amtrak. The quake hit about the same time our train would have left the station, but we were home and unpacking and watching the news and worrying about our friends there.
I've never told anyone this, not even my husband, but for a week before our trip to SF I kept having dreams about redwoods shaking and hearing rumbling sounds as we were trying to get away from something big.
We called our friends in SF three days later to find that everyone was okay. Just one traumatized cat that needed a lot of lap time.
I was 9 years old living in San Jose at the time, and my buddy and I were heading out to have a catch before the game. I remember every moment up to seconds before, during, and the days after. For those of us who lived through it, this truly was one of those events and moments that stays with you forever.
Yup. I’m right there with you. I was 12 in Gilroy. About to watch the bash brothers…. Jose Canseco, and Mark McGuire. Do a number on the Giants. And holy shit!!!!! All fucking night aftershocks hit. A lot of people don’t ever talk about that. Some were HUGE!!! We slept in the front yard on sleeping bags!!!
Worst quake I ever experienced having lived in San Francisco my whole life. I was visiting a friend at Mt. Zion Hospital on Divisadero Street. I wasn't afraid until I saw the wall cracking from the floor up the ceiling.
We dressed well back then. I so miss the 80's, and everything about it.
If you want to go back to the 80's that says enough about what times we live in now. We won't have it back. Ever.
@@artventurejunior yup what’s is the past stays in the past
It's your world, make it what you want.
You're right. The boys and girls cared about how we looked before we left the house. Never seen anyone at the store in their pajamas and slippers with messy hair back then.
Me toooo Kath!!!! Totally! My 13 year old daughter wishes she could have been a teenager in the 80’s! She LOVES every outfit she has seen me in in pictures! She love bold bright clothes!!! She gets a little taste every year at school when they have a dress like your favorite decade day! She ALWAYS picks the 80’s!
I was 10 years old. I was sitting in my home in Novato, CA, which is in Marin County, just 25 miles north of San Francisco. My mom and sister were downstairs. My dad was in a shopping mall shooting a commercial with a production company. I'll never forget the shaking, our dog barking frantically, my mom and sister running outside with me, and my dad, trying to get through to us in all the confusion. It's an unforgettable feeling and experience for sure. Days later, we went down and walked around the Marina District and the Cypress Structure. Again, I was 10. This was 27 years ago, and I can remember the sights, the smells and the emotions like it was yesterday.
Strazman
Yeah?
So your family made it a field trip? That's messed up. We couldn't get the emergency vehicles around quick enough because of people like your family....Way to go...Hope you got some good pictures.
Dean S It was days later
Strazman I just saw "shopping mall shooting" and thought guns
I remember this so well. I was worried about my Grandma in San Francisco but I finally got to speak to her and she says she was alright that they got under a doorway. She was happy to hear from me and sounded so calm. She was about 89 to 90 years old. I always worried about her being in California. I remember people were buried under the Rubble of their apartment buildings and seeing those ppl stuck under the bridge 🌉 scary.
Wow really cuz it's was a scary shit for real
I remember this so well. I was worried about my Grandma in San Francisco but I finally got to speak to her and she says she was alright that they got under a doorway. She was happy to hear from me and sounded so calm. She was about 89 to 90 years old. I always worried about her being in California. I remember people were buried under the Rubble of their apartment buildings and seeing those ppl stuck under the bridge 🌉 scary?
What a wonderful group of professional journalists. Informative, measured, reassuring, and overall just excellent.
"Journalists" being the key word there. Today we have a few of those left, but most have changed their job description to sensationalist.
I live in the Netherlands, and I remember this so well, just a couple of months before this quake we got our first commercial television station, and it was going to broadcast this ballgame live on tv. So we were glued to the tv because this was something totally new! now for us it was 2 am, so not many people saw it, but seeing the news unfold live on tv was something special.
I missed school the next day :)
2:22 Hearing Al Michaels saying "We're having an earth-" only to be cut off by static creeps me the fuck out
Scared the crap outta my friend in Florida, too, when it happened on live TV. Until the sound kicked back in a minute later, he thought we all were dead. Definitely one of the creepiest events of that day.
it really does. crazy
ysxacidhjaljdh Yep. Los Angeles had a major earthquake in 1994.
I was two when this happened and watching the WS with my dad. I thought the world was coming to an end and any second the same would be happening in Texas. First time I had ever heard of an earthquake. I'm sure some cheese dick will try and say there is no way you can remember that, like somehow he knows my own memories better than I do. Fear can make a memory extremely strong. I remember when the USSR ceased to exist and the country thought "This is when the bombs will drop". Hard to forget being a child and every adult you know in life is terrified.
spoiler alert
I had just turned 14 when the earthquake of 1989 hit. At that point I was living in San Francisco it was one of the most terrifying experiences of my life I cannot explain the feeling of that jolt the panic of seeing my entire neighborhood tear apart seeing Windows shattering and seeing streets just completely buckled up and open right in front of where I lived immediately after seeing houses across the street completely falling apart some of them with the living rooms in the street because they completely fell into the street I cannot explain to you how terrifying it was to live through that moment
I was in a glass atrium / staircase of a computer hard drive manufacturer (SCO) in Santa Cruz, rather closer to the epicenter at Loma Prieta.
It started as a 'slow roller', people joking that they should grab a handrail, then the abrupt and violent actions occurred. All bets were off as the priority became getting everyone out of the building. "Is it safe?" called secretaries huddled under their desks at the ground floor. "Hell no, get out now!" said I as I ran behind them and pulled / pushed them out.
Once on the street outside, waves could be seen going through concrete sidewalks as each phone pole kicked as the wave went by. There was a pall of brick dust rising from the Pacific Garden Mall and hearts sank as the meaning of such was clear.
There was damage, there was death. The beloved Cooper House was soon to be a memory. A stand of eighty year old redwoods at Loma Prieta had broken at mid height like toothpicks. Highway overpasses dropped through their pilings onto the roadway below. Hollister and Watsonville were severely beaten.
Soon people of divergent backgrounds, ideologies, attitudes were neighbors working together for a common cause. The spirit of gadugi prevailed for a period of weeks / months before humans settled into their former petty differences.
Wow really
Back then they stayed calm on the air to keep people from panicking but nowadays is a different story
You are right.
Nowaday the media tries to terrorize you the most they can making a HUGE deal out of things NOT THAT BIG, while their owners's partners somewhere in a powerful charge try taking advantage of that and take away all your liberties in the name of your "safety".
@@eljosafatespinoso3087 You can make an insane amount of profit off of fear and you can keep people in their place at the same time.
@@eljosafatespinoso3087 The only way to get the land of the free to give up their rights is to convince them it's a good idea.
@@obsidion1295 ruclips.net/video/fNNR2Ltx4YY/видео.html
They still do it today though
Only the female panicking in the footage
Isnt this what trump tried to do
I was in a daycare with my sister in San Francisco at the time. Our parents were working on the other side of town. My mom says it took her over 4 hours to get to us and the whole time she didn’t know if we were alive or dead. When she was stuck in traffic she tried to use someone’s car phone to call the daycare but the line was disconnected. She finally got to us and we were sitting with some other kids and the workers on a hill outside of our destroyed daycare. We moved away from California and our mom worked from home from then on.
Awesome story
So scary, Brittany. Glad you all and your mom made it.
Wow really
Damn
Do you remember any thoughts or feelings you had when it happened, or were you too young to remember?
If you're an aspiring broadcast journalist, it's worth your time to watch this video to the end. THIS is how it's done.
She is a presenter, I'm amazed how well she handled this, she and Anna were very professional!
@@Research0digo
Bay Area's Finest
Today’s so-called journalists are what we used to call Yellow Journalism.
Amazing calm coverage and quick updates. Outstanding team reporting.
The opening scene almost looks like the start of an episode from Full House.
the episode "Aftershocks"?
The Painted Ladies (those lovely houses) are a tourist attraction and a pretty standard stock shot for anything happening in San Francisco.
wuddeva happintoo dictabillitee?
dner75
you put it in your pocket, everybody saw you
champ!!!
The earthquake was like "Waaake Up San Francisco!!!"
I'm still laughing at the fact someone got hit on the head by a brick and called it into the news to let them know.
Alii Kalani hahaha me too!
Alii Kalani I was there you idiot
Alii Kalani A lot of people died, you dumn fuck
@@rosedowner7529 alright you out of context boomer. First off, you being there doesn't correlate to anything related to my intelligence. Nice rebuttal. I'm not saying that people dying is a funny thing to witness. I'm saying the context of the event is amusing. You wanna grief over everyone's pain on an America's Funniest Home Video? I'm sure not all those events were enjoyable.
@@rosedowner7529 calm down. Time+tragedy=comedy. We must joke about those things or we will lose it.
The moment where the audio comes back and everyone is screaming is really chilling.
Yah
FlowersInHisHair they're cheering. People who were at Candlestick were fortunate enough to be in a strong structure that could survive a major earthquake. When the quake finished people were delighted and longed to continue the game in true American spirit. They had no idea about the damage which lay outside the park...
pretty sure they cheering a home run
i literally got cold from chills
uh, no
At the moment of this earthquake my Dad was at the VA hospital getting an angiogram. The nurses threw their bodies over my Dad and held onto the swaying instruments and the doctor ran out. Thanks to all hidden heroes!
I worked a couple blocks from the Cypress collapse. The sound was horrendously awful. Many of us ran and boosted and climbed up to try and help people. It was a nightmare. All these years later and some stuff you can't unsee. Grew up there and lived through many quakes...right away you knew this one wasn't like all the others before it.
Been living in CA for about 66 years. That was the worst quake I've ever experienced. I was the building warden for a Pac Bell office at the time, and no supervisors were present. When I felt it, I called out for everyone to get under their desks, "It's a bad one." Found out the next day there was a gap between two corners of the building a foot wide.
@@PlasmaCoolantLeak Incredible!
I was in the Civic Center Bart Station. About an hour later, when I had walked downtown to the bus terminal and was sitting on a bus, waiting to see if the Golden Gate Bridge was okay for the driver to take that route to get us to the east bay, a woman announced, "Cypress Structure has collapsed. Anybody know what that is?" She was on an early primitive cell phone and someone told her. I knew immediately what she was talking about. They don't mention the Cypress Structure by name in this broadcast and don't seem to understand yet that an upper deck has fallen upon a lower deck, crushing people in their cars.
@Curt That was brave of you. It was agonizing. In the days following they told people to stay away because it was dangerous and crews were there.
The updates and coverage from the Cypress collapse over the next few days were the absolute worst. Bless you for what you had to see and experience.
This is fascinating to watch (for the first time) almost 30 years after the quake. I was on BART under the bay. The train was packed. Kudos to the train engineer who stayed calm and thus kept us calm. She was fantastic.
Gwyn Dekker Not the train I was on. It was chaos. We had just embarked the Embarcadero station from the east bay. Thank God bcoz I don’t know how I would’ve gotten home.
Gwyn Dekker same I thought we would die
Every time I ride the bart that’s in the back of my mind. Can’t imagine how scary that’d be. Much love everyone
@ GwenDekker.. I was never a fan of riding bart before this happened.
After, you couldn't get me on Bart. Itbtook me months before I would walk under an overpass.☺ I kid you not!!
I was in east oakland at the lucky's with my mom...the whole store smelled like wine pickles and whatever you store in glass jars cuz they all came crashing off tge shelves
Lady1: check your gas mains! turn off your gas!
Lady2 comes in: there’s a major fire in Oakland!
Lady1: my point exactly
Fate spared my husband & I that day. We both should've been on the Cypress structure. Where many people died horribly. 🌉 Even though we were 25 miles east, we still felt the earthquake STRONGLY. Condolences to the families that lost someone. 🙏🕊️
Thank God for proper engineering, that the stadium didn't collapse and created an even bigger catastrophe than it already is.
You talking about the earthquake or candlestick ?
I was watching this while in college playing pool in a dorm. We were all silent as the TV went off the air. This is exactly how it happened, the only cut was the commercial break at the game.
This World Series potentially saved countless lives. That earthquake happened at the peak of rush hour. Being that that Series was between the two cities on the bay. I remember reading that most companies let employees go home early so they could catch the game, or even go the "The Stick". Imagine if that double decker expressway had been jammed with traffic. The death toll on that bridge alone would've been catastrophic.
Cheryl is literally just like
"sup, this is the news btw"
This reporter, Cheryl Jennings, did a magnificent job on this day. She stays so calm and professional. My commute bus crossed the Golden Gate Bridge between 5:10 to 5:15, it was open and traffic was flowing normally. We were holding our breath! The driver did sort-of ask us whether to attempt a crossing first, but unfortunately Go and No sound an awful lot alike, he only heard Go! The bridge also performed magnificently, my house in Marin had minor and structural (porch) damage, but the worst thing was my poor terrorized cat. She jumped straight into my arms at every aftershock and couldn’t really relax for months.
this is so professional. Every one is coming in with the right information. Amazing honestly
The 80s aren't gone yet just getting older
It's refreshing to not hear opinion and propaganda.
The media today would be telling us that Donald Trump planned the whole thing to assassinate Joe Biden.
@@raceyboy today they'll let us know that they so far believe the earthquake was natural but can't yet promise the _____ aren't behind it 😅
You see around 6:30 the people running and scrambling in the background of the newsroom..trying to get the information out to us. Quite a day that I will never forget!
Chris Hall me either
Popin in my feed when an earthquake just happened here. Thanks RUclips
You experienced the California earthquake too? Huh... It showed up in my feed as well
VERSingthegamez same thing here lol but I’m in Las Vegas and we did feel it just not bad
Aaaaaand another one....
@@testtickles8755 yup. Yet another.
Happened again
I lived in Alameda at the time of this awful earthquake (Bay Farm Island). It was the strongest earthquake I ever felt by far (I also was in Southern California for the 1971 Sylmar quake). I routinely drove across the Bay Bridge and Cypress Structure for work, but that day I thankfully was home early and getting ready to watch the game. I did drive the upper section of the Cypress Structure a few hours before the earthquake. We had no damage at our home, and never lost power. We were able to watch this news coverage live. It amazed me at the time that they didn't seem to realize that the big story was the collapse of the Cypress Structure freeway in Oakland. Watching this news coverage 32 years after the fact is still an emotional experience.
I was 10 years old and in the family home in Van Nuys on Feb. 09, 1971.
On October 17, 1989 I was in a glass atrium / staircase of a computer hard drive manufacturer (SCO) in Santa Cruz, rather closer to the epicenter at Loma Prieta.
It started as a 'slow roller', people joking that they should grab a handrail, then the abrupt and violent actions occurred. All bets were off as the priority became getting everyone out of the building. "Is it safe?" called secretaries huddled under their desks at the ground floor. "Hell no, get out now!" said I as I ran behind them and pulled / pushed them out.
Once on the street outside, waves could be seen going through concrete sidewalks as each phone pole kicked as the wave went by. There was a pall of brick dust rising from the Pacific Garden Mall and hearts sank as the meaning of such was clear.
There was damage, there was death. The beloved Cooper House was soon to be a memory. A stand of eighty year old redwoods at Loma Prieta had broken at mid height like toothpicks. Highway overpasses dropped through their pilings onto the roadway below. Hollister and Watsonville were severely beaten.
Soon people of divergent backgrounds, ideologies, attitudes were neighbors working together for a common cause. The spirit of gadugi prevailed for a period of weeks / months before humans settled into their former petty differences.
I was in the Sylmar earthquake in 1971 also. We had to evacuate as they thought the Van Norman Dam was about to collapse. We were right in the path if it did collapse.
@@robbiemarcum8878 my grandparents lived in Sylmar at the time. Their home suffered no substantial damage but a lot of their belongings were ruined when they fell to the floor. Their home was just up the hill (on Harding St.) from the 210 freeway - that freeway was severely buckled from the earthquake and unusable. I lived in southern Orange County at the time, and while there was no damage down that way, the shaking was quite frightening to me as an 8 year old boy - and it went on for over a minute…
@-oiiio-3993 Oh how sad and scary.
@tquist61 That is sad they lost things like that. My Dad had built his house. Our bedroom at the back of the house had wooden framed windows that opened sideways. It used to be a screened in riloom so there were many windows. Each window opened a few inches. When he built thongs they were done right. He had a long brick fence. He put rebar in the holes and poured cement in also. He had one brick fall off the top. I would rather be in an earthquake than a tornado though.
how any of these reporters maintained their composure is absolutely amazing, and highly commendable.....
Way more professional back then
I live in Michigan, I'm 56 and I remember this. Not this particular broadcast though. I also remember Peter Jennings reporting 9-11. I miss true journalism!
And little did we know we lose him almost exactly 4 years later. So sad. He was pure class.
And I wanted to say how impressed I was with the anchor she didn't bat an eye through your this whole broadcast-
I was 19. Came to see the footage, and I'm amazed by these talking heads! Switching to not only pro, but calm, top tier reporting.
The reporters were so professional during such a scary time.
That's how it was done.
@@-oiiio-3993 yes it was
Yup she was Big Time
Cheryl had some amazing composure under pressure.
Wow this is good quality retro news and I like how they give people information and instructions on what to do.
I was there in San Francisco in July of 89 my first time visiting The City. It was hard to imagine anything happening to the most beautiful and breathtaking area in the entire country! I went back East for my sophomore year in undergraduate school and a girl I dated at the time ran into the college library were I was working and told me about the quake from watching the World Series! I couldn’t reach my friend who lived in Sacramento for like 2 weeks! Many mixed emotions as I watch this video and the profound sadness I felt about that marvelous city! But also encouraged by the bravery shown by all citizens to help out! God bless San Francisco!