Which you know unless you are living under a rock, but here's a good account of the news so far, from: The Sydney Morning Herald.

On the evening of the Loma Prieta Quake in 1989, one of the concerns everyone had was to contact family and friends and let them know we were OK. We got in touch with my mom and grandma so they could pass on the news to our other relatives. I connected with some friends. Of course everyone was trying to do the same so the lines were often busy ( Read more... )

This was written soon after the Loma Prieta Quake of 1989. I am going through and typing up old bits of handwritten material ( Read more... )

As I watch the Haiti coverage I have flashbacks of my Loma Prieta experience in 1989. We were close to the epicenter, living in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. We were a moderately poor family living in a sort of rural slum dwelling, a refurbished chinchilla farm building. Yes chinchillas were the former residents! The ceilings were low ( Read more... )

written morning of son's accident, sitting in hospital, sounds cryptic because it's written on a tiny notebook kept in purse ( Read more... )