Darryl Shannon wrote:
>Of course, you know the premium place to be? The SPACE NEEDLE. A
>lucky 30 people were up there when the quake hit. Now there's a memory....
Speaking of interesting places to be...
There's an "Underground Seattle" tour in Pioneer Square. After the
1889 fire that leveled most of the city, they just built on top of
things, so there's an old historic underground section. Kind of dark
and dusty. I'll bet there was a tour going on at the time. I'm
sure it would have been very claustrophobic *in* the shaking ground.
I work on the second floor of a four story office building on the
seattle waterfront. At first I thought "There's a truck going by."
Then, "Wow, it's a big truck". Then "Did the truck just hit the
building?!?". Then we all realized it was an earthquake and ducked
under our desks.
The timing was interesting. The night before was Mardi Gras with
some rioting. Pioneer Square is where you've seen pictures of
collapsed brick walls. That would have been bad with all the people
packed in.
If the quake had happen an hour later (11:50 am) people would have
been out on the sidewalks walking to/from lunch and you'd have seen a
lot more injuries or even fatalities. We walked down their later in
the afternoon and even in the middle of the street there were a few
bricks. Of course on the sidewalks in a few places the bricks were a
foot deep! Since it happened at 10:50 am most people were still
inside at work.
Jeff
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