MMPR004@ECNCDC.BITNET (Scott Hutinger) (10/19/89)
I just wondered...I have heard everything about San fran, but not much about San Jose, Cupertino etc area. Was it that BAD in this area? Eg. are all the interstates buckled, Stevens buckled? Are houses standing? If they are standing, is anything left inside them? I did hear that Apple was closed for 1 day, but the media seems to only let use know about the north east bay area. Scares me. scott hutinger mmpr004@ecncdc.bitnet
winch@hpihoah.HP.COM (Bill Winchester) (10/20/89)
There was a whole-lot-a-shakin-goin-on. 8-| Well, it was 5:04pm on Tuesday the 17 and I am standing in the isle near my cubicle in Hewlett Packard Cupertino Bldg 42. It starts to shake. "Oh, an earthquake." The lady engineer I work with didn't waste an instant. She dove straight under her desk. I thought,"Hum, lets see what happens." Well, what happened was that I couldn't keep on my feet, so I dove under MY desk. I have never experienced such lateral ground movement in an earthquake in the 40 years that I have been in California! I live in San Jose near the City of Campbell. It took me 3 hours to get home. First an hour and a half wait for the bus, then a hour and a half ride. The power and therefore the traffic lights were all out all the way home. In the dark, I could just make out some of the damage. The Grand Auto store on Prospect just across the street from West Gate Shopping Center had some plate glass windows smashed, merchandise off the shelves and strewn all over the floor. The BP filling station (aka: Mobile) on Campbell Ave. at San Thomas Aquino had its canopy fall straight down on its gas pumps. Luckily no-one was underneath. I personaly was LUCKY!!!! LUCKY!!!! LUCKY!!! My family and I experienced no loss or damage to our property except 2 juice glasses. My apple IIgs has its color monitor propped up on its little view angle elevator. During the quake it danced forward until it dropped over the edge of the System Saver, but no problem it still works great! Are you guys at Apple O.K.? I haven't seen any postings from you!
mjohnson@Apple.COM (Mark B. Johnson) (10/21/89)
In article <8910191036.aa12718@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> MMPR004@ECNCDC.BITNET (Scott Hutinger) writes: >I just wondered...I have heard everything about San fran, but not much about >San Jose, Cupertino etc area. Was it that BAD in this area? Eg. are all >the interstates buckled, Stevens buckled? Are houses standing? If they >are standing, is anything left inside them? > >I did hear that Apple was closed for 1 day, but the media seems to only let >use know about the north east bay area. > Apple was hit along with the rest of the South Bay area. Cupertino and San Jose were VERY lucky. Some places were not really affected, others took a lot of damage--mostly cosmetic. We are back up and operating in a somewhat normal state, although there are still buildings which are not yet open and at least one from which people are being relocated. DTS is back in business, but we've got a large queue, so response time may be down for a few days. Phone lines into the area are tough to get, so your calls to customer satisfaction, etc., may not be answered right away. Look for things to appear relatively stable to the outside world by early next week for most of the company. -- Mark B. Johnson AppleLink: mjohnson Developer Technical Support domain: mjohnson@Apple.com Apple Computer, Inc. UUCP: {amdahl,decwrl,sun,unisoft}!apple!mjohnson "You gave your life to become the person you are right now. Was it worth it?" - Richard Bach, _One_
jazzman@claris.com (Sydney R. Polk) (10/21/89)
From article <8910191036.aa12718@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>, by MMPR004@ECNCDC.BITNET (Scott Hutinger): > I just wondered...I have heard everything about San fran, but not much about > San Jose, Cupertino etc area. Was it that BAD in this area? Eg. are all > the interstates buckled, Stevens buckled? Are houses standing? If they > are standing, is anything left inside them? > > I did hear that Apple was closed for 1 day, but the media seems to only let > use know about the north east bay area. Los Gatos was pretty hard hit. Cupertino had quite a bit of damage, but nobody seems hurt. I hear that DeAnza 3 at Apple was really hit hard. Everywhere else in Silicon Valley was largely unnafected. -- Syd Polk | Wherever you go, there you are. jazzman@claris.com | Let the music be your light. GO 'STROS! | These opinions are mine. Any resemblence to other GO RICE! | opinions, real or fictitious, is purely coincidence.
rs.miller@pro-harvest.cts.com (Randy Miller) (10/21/89)
Comment to message from: MMPR004@ECNCDC.BITNET (Scott Hutinger) Scott, From what I heard my employer's development team in both Santa Clara and Santa Rosa, both offices were in fine shape, except for papers and disks strewn over the floor when the quake toppled over a bookshelf. Other than that, the only thing they noticed in both cities were broken windows. Randy Miller rs.miller@pro-harvest