Oct 17th 1989, I am on the 18th tee at Tularcitos (now Summit Point)in Milpitas
when a 7.1 Earthquake hits. We could see the club house shaking, we were safe. WOW that was cool! We had no idea how bad it really was.
We had 1 person left to tee off and the funny thing was that for the next 5 minutes he couldn't keep a ball on his tee. Though we couldn't feel it, the ground was still shaking. We were planning on meeting our girl friends at
ElToritos in Santa Clara about 6 miles from golf course to watch the Giants-A's world series game. Little did we know, all the signal lights were out and traffic was at a stand still in every direction. We even resorted to driving with 2 wheels on the sidewalk in order to get to the resturant before the game started. I took us 1 hour 20 min to drive 6 miles. When we get there,
our girl friends are not there and the world series is being cancelled.
WE didn't have cell phones then and the land lines were mostly down.
The girls were coming from Boulder Creek right where the epicenter was.
We spent the night at a friends house in Sunnyvale and waited till morning
to drive home. Highway 9 looked like a war zone. When we got to boulder Creek we were shocked to find that more than a dozen homes had slid down the hill on the same road we lived on. Our house was Ok, the girls were OK and we counted our blessings that day. And NO I don't remember what I shot that day. The worst part of the whole ordeal is that the Giants had to face the best pitcher in baseball Dave Stewart 3 times in the first 4 games and was swept. That really sucked.