Driving on the Bay Bridge when Loma Prieta earthquake hit
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2019
- On Oct. 17, 1989, ABC7 News reporter Leslie Brinkley was on her way to a routine assignment when her story and life changed in 15 seconds. Loma Prieta shook with such violent force it tore the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in two while she and her crew were crossing it. In the hours and minutes that followed, Brinkley stood at the edge of the broken section of the bridge and reported on the stories of survival, rescue and tragedy that unfolded on live television. abc7ne.ws/2nKYIyO
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Good job with the reporting and personal perspective of the major incident as well as with explaining the mechanics of the bridge.
24 years to replace the old bridge. welcome to California folks.
Black Swan That’s mostly because all the money goes to Southern California, specifically LA.
Black Fire might be cause all the fires happening.
And believe it or not both the eastern and western spans were originally built in only three years (total).
23 yrs to get the permit.
@@omi_god I guess you did owe us since you take so much of our water, Jethro. ;>)
Of course his name would be BART.
>1500 year period
world will shake like a pregnant woman. watch the "youre the one that i want" and sandy vagina video from "grease"
It was the warmest day, even in the Sunset district. The after shocks happened for days, it was scary
2:57 The truly crazy thing about that dude Bruce Stephan, is 12 years later he was on the 65th floor of the North Tower on 9/11 and survived that too!( His wife was in the South Tower and also survived)
Uuh she's standing a little close the edge isn't she?
She knew what she was doing, though.
Because she’s a badass reporter with more courage than you
Great report!
not a bolt was a rivet
2:57 - Jerry Seinfeld was on the bridge when the quake hit?! What is it with those bridges during an earthquake, you gonna go up, down, swing to the left or right? Make up your mind and pick a direction already, I'm trying to drive!
Swing to the left, swing to the right, criss cross everybody crap your pants.😂
Dude may look like Seinfeld but he is also one lucky SOB! That dude was also on the 65th floor of the North Tower on 9/11 and survived that too!
Our country still has major problems with infrastructure. We need wide scale renovations
I was in a 5.6 magnitude earthquake once and it was pretty intense.
I was a baby living in, the S.F. Geneva Towers, during the 89 earthquake. 😰
My father drove across that bridge that very afternoon around 1 or so to Tahoe. Very Scary. Than this happened. As soon as he got to our cabin in Alpine Meadows, turned on the TV after I assume he heard on car radio. Turned around and drove another 5 hours home, but not that bridge.
I was in Loyalton up by Truckee at the sawmill starting up a new steam turbine generator. The control room shook and swayed a bit but I thought it was a steam hammer in the deaerator tank. Some guy later came in and said that San Francisco was destroyed by a huge quake. I left and got on Highway 80 and did 110 mph, twice the national 55 mph speed limit at the time. I passed CHP patrol cars but they didn't stop me. I got to the Benecia bridge in about 2 hours. Amazing. Everybody was fine at home but really scared and the power was out. Before he end of the year I installed a whole house automatic 12 volt lighting system in case a quake hits at night.
Freeways collapsed. People became flat as pancakes. I ran down stairs outside the second story.
Swing to the right
Swing to the left
Criss cross
Everybody crap your pants.👏👏👏😂
Great video
It's good to see Leslie Brinkley when she was young again. She is a pretty looking lady who has aged well, and is an excellent reporter Who has stayed Faithful To The Bay!! She is like Family here 😊😊
Excellent...
Much thanks to KGO for their cooperation in making this video possible. God bless all of you!
In fact, I wonder if KGO would be willing to post the entirety of the first four hours of its coverage of this earthquake onto TH-cam?
I could be wrong but I think the man who was rescued from the Bay Bridge collapse won the lottery a year later. I think he won a million bucks.
Umm no. But he did win a large settlement from the state.
that is very crazy
Wow a story by a news channel that i liked and it was good that never happens
The bridge 🌉 is beautiful now.
Just like the 🔥 storm in 1991, I remember this, Loma Prieta earthquake 😳 😬
How bout the Richmond-San Rafael,that was used to commute via the Golden Gate.
Pieces of the Richmond-San Rafael tend to fall off and land on cars these days, or so they say. I once took the ferry which goes underneath it, and out of curiosity I looked up as it passed overhead....OMG. Do NOT do this. So friggin' rickety! Such a patchwork of cheap-looking fixits and shoddy repair/reinforcement work! I will never drive on that bridge again. The Golden Gate is the queen of bridges. I trust her, pretty much. Not so much the others. Even the sixteen year old Carquinez Bridge (aka the Zampa Bridge), a beautiful suspension span, was built with some of the same crap steel used in the new Bay Bridge. Luckily the issues are minor compared to what's going on with the Bay Bridge, but still. They literally don't build 'em like they used to.
Had a guardian angel with you
9:40 That dear lady, is a rivet. The GG bridge and the Bay bridge were riveted together
pretty sure she knows that
Yup!
@@than.imeiii she called it a bolt.
She is not a rivet, she is a lady! I think a well-placed comma after 'that' would have been better. Besides, how much does it really matter? If she was the one charged with repairing the bridge, i could see the need to understand what you are doing!
Too much woman-hating. Oh wow, she said bolt instead of rivet.
you wanna bet overpriced over engineered will not hold up to a 7.5
Yup.. I’ll take that bet! How much? I got Venmo so please send my money there..
what about a 8 or 9 magnitude!
@@timothythomas2705 don't happen in California
@@frasiercraine1776 it can happen anywhere anytime
@@timothythomas2705 not in california
The person who she talked to after was actually my uncle
Most memorable quake in memory. Was 9.
I was about that age. But was sitting on a tire swing in Rodeo >
I was 13. In Gilroy it was bad! I was in the living room about to watch the World Series
I feel like most people, at least nowadays, wouldn’t believe the other driver when they said they saw the collapse behind them.
"we were disflooored"
"we were shocked"
Am I just crazy or did this video leave out the bigger bridge collapse from the earthquake in 92?? Or was that a different bridge?
ypcomchic I think you’re thinking of a 880 highway overpass in Oakland, a big section of that collapsed during the same earthquake as this video
That was the Cypress Viaduct which collapsed in the same earthquake. 42 people died in that collapse.
I rode with my friend on that bridge in 2006. He drove the whole thing going 55 and I wanted to kill him. I have and never will let him drive me anywhere again. If it were up to me id drive 110. No one is allowed to put my life in danger.
@Throw money at me Well at least you weren’t sitting in traffic on a windy day. The Golden Gate Bridge and the Bay Bridge are meant to sway for earthquake safety, but on a windy day you will feel the sway if you are staying relatively stay on both bridges.
I've been over that bridge hundreds of times. You freaked out over one trip?
Not a bolt.. it's a rivet, lady
HELL NO I would not be on that bridge ever again. Nope nope nope nope.
Takes 23 years to get a building permit, and cost more than the bridge itself that's Government progress for you'll!!!
Anyone here from the book "Smile" by Raina Telgemeier?
But it might not withstand a 9.5 or 10.
SkylineToTheSeaAndMe lol nothing will withstand that.....
Don't happen in California. Maybe Pacific Northwest
I read there was an earthquake here in the East that was so strong it made the Mississippi river change flow and run backwards..that is terrifying lol we have been having a lot of unusual earthquake activity over the past couple years..well it's unusual to feel them anyways 😶
An earthquake like that has not occured on the planet, let alone California
the way things are today, a 10 earthquake can happen anywhere!
who's here after you read Smile
I live in Iowa. Quite a few times, people have moved to here from California, and after their first experience with a severe weather day, they ask me (I'm a weather nerd) "How do you people live like this?"
"Simple, because there's no such thing as earthquake weather"
Why did they not replace the west side of the bridge?! Not only does it look crappy with the brand new sleek modern bridge on the east side and then the old crunkt double decker on the west side, but the west side could collapse now when the next big quake hits! Like come on now, you should have replaced the whole thing after all those years trying to get a frickin permit.🤦♂️
Can you imagine 20 yrs to build a new bridge. So your 20. Yrs old before you. You got 20 yrs in the union and ten years to go. Your retirement here. Ahhh send the check. Thanks to all the engineers that worked on the rebuild. That's from a retired union pipefitter.
What’s the plan for Bart being below the bay water with sea water intrusion into the tunnels???
There's actually an earthquake every second like right now but it's so light that you can't even feel it
Now foos be swinging on that bridge 😂
I don’t care how many lifelines and innovations you put on that bridge, I am not gonna be on a bridge in an earthquake zone.
I live in Florida, give me my hurricanes and thunderstorms LOL.
Praying for all you who live in the Bay Area y’all are much braver than me.
From 2000 to 2021, 1,965 people in the US have died in hurricanes in the same time only 7 have died in earthquakes.
If we exclude the 1906 quake where most people died from fire because of gas-lighting, in 200 years the US still has fewer earthquake deaths than hurricane deaths in the last 20 years.
I think you guys are the brave ones!
@@spriken that may be true, but to be fair, there are usually a ton more hurricanes than large earthquakes. Also, keep in mind a lot of those deaths are from fresh water flooding hundreds of miles inland or away from the storm.
33 1/2 years ago APRIL 2023☮️🫐☮️🌉🤲🏾
Can’t wait for the big one to hit 👍😎
That's not nice at all, but if one does, maybe the ground will swallow you first.
@@laughinghawk8522 *maybe you instead* 😎
Totally off topic buy the little girl is wearing Guess jeans, I remember those and what about jordache jeans? Am I right ladies, fellow children of the 80's?!
What about the bolts that were allowed to rust from China?
My understanding was that Cal Trans designed the new bridge with no experience in designing bridges.
I will never use this bridge.
you think bridges in CA are bad, come to NYC. some of them are coming up on 100 yrs!! tunnels too!
@@timothythomas2705 But at least your politicians are WELL PAYED! Isnt that what matters most? LOL
@@inconnu4961 YOU GOT THAT RIGHT!! SOB'S
Get the paid bridge dlc here
I see this failing, sadly engineers are over doing things and forgot basics. Those “fuses” meant to move will rust and stick solid after many years. There is no protective coating it’s just bare metal over salt water = rust.
Yeah just look how the replacement of old water pipes is working out. The government thinks of these things...😑
Such a disingenuous reporter. Pretending to be devastated in the midst of reporting (and recalling) so much death and destruction.
That’s the price you pay for living by 2 fault lines sorry you know but you stay Oh well good luck with next one
No stom Chasers
The African-American man in the red car looked as though he'd seen a ghost!!!! He'll remember that earthquake for the REST of his life.
I don't think he was black. Clearly a Pacific Islander with that name. Plus his dead sister was sitting in the driver's seat at the time too.
@@VL1975 God rest her soul!!
@D Lopez LORD HAVE MERCY!!!! 😢😢😢😢
Cal-Tran is the most amazing organisation. My hats off to all at Cal-Tran.
It would then be a very annoying long drawn out procedure of either retrofitting the bridge or just replacing it. For years it was new stories about how they were gonna do this and that and it was just one big political mess using our taxpayer dollars. Finally they started the 11yr process of building the new span. It's a good thing we didn't have any really big quakes from 10/17/89 to 9/2/13 cause it could've been catastrophic.
I saw two cars where the bridge collapsed..and then I saw another different car with the man inside. I can't understand where the bridge was broken. The cars are different....
Ah, yes, reminding us of the earthquake again to get us ready for the next caused earthquake. Programming!
Yes. THAT IS THE WORD. PROGRAMMING
It probably has to do with its anniversary. There’s always gonna be another earthquake buddy, no programming necessary.
J H ~ Of course it’s preprograming! Everything is around us has been altered to stimulate responses from the mind and most importantly emotion. Even much of your family are just disconnected experiences put together for us by Numo-circuits. Much of your memory is only minomial Rojectors.
Myrtle Q. Urkel did you even experience this earthquake? There was nothing preprogrammed about it idiot
I have a feeling there’s gonna be a “big one” real soon in the Bay Area.not fear mongering
Our new bridge can resist ANY earthquake ..................... just like they said the tsunami walls in Japan would.
HA HA HA HA HA AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HA HA HA
This Bridge will not Last Long overpriced and Nothing but Leaks And Problems and Word is Recycled Concrete on Approaches the Old one 75 Years So Much For Technology and Price Gouging new one
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Hopefully one day people will realize California is not a good place to live. This NEVER happens on the east coast.
Don't forget about the Mianus River Bridge span collapse 1983 Greenwich, Connecticut. Not an earthquake still a concern when bolts let go. Now they inspect the bridges quite often on a schedule and do work immediately when something is found
Wendy C Well that’s an infrastructure issue. I was referring to the constant earthquakes, mudslides and wildfires that endanger every Californian.
Yes you're correct. I was looking at it as 'stuff unexpectedly happens'. We definitely don't have the extremes that California has
John Mortellaro 😂 😂 California is FULL of “libtards.”
redcomic619 and yet California doesn’t have hurricanes and yet the east coast does. I’d rather live in California then deal with a hurricane season every year
leave it to California to mess everything up like always
Well, where are you from, Alabama? Or maybe Florida? Idk but you are definitely clueless if you think California "messes things up." We have one of the strongest economies, not in the country, but in the world. Get it together, and don't hate on what you obviously don't understand.
eagletmars that’s true. The only really bad things we have is the wildfires
eagletmars Dude I live in California, it’s a freaking mess.... Roads in horrible condition, homeless, drunks and drug addicts pissing and crapping on the sidewalks. You say we have the best economy? Not in the interior of the state.
@@eagletmars I was born and raised in Seattle, another beautiful area ruined by liberal policies. Basically the same issues that plague California. Yes the bubonic plague is a problem in California. I moved to Colorado and it's much better here. However California is literally infested with disease, feces, homelessness, crime, and has some of the highest taxes and lowest living standards out of any metropolis region. In other words you could call the coasts of California a S***hole without exaggerating one bit. I visited my sister multiple times when she was a student at UC Berkeley, She lived in Wesley house (across the street from campus on telegraph ave.) leaving her apartment, you'd have to lookout for intravenous needles and often physically step over sleeping homeless people who were blocking the entrance to buildings, literally 30 feet from campus. A majority of the Berkeley police quit since they weren't able to enforce the law, thanks to their mayor. My sister was there when antifa nearly burned down the campus and she was almost attacked trying to help an injured person. The rent, the tolls for the bridges, the traffic are all unbelievable, there's violence and filth in the nicest of places. Big companies have stopped hosting events in big cities like San Francisco Etc. Long term residents are moving to Texas, New Mexico, Utah, Oregon etc. And the people there are fed up with liberal policies that turned California from the "Eureka" state to a place were even tourist think twice before visiting. There is plenty more wrong with California, especially their exhaustive regulations impeding our fundamental American values but I think I've said enough. California is a great example of liberal politics "messing everything up"
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Berzerkeley...a liberal filthy shithole. San FranCesspool...where to stick the enema nozzle in California, a prolapsed shithole.
Morage, Orinda, Lafayette, no shit on sidewalks, good people, everything clean, not one needle on a sidewalk. You are judging the entire state by Sodom and Gomorrah. Didn't you ever drive to the other side of the tunnels? Its a beautiful state run by self serving pirates calling themselves elected officials.
Many people don't remember that 30 years later a earthquake hit california again during the baseball season almost to the point. The oakland A's lost 2 series Cincy and LA and won the World series in '89 after the earthquake. Los Angeles Dodgers who beat the A's in '88 were in a same scenario. They got beat in '17 by houston ,'18 by boston and now they were primed to win in '19 but this scenario was spread out. The Dodgers lost before they got to the world series but the earthquake came the 4th of july and a larger one came later under 24 hrs that shook southern California all the way to southern Nevada (Las Vegas). The earthquake in '89 reached all the way from the SF-Oak bay area down to Los Angeles. Ironically Los Angeles won in 2020 under another disaster the covid plague. Didn't any of the Baseball experts see this coming?
At 10:11 new bridge was built in the same footprint as the old bridge." No it was't. New buukt besude the old.
Iam sure the local government was told you need a new bridge because the current one is not up to date standard and it could collapse. Local Govt says as usual it's been there for years nothing bad is going to happen besides there has been earthquakes before. Suddenly lots of people die and are injured NOW! they'll say yes we need a new bridge. This happens all of the time the warning is foretold but since the politician doesn't want to cough up money but gives it to his rich buddies.
Reporters are such smegma
Nature is smarter and will give the bridge a surprise. The bridge is made in China.