Word: decking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ripple." Then a neighbor screamed a warning. He ran out of his shop to find "the whole goddam ground lifting up." He grabbed a telephone pole as the sidewalk buckled beneath his feet, and looked up at a horrifying sight. A mile-long section of the freeway's upper deck began to heave, then collapsed onto the lower roadway, flattening cars as if they were beer cans. "It just slid. It didn't fall. It just slid," said Reynolds. "You couldn't see nothing but dust. Then people came out of the dust." But not many. Dozens of cars were...
...high-spirited spectators in Candlestick Park were at first either confused or nonchalant. Both teams had finished batting practice. Then a soft, distant rumble grew louder. "It sounded like rolling thunder," said Peter Rubens, a winery manager seated in the right-field lower deck. The stadium shuddered. Light towers swayed. The foul-line poles in left and right field whipped back and forth. Though expansion joints at the top of the stadium absorbed the blow, chunks of concrete fell off, precisely as planned. One dangerous block crashed into a seat in Section 53. Only a moment before, its occupant...
...most horrifying scene was in West Oakland, where screams and smoke issued from the crumbled concrete of I-880. Beneath the smashed upper deck, some cars had been flattened to a height of 6 in. As survivors yelled for help, citizens long divided by race and class forgot their differences in a rush to assist them. William McElroy, an unemployed boilermaker who had just reached his home from the freeway, returned to the disaster. "We couldn't do a damn thing at first because we didn't have any equipment. We broke into a factory yard and got ladders. Then...
...Comets jumped out to an early lead, but we did load the bases up with two outs. The guy who replaced me behind the plate was up. I was on deck, trying to adjust the grip of my bat so that it would lessen the pain in my thumb. He struck out, and before I could turn around and get my glove for the top of the inning, Coach ran up to me and said something like this...
Crews sawed the fallen five-lane section of the upper deck of the Bay Bridge in half and lifted one section down to a barge for repairs yesterday. The vital link between San Francisco and Oakland is expected to be closed for four weeks...