Word: downed
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"You put that memorial in front of your building, Bubba, and someone is bound to come over and tear it up," Dees was told earlier this year by Calvin Whitesell Sr., an attorney for the city during the Freedom Rides of 1961. "George Wallace once said to me," Whitesell recalls...
Californians are starting to calculate their risks a bit differently. Rene and Tony Donaldson live near Stanford University. Their $425,000 home escaped major damage in the Pretty Big One, though the tremors did smash their collection of American Indian pottery. "Now I know why California Indians didn't have...
At 5:04 p.m. last Tuesday, precisely a week after the devastating earthquake, church bells pealed throughout San Francisco to mark the city's survival and recovery. But a few churches declined to join in the commemoration, which had been requested by Mayor Art Agnos, because the reverberations from the...
But the area was speckled with damage that will take weeks or even months to clean up and repair. The shattered portion of the I-880 freeway in Oakland will have to be torn down, and the Embarcadero Freeway, a double-decker that skirts downtown San Francisco, is riddled with...
In the torrent of news about the California earthquake, the victims of another huge natural disaster on the opposite coast have been all but forgotten. Though the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Hugo when it smashed into South Carolina six weeks ago did not equal the damage caused by the tremor...