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Even those who planned their escape had harrowing experiences. Last Sunday Marina Chobanyan, a widow, boarded the Baku-Moscow express to flee the gathering storm. She settled into her seat in the tenth car, thankful to be getting out alive; when the train did not leave on schedule, she began to worry. Suddenly a band of Azerbaijanis burst into the car. "I was ordered to hand over all my papers and valuables, including my wedding rings," she said. "I refused, and they dragged me off the train by my hair." Herded through the streets of Baku, Chobanyan and several other...
...region has long been aware of its special vulnerabilities. Its water comes in by aqueducts that a big quake would fracture. Like the devastated Marina district in San Francisco, parts of coastal communities such as Marina Del Rey, Venice and Long Beach are built on sandy soil and landfill that could liquefy during a temblor, amplifying its destructive impact. State transportation officials last week handed the city council a list of 48 highway bridges and overpasses that need reinforcement to withstand a powerful quake. Cost: $32 million. Los Angeles' city engineer Robert Horii informed the city council that $100 million...
...Francisco's yuppified Marina district, Emily Hudson was startled by the swinging of a chandelier, which struck the ceiling, then fell to the floor of her apartment. Her three-story building, with 18 apartments, cracked, splintered and toppled forward. "I could hear two women trapped in the apartment below me screaming, then I heard a voice yelling, 'Are you okay?' " the stockbroker's assistant recalled. Shortly after a neighbor pulled her out of a smashed window into air filled with gas fumes, she heard three deafening explosions. Then she saw a "horrible, huge wall of flame." Before the long night...
Others were not so fortunate. Their frustration boiled into anger in the Marina district, where residents who tried to inspect their ruined houses were barred by police. After a shouting match with Mayor Art Agnos, a compromise allowed residents with escorts to enter their homes briefly to collect whatever they could before the buildings were torn down. "Our poor little lives are right here on the sidewalk," said Patrice Gehrke, loading a pickup with furniture and ferns. Diane Whitacre hoisted a drawing board on her shoulder so she could get on with her free-lance work. "The most important thing...
...thrilling adventure on the edge of willpower -- risk taking at its safest, with fantasy and freebies thrown in. "Atlantic City is a better break than Wall Street, and you can put the money in your pocket," says William A. Fountain, a food salesman who heads for Harrah's Marina Hotel Casino every Saturday...