Oct. 17th, 2009

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...I was two months in on my freshman year at Emerson. On the other side of the country, in the area where I live now, this happened.

Can't say I'm too tied in with the anniversary of that earthquake (and to be honest, in Boston it was kind of eclipsed by this guy a week later), but I have to say for good or ill, they've done a FANTASTIC job of fixing things up since then. True, there are still a huge handful of buildings and apartments that aren't yet retrofitted, and they're still working on redoing the Bay Bridge, but things like the demise of the butt-ugly Embarcadero Freeway, the rerouting of 880 (and the demise of the Cypress Viaduct, which from what I read was a sketchy road to begin with before the quake), and restructuring of houses in the Marina, show that this city has come a long way.

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