1. Support Bedford High School Athletics. The Bedford Bulldog Athletic Booster Club Super Raffle takes place at 6 tonight at the Manchester Country Club. The drawing begins at 7:30. There will also be a silent auction and all proceeds go to the Rich Beyer Memorial scholarship, the BHS weight room and special requests from the athletic teams. For more information, contact sue_thomas@comcast.net.
2. Bedford Police phone lines delays. Bedford Police are upgrading their phone system today and are expecting delays with calls to Bedford Police dispatch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 911 lines won't be impacted.
3. More fall weather. Today's forecast calls for a high of 61 degrees with partly cloudy skies and a 0-percent chance of rain.
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5. Earthquakes! Sure, some of us felt the 4.6 Earthquake that hit near Portland Maine, but on this day, in 1989, a 7.1-magnitude earthquake smashed the San Francisco area, killing 67 people and causing more than $5 billion in damage. According to History.com:
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On October 17, the Bay Area was buzzing about baseball. The Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants, both local teams, had reached the World Series. The first game of the series was scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. at San Francisco's Candlestick Park. Just prior to the game, with the cameras on the field, a 7.1-magnitude tremor centered near Loma Prieta Peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains rocked the region from Santa Cruz to Oakland. Though the stadium withstood the shaking, much of the rest of San Francisco was not so fortunate.
The city's marina district suffered great damage. Built before 1972, on an area of the city where there was no underlying bedrock, the liquefaction of the ground resulted in the collapse of many homes. Burst gas mains and pipes also sparked fires that burned out of control for nearly two days. Also hard hit by the quake were two area roads, the Nimitz Expressway and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
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