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"[I]t will not seem to have affected a person with a feeling of final damage, with any foreboding of irreparable disaster. Everyone is talking of it this afternoon, and nobody is in the least degree dismayed. I have talked and listened in two golf clubs, watched people in vehicles and in the pub, and one man is happy that Chinatown will be cleared out once and for all; another's chief solicitude is for Millet's 'Man with the Hoe'. 'They'll lower it out of the body', he says, a little anxiously. 'Sure.' But there is absolutely no doubt anywhere that San Francisco can be rebuilt, bigger, better, and soon. Equally as there would be nothing whatsoever if all this NY that has so obsessed me using its endless bigness was itself a blazing mess up. I believe these folks would more than half like the problem." - H.G. Wells On the morning of Apr 18, 1906, almost all of the residents of the city of San Francisco were acoustics asleep when the ground started to tremble. But what started as fairly smooth tremors turned into a violent shaking everywhere. The roar of the earthquake definitely woke up residents, at least those fortunate enough never to be immediately swallowed by the breaks opening up in the ground. The earthquake lasted about a minute, but it had enough destructive power to divert the course of entire waterways and level much of the ninth-largest city in the us at that time. Regrettably for San Franciscans, the most detrimental was yet to come. During the earthquake, the city's gas mains and water mains were ruptured, which had the effects of starting lots of fires and protecting against the residents from being outfitted to battle them.
