by Alison Teeman with Michael Yovino-Young, MAI, SRA
Sunday October 20, 1991, was very hot and very dry, definitely not typical fall weather in the San Francisco Bay area. That day, six years of drought and strong offshore winds combined to create the most devastating urban catastrophe since the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
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