What were you doing in 1994?

[Jayson1]

1994 was a big year for me and had a huge impact on who I am today. That was the year I moved back from living with my dad for 2 years to living with my mom and it was a bad experience. I basically have had only 2 years in my life were I felt happy and those 2 years were it because I loved high school. I loved playing sports and the whole experience and it was also the only 2 years of my life were I wasn't overweight.

It was also the year I became a Trek fan. Started watching TNG reruns and got hooked and was able to watch TNG's final season and DS9's second season, live ever week. That eventually lead me to become even more interested in other sci-fi stuff such as X-Files and Babylon 5 and the list kepth growing till I was a legitmate fan. I went from shy regular guy who didn't know how to talk to people very well to shy nerd who didn't know how to talk to people very well but also started have some of his more weird aspects begin to emerge. For some reason it didn't occur to me that thinking I might get to time travel or increase my intelligence by biting a electric fence might be a little unusual. That took many years to develop.

Jason

 

[Australis]

I was at college studying IT, being a dad, hitchhiking to and from because poor, struggling emotionally because one of my kids had been sick near to death a few years earlier. Scary time.

 

[scotpens]

In '94 I was working for a small mom-and-pop printing business in Culver City, doing pretty much the same work I'm doing now. What I remember most about that year was the big Northridge earthquake. That one was a doozy.

 

[Tenacity]

Not born yet.

 

[Tosk]

I was in a sweet sweet post-school, unemployed dickhead phase..

 

[ichab]

1994 was the year I left for the marine corps. It was also the year that O.J was arrested for the murder of his wife. I remember being at LAX airport at the bar watching the white bronco being followed by a dozen police cars wondering if O.J was going to commit suicide. It was surreal.

 

[DimesDan]

I was ten. My Grandfather died suddenly in January and my parents marriage slowly deteriorated over the course of the year. That's all I really remember.

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

I moved back to Townsville, to start maths & it at uni, after spending a year away from home studying the year before.

 

[Kemaiku]

Being 9 years old in primary school for most of it, flying off on holiday that summer, not much else.

 

[DonIago]

Held down my first full-time job for the first half of the year, started my second attempt at college in the second half of the year.

 

[UncleRogi]

My reply is quite mundane. I was working in a pre-cast concrete plant in sunny Fremont, CA.

 

[scotpens]

My reply is quite mundane. I was working in a pre-cast concrete plant in sunny Fremont, CA.

You can't get much more mundane than precast concrete.

 

[UncleRogi]

You can't get much more mundane than precast concrete.

Amen, my friend. Or covered in dust and choking on release agent fumes. For 4 years.

Paid well, though. Teamsters. It is what it is.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

In kindergarten, worshipping Barney. I also saw my first movie in theatres which was The Lion King.

 

[publiusr]

Working.

My parents health began a very long downhill slide--both were dead a decade later.

Many forget that 1994 was a year of disaster. Quakes (a bad one in Kobe a year or so later).

On March 27, 1994. a horrific F-4 struck near a church in my state. I had sent articles, clippings and what not to Tom Grazulis at THE TORNADO PROJECT. An inflow jet was the culprit.

Chase legend and Haag Engineer Tim Marshall made an overview: https://www.stormtrack.org/library/damage/goshen.htm

I still have the hardcopy magazine with the offending twister on the cover:
https://stormtrack.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/1994-05-v17-n4.pdf

A quote:

ALABAMA-GEORGIA APOCALYPSE by Tim Marshall

"Days after the storms, all eyes of the country were focused on a little church in Goshen, Alabama where 20 people lost their lives and more than 90 people were injured. But many other rural places were hit."

" Actually, I was most impressed by the scores of tornadoes (several were one mile wide) that scoured the hillsides of northern Alabama and Georgia uprooting trees from one state border to another. The average path length of each tornado was about 50 miles. A one mile wide tornado in Pickens County, Georgia uprooted about 1000 trees per SECOND as it raced 60 mph through the dense forests. Eyewitnesses described an incredible roaring sound, even the ground shook. Some described it as a rotating fog bank filled with exploding trees."

I have heard it said that Howard Philips Lovecraft visited the Deep Gulf South. We had many killer twisters in 1932. In 1925--came the Tri-State, a bit farther north. The year 1925 seems to stand out in HPL's writings. I wonder if storms may have played a part

If you want to see something out of Lovecraft actually come to life--come here:
https://stormtrack.org/community/threads/tornadoes-with-tentacle-like-external-vortices.24624/


Where Dunwich came to Guin:
https://mwenzbauer.wordpress.com/2015/01/21/april-3-1974-the-guin-tornado/

"Surveyor J.B. Elliot noted that the destruction was so complete, that even some of the foundations were "dislodged, and in some cases swept away." --Wiki

"A mad faceless god, howls blindly to the piping of...amorphous idiot flute-players. I thought I heard a shrill, whistling sound, like nothing else on earth...Forbidden shapes of shadow...wild orgiastic prayers that were answered by loud crackings and rumblings....foul odours, rushing airy presences..."

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This is the world wherein I live.

 

[T'Bonz]

1994. I was a mother-of-three girls (aged 6, 8, 10) in Florida and that might have been the year I went back to work full time. It wasn't fun since I didn't want to do so (not workshy, but realized the conflict between work and raising a family would be brutal and it was) and yet it was good to get out amongst people again. If not, I was working at least part-time by then.

I miss the days when the kids still thought their parents were all. From about 4th grade and later, forget that!

Oh yeah! We bought our first brand new house in 1994 - springtime. We were so proud and happy and each girl had their own room, something I never had. We lived in that house until 2013 when we moved up to N.C.

Hmm...that being the case, I think I was still at my last part-time job, the one I left to start working full-time in a bank.

 

[The Wormhole]

My only strong memories of the year are watching All Good Things in the spring, and going to the theatre to see Generations in the fall.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I was working at Wendy's, and also studying for the CPA exam. You don't usually put those two extremes together.

 

[Finn]

^I doubt you were that unique in that scenario. I've heard stories of folks going through professional programs including med students, law students and future educators while doing jobs like that...or worse.


Anyway...I started high school.

 

[Jayson1]

For me I got to admit it was the first year I ever masturbated. Not sure why I waited until my high school senior year but it happened.

It was also the first year I started to pop my knuckles and I started finding ways to pop my neck and my feet and sometimes my legs. Not so sure why I got so into it but to this day I still do pop my knuckles and feet. In fact I just did it a few seconds ago. Can't do my neck anymore for some reason.

Also spent lots of time playing basketball at the local YMCA. Also went to lots of children softball games. My sister was both the star pitcher and one of the best hitters as well. My other sister was on the team and might have been the worst player.

Jason