Where were you on September 11, 2001?

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I was in New Orleans the Friday before Katrina, too.

Going to San Francisco this weekend---I guess the earthquake is next.

So it's your fault I spent a month without power? Bastard. :biggrin1:

On September 11th, I was getting ready for school. I'm one of the unfortunate/fortunate ones to see the second plane hit the second tower live on TV.
 

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LOL -- pretty please stay out of LA!!

Have no fear, I spend a lot of time in LA. Was there in July; it was 100 degrees here (Houston) and 78 Southern California Degrees in Santa Monica.
 

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So it's your fault I spent a month without power? Bastard. :biggrin1:

You could have come and stayed with me. We had plenty. I offered to all my NOLA friends, but none of them took me up on it (they stayed with parents, siblings, etc).
 

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It was my first day of work on a new job. I was on the phone with my manager and I could here hubbub in the background on her end. I asked her what was wrong and she said don't worry about it some idiot just flew a Cessna into one of the towers. Then a custodian ran into our office and said NYC had just been bombed. I told her I had to go, and hung up. We went to the lunch room and watched a small staticy color tv for the next 3 hours. Since I was working in a county board of education office in south Jersey the phones were ringing off the hook the rest of the day. Parents, teachers, principals, students, media all wanting to know why the schools in Gloucester county weren't closing. Uh cause we are approximately 85 miles south of the city.

My parents were walking the boardwalk in Belmar, NJ and saw the smoke; but didn't think too much of it. When they got back to their car there was a crowd around a parked school bus and they were all listening to the live radio broadcast. That's how they found out.

When the plane hit the Pentagon I went into shutdown mode as it was all just too much. I grew up on a Navy base and to me bombing/attacking a federal building especially the Pentagon meant we would soon be at war.

Then I remembered my godson, he was a sophomore at Bayonne high school. I called his house and although they had been ordered to stay in the school he and many others went home. He had been in science class on the 5th floor when the first plane hit. Many students and staff watched their parents and spouses die as the towers crumbled. I stayed on the phone with him off and on for most of the day.

I left work about 4:30 and was stunned by the fact I was the only one on the NJ Turnpike during rush hour. From exit 3 to exit 8A it was me and maybe 4 Feds in black SUVS . . . thats it. It was very, very, eerie. That and for the next few weeks there were no airplanes. I grew up between Ft. Monmouth Army base, Earle NWS, Mc Guire Air Force base, Lakehurst Naval Airbase and Fort DixArmy base. There were always planes flying over our heads.


The next few weeks were just a blur of that horrible news footage, touching base and reconnecting with everyone I know who lived and worked in the city, memorial services for people in the community who had perished, and creating a new normal.


I think about all the times I passed through it on the way to Pearl to buy art supplies on Canal St.

To this day, I can't watch footage of the towers falling without crying.
 

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At my ex bf's, I got up, pottered around a bit, made coffee and turned on the news, although the newsreader told me it was reality it had a sense of surrealism, it felt as if I was watching some sort of super hoax, watching that enormous building fall because of what looked in comparison to be a tiny plane didn't sink in emotionally for a while.
 

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I was on my way out to the library to return some books, when suddenly I saw on it on the news (CBS news), at first I thought it wasnt real, and then I saw that indeed it was, and even more so when the reception of my TV went out, except for station buildings that werent affected by crash, and then going outside and seeing numerous police cars, firetrucks, and people on the street just talking on it, and the feeling of panic in the air that day, that is something I will never forget.
 

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I was at home that day, turned on the tv, only to find the reception had gone to shit, and then the news broke in with all the horror. I watched from my living room, seenig the TT's smoldering at 1st, then some time later I looked up in horror to see that the building was collapsing, & people were running for their lives, only to be caked with tons of dust.

What really got me scared shitless was when i heard the New York Times might have had a package with that deadly virus. This was extremely worrisome for me, since my cousin was temp working there at the time.
 

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in houston. i was scheduled for a 4-midnight shift. it was unusual for me to be up that early. was playing on the computer, but had the tv on in another room. noticed some strange reports in the background, so went to look. about five minutes later, plane two plowed into the tower.

one of those moments that you never forget.

i'll always also remember a dry cleaning store along route 518 in league city tx near where i lived that had a sign that said "we love new york" afterward. for a short period, the country was one.
 

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I was at home in Barbados I'd just woken up and was glued to CNN and the net getting news on the tragedy.
 

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I was driving past the Mission Bay Golf Course and listening to this DJ on the radio saying all this wierd stuff about the World Trade Center. I figured that it was some bizarre skit that he was doing. I thought to myself "I wish these radio station would cut the crap and just play music." I changed the channels and every station reported the story. I couldn't believe what I was hearing at 8:30 in the morning (It was 11:30 Eastern Time). By the time I arrived at work, there was a TV on top of the file cabinets and we watched the news all day.
 

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I was in my apartment contemplating how I was going to finish a long piece I'd been working on for some time.
I turned on the television to CNN and learned that two of the World Trade Centre buildings had been hit by planes.
I've seen those images so many times that the chronology has become a bit murky for me -- but I think I saw taped images of the South Tower collapsing, and live images of the North Tower collapsing.
It was all so beyond belief. I knew that it was a terrorist attack, and I was immediately thinking of bin Laden's group. (I'd been interested in bin Laden for several years, since reading a piece in Esquire talking about his declaration of war on the United States.)
For the next few days, I felt a sense of dread in the air. Where would the terrorists strike next? It was not beyond belief that any large city could be hit.
Seems paranoid now, six years later, with no followup attacks on North American soil.
I don't believe I got any writing at all done that day. But it didn't matter. The newspaper for which I was writing was absolutely full of terrorist attack-related material, that day and many days following.
I hope this doesn't sound petty, but I felt very vividly alive for several weeks -- just like many Britons, for example, felt during the Second World War.
I think many people felt this way.
Adrenaline? The sense that evil people were playing for keeps? The knife-edge sense that suddenly nothing was predictable?
I don't know, but in an odd way life became more clear and immediate.
But it was purchased at a price that no one would want to pay again.​
 

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I was at work and the IT guy broke the news to me. I didn't react to him, as I remembered another attempt that was insignificant. Through hearing other people talk about it, I found a TV with a group of about five other coworkers and stood in horror. At the time, I was doing an extensive Old Testament study and because of that I wasn't surprised at what was happening. A week later I was driving through Nevada on my way to Southern California. Its the stretch between Ely and Las Vegas and very desolate. The radio reception is next to nothing and it was close to midnight. My emotions were so raw, that as I looked in the direction of Las Vegas and saw an electrical storm (wasn't sure at the time, figured it out later) occuring I was afraid of what I would find once I arrived in Vegas.
 

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I think I was at school, don't really remember. Don't think half the people in the UK do.

Morons like Frizzle are why anyone with the means is now leaving the UK.

Many of us had grown up with IRA terror. Much funded by misguided twats in the US. I wish we had your names, you who funded terror thinking you were supporting freedom fighters, disgusting murderers like McGuiness. LOL - not. :rolleyes:

Our parents had lived through the Blitz - 9/11. 10/11. 12/11. 13/11 etc etc etc

Your shock at someone actually landing a punch and your continued inability to deal with it are indeed very informative. Your culture allows for an Osama to be effective. And I am very sorry to say that.
 

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I remember going to bed and flicking on the late news to see a live cross to the first tower in flames. They were trying to pass it off as an aviation accident but it didn't look like that. Especially when the second one flwe into shot and hit th eother tower.

I sat up for hours flicking between the different cable channels covering it. It become interesting to see the different spin between Sky, CNN, Fox, BBC, etc.
 

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Pittsburgh, living with my ex, who woke me from a two-hour nap after writing a research paper to tell me the twin towers were falling. I went to yahoo, saw the photos, raced to the television and watched the second tower fall.

I kept thinking it somehow must be the preview of a new action movie, but the tape rolled on and on, over and over...