September 11, 2001- Where were you? (page 3)

Iamallcool

I was living with my parents on that day between jobs. My Mom notified me there is a VERY BIG NEWS on CNN, so I turned my TV on in my room. I was VERY shocked. I watched CNN for more than few days straight after that.

oldlightnewshite

That day I walked in the door at 14.00 or 14.30 UK time, after going to the funeral of a good friend who had committed suicide, she was only 26. My head wasn't really in the right place to do anything. Immediately I got a phone call from one of my clients. He said 'turn on the TV right now- a plane has flown into the WTC! It's like some kind of disaster movie, but it's actually happening NOW!' I turned on CNN on satellite, and really couldn't believe it. I admit I had to turn away when the people started jumping out of the windows. I don't think I've ever seen anything quite so disturbing. It makes it worse when you're watching it live. I admit that I thought about this being a catalyst for the great trib. I think some dubs were excited by what happened, it just made me mad as hell with religion and religious people. It did contribute to me re-examining the usefulness of faith. A year later i stopped going to the hall.

Found Sheep

I was in FS too. With Wes the ass elder that helped me wake up later from his lack of love, and my EX. We always met at the KH but would remeet closer to where we were going out being we are in the country. I put the radio on, normally didn't but I did and we heard them talking about it. We went to a sisters house in the teritory we were working and watched it on her TV. Most people we talked to in FS knew about it and we did out JW moral suport thing... we didn't stay out to late. It was a tuesday and the Book Study that night was surreal.

InquiryMan

I was told when taking a shower with a group of men from work after training.
I then returned to work, having more work to do... Another JW was also working overtime,
we could not concentrate too much as the news unfolded on the web....

mentally, i was on the way out, although I stepped down as an elder a year after that....

Cagefighter

I woke up with a horrible red wine hangover. I got up right before the second plane hit and turned on the TV as I usually did when waking. I walked back in the bed room and told my girlfriend that she better wake up and see this. About 20 minutes later the first tower fell. It was unbelievable. I assumed it was imploded then as I do now.

The really weird thing is what happened on Sept 10. I was cleaning a pool that afternoon and it was a clear blue sky, beautiful day. I kind of daydreamed off while cleaning looking up at an airliner flying over. With out any effort my lips muttered, "They are going to hit us from the air". It was like being possesed in a trance or when you have a song in your head and you finally just let the words out but much faster. I swear on my life that happened. I don't talk about it all the time. I guess I am part psychic. There are so many weird things about the whole event. We might never know the truth.

No offense to anyone that was closer to the tragedy then I was.

-CF

darthfader

I know several people (7 coworkers died) who were working in the north tower on floor 102 when the plane hit. I didn't find out that they were there until later that day. The first I heard was driving to work on the car radio, they were talking about evacuating the tall buildings in Los Angeles. Then it was announced that both the WTC towers were hit my commercial planes.

donny

In 2001 I was living in Salinas, CA and working in Morgan Hill (about 45 minutes north). I was on my way to work and listening to the "Lee Rodgers and Melanie Morgan" radio show on KSFO and was about 10-12 minutes from arriving when Lee Rodgers commented that some idiot flew his plane into the WTC. Like many at the time I thought it was a Cessna or some other small plane. He resumed talking about whatever subject he was on before the announcement.

Just as I was pulling into the parking lot of my employer, they switched to the ABC news coverage in New York. Within a minute the reporter loudly exclaimed "a second plane has just hit the south tower" and immdiately I knew it was a terrorist act.

I went straight to my office and got on the internet. The bandwidth was not was it is today and getting information was very slow! A guy from our IT dept set up 2 televisions in different parts of the building and both had a large crownd around them nearly all day. Not much work was done that day.

SixofNine

I was in my car listening to the radio - with all the speculation about the size of the plane and accident vs intentional after the first plane hit. I suspected but didn't know that it was radical Muslim terrorism.

The instant the second plane slammed into the building I screamed, to no one there, "FUCK RELIGION!".

Then I spent the rest of the day till 4:30 pm trying to get word from my daughter and ex who were vacationing in Manhatten. Emotionally one of the hardest days of my life.

ShirleyW

For those of you not in the NYC area, may not be aware of few things that happened a few days after Sept. 11, on the 13th, some asshole made a call to a lot of the buildings in the city (inlcuding the one I worked in) and said there were bombs in the buildings, this was around lunchtime, so a lot of New Yorkers got a half day of work on that day as well. Ironically, we were in the Conference Room having a Pizza lunch for all the folks who were down at WTC that would obviously be joining us in our midtown office.

And another asshole or the same one made a call to Transit System just about everyday for a week or so and said the subways were going to blow up, so each morning after that alot of folks were a half hour or so late to the office, even the conductor said one morning " due to the guy that keeps making those phone calls we're gonna be traveling slow this morning.

titch

Well, on that morning, I was in bed, sleeping, and I didn't hear ANYTHING about the events of that day until several hours after the major events had taken place. A little background: Back in 2001, the country was very much in an economic recession, then. I had been laid off from a company in late June of 2001, and during the following months, I was unable to find ANYTHING, as far as gainful employment. I think that in August, I had an interview at ONE company, and one only, during that time. So, I was essentially un-employed, and searching for work. Now, IF---and I do mean IF---I had gainful employment to go to that morning, I suppose that my clock radio would have been set to around 6:00 a.m., and I would have heard the news of the events of the morning on some talk station or news station. But, I didn't. So, to me, it was just another morning, as usual, not getting up an an early hour. So, how did I find out about the events of that day? As I've mentioned before on this site, I am a licensed Amateur Radio operator, and in addition to my Ham radio transceivers, I have a couple of radio scanners that are able to tune in to Ham radio repeaters. When I woke up that morning, I turned on one of my scanners, tuned to a local repeater here in Southern California, and heard a couple of Hams talking about what had happened, and one of them said that he was keeping his own kids out of school that day, based upon what happened in NYC. Huh? WHAT had happened in New York City today, I thought? With that I finally turned on the TV to see just what he was talking about. And, it was then, several hours after major events had happened, that I knew. And, I heard that the FAA had ordered ALL civilian aircraft in the U.S. grounded. I live a few miles away from a major airport, John Wayne Airport, and later that day, I took my camera to a business complex that is just outside the airport boundary. It was rather surreal to see all of the airliners, that HAD been set to take off, early that morning, all lined up on the taxiways, abandoned. I took some pictures of that, as there was probably about 10 to 15 airliners lined up. And, I remember seeing a large "X" next to the taxiways, indicating that the airport was indeed, closed, to all aircraft operations. It was rather strange for the next few days, while aircraft operations were shut down, to hear nothing in the skies, the airways, above me: No airliners, no small aircraft, no helicopters...nothing.

Titch

September 11, 2001- Where were you?

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