I remember people lining up for gas immediately. Many of the gas stations took advantage and price gouged.
I had a friend in Bethel and I called him to check on him. He said I was the first person to call him.
They showed the same news footage repeatedly all day. My elder dad thought they shouldn't have shown it quite so much, hard as it was to watch.
If anything should have caused the governments to turn on religion it should have been these events. Many thought that there would be more attacks from the Muslim world until the United Nations would have to step in and put a clampdown on religion. The fact that it never happened proved once again how wrong the WT's predictions are.