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9/11 - Where were you and what did you think when u found out? (pg. 6)
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| kid nyce |
on the train going downtown with my neighbor, me and her take the 1,2,3,9 train down to 50th St and walk across town. As we walked across 6th Ave, we hear a guy on his cell phone saying a plane hit the twin towers, we look down 6th Ave to see the whole southern tip of manhattan full of black smoke. we continue walking thinking it was some small plane accident, get to work (at a weekly publishing magazine) only to find all teleprompters and news feeds (direct from reuters) with live coverage of the 2nd plane hitting the south tower. Instinct of news, editorial, and sales staff is to start documenting anything and everything on a time scale.
our CEO and VP are in the office at the time instructing all staff to remain in the building, to jot down all notes and phone all families to notify that they are safe. The phones were locked up for a good 10mins before I could get through. My building as on 54th n Madison on the northeast corner facing south on the 23rd floor. We saw the the towers drop from our windows. No the earth didn't rumble at midtown, but nonetheless a moment to hold on dearly.
Editorial remained on call (USA Today), sales and support staff were given the day off with strict reporting the next morning at 6am! We were at work at 6am organizing all facts on a timeline board, all witness video from reuters were backed up on tape drives which were then replicated onto CD/DVD.
I remember leaving work at 12:40ish with my neighbor (we worked together at the same company), and we walked from midtown - 54th and madison to the upper west side 70s and broadway through central park. We heard fighter planes above, army copters, all police was located downtown. Shops were closing for the day as gates were coming down. As we walked through central park, we could see people laying on the great lawn tanning, people jogging sweating and working out. People biking through the park with their music on. Life seemed go on even though we just got attacked. It's NYC, that hard exterior, I walked passed this fairly attractive girl in her 20s sitting on the park bench reading a book, i thought to myself WTF?
Continued back to my apartment with my neighbor, and decided to go eat some food at a burger joint. TVs were all dialed into the only channel that worked channel 2 which was bounced off the empire state building as almost all NYC local channels filtered through the twin towers which were no longer there and no longer fed a signal to the metro area.
So basically after lunch, my neighbor and I went to the westside park (riverside park) with about an 1/8th of weed, sat there in the lawn, smoked our brains out asking each other what the happened. then we went home after all the weed was gone.... |
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| Slylee |
| i was walking from the bedroom to the bathroom in the morning to take my morning pee and i glanced out into the livingroom from the hallway on my way in the bathroom and the TV was on (my ex's little sister was crashing on our couch at the time, and she liked to have the tv on so she could fall asleep) and all i saw was this HUGE headline going across the screen, "AMERICA UNDER ATTACK!!!!" with the twin towers all up in smoke and flames. i literally had a mild pannic attack. i was like, "WHAT THE !" and i ran into the livingroom and turned the tv up and woke up his sister and my ex and we all watched for a few minutes. then my i looked at my phone and i had all these missed calls from my mom and dad and sister. so i called them back and got the scoop. |
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| lücid |
i had just gotten to my office, which was about 45 min north of Manhattan... i remember hearing about the 1st plane hitting on Howard Stern, but they didn't seem to think anything of it at first when only 1 plane had hit. when i got to my desk, my bf (who was working in Manhattan at the time) called me up and told me to turn on a radio. by this time, everyone in my office started turning on their radios and people were going frantic. the building that i worked in was a government building so it was pretty crazy around there that day. i remember just telling my bf to get out of the city as soon as he could, and i kept trying to call my best friend who worked downtown near the towers. all the phone lines were jammed though so it was really hard to get ahold of anyone.
i shared an office with this other girl, and me and her just sat there for most of the morning kind of freaking out. she was having panic attacks and i kept trying to keep her calm. probably one of the most vivid things i remember is when the 2nd tower fell. the guy who had the office across from us had his radio up really loud, and the reporters on the radio were freaking out... "oh my god, oh my god, the 2nd tower just collapsed, i can't believe this, holy crap, oh my god"... and we just sat there frozen, staring at each other.
our office closed at 3, but they allowed people to stay if they were too shooken up to go home or if they wanted to stay there and wait for family members to get a hold of them. i had class that night but it was cancelled so i drove home and met my bf there and we just sat in front of the TV all night, barely saying anything to each other. |
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| duka |
| some stupid lecture i think...walked across campus and saw everyone glued to a tv never really bothered to look what it was til i got home and saw it on the computer...and then went on with my daily routin! |
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| Rodrico |
| It was on the day of my grandmothers funeral in Stockholm, Sweden. We had just buried the coffin, and gotten home to my aunt and uncles house where we were staying when my brother flipped on the television to CNN and we caught it like five minutes before the second plane crashed. It's definately one of those days that will stick in your mind for the rest of your life. |
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| YuVaL |
| Was waiting for my private math lesson.. just before my teacher arrived.. i remember being online and hearing about it on the TA chat room.. so i rushed to the TV and was like OMG WTF IS GOING ON.. i thought all hell was breakin loss.. was like 2 years after i had lived in New York... then i rushed to the COR to open a thread about it.. |
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| reLLik |
| 9/11 was terrible,but what the hell is happening to the world. Tsunami, Hurricane, Earthquake (repeat 3x) i would guess that almost 250,000 are dead from all these recent natural disasters. im starting to think someone out there has one of those weather controling machines. too many innocent lives lost. |
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| Rodrico |
| quote: | Originally posted by reLLik
im starting to think someone out there has one of those weather controling machines. |
Yes, and he wears a black top hat, and has one of those long, curly moustaches too. Diabolical indeed.... |
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| Jackson |
| quote: | Originally posted by Rodrico
Yes, and he wears a black top hat, and has one of those long, curly moustaches too. Diabolical indeed.... |
:stongue:
"Theres murder afoot!" |
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| Zewad |
i was a senior at University Florida... asleep.. roommate comes in my room saying yo.. dude the towers are falling down and a plane something or another... i was still half asleep.. i sat up turned on the tv... my french class got cancled...but school was back to normal the next day...
my story is exciting... i know. heh |
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| SpecRadio |
I was in like 8th grade...
They took the teacher outside and told what happened. Nobody told the kids...but then they told each grade to go to the forum at individual times and the principal told us about it. We didn't get a day off or anything...just continued school thinking planes were going to crash into our school. :p |
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| LinX |
| first semester at college although that day i was uptown skipping class chillen w. some friends when one of my friends got a phone call from his mom telling him what was going on we werent too far from where it all went down so like a bunch of dumbasses we actually went to check it out ... bad move ... saw some i dont even want to describe... after the first tower fell we all ran uptown actually we jumped in one of the only cabs left downtown and headed for times square.. we then watched the second tower fall on the mega tron (where the ball drops on NYE) most fukked up day ever.. i just remember it smelling real bad downtown like an electrical fire or something.. ill never get that smell out of my head... my brother who works in the world trade was late to work that day it was a fukkin miracle he didnt get killed. although we did lose a few friends, 2 firefighters who i know deep down saved some lives before their own were taken.. :( |
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