tomorrow is 11 09 01
- Started
- Last post
- 174 Responses
- JazX0
there are idiots everywhere not just America
- BXCAR0
Brusselas
... worked for one and a half year in Antwerp, extensive partying, i saw it all. dont like a'pen that much.
theres a monsterparty next saturday though and im gonna get my dancin shoes on
:P
http://www.5voor12.be/luna/flash…
4CV if your in antwerp nxt saturday let me know cause im planning to tear some paper of the wall, ha!
- Ladyvipb0
Yea, it was really fucked up...
- 4cY0
jazX, where are you talking about?
are you on dope now?
- JazX0
uhhh mostly yes,. he ehee just playing around with everyone ;) just sick of these threads, I figured this was going to go on and on and on here today and tomorrow so let it begin I guess?
- Duane0
on 9/11 i was in the air on my way home from a week long vacation and press check in hong kong for the return to castle wolfenstein tins. for 18 hours i watched the blip on the map on the plane travel towards my destination of san francisco. as we near the coast i search for the golden gate bridge but instead see big green mountains. slightly confused i watch as we near the ground and notice a lot of air canada planes around. i tell the old chinese couple next to me that this is definitely not san francisco as the captain simultaneously comes over the loudspeaker announcing an attack on the u.s. he patches in cnn over the headphones as more international flights build up behind us on the runway. as we listen to the chaos in nyc we are interrupted by news of the attack on the pentagon. scary. three hours later we finally start to disembark the plane and are welcomed by officers in the tunnel between the plane and airport. i get frisked, scanned by metal detectors, sniffed by dogs and then the contents of my carry on luggage are unpacked, destroyed and left for me to sort out after i am cleared by security. all checked baggage is impounded so i have no toiletries and only the clothes on my back. in the airport there are thousands of people. so many in fact that i am eventually have to leave the airport in order to make room for others. i exit the airport and get hit by a cool breeze - great, i'm wearing shorts and thin t-shirt. i overhear a businessman from seoul i met in hong kong getting the next to last room at a hotel in vancouver and yell out 'i'll take the other room' he relays the message and i jump in a limo with him to head to the hotel and turn on a tv. it's the first news coverage i've seen. surreal. it took a week and a half to get home from vancouver, each additional day resulting in more phone calls trying to find a way home and another trip to the store to get something to wear. planes, trains, boats, rental cars are all booked. finally i get a flight out of seattle and have a distant family friend in washington pick me up in vancouver and take me to seattle. all told, the hotel, plane flight, toiletries, clothes, etc. cost over $5,000.
i'll never forget that day. it made me appreciate being home.
sorry for the long post!
- 4cY0
well, it would be good to have ONE thread about it and let each other share their feelings/experiences.
but as soon as this thread is going the wrong way (america-bashing and what not) I will have it removed by the little men inside NT's server.
- JazX0
Shit? What the hell was I doing that morning. Ohh yeah that's right, 20 blocks away in Silicon Alley, running for my FUCKING life to the Bronx as fast as possible and cutting across the bridge to Jersey. My company sank soon after that, wouldn't of mattered they were in deep debt doo-doo anyway. bastards all around!
- cinder0
my mom woke me up about 9 or 10 or something (out of work at the time)
she said "they flew two planes into the world trade center"
I said "what?"
I went to watch the TV.
my blood ran cold when I saw the footage.
I sat there in disbelief.
I saw the smoke, and the rubble
and then I realized what was going to happen. I knew they were gonna come down.
Then they collapsed and I totally lost it.
- JazX0
no that's cool, your right, I'm actually used to it and your a great moderator anyway.
- 4cY0
i read it all, testpilot!
What a hassle!
thx for sharing your experience...
- JazX0
I had a friend, he lived in the Battery Park area circa WTC and he almost bought it bigtime. Funny thing is he is a complete jerk and hasn't changed since. His ass was swimming in the Hudson. (x_x)
- jox0
i was in my car, on my way to a client meeting when I heard about it on the radio. First thought through my mind: what a stupid f-ing pilot! I never thought it could be a terrorist attack..
- 4cY0
well the read was no hassle, but your trip ofcourse.
- JazX0
Battery Park is like a 1 minute walk to WTC. He was lucky as fucking shit!
- JazX0
Now that I think about it, if the one Tower would have fell the other way, he would have certainly been dead. I think it fell to the East and he lived to the West of it.
- BXCAR0
i do graphics now but am trained as an architect. in scholl swallowed and swallowed a lot of statica. about how to reinforce building in order the resist wind/snow/etc.
i was amazed those towers withstood the burning heat for so long. The heat of the burning kerosine slowly turned the reinforced concrete into spaghetti making the structure weak and collapse.
it took one and a half hour i guessdid you know nuclear plants are protected against a plain crash (read: meters of concrete thick walls) or they are supposed to be.
in europe there are standards that prescribe those things
- 4cY0
oh yes, my confession..
when the towers collapsed i did cry. lots. on myself.
but it was paranoia... i remember the Dutch news that night.. most (if not all) regular TV (except for an "important" soccer match! wankers) was canceled.
but anyway, on the news they showed explosions in Afghanistan (there was a great scare here for WW3 breaking out).. but it appeared to be a weapon/fireworks factory on fire, which was just an incident.
but it shows how paranoid both the people and the media were that day.
- 4cY0
yes, BXCAR... but they put anti-aircraft artillerie in front of most nuclear powerplants right after it.... even the one near where I live, I believe.
- BXCAR0
yeah man that scared the shit out of me aswell.
scenes of Palestine/Yemen/Iraq on the news ppl partying, burning flags, little kids amongst the crowd joining in.was that imagery real i wonder now?