9/11: 5 years onward
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- pascii0
sorry, i don't turn on the media for the next 5 days or so. i feel sorry for those who lost a loved person. this accident just changed the world.
- 23kon0
i remember where i was when i heard about the first plane flying into the towers.
i was sitting at work building a website to promote scottish businesses in new york for some expo thing.
i was gathering assets for a game we were going to pitch to the client. it was a bowling game, but you were bowling with a haggis and you were knocking down the NY skyscrapers like skittles.
Hoss from h69.net who id worked with at previous employer grabbed me on msn and was like "check out CNN NOW!!!!" and told me what had happened.
(needless to say - our game pitch never went ahead)
but yeah, i watched all this stuff happening live online and was glued to ANY newsfeed i could find.
its really strange because the whole thing never actually sank in until i got home and saw the footage being replayed on the news on the TV.
it was almost like i took everything the internet was telling me with a pinch of salt or maybe because i dont see the net as something "real" i dunno.
very hard to explain.
- pascii0
i was afraid, wwIII started. really. i went to a pal who worked in a tv-store, and saw all this pictures on about 30 tv screens. that was complete cray : (
- Baskerville0
I was visiting my grandfather in hospital. I arrived and he was talking about building being bombed and the world trade centre etc and we were convinced he had just had a bad dream and were trying to calm him down. Then he said, no really look at the tv which was on in the ward.
We looked and felt terrible for not beleiveing him and worse at what was going on. We all sat around the tv watcing for ages.
When I got home I put a balnk video in the recorder and recorded the whole day's tv from BBC1.
Literally as news was breaking. I still have never watched that tape since. But I think it will be interesting to watch back in real time one day, with all the false reports and confusion that occured as the facts got sorted out.
- brtman0
had drinks with fellow students and was riding my bicycle in NL; it was about 1800 or so when my mum called me on my cellphone. i was somewhat drunk but my mum's tone of voice sobered me up instantly.
- Witt0
* stands in silence
- visualplane_0
Here's some pics from that day, we got pretty close.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vis…
This was when I just moved to NYC, so while everyone was evacuating, we were trying to get in as close as we could.
- mg330
For me, that was the morning I was starting to pack to move to Chicago from Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX.
My Mom called me and woke me up as soon as things were heppening, but can't remember if she said "They're crashing planes into the WTC," or "There ARE planes crashing..."
It was impossible to concentrate on packing. We left early on the 12th to drive to Chicago and the highway was eerily lacking much traffic.
September 13th was the first day we were in the city, and that night we did the candlelight vigil walk in our neighborhood.
It was such a tragic time (and that's an understatment) but there was something about being new to this huge city and instantly feeling this sense of togetherness with total strangers, all of us focused on remembering those who lost their lives.
- OeufOeuf0
I was late, as usual, for work that morning. Before I had even gotten up the sound of a low flying plane sort of woke me up. I was living on 4th ave and 10th st at that time, and while it was a bit odd to hear from that location, i had heard low flying planes from when I used to live in Brooklyn sort of near JFK. So, i thought nothing of it and proceeded to get up and take my dog out for a walk unaware of what was going on outside. As I get to the street I see smoke in the skyline downtown, my view of the towers obstructed and still unaware of what had happened. I take my dog on her usual routine of walking to Washington Square park and as I turn to University, I see that one of the towers is on fire and everyone standing in the streets watching as things were unfolding. Cars were not moving and people had the radios on running the latest news. People were crying on the streets and scrambling to payphones as cell phone lines were jammed. As I stood there watching the first tower covered in smoke and explosion erupted from the second tower, my view partially blocked by some trees. At that moment the news on the radio said a second plane had just hit the second tower, and what everyone thought was an accident on the first tower now came to terroristism. And some people started shouting that we're under attack. I was still just standing there with my dog in a state of shock. My dog at this moment annoyed that she had not done her business is now getting restless. I continue to walk here with my eyes fixated on the towers and ears on the radios. As soon as, she was done, i rushed home to turned on the tv and watched everything unfild, I proceeded to call my brother and mom who both work in the city, but luckily not near the towers. Needless to say phones lines seemed jammed up and reaching anyone was difficult. I got my brother on the phone and neither of us could believe this was happening, he was not near a tv or radio but getting news from word of mouth around his office and at the moment I saw on tv the first tower going down, i freaked out and in what my brother described to me as the most unnerving voice he'd ever hear me speak in is "oh my god, one of the towers is goin down!" After that my brother decided that it was time for him to leave the office and make his way home. he proceeded to walk all the way home from midtown over the manhattan bridge to his home in bklyn. Meanwhile i'm glued to the tv watching the events unfold.... The rest of the week consisted of me having the tv on 24/7. I remember most of lower manhattan being closed off from 14th st down to everyone except those that lived there. as days passed the smell of, which to this day i will not forget, ash, smoke, and burning rubble. The winds luckily kept that smell to a minimum as it blew the smell towards jersey most of the time.
And on top of all this my wife was overseas at the time and her and her family were worried sick about me and my family's well being. She would not return to the states until a month later.....
- restlessdesign0
was my post seriously deleted for stating how i feel? i really wasn't bashing anything imho...
- CyBrain0
The view from my apt, when I moved in. http://www.talesfromthehead.com/…
- CyBrain0
I'll share one more, from happier times. I didn't take this. I don't think I was in there since junior high school.
- davey_g0
I remember, I respect.
- son0
i coulda swore i had some loose change in between this chair but i'm comin up a bit short eh.
bless the dead, in God i trust they're workin w/ me
- son0
we did a video for them, if you search you can see us tribute.
- son0
http://iswyd.blogspot.com/2006/0…
even anti america rappers were effected by this
- Visia0
I was living in Monteal at the time. I remember getting up, hitting Surfstation and there was a post about a plane hitting the WTC.
I tried to go to CNN.com but it wouldn't load so I went to CNNmoney.com which also carries alot of the CNN stuff.
That's where I found out about it.
I remember we didn't work that day but instead went downtown Montreal and just wandered around.
I also remember a guy on the Metro on the way day just turned to me and said:
"Dude, did you hear about that crazy fucking shit in NYC? Fuck man, that's some crazy fucking shit!"
"Yup, some crazy fucking shit indeed."
- k0na_an0k0
not to stir the pot at all, but it's 11:51 maui time and i'm wasted.
the flight out there was horrible thanks to 9-11. our honeymoon got off to a shitty start thanks to it. all the effort into stopping past attempts at terrorism but somehow accidentally my wife (newly wed) snuck on with not only lypstick, chapstick and lotion, but a full bottle of garorade.
But... what a fucking hassle the airport was. 3 checkpoints, had to throw out a liter of water that I bought in the airport after checkpoint 1, and, no food on the airplane any more, not sure if that was a cost issue or the fluid/solid issue.
At least I'm writing this married from maui before I pass out.
What am I doing online? Uploading pics for the fam back home.
Need. Sleep.
God bless. God night.
Be well.
- PonyBoy0
k0na buddy... you're in maui... ON YOUR HONEYMOON DRUNK...
... and you choose to post on NT? :)
You truly do love us. :)
congrats buddy!!
*gets back on track w/ 9 11 thread
- k0na_an0k0
my shit got hacked. that's why i'm on.
a person (love you) from nt informed me.
now i'm pissed.
making calls.