Topic: what were you doing
started by: CatKnight
Posted by CatKnight on Mar. 12 2002,05:50
what were you doing when you first heard about the wtc? i was just waking up for class and my room mate had it on cnn. some rotc guys went around banging on doors saying that their divison had been activated, and i watched the towers collapse by the big tv in the hub with a couple hundred people crying and moaning.
Posted by ic0n0 on Mar. 12 2002,06:13
I was walking home from my 8
0am class; I didn’t know what happened as I was walking home. When I walked into my apartment I got on my pc and onto irc and BAM everyone was talking about it, “I was like what do you mean there gone?” at that point I hadn’t turned on the TV or went to a news site.
Posted by veistran on Mar. 12 2002,07:31
I was getting up for class, and watched the second plane hit, watched until the big chunk fell off the one and then had to leave and heard about the collapse on the radio.
Posted by damien_s_lucifer on Mar. 12 2002,08:31
I was sleeping... my roommate ran into my room and yelled "WORLD WAR III JUST STARTED!" - I just fell back asleep, figuring if I was gonna die, I was gonna go out happy.I finally dragged myself into work around 10am, figuring that "the Twin Towers blew up" was a plenty good excuse for being late... and also figuring that they'd let us go home... which they didn't.
Posted by Uberkommando on Mar. 12 2002,13:44
I was talking with my friend Chris while he was running the lunch counter stand after school, when my current events teacher ran up and dragged us into the teachers' lounge to have a look.
Posted by Carnivore on Mar. 12 2002,14:41
I was driving into work listening to Howard Stern. Robin was like, "Did something just go into one of the towers???" and Howard was like, "Yeah I think it was a plane." Then everyone on the show started freaking out. 
Posted by liquid metal on Mar. 12 2002,15:01
i was in a bio lab. we were in the woods. i was confused when someone said "classes have been cancelled for the day."
Posted by Wiley on Mar. 12 2002,15:16
I was on the 405 freeway driving into work. I heard the first reports on Howard Stern, but at the time they didn't know what in NY was on fire. I turned to another radio station that was just saying "this is horrible ...I can't believe what is happening". Of course they wouldn't fill the listeners in on what was happening. I called home to Bernadette and told her to turn on the TV. She asked what the hell was going on because a friend of ours from France just called her and woke her up with screaming about WTC. She hung up on him and went back to bed just as I called. She turned on CNN right as I was pulling into work and explained what was going on. I ran upstairs just in time to see the second plane hit. Everybody just kind of watched the towers burn in disbelief and then the first tower fell. As soon as it fell we lost our internal video feed that is broadcasted from the south tower and on to our desktops. All the video windows went green at once ...for me this is what snapped me into reality and made me realize that this wasn't a movie I was watching. About this time security rushed in and told us we have to leave the building. I work in one of the twin towers in Century City, they are modeled after the ones in NY and were built by the same architect ...just about 1/3 the size. Security was getting increasingly more persistent on getting us out of the building when one of my co-workers broke down and told us that he couldn't leave, both his parents were in the WTC and he knew that they would try and call him on one of the 800 numbers since their cell phones no longer worked. Security wouldn't let us stay, so I forwarded all the 800 lines to his cell phone ...it was the best I could come up with on short notice. My boss was also in the WTC and I had my Weekly Tuesday morning conference call with the South Tower at 110am. It's really surprising how much of the financial world revolves around downtown NY. Everybody in our office was listing off the names of people they knew in those buildings as we were escorted out of our building. The next day few people came to work …the market wasn’t open but we were calling our clients to let them know that the company was still ok and their money was safe, even though we didn’t believe it at the time. Somebody actually came up to me and asked if the server was down because they couldn’t get the tickers to show the previous close prices. I answered, “I think it went down when the plane crashed into it …either that or when the building fell down. You’re a fucking idiot!” He got all pissed off, but it was a pretty stupid question to be asking.And my co-worker finally got it touch with his parents..both of them got out from different towers and called on the 800 number and everybody found out that each other was alright. And my boss got out, rented a car and drove back to CA. He doesn’t really like to talk about what happened. Like many others he just says that the only way you could understand is if you were there. I know he’s right …and I’m glad I can’t understand.
Posted by Wolfguard on Mar. 12 2002,15:36
On the 10th i was sitting on the tarmac at o'hare in chciago waiting for the plane to take off. it was delayed due to air traffic control problems on the east coast.I woke up on the 11th to the news reports of the first plane. Went and woke the mrs just in time for the second hit. She asked me what movie it was. I told her it was CNN.
We waited for 12 hours for all the people we know to send the "im alive" messages. 8 people we knew were in the towers. Thank the maker, all 8 got out.
Posted by Bozeman on Mar. 12 2002,16:47
September 11th, 2001 happened last semester on a tuesday. Last semster, tuesday was the only day I didn't get up at 6:30 am. I lazily hung around, ate breakfast, and checked email. Then my roommate called, and told me to turn on the news. The towers were on fire, and they replayed images of the second collision. I just sat and watched. Then they fell down.
Posted by editor on Mar. 12 2002,18:45
I woke about 7am Pacific; turned on the news and stood straight up on the bed. Called a bunch of people and woke them up, most of them didn't believe me! Said I was drunk or on drugs! "No, no," I said, this is on all channels! And I drank for 3 days and wouldn't go outside....CK this is an excellent topic!
Wiley, I have a mental picture of all those screens blanking at the same time...goosebumps!
Posted by Nikita on Mar. 12 2002,19:04
I was walking to my grad ordinary diff-e-screw class when I saw a bunch of people huddled around the bigscreen in the HUB (student activity center). Swung by to pick up my morning paper and check out what was going on. CNN was going at full blast. Thought it was a horrendous accident til the 2nd plane slammed into the other tower.Played hooky from school, research, etc. that day.
Posted by Spydir on Mar. 12 2002,19:56
I was walking out after my my second period class when I heard someone say "THE WORLD TRADE TOWERS JUST FELL!", and I seriously thought they were kidding through all of third period. then after third, going to forth, i found out it was true. since fourth is my world civ class we watched it. we watched the whole thing after that for the next couple days in that class a couple others.
Posted by chmod on Mar. 12 2002,20:33
I was doin my independent study in the computer office at school, when my friend walked in and said "hey guys, a plane just hit the world trade center." I thought he was kidding around or something, but then we went up to the library where people were watching the news and crying. Then in my next computer class I was trying to keep up with the furious pace of posts on detnet, and the thread went to 5 pages in like an hour.
Posted by kuru on Mar. 12 2002,21:02
I was drinking coffee getting ready for work. I saw it on Fox News Channel. While I was finding out that I knew six people who were scheduled to be in the WTC that morning, I found out a plane crashed in Pennsylvania roughly 30 miles from my house. I made a few 'I'm alive, yes it hit near Pittsburgh but it didn't hit me' calls, I found out that two people I was worried about were OK. Two out of six checked in: one escaped the building after walking down 80-odd fights of stairs and one never made it to work because when he got to the Holland, it was closed. I went to work, classes were cancelled, I came home. I waited for news on the other four. I spent all night checking e-mails and answering phone calls. I found out that one never left his desk. One was seen in the hall by co-workers, but not again. One called his wife and said he was on his way out, and one called a friend from the stairwell to say it was not passable. The four were not to be seen or heard from again. I spent the entire night watching the news and talking long distance to friends - some of whom were in NYC, but were not harmed - some of whom were not entirely sure I had left NYC.
All in all, nine of my friends/acquaintances were directly affected (they were at an attack site). The only other death was the father of a friend who was on one of the planes. I found that out sometime after midnight.
In some ways the last six months have seemed much longer.
Posted by gee ess on Mar. 12 2002,21:50
I really find these posts interesting. Nice to talk about something real. I was in bed...then the phone rang, a friend saying the end of the world was here...I turned on the TV and saw it all. Didn't think it was the end of the world, but knew that it was the end of a lot of people's lives. Felt my stomach sink to my toes. Went to work and everyone was very quiet and kind to each other. We could do that more often, without having to witness a tragedy. I got a call from a friend in NY saying the only reason he wasn't in the city that day is because he overslept. I had another friend who just happened to miss her flight which was one of the planes that crashed into the WTC.
Posted by smartsnake on Mar. 12 2002,22:58
I was in school and I was in one class we turned on the TV for a few mins after the annoucements came on over the pa system in school, then the dumbass teacher just turned off the TV. Luckly the next class I had was Global History and the teacher had the TV on the whole time we didnt have any class.
Posted by Uberkommando on Mar. 12 2002,23:38
Second to the people who were actually involved, or had relatives in the tower, we overseas military got hit pretty hard. Some of our friends' parents were dead from the crash at the Pentagon, and the base completely shut down. I lived on it, so I was okay, but my friend Tom got stuck with me. The Threatcon jumped to Delta, and all gates were closed down. School was cancelled for the next two days, and huge concrete barriars sprung up overnight -- we were suddenly at war. After the barriars came the Humvees with the machinguns, soon to be replaced by sandbag bunkers. After that came the German SWAT truck, which has stayed by the base since then.The sympathy we started to get was amazing. The big, new "Ramstein Air Base" sign was completely masked by flowers. The gate guards were knee-deep in cookies and brownies. The German civs, who couldn't get on base, would drive to the gate, hand the guards two dozen cookies, turn around and drive home.
Posted by veilside on Mar. 13 2002,00:03
| Quote (chmod @ 12 Mar. 2002,12:33) |
| Then in my next computer class I was trying to keep up with the furious pace of posts on detnet, and the thread went to 5 pages in like an hour. |
i was also perusing detnet at the same time..the internet was really lagged and none of the news sites worked.. we were talking about it in class, and i didn't see it happen on tv, so i was kind of confused..
but when it happened, i was in my ap chem class, and the principal made an announcement that the first plane had hit. i thought it was just a small plane or something..so i didn't think it was really that bad (again, because i didn't see it happen). two periods later we heard air force jets going towards the city. i didn't watch until i went home and turned on cnn.. the whole thing was just surreal.
Posted by CatKnight on Mar. 13 2002,00:14
Posted by incubus on Mar. 13 2002,01:17
I was in burger king. On my lunch from work. Then i got a SMS saying "someone's blown up the twin towers!"I was like yeah right, and carried on eating. Then I got to work and it was on the TV ... we were all mesmorised...
My mate had a realaudio feed off some guy scanning the police radio channels ... it was really fucking nasty
Posted by Cyrino on Mar. 13 2002,01:48
I was sitting down to start math class when the teacher came in and said that a plane had hit the WTC. I didn't think much of it because I thought it was just some idiot who stole a plane and didn't know how to turn when a big building came out of nowhere. After math, a couple buddies and I went to Cherry's for a couple drinks and saw the footage of the buildings collapsing. We didn't go back for any classes.
Posted by editor on Mar. 13 2002,02:27
hey CK, good, you changed your avatar back. somehow I think you're a little younger than Anthony! Lately you have shown a lot of class...
Please continue
Congratulations on your 3000th posting.
Posted by TheTaxMan on Mar. 13 2002,15:48
I was sitting in on an American History lecture with a good friend of mine in some auditorium on the UT Austin campus. The professor mentioned it in passing and no one knew what he was talking about and the lecture continued as normal. We didn't find out what actually happened until after the class ended and we went over to the SSB. I'm actually going to drive the 11 hours to her house in AL tomarrow. Hm.
Posted by 1LT on Mar. 13 2002,16:41
Baumholder- EFMB train-up. Lunchtime on the Camo self/equipment lane. Some guy gets a call from his girlfriend on his cell phone. I blew it off, figuring I'd get the details later. Got those details when we came back to our tent area. Spent the rest of the week pissed at my fellow Americans because the pocket knife on my keychain is bigger than a fucking box-cutter. I couldn't believe that I couldn't do anything and that no one else did. (Later, remembered some Psych classes concerning groups and theories of responsibility.) When we got back, the whole post had changed. (Read Uberkommando's post) Threatcon Delta sucked. Especially for anyone living off post.
Posted by just_dave on Mar. 13 2002,16:48
I had just walked into Cisco Networking when I found out about it. My cisco teacher is an arms service, and his son was put on active duty. We really didnt do anything but gather in the classroom, and watch the news events as they unfolded. Everyone was late for classes or late going home, because no one wanted to leave. It was devestating. We held a prayer vidual, in the lab then everyone broke and went home. The school had a official prayer vidual later on that day. It was scary, My dad's friend had just left the building and crossed the street when the plane hit. Makes you realize how lucky you are.
Posted by chmod on Mar. 13 2002,20:30
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I can see those funky lights from my bedroom window.
Posted by veistran on Mar. 13 2002,21:14
I was in the Annapolis area a little bit after and it was rather interesting seeing the naval academy after they put up the machine gun emplacements.
Posted by Uberkommando on Mar. 13 2002,21:25
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Quick, to the Batcave!
Posted by Nikita on Mar. 13 2002,21:29
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| Quick, to the Batcave! |
that's exactly what I thought
Posted by RadioActive on Mar. 13 2002,22:09
I had first period spare, and we were sitting in the cafeteria talking. Usually in the morning all 3 TVs in the caf play CNN. So all of a sudden one of the guys just said: "Hey, check out the TV". So we all watched. I think CNN started talking about this about 5 minutes after the first plane hit. Watched the second plane hit and the rest of the events unfold. Eventually be the end of first period half the school was out watching CNN on one of the TVs that we got all over the school. We were forced to go to second period, but after lunch there really was no school. All afternoon was spent filling people in on the events and discussing what exactly happened.Some people were in shock, most didn't even know how to react.
Posted by Bob_the_Cannibal on Mar. 13 2002,23:22
Gym class, just walking in at 6:15:d00d, someone just ran into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon...
"um, whatever..."
no really!
2nd period: see a plane crash into building: "WTF WAS THAT ALL ABOUT! THAT D00D WASN'T KIDDING!"
rest of day, _except for anatomy_ (fucking teacher) we watched the news.
"Christ on a carousel," I was thinking: "When we find, not 'if' we find, who did this, they are in a world of shit..."
Posted by DRUFER on Mar. 14 2002,03:48
I was in the middle of CICSO when we got the word to turn on the news. The school would only pipe CSPAN or some useless chanel like that thru where people kept calling in about and they showed pictures of the pentagon on fire. We all jumped on the computers to check the news when we realized they hit the twin towers too...its a shame we lost so many people and one of the biggest parts of the skyline.
Posted by mqa on Mar. 14 2002,08:12
i woke up to go to school and my dad was watching the tv and said "can you believe this shit?"did any of you see the show on cbs this sunday?
Posted by Rhydant on Mar. 14 2002,23:22
i was getting ready to go to school. i sat down on the couch to put my shoes on and the tv turned on (remote was under my ass)at first i just kinda sat there. for 2 hours.
then i realized maybe i should go to school.
Posted by editor on Mar. 15 2002,02:27
yes, mqa, I have it on S-VHS... I figured it would be a boring rehash, and I was wrong.The camera is there in the lobby of the WTC when the second airplane hits with a bang!
and everyone is looking in all directions since they can't tell what direction the noise came from... since it was almost right overhead... the sound of people hitting the ground
*bam*
is unnerving to say the least.
I've read that CBS has the rights to broadcast once more.
"stay tuned"