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I was just about to leave to go to class at Nassau and my grandma called and told us one plane flew into the trade center. So i stayed home and watched it all on TV. Then ran to go donate blood.
well being stupid me i didnt know what the 'world trade center' was, i only knew it as the 'twin towers' i shouldnt even admit this, my FH got mad at me when i told him that! but oh well....
I was in my dorm at school... and one of my residents was banging on the door to tell me what happened.... at first, i thought he was showing me a movie or something. then we just sat in our suite for the rest of the day (week) wathing the news. oh.. i started to walk to class, but they ended up cancelling them.
I found out in the car on the way to work here in CA when I turned on the radio and they said, New York as we know it is now gone!!! I thought I lost my whole family and all of my friends. It took a few hysterical minutes yelling at the radio- 'What happened' and me almost hitting th car in front of me for me to calm down enough to hear what actually happened. I couldn't reach anyone in NY and was very worried about my sister who worked downtown. I then had to go to my middle school where I am the only counselor to console, calm and counsel over 700 terrifed children and their parents while I was quietly panicking inside. It was the worst day of my life and yet, I know how fortunate I really am. I have never taken my family for granted since that day.
its so weird. i pass by there all the time to go to my movie theater and its so weird. i cant expalin it. i actually went to the city a few days after the 11th ( iwas still living on long island at this time) and the ONLY thing i can rememer is the smell. when we were right there it smelt so horribly, i cant expalin it. i swear. also, all the soot on all the awnings. it was horrible. i wont ever forget that . the thing i remember most besides the smell was this one wall with MILLIONS of posters of 'missing' people. i wanted to take a pic to remmber it, but i didnt want to be disrespectful . that ws teh moment it really hit me.
I was still asleep b/c my class didn't start till like 2 in the afternoon...anyway my BF who is now my FI calls me on my cell and was like hurry up and turn on the t.v. i was like why are you waking me up to turn on the t.v....he said well the WTC was just hit by an airplane, so I rushed to find the remote to turn it on and as you all know I saw such a horriffic image!! anyway we were talking on the phone about how crazy it was that a plane crashed into a skyscraper like that and then wham the other plane hit...that really scared the **** out of me cause it was like 'that was no accident' I to freak out and cry cause I was home alone and didnt know what else to expect plus I was thinking about all those people who were working in those towers!!Anyway it was definitly the scarest day of my life as well
i was at school, Shawn called me to tell me what happened, class let out and since i went to Queens College, on the way to my car I was able to see what was happening. Scary stuff.
I had stayed at FH's over the weekend and was coming out of the subway on West 3rd to go to class when I saw a plane flying really low overhead. I thought that it was a little weird but just kept walking. I picked up my roommate for class and as we were heading across the street someone said class was cancelled because a plane had just crashed into WTC. A few minutes later, we saw the 2nd crash. It was so awful. I headed back out to LI as soon as they started trains running out of Penn later that night.
I was at work at the hospital and I went down to the x-ray dept. Because they have a TV and saw what was going on I could not believe it. All of a sudden the hospital went into alert for survivors and we were not allowed to leave. I will always remember that day.
I was at work, about 1 block from the WTC, stuck on the 28th floor of my building.
I was at work in Midtown in the 50's we all were watching TV when we saw the second one hit, we all got phone calls when the first one got hit. When the second one got hit, ppl thought they were looping the first crash and then we see its not a loop at all....They weren't allowing anyone to leave unless they left with someone, so me and my friend walked, she walked to the Willamsburg Bridge, and I walked over the 34th and 8th where FH office was at that time, they wanted to put us up in a hotel, but I refused to stay in the city, so we heard penn was open and took any train to get us out of the city.....FH hadn't seen any images, so when we got home he saw the news and it was strange to see him react so late after we all reacted you know
Calculus class!!!!!!!!
I was in FL with my mom. We had to take the Greyhound bus home. It was weird how it didnt really sink in until I was home.
My father led the cleanup of groud zero, for bovis lend lease constuction...i would go to the site to meet him so he could take a break from what he was doing...my three brothers started working with him around the clock as well...i know it was an awful, tiresome and depressing time of their lives but my dad said he has never been involved in anything more meaninful. I get choked up thinking about that day all the time...we lost family friends, my friend lost her boyfriend (volunteer firefighter) and my coworker lost her son. I actually was in NY working at the time and sat with my coworker for hours watching the television and trying to understand what was happening... :(
