SEPTEMBER 11th

[hogwmn]

was sleeping got a phone about it

 

[rbts]

I was off work that day. I work for an airline and it was chaos there. I took a portable TV to the office so they could watch what was going on live. All we had at that point was really slow internet. Obviously we had many diversions and displaced passengers and crews. The strangest thing was the silence that night. Living in Memphis, one gets used to the noise of jets all the time from FedEx. That night was disturbing it was so quiet. I don't ever want to hear that much silence again.

 

[hogwmn]

The Story Off 11 September 2001 America

http://www.angelfire.com/realm/police-scanner/story.html

 

[RDCat]

god bless

 

[lost_in_maine]

The admins used vhf radios to talk to the teachers in the portables and I remeber hearing the principal get on the radio and say something along the lines of, "All teachers, any teachers that have TVs on at this moment need to turn them off immediately."

Boy how times are changed and how well you remember where you were during such an event.

I was in elementry school when JFK was shot, the first thing the teachers did was bring us down to the auditorium, and turned on the TV so we could all see what had happened....I was in 3rd grade...

Doug

 

[RiceCake]

I was still in school when 9/11 happened. I can't remember exactly what time it was, being in a different time zone and all I've long forgotten it. I just remember lazily rolling out of bed and getting halfway to the kitchen before my sister called "hey, come and check this out!".

I think I said "what the hell is goin' on?". It was NBC or something (hell every news station was on by this time) showing footage of the second plane hitting the tower.

I took off shortly after, I usually get up and go straight to school, and when I got there people (as expected) were confused as to whats going on.

I can remember us watching news footage on a TV in the common student area when my Computer Science teacher walked in and asked "whats happening". The chick next to me jumped out "...the second tower just collapsed".

He had no idea what was going on, he was just trying to find out why everyone in the building was starting at this one TV. I bet that was a pretty surprising thing to hear all of a sudden...

 

[RiceCake]

* Holy hell, I've been listening to those tapes, when the tower collapsed there's a guy calling out on the fire department radio system trapped in a truck.

Those dispatchers deserve every cent for coordinating this chaos.