Where Were You On 9/11?
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MarkD
Keeper of the Hounds & Garden
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
I was packing for a flight to DC with my wife when my stepson called to tell us to check the news. Naturally we didn’t go the next day and the event we were planning to attend got postponed a year.
Nathan
SF VIP
- Location
- High Desert- Calif.
My wife and I were just entering the detention facility where we worked, heard some coworkers saying that a plane had flown into one of the Twin Towers.When. I got to the maintenance shop the TV was on, and the full story began to emerge.
Wayne
Senior Member
At work per topic I got a call to come into my Capt's office as she had a tv and told to go home and pack my clothes no word of for how long we would be gone (32 days). Prior to landing the pilot flew over the impact site and it was still smoking.
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Robb.hisself
Member
I had just gotten off work and turned on the car radio as I drove into freeway traffic. It was a warm, sunny morning and I was tired from working all night. It was 7:00 am Pacific Daylight Savings Time. Though traffic was its usual self it was a drive home that had me glued to my radio.
I got in and turned on the TV to see the first burning building. And soon after the second plane struck. The rest of the day until I went to bed at 2:00 pm I was glued to the TV. I went to work that night at my usual 11:00 pm shift to find the community I guarded hush and quiet without a car passing through all night.
I worked security for a largely Jewish neighborhood on the night shift. For the next two weeks while on high alert throughout this period the community was quiet and unusually peaceful with few comings and goings by neighbors or visitors to the community. It was just surreal what the effect of 911 was on this community.
I got in and turned on the TV to see the first burning building. And soon after the second plane struck. The rest of the day until I went to bed at 2:00 pm I was glued to the TV. I went to work that night at my usual 11:00 pm shift to find the community I guarded hush and quiet without a car passing through all night.
I worked security for a largely Jewish neighborhood on the night shift. For the next two weeks while on high alert throughout this period the community was quiet and unusually peaceful with few comings and goings by neighbors or visitors to the community. It was just surreal what the effect of 911 was on this community.
Sippican
Member
- Location
- South Coast Massachusetts
In NYC
Being at an adjacent office space of a trading floor, we watched the plane hit on monitors.
If you know about satellite trading desks, they rely on 'Squak Boxes' to communicate. Direct links without phone lines.
The traders on the other end said they think they felt the building move.
We advised them to exit the building as soon as possible, and we implemented our Crisis Management Disaster Recovery Plan, evacuating buildings across the country in metropolitan areas. (Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, etc)
In NY we had contracted with ferry services as part of our plan to shuttle employees to NJ and our recovery centers for critical staff, and private bus services to take employees home for non-critical staff.
By late that afternoon all major banks were operational at their recovery centers.
Being at an adjacent office space of a trading floor, we watched the plane hit on monitors.
If you know about satellite trading desks, they rely on 'Squak Boxes' to communicate. Direct links without phone lines.
The traders on the other end said they think they felt the building move.
We advised them to exit the building as soon as possible, and we implemented our Crisis Management Disaster Recovery Plan, evacuating buildings across the country in metropolitan areas. (Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, etc)
In NY we had contracted with ferry services as part of our plan to shuttle employees to NJ and our recovery centers for critical staff, and private bus services to take employees home for non-critical staff.
By late that afternoon all major banks were operational at their recovery centers.
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