Reply to: Where were you 9/11 2001?

[h8mmer]

I was in LA attending an HP conference/jolly staying in the Hilton in Annaheim, had been out the night before on a vendor bender and was rudely awoken the next day by a colleague who phoned my room to tell me about the first plane hitting. Thought it was a load of tosh so told him to p#ss off and went back to sleep.
Woke up at 2PM and left my room to find the hotel deserted (3000 occupancy down to 300 in a matter of hours), everyone was hiring cars for silly money and driving thousands of mile scross-country to get home.

I spent the next 2 weeks stuck there propping the bar up on expenses becoming increasingly numb to the constant images of horror on the multiple screens everywhere you looked. Horrid times......

[Doggy Styles]

Ah yes.

The Giant Invisible King Kong Coverup.

GIKKC for short (for them in the know).

You haven't seen me, right?

I'm sure I saw King Kong a couple of years ago. He wasn't invisible then. Probably living under an assumed name somewhere.

[d000hg]

Erm, nope. In 1945 a plane did crash into the Empire-State Building and King Kong wasn't there to save the day.

That's what they like you to believe. It's a cover-up.

[SupremeSpod]

He said someone had flown a plane into it.

Then again, not a lot happened when someone did that to the Empire State Building in WWII.

Only because a giant monkey was there to bat it away again.

Erm, nope. In 1945 a plane did crash into the Empire-State Building and King Kong wasn't there to save the day.

[cailin maith]

We'd a very sick younger member of our family in NJ - made it impossible for the Irish lot to get to the Sates. He passed away a week-ish later, but there were so many bodies from the WTC made it impossible to have a funeral in any decent time.

It brings back lots of tough memories.

[Pogle]

Only because a giant monkey was there to bat it away again.

<pedant mode>

I think you'll find it was an ape...

[thunderlizard]

Only because a giant monkey was there to bat it away again.

[PRC1964]

At the time I was working for a large News and Financial information company.

Spent the whole afternoon awe struck, watching streaming new feeds on my PC, saw the second plane crash live into the WTC, saw them collapse.

Saw footage again over the weekend, brings back memories. I think my employer at the time lost 6 or so employees who happened to be visiting clients in the towers.

So was I. It was also broadcast on a large screen in the downstairs lobby. I remember a huddle of people watching it all from outside through the windows.

A few days later most of the office walked up to St Pauls where there was a memorial service being held.

[Scrag Meister]

Streamed all afternoon

At the time I was working for a large News and Financial information company.

Spent the whole afternoon awe struck, watching streaming new feeds on my PC, saw the second plane crash live into the WTC, saw them collapse.

Saw footage again over the weekend, brings back memories. I think my employer at the time lost 6 or so employees who happened to be visiting clients in the towers.

[Mich the Tester]

Working for a ´consultancy´ at the Dutch ministry of Agriculture. In other words, bringing in a high daily rate to pay for someone else´s Benz.

Suddenly all the news sites went really slow, bbc´s text version was readable. Someone switched on a TV in a conference room and we saw the pictures.

Family business lost a good business contact in the towers; I'd never met them, but an entire company of 6 people was obliterated in one go.

[shaunbhoy]

I thought the tester was joking when he said the tower had collapsed.

Didn't become any clearer when he said it was as a result of a 757 having exploded within it either I suppose?

[SupremeSpod]

Working in Glasgow for a non-US telco. Office joker mentioned that a plane had hit the WTC. I said "go on then, what's the punchline?". His weasily mate said "No really, it has!".

I wandered into the Boardroom, put the TV on just as the second plane hit. I sat for a couple of minutes and then took the decision to let everyone in my team go home with the statement "Nobody knows what's going to happen next, you may want to go home and spend
some time with your families."

Anyway, I'd realised that the Sceptics had just been dealt a bloody nose and wondered what the hell Bush was going to do.

The BBC website was crap! Some posts were made on CUK, I wonder if the archive is still around...

[realityhack]

Benched at the time, and at home when the now-Mrs-RH phoned me from work in a US stockbrokers next to the US embassy to tell me about the first impact.

Switched the TV on as I was on the phone to her, and while we were talking, watched the second plane/tower impact live. Remember flicking through loads of channels and the footage being across most of Sky TV.

Her perspective: The trading floor was buzzing as normal, and the huge plasma TV was showing a live Bloomberg-type interview with the Twin Towers as a backdrop, they saw the first plane impact, then there was a general feeling of uncertainty on the floor, and much phone conversation with colleagues in the US. Apparently, when the second plane struck, there was just a moment's hesitation by the traders - then a huge flurry of stock-shifting as they realised the implications... until the building (and the nearby embassy) was evacuated about 15 mins later.

Went into town and picked her up in a taxi and brought her back, where we spent a good portion of the rest of the day in disbelief.

[Pogle]

I was blissfully unaware anything had happened til about 7.30 in the evening.
It was Pogle Jnrs 1st birthday and we spent it at Chester zoo.

[Gonzo]

Later that day there was talk of a plane heading for Canary Wharf, and I must admit I was slightly nervous walking home, half expecting bits of flaming jumbo jet to rain down on me at any moment.

There were press photographers camped at Cartier Circle for a couple of days waiting to take pictures of it happening.