Where were you on........Sept 11th 2001

[Safeway]

#2 in the series.

I was at work. The first I heard of what was going on was by reading a thread on here titled 'What the f**k is going on in America?!' A little while later I got a text from my then girlfriend, telling me there had been a "tourist attack".

Very strange day indeed.

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

at school, didnt get told about it until i got home and saw it on the news

 

[CHAPPERS]

When the first plane hit i was having a pint in the Waggon and Horses, when the towers went down i was at the Bowling place at the marina on my way to a pitifully low score through being a little drunk. All a bit weird that day.

 

[readingstockport]

I was on a BA 747 sitting in Business Class en-route to Miami for a conference. Eventually I spent 4 days in Bermuda instead watching tv and making frantic phone calls to let family know I was ok

 

[Gritt23]

I was at work in a meeting with the company directors, and one of them got a call from his wife.

I, stupidly, thought a plane had crashed into Wembley. That's all "Twin Towers" meant to me at the time.

We abandoned the meeting and went downstairs to watch it on telly, and got there in time to see the 2nd plane crash.

Unbelievable, just unbelievable.

 

[Bozza]

At work. Got an email from a colleague saying "What's that about a plane hitting the World Trade Centre?". Assumed it was a stray light aircraft so hit the news sites.

All quickly became clear. Spent the afternoon on the web, which was at a standstill, trying to keep up to date with the rapidly changing events.

Went home and was glued to the TV for hours.

 

[Raphael Meade]

just got out the cinema after watching the gayness that was moulin rouge. my dad rang to tell me something about 'trade collapsing' - i was in the car park at the marina so couldnt hear him properly.

put on 5 live in the car and heard everyone saying how terrible it was but had to wait about 20 minutes to actually hear what had happened. watching the albion after a few hours in front of bbc news 24 seeing dead people made the day all the stranger.

 

[Gritt23]

I was on a BA 747 sitting in Business Class en-route to Miami for a conference. Eventually I spent 4 days in Bermuda instead watching tv and making frantic phone calls to let family know I was ok

Did you find out about it while you were on board? Surely not. That would have been terrifying if the full story was breaking?

 

[Marc]

Was working at L&G in shoreham, on a coffee break and my mate came running in saying the radio had it on. Listened to it all afternoon and got home after both towers had fallen.
Truly a horrific day and when watching it on SKy News I thought it seemed like a Hollywood film or something, it was just so surreal and weird.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

I was at work. News filtered through from the warehouse and at first I thought it was a windup. Spent the rest of the day watching events unfold on the internet.
This site was pretty good for disseminating news as most of the big sites such as the bbc couldn't cope with the traffic.
Still pretty unbelievable and made worse by what america is doing in revenge.

 

[Beefy]

My 1st day at college.I just got back when my mate phoned me and told me to switch on the t.v. I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

 

[Reading Posh]

Unbelievable day, news sites on meltdown.

Cancelled my trip that night to London Rd to watch Posh v Coventry, and tomorrow we play at Coventry - don't fly tomorrow

 

[Seagullible]

Got home for a half day and was getting ready to drive to Brighton for the Soton game. Turned the TV on to get the team news off text and saw pics of the second plane hit the towers. Assumed it was some disaster movie and read the latest gossip until hearing the words 'we're crossing live as the north/south tower is collapsing' then just sat there opened mouthed not believing what I was seeing

 

[Shizuoka Dolphin]

I was at work, so I didn't find out till I got home at 10:30pm.

And yes, I am still bitter.

 

[Yorkie]

I was working for Yorkshire Electricity trying to sort out customers when the boss told us there had been a plane crash into one of the towers.

We were wondering how a plane could crash into a building for quite a while and then during my break went to the rest room to watch tv when news of the second plane came through and terrorism was starting to be discussed.

Then just as it was hometime for me the first tower collapsed. I drove home listening to the car radio with a feeling of growing horror.

Somehow I was glued to the tv all evening even though I didn't want to be.

 

[ripper]

On holiday in Kos. Wondered why everyone was sitting around watching BBC news 24 in the Hotel Lobby on such a beautiful day. Later on found out what had happened.......

 

[readingstockport]

Did you find out about it while you were on board? Surely not. That would have been terrifying if the full story was breaking?

They told us something serious had happened but not what. after about 1 hour the captain told us that American airspace was closed due to 'an incident'. She had the option of Greenland, Canada or Bermuda and chose the latter. Once on the ground there was one person on board with a tri-band phone and gradually the news filtered round that the towers had been hit but it wasn't until we were off the plane that we found out they had collapsed. All in all a very surreal and frightening day

 

[Dave the OAP]

I was working in Docklands when our monitoring system kicked in with alarms going off all over the place ( we have /had links to clients in both Towers) We assumed there was a satellite problem or something had cut the cables on the sea bed, but then when all the lights went red , we realised something was happening.

One of our clients was watching the TV in the rest room and called us over to watch.

Our Chief Exec was on one of the lower fllors as the second plane hit and managed to get out with only burns.

Our clients lost a lot of good men and women that day.

 

[fatbadger]

Sat in the office, with the BBC news website on my screen.

I was, at the time, writing a paper arguing that the time had come to start up an international day of solidarity for the victims of September 11th, 1973 - the day that US terrorism installed a fascist regime in Chile that went on to kill thousands and act as the blueprint for both fascist governemnts in the Americas (like the one that invaded the Falklands) and continuing US terrorism against democratically-elected governments.

I shall continue to think about those victims on September 11th.

 

[bigc]

i was at school, i got told in afternoon registration(3.05) then i went to a friends house, we watched the news for a little bit then we watched jackass...hmmm