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Posts: 3034 (09/11/09 4:43 PM) Registered user |
The view that day from the International Space Station
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BeaKiddo |
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Posts: 1930 (09/11/09 8:09 PM) Registered User |
SJ- I love your story and you are a hero. My cousin and uncles went from Boston. They are firefighters. My cousin was on NYFD for years. He lost many friends.
They still can't talk about it.
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 Phuz1 |
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Posts: 4093 (09/11/09 9:30 PM) Registered user |
I was walking across 14th Street when I heard people screaming. Looked down University Place and saw a hole in Tower 1; it looked like a hideous jack-o-lantern
mouth with smoke pouring out.
Thinking this was just an unfortunate accident, I climbed on the train at Union Square; the train didn't stop at Fulton or Wall Streets. Got out at Bowling Green, started walking to my office, and heard another explosion. All of a sudden debris started raining down; it was like being in a hail storm and a snow storm at the same time. Some things came crashing down, but papers were floating and blowing around. Made my way to the office; ran into my boss's supervisor, who said the building had been evacuated. Started to make my way uptown and was just blocks away from the WTC when Tower 2 came down. Got caught in the debris cloud and ran back to my office building. A security officer I knew let me back in; knowing we had masks, glow sticks, and fireproof blankets in the supply closet, I went up to my office on the 27th floor. Went to a conference room to see if I could find out what happened to cause the debris cloud, where I watched Tower 1 shudder and collapse. I had to wait several hours for the dust to settle, and then I evacuated on foot. It's taken 8 years, but I can finally talk about what I saw that morning without reliving all the shock and horror. SuperJude, I have the utmost respect for you, and I'm so sorry to hear that your friend died of cancer after behaving so bravely. |
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Posts: 3215 (09/11/09 9:42 PM) Lost soul |
I was at work. We didn't have access to a tv so my Admin Asst. kept us informed by listening to the radio. It was really impossible to grasp the
magnitude of what was happening. When she told us that the towers had collapsed, we just couldn't wrap our minds around it. Shortly after, our business
closed for the day so parents could get their kids out of school, etc. A few of us decided to go to the local sports bar to find out what was going on. I
remember driving by a gas station and seeing the price over $7.00 per gallon. We walked into the bar and it was dead quiet accept for the CNN coverage on 4
big screen tvs. We all sat for hours just watching the horror, knowing that things would never ever be the same again.
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