Where were you? [modified]
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Its the 11th of Sept here at the moment and I thought it would be interesting to see where everyone was on this day 6 years ago when you heard about the attacks in the US I was here[^] on a surfing trip with a mate, its was late at night and we we're sitting up waiting for some other friends to drive up from Sydney. We'd both fallen asleap while watching the telly when someone called to tell us what was happening. We saw the second aircraft crash into the building and stayed up most of the night watching the reports. It was very sureal to wake up too especially considering we were very very stoned and worn out from a long day of driving / surfing -- modified at 3:20 Tuesday 11th September, 2007 I really cant spell to save my life
I was standing on the trading floor of a US bank in London and just happened to be on the phone talking to a friend in New York (as the first plane hit) who had a good view of the towers from his (I think 45/46th floor) office. There was still a little activity on the trading floor till just after the first plane hit as no one really knew what was going on. As the 2nd plane came in there was total silence as everyone gathered around the tv moniters to watch. I tried to call my friend back but couldn't get through though I did speak to him the next day. I was recently back in NY and went to ground zero (I had last been there Feb 2001) but it's just a building site now with a small area for visitors (that we could see).
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Its the 11th of Sept here at the moment and I thought it would be interesting to see where everyone was on this day 6 years ago when you heard about the attacks in the US I was here[^] on a surfing trip with a mate, its was late at night and we we're sitting up waiting for some other friends to drive up from Sydney. We'd both fallen asleap while watching the telly when someone called to tell us what was happening. We saw the second aircraft crash into the building and stayed up most of the night watching the reports. It was very sureal to wake up too especially considering we were very very stoned and worn out from a long day of driving / surfing -- modified at 3:20 Tuesday 11th September, 2007 I really cant spell to save my life
I was home and accidentally tuned on the TV just seconds before the first news flash stared. I remember very well the strange feeling I got when I realized that history was being written that day before our eyes.
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I was home and accidentally tuned on the TV just seconds before the first news flash stared. I remember very well the strange feeling I got when I realized that history was being written that day before our eyes.
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Its the 11th of Sept here at the moment and I thought it would be interesting to see where everyone was on this day 6 years ago when you heard about the attacks in the US I was here[^] on a surfing trip with a mate, its was late at night and we we're sitting up waiting for some other friends to drive up from Sydney. We'd both fallen asleap while watching the telly when someone called to tell us what was happening. We saw the second aircraft crash into the building and stayed up most of the night watching the reports. It was very sureal to wake up too especially considering we were very very stoned and worn out from a long day of driving / surfing -- modified at 3:20 Tuesday 11th September, 2007 I really cant spell to save my life
At work (Hungerford, UK) when my wife called: at the time she worked for Sony UK Support in an office full of plasma TVs, most of which were tuned to BBC News 24. She kept ringing me with updates as I couldn't access any Internet news sites. I finally got to one (Sky News) which claimed one of the towers had collapsed, which I just couldn't believe. I got home about 5PM UK time and sat in front of the news for a few hours in utter disbelief. I shed more than a few tears - I have an uncle in NYC and we couldn't get in touch with him. He has since quit the city for Florida.
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Its the 11th of Sept here at the moment and I thought it would be interesting to see where everyone was on this day 6 years ago when you heard about the attacks in the US I was here[^] on a surfing trip with a mate, its was late at night and we we're sitting up waiting for some other friends to drive up from Sydney. We'd both fallen asleap while watching the telly when someone called to tell us what was happening. We saw the second aircraft crash into the building and stayed up most of the night watching the reports. It was very sureal to wake up too especially considering we were very very stoned and worn out from a long day of driving / surfing -- modified at 3:20 Tuesday 11th September, 2007 I really cant spell to save my life
I was walking through Cambridge on my way to invest some money with a bank. As I passed Argos I saw people looking at televisions, I walked in a saw one of the twin towers burning. I did not register what was going on, however on leaving the bank I heard to women talking about "what it must have been like for the people in the airplanes..." I returned to work and the story unfolded over the coming days, weeks, months, years...
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Its the 11th of Sept here at the moment and I thought it would be interesting to see where everyone was on this day 6 years ago when you heard about the attacks in the US I was here[^] on a surfing trip with a mate, its was late at night and we we're sitting up waiting for some other friends to drive up from Sydney. We'd both fallen asleap while watching the telly when someone called to tell us what was happening. We saw the second aircraft crash into the building and stayed up most of the night watching the reports. It was very sureal to wake up too especially considering we were very very stoned and worn out from a long day of driving / surfing -- modified at 3:20 Tuesday 11th September, 2007 I really cant spell to save my life
Just reached home from office when the news was showing the second plane crashing into the South Tower, to find my son watching TV, with round, disbelieving eyes... Stayed up almost the whole night watching the news.
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Its the 11th of Sept here at the moment and I thought it would be interesting to see where everyone was on this day 6 years ago when you heard about the attacks in the US I was here[^] on a surfing trip with a mate, its was late at night and we we're sitting up waiting for some other friends to drive up from Sydney. We'd both fallen asleap while watching the telly when someone called to tell us what was happening. We saw the second aircraft crash into the building and stayed up most of the night watching the reports. It was very sureal to wake up too especially considering we were very very stoned and worn out from a long day of driving / surfing -- modified at 3:20 Tuesday 11th September, 2007 I really cant spell to save my life
I was at home, working on some code. I checked CP one last time before going to bed, and someone posted on the lounge that someone had just flown a plane into the world trade centre. At that point, people were assuming it was an accident. Obviously, when the second plane hit, that was no longer the case, I went and turned on the TV and sat there for several hours, alternating with the lounge ( the computer was in the bedroom at that point, to the disgust of my wife ) Nish was telling me that his mother in law is flying back to India and they moved the flight forward, the only day they could get flights was today ( it's 11/9 here now ), so 6 years on, people still avoid flying on this day.
Josh Gray wrote:
we were very very stoned
Did you mean from staying up, or..... ???
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
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Its the 11th of Sept here at the moment and I thought it would be interesting to see where everyone was on this day 6 years ago when you heard about the attacks in the US I was here[^] on a surfing trip with a mate, its was late at night and we we're sitting up waiting for some other friends to drive up from Sydney. We'd both fallen asleap while watching the telly when someone called to tell us what was happening. We saw the second aircraft crash into the building and stayed up most of the night watching the reports. It was very sureal to wake up too especially considering we were very very stoned and worn out from a long day of driving / surfing -- modified at 3:20 Tuesday 11th September, 2007 I really cant spell to save my life
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You're a bit early with all this aren't you? It's not the 9th of November for a while yet.
He didn't actually say 9/11.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
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He didn't actually say 9/11.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
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Its the 11th of Sept here at the moment and I thought it would be interesting to see where everyone was on this day 6 years ago when you heard about the attacks in the US I was here[^] on a surfing trip with a mate, its was late at night and we we're sitting up waiting for some other friends to drive up from Sydney. We'd both fallen asleap while watching the telly when someone called to tell us what was happening. We saw the second aircraft crash into the building and stayed up most of the night watching the reports. It was very sureal to wake up too especially considering we were very very stoned and worn out from a long day of driving / surfing -- modified at 3:20 Tuesday 11th September, 2007 I really cant spell to save my life
Northern Italy, I was watching a film, I hit pause to go to the loo as I was tippling a decent red and ten saw the 2nd plane impact. My missus was on the beach with the kids and my mother, I located them with binoculars, eventually they saw me wildly gesticulating to come home, I was quite agitated, they laughed and went on relaxing so I opened another red. When they finally came home I was tired and emotional.
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Its the 11th of Sept here at the moment and I thought it would be interesting to see where everyone was on this day 6 years ago when you heard about the attacks in the US I was here[^] on a surfing trip with a mate, its was late at night and we we're sitting up waiting for some other friends to drive up from Sydney. We'd both fallen asleap while watching the telly when someone called to tell us what was happening. We saw the second aircraft crash into the building and stayed up most of the night watching the reports. It was very sureal to wake up too especially considering we were very very stoned and worn out from a long day of driving / surfing -- modified at 3:20 Tuesday 11th September, 2007 I really cant spell to save my life
I was in Brisbane, my wife and I were up early in the morning to go to the airport to board a plane to go to New Zealand... We sat and watched planes crashing into buildings while waiting in the flight lounge to board a flight... and when it did get time to board, the announcement went like this - "Air New Zealand in conjunction with our partners United Airlines would like to thank you for flying with us today"... they could have NOT mentioned that point!! Of course, it was all very surreal... and the flight was white knuckle the whole way - luckily the bourbon was flowing!! In an interesting side note, on the return trip home we got caught up in the Ansett collapse... Fun times!!
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Its the 11th of Sept here at the moment and I thought it would be interesting to see where everyone was on this day 6 years ago when you heard about the attacks in the US I was here[^] on a surfing trip with a mate, its was late at night and we we're sitting up waiting for some other friends to drive up from Sydney. We'd both fallen asleap while watching the telly when someone called to tell us what was happening. We saw the second aircraft crash into the building and stayed up most of the night watching the reports. It was very sureal to wake up too especially considering we were very very stoned and worn out from a long day of driving / surfing -- modified at 3:20 Tuesday 11th September, 2007 I really cant spell to save my life
In a break from a meeting - we were discussing (by a strange coincidence) how fit one of the female news reporters on TV at the time was, so we flicked the tv on to try and find her, only to be greeted with replays of the 1st plane going in. Within a few mins, we realised how serious it was, and essentially the whole company squeezed into the goldfish bowl to see what was going on.... I then took the pm off, went home, and got in just as the first tower collapsed.
"Knock me down, I'll get straight back up again, I'll come back stronger than a powered up pacman" (Lilly Allen / Kaiser Chiefs)
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In a break from a meeting - we were discussing (by a strange coincidence) how fit one of the female news reporters on TV at the time was, so we flicked the tv on to try and find her, only to be greeted with replays of the 1st plane going in. Within a few mins, we realised how serious it was, and essentially the whole company squeezed into the goldfish bowl to see what was going on.... I then took the pm off, went home, and got in just as the first tower collapsed.
"Knock me down, I'll get straight back up again, I'll come back stronger than a powered up pacman" (Lilly Allen / Kaiser Chiefs)
RichardGrimmer wrote:
how fit one of the female news reporters on TV at the time was
Ah, how *fit* she was....
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
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Its the 11th of Sept here at the moment and I thought it would be interesting to see where everyone was on this day 6 years ago when you heard about the attacks in the US I was here[^] on a surfing trip with a mate, its was late at night and we we're sitting up waiting for some other friends to drive up from Sydney. We'd both fallen asleap while watching the telly when someone called to tell us what was happening. We saw the second aircraft crash into the building and stayed up most of the night watching the reports. It was very sureal to wake up too especially considering we were very very stoned and worn out from a long day of driving / surfing -- modified at 3:20 Tuesday 11th September, 2007 I really cant spell to save my life
I was just leaving a trade show in London... My wife phoned me and said the Twin Towers had been hit by a plane, didn't have a clue what she was on about. We spent the drive out of London listening to the radio reports and keeping a close eye on all the airplanes that are as always circling above...
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Its the 11th of Sept here at the moment and I thought it would be interesting to see where everyone was on this day 6 years ago when you heard about the attacks in the US I was here[^] on a surfing trip with a mate, its was late at night and we we're sitting up waiting for some other friends to drive up from Sydney. We'd both fallen asleap while watching the telly when someone called to tell us what was happening. We saw the second aircraft crash into the building and stayed up most of the night watching the reports. It was very sureal to wake up too especially considering we were very very stoned and worn out from a long day of driving / surfing -- modified at 3:20 Tuesday 11th September, 2007 I really cant spell to save my life
I was at work and I think I came back from lunch or something and a co-worker told me "a small airplane have crashed into world trade center" swedish media first reported about a small cessna type of plane that hit the towers. but as time passed, the plane grew and grew :-P Also, all the big online swedish newspapers went offline due to heavy traffic.
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Its the 11th of Sept here at the moment and I thought it would be interesting to see where everyone was on this day 6 years ago when you heard about the attacks in the US I was here[^] on a surfing trip with a mate, its was late at night and we we're sitting up waiting for some other friends to drive up from Sydney. We'd both fallen asleap while watching the telly when someone called to tell us what was happening. We saw the second aircraft crash into the building and stayed up most of the night watching the reports. It was very sureal to wake up too especially considering we were very very stoned and worn out from a long day of driving / surfing -- modified at 3:20 Tuesday 11th September, 2007 I really cant spell to save my life
I was at work, wondering why the hell no news web site would work. After 10 minutes of loading, line by line, a picture of a burning twin tower appeared. "Shit! Sean and Paula!!!" was the first thing I thought. I know Sean used to walk through the towers on his way to work, and Paula got on the subway from the twin tower station. Luckily, both were unharmed.
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Its the 11th of Sept here at the moment and I thought it would be interesting to see where everyone was on this day 6 years ago when you heard about the attacks in the US I was here[^] on a surfing trip with a mate, its was late at night and we we're sitting up waiting for some other friends to drive up from Sydney. We'd both fallen asleap while watching the telly when someone called to tell us what was happening. We saw the second aircraft crash into the building and stayed up most of the night watching the reports. It was very sureal to wake up too especially considering we were very very stoned and worn out from a long day of driving / surfing -- modified at 3:20 Tuesday 11th September, 2007 I really cant spell to save my life
I was at Sun City, attending the closing party of Tech-Ed. Towards the end of the day, when all the seminars etc. were over, I noticed people milling around bars, coffee shops etc. watching the TV's they always have on. I gathered the small bit of knowledge that terrorists had flown a plane into the WTC, but couldn't find out too much more. I later left the party for a spliff, and walking past the TV to go back to the bash, I stopped to get the latest on the WTC story, and it was then that the building collapsed. I sat down very still for a while before joining my colleagues and conveying the news. They had a dedication and moment's silence and all in sympathy for the victims. Interestingly, my friend's father was in the US as part of a project management team responsible for fitting HUD's to SAA planes, and of course anyone that had anything to do with planes was deserving of some thought that he may not be allowed to return home or something.
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Its the 11th of Sept here at the moment and I thought it would be interesting to see where everyone was on this day 6 years ago when you heard about the attacks in the US I was here[^] on a surfing trip with a mate, its was late at night and we we're sitting up waiting for some other friends to drive up from Sydney. We'd both fallen asleap while watching the telly when someone called to tell us what was happening. We saw the second aircraft crash into the building and stayed up most of the night watching the reports. It was very sureal to wake up too especially considering we were very very stoned and worn out from a long day of driving / surfing -- modified at 3:20 Tuesday 11th September, 2007 I really cant spell to save my life
I was at work, Then a call came out for help in regards to the international planes being diverted to Newfoundland (where I live). You can read about it here http://www.snopes.com/rumors/gander.htm[^] I don't live in Gander but in St. John's Newfoundland where we also have housed many flights and showed them hospitality.
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Its the 11th of Sept here at the moment and I thought it would be interesting to see where everyone was on this day 6 years ago when you heard about the attacks in the US I was here[^] on a surfing trip with a mate, its was late at night and we we're sitting up waiting for some other friends to drive up from Sydney. We'd both fallen asleap while watching the telly when someone called to tell us what was happening. We saw the second aircraft crash into the building and stayed up most of the night watching the reports. It was very sureal to wake up too especially considering we were very very stoned and worn out from a long day of driving / surfing -- modified at 3:20 Tuesday 11th September, 2007 I really cant spell to save my life
At work. I heard a colleague talking about a plane which crashed into the WTC, but nobody thought tp a terrorist attack but to an accident. It was only after going home that I learned a second plane crashed, that they were airliners and not some cessnas, and that it was deliberated action and not an accident.
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