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I remember how pretty much every channel was either carrying the coverage or was off the air and had messages saying "tune into (insert channel here) for coverage" That was spooky.
I was working at Airgas Southwest that morning. I had come in early because we were in the middle of changing banks for our AR dept. and were due for a buttload of held checks. I was going to be assisting my AR girls since it was goign to be quite a workload. I ordered tacos and brought them to the break room ...
.. the TV was on. It was before the 2nd plane and the local station was showing live pics via a feed from a Houston station, so it was houston newscasters on. Thats what drew my eye. The strange newscasters. I was transfixed.
for 20 mins I just stood there. It was unbelievable and surreal. As tho since it was on TV perhaps it wasn;t really happening. you know?
My immediate supervisor then came running into the room (just having gotton to work) and was flipping out. She flipped to a national news outlet - FOX news I think - and we just sat and watched.
once the Airborne express guy showed up with our packages we had to get to work.
man that was hard.
The station i took over that day was the only available one and was about 5 feet from the breakroom door... all dya long i could hear what was going on , but couldn;t very well go watch and expect my AR girls to not get up and go watch.
ball inthe stomach, cold face and hands, fear. yep. it was an awful day.
we worked faster that day than I had ever seen. by 4:30 everythign was done and we all silently got up and gathered in the breakroom. we stayed there untill about 6pm.
I remember how pretty much every channel was either carrying the coverage or was off the air and had messages saying "tune into (insert channel here) for coverage" That was spooky.
Outstanding
Like Manny, I went to the blood bank off 410 that day and actually wound up not giving blood, but helping the folks there with the crush of people and paperwork.
The thing that really sticks in my head is that my house in Stone Oak is normally (when the winds are right) in the landing pattern for the airport and not hearing any planes for days after the attack was really odd.
I'll watch the clip later, when I get home; but, this does remind me of how long it was before the late night talkers (particularly Letterman and O'Brien from New York City) felt like being funny again.
I recall that Letterman's first monologue after 9/11 was incredibly moving.
SNL was great too.
I just remembered being pissed that they wouldn't let us go home that day.. I watched some off the coverage from a small tv set in the dock office.. it was surreal in a sense because it seemed too much like a movie.. I guess things finally started to hit home here when they started showing the family members of the missing putting up pictures and posters of their loved ones..
Is there youtube clips of retaping of the events in its entirety???
Some footage of the planes hitting the towers I've never seen before.
9-11-01
It feels like last year.
I left my garage apartment to walk to class at Abilene Christian University and caught only a glimpse on the TV of the house in front of me of a building on fire and "plane crash". I thought it was odd, but I just didn't think much else of it (I chalk it up to the early hour of the morning).
As I entered the Campus Center I was immediately confronted with the image of what seemed to be the entire school in shocked silence staring at the TV screens above. Some had their heads bowed in silent prayer, others were circled praying together. It took me a while to fully take in the nightmare that had already unfolded.
After a few minutes I continued on to class where we watched CNN's coverage on the projector. We watched and cried together as the first tower fell. Class was dismissed early.
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