Topic: 9/11 can you remember where u was?? (Read 4532 times)

dreadnought110 · « **on:** September 07, 2006, 21:47:24 »

Can you remember where you was when it happened? I was on the M25 roadworks in a DAF1900 Crane lorry on the roadworks listening to Radio 2 Isn't it daft how you remember these sort of things?Any body else remember where they where when any other disatsers happened??

mark.yellow.series.3 · « **Reply #1 on:** September 07, 2006, 21:48:40 »

at work all sat round the radio.

Hissy · « **Reply #2 on:** September 07, 2006, 21:54:06 »

I was up a ladder at Knights BMW in Newcastle Under Lyme when i first heard.....

goblin · « **Reply #3 on:** September 07, 2006, 21:57:03 »

i was working in kensington high street, watching it on telly at moment absolutely terrible poor sods :(

dreadnought110 · « **Reply #4 on:** September 07, 2006, 21:58:51 »

just watching that programme on BBC1 at the moment it makes you go cold did anyone watch that on the widows on channel 4 last night??

DiscoJim · « **Reply #5 on:** September 07, 2006, 21:59:40 »

We were on holiday in...............America :shock:

We were in Florida, woke up, switched on the telly and thought it was a film, we could not believe it was for real happening now, very frightening once it sunk in what exactly was happening.

Our return flight was delayed for 5 days, both Virgin and Disney resorts were excellent in such bizzare circumstances and looked after us very well.

The year before we were driving back from St Petes to Orlando, we thought the rain was rather heavy, a bit windy, it was a bloomin hurricane!! :P

Last year we had our honeymoon in the US, we flew into Las Vegas, all went very well until we got to the Grand Canyon, we both suffered quite badly from altitude sickness for the first day whilst there. Also we hiked down into the canyon, I innocently sat down for a breather and heard a rattle, I had almost sat on a rattle snake. :lol:

This year we had 2 different weeks in North Wales :D

Despite this, we love the USA and can't wait to take our kids their, probably not for quite a few years until they are old enough to appreciate it fully.

muddyjlx · « **Reply #6 on:** September 07, 2006, 22:03:35 »

i was sat at home watching it happen live on the telly.
was late back to work.

Moneypit · « **Reply #7 on:** September 07, 2006, 22:05:32 »

I was at work when my boss phoned from his car to tell us to put a radio on.

Thought somewhere was going to be taken off the map, and that Nukes might be used. Suprised at the restraint shown.

Guess Bush really wanted the oil!!

UDTrev · « **Reply #8 on:** September 07, 2006, 22:05:47 »

Running a training course at work, came back upstairs into the office and wondered why the office was SO quiet :( (at this time only 1 tower had been hit)

Trev

beast5680 · « **Reply #9 on:** September 07, 2006, 22:14:43 »

I was on a waste site in Leicester changing a clutch on a wood recycler, its one of the few events i actually remember where i was and exactly what i was doing

craig · « **Reply #10 on:** September 07, 2006, 22:22:16 »

I was driving back up the M5 from devon in my car transporter, it was really chilling listerning to it on radio 2

Craig

Dave K · « **Reply #11 on:** September 07, 2006, 22:37:54 »

Ikea, Warrington.
I was on nights, came back & watched as unfolded on telly.

mudfrog · « **Reply #12 on:** September 07, 2006, 22:40:16 »

i was just passing birmingham airport at the time.

MuddyMike · « **Reply #13 on:** September 07, 2006, 22:42:09 »

I was working in East London, some news report said the same might happen at Canary Warfe. Got out quick, and had the fastest run ever up the M25 everything was travelling 90+.

Mike

way2deep · « **Reply #14 on:** September 07, 2006, 22:45:32 »

i was building an extension on the back of my house ..............could not believe how sick these low lifes could go...hopefully to rot in hell forever.we still went to florida in october for our holiday,it was qiute eerie tho,never seen the parks so empty... :(

wing nut · « **Reply #15 on:** September 07, 2006, 22:47:17 »

I was at work sat in front of the tv when it came on news 24 as a newsflash .I couldnt believe my eyes :lol:

Littledan · « **Reply #16 on:** September 07, 2006, 23:33:07 »

i was at skool i came home and my mum made me watch the news :?
i didnt understand it at 1st but then i did

we watching the thing on telly now :)

muddyman · « **Reply #17 on:** September 07, 2006, 23:38:08 »

I was at a zoo :roll: that dont sound right, I remember the the streeing pump had just gone on a volvo 760 I had at the time.

BigGreen · « **Reply #18 on:** September 07, 2006, 23:45:52 »

I being going into the office just after the first plane hit and the help desk that normaly takes 200 calls an hour being absolutly dead no phones ringing at all.

Tyke · « **Reply #19 on:** September 07, 2006, 23:57:55 »

Sat at my computer at work when a newsfeed splashed the vids of the first plane hitting the tower over the screen . . . . . whole place went silent, phones stopped ringing and the atmoshere was like something I had never experienced . . . . we shut the company doors and went home . . . .

Rich_P · « **Reply #20 on:** September 08, 2006, 00:07:31 »

Heard about that a tower had been struck on the way home from school, and then saw the first tower collapse (live news!) on TV when I had got home, followed by tower no.2.

landyman Ash · « **Reply #21 on:** September 08, 2006, 00:09:02 »

At work in dentistry. In london and NO patients turned up.

We all just watched TV and I sent the staff home to be with family.

Its weird, lady friend flies to New York on 9th as flights Ã‚Â£200 return.

smog · « **Reply #22 on:** September 08, 2006, 02:34:52 »

I was in bed ill (avoiding doing some work cos of jet lag) until my then wife called to say turn on the TV, we had got married in Boston Mass only 2 weeks before and only 3 days before the attacks were stood on top of the WTC admiring the view.

I was shocked and shaking with anger and grief it was almost surreal what was happening, I spent most of the day and days after calling my many friends in the states to makes sure everyone was ok

Everyone knows someone who had problems that day or indeed knows someone that lost someone it was a sad day for the world, it's such a pity it's been used as an excuse for so many other wrongs since.

What annoys me more about it all is that my daughter is now 8 and she only knows about the WTC attacks through what the bint and I have told her, surely this kind of thing should be taught to the children of today because lets be honest it is probably one of the things that will and has changed their lives and ours forever not unlike the Gulf wars and other wars.

Lastly without meaning to sound mean or insulting it happened a few years ago and all this past week or so we have been bombarded with this and that programme on TV and yet the 7/7 attacks in London had little to no coverage. I appreciate more were killed in the WTC attacks but still I think it was a wake up call for all of us especially the USA, we have had to deal with terrorists for years such as the IRA and lets be honest about it most funding comes directly from the USA Ã¢â‚¬Ëœthe downtrodden Irish freedom fighter syndromeÃ¢â‚¬â„¢.

Sorry to rant and ramble (not in the RA way either)

DidnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t intentionally set out to upset or offend anyone and I apologise if I did so.

dazzawhipple · « **Reply #23 on:** September 08, 2006, 08:30:58 »

I was travelling back from a meeting in Arburg Moulding machines in Lemington spa

listenning to the radio

Darren

DaveS · « **Reply #24 on:** September 08, 2006, 09:44:32 »

We were in the USA staying at the Grand Canyon lodge, got up at dawn to see the sun up. When we returned it was on TV but the reception was really awful(there was a transmission fault in the area) so could'nt really hear it properly

Went out in the car later and only really found out what happened by listening to car radio.

Needless to say our planned helicopter flight was a non starter.

Stopped in a small town for lunch-the locals were really stunned (as were we) Very appreciative of the support they received from the UK though.

Got home on time as we still had 10 days to go, we met some folks in Las Vegas who said they had been waiting 5 days for a flight booking home to UK after they closed the airspace.

The hotel staff in Vegas told us that after 9/11 you could not get a hire car for love nor money as all the californians there were trying to get home. Some bought cheap motors instead.

Star · « **Reply #25 on:** September 08, 2006, 10:40:20 »

Waiting at the school gates to pick our 2 lads up and another parent told us what had happend, at 1st we thought it was a wind up, as soon as we got home we put the tv on :shock:

Our eldest (8 at the time) wanted to know what 'game' it was advertising and the youngest (4 at the time) said " I don't like this film, can we watch another?" :(

Not the easiest thing to explain to young children :( , the school did the next day though, in a much better way than I ever could.

The eeriest thing was having no planes flying from Birmingham Airport, which is only about 5 minutes away from ours ~ it was so quiet :( .

landroverkeith · « **Reply #26 on:** September 08, 2006, 10:43:13 »

was at work at the sywell aerodrome sat on the forklift listening to the radio .... very sad day

blacknight · « **Reply #27 on:** September 08, 2006, 11:18:13 »

I work in a local hospital and was discussing a job with one of the "old school" ward sisters.

I can remember the exact ward and the sister I was speaking to.

Behind her was a television which was relaying the events live as they unfolded, I pointed out to her what was happening, we both couldn't believe what we were watching. Both of us ended up watching these events and very little work got done.

the loon · « **Reply #28 on:** September 08, 2006, 11:31:57 »

I was at work. Kept on getting little bits of info off people who where calling in after the first impact and we all thought it was an accident then after the second impact it became clear what was going on

discograham · « **Reply #29 on:** September 08, 2006, 12:08:58 »

I was at home on a day off.. chilling in front of the tv.. then it all became the wrong sort of chilling.....

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