15 years ago - 9/11 - where were you

[S10GTA]

As per the title. I remember it vividly. Working in my first job as a lettings negotiator. Pulled up to a viewing and the news came on. I sat in the car (mk5 escort) listening whilst the people I was supposed to be meeting just looked at me. When I eventually got out and told them they sort of just shrugged it off.

Went back to the office and told them all (nobody else knew at this point) so we pulled it up on the only pc with Internet in the office. We all crowded round and watched over and over the plane crashing on dial up, jumping from frame to frame.

Can't quite believe that was 15 years ago already. I was only 18. Wish I could go back.

Where were you?

Edited by S10GTA on Sunday 11th September 09:56

[bitchstewie]

Sitting at work when someone said a plane had gone into a skyscraper in New York.

Initially we assumed like everyone else it would be a small plane and a pilot lost in fog or had a heart attack or whatever kind of thing can cause a small plane to crash into a skyscraper, because it had to be a small plane because it couldn't be anything else, and you just can't not see that you're about to fly into a skyscraper so it had to be fog or something like that.

Once it became apparent that someone else was going on we lashed up a TV in our conference room and sat watching in morbid fascination like a lot of other folks I guess.

[gruffalo]

I was working from home and my boss called me and told me to turn the telly on.

We were having our garden landscaped at the time and I called the workmen in to view it as well, four of us watched in silence except from when the first tower collapsed, then there was a group"st" comment made followed by more silence.

I remember it like it was yesterday.

[miniman]

We flew back from holiday (damned if I can remember whre we'd been, Crete I think) into Gatwick, early hours of the morning. Put the TV on a few hours later and watched in gobsmacked silence for hours. I still have a copy of The Times from 12th Sept somewhere.

[S10GTA]

gruffalo said:

I remember it like it was yesterday.

Same, but then think back to the amount of st that's changed in the interim. Mind-blowing.

[Chebble]

I'd just finished a day at primary school - I was a week from turning 11. A mates mum had picked me and a mate up, and we were going to his grandma's house. When we got there, the news was on. My mate and I were in complete shock.

Even though we were so young, we realised the severity of what happened. It's a memory that is vividly imprinted in my mind - same as everyone, really. We watched the news for a while, watching it all unfold. When the towers came down there was a very sombre mood in the room.

I just couldn't understand why. Horrific.

[Hosenbugler]

Had a lie in that day , got up , switched the TV on to see film of one of the Towers collapsing with no commentary. I vividly recall saying to my ex "Funny time of day to be showing a disaster movie" .

After a brief period came the jaw dropping realisation, of the real situation. Not the sort of thing to forget in a hurry.

[Oceanic]

Not sure, I can't remember where I was on the 11th of November even last year, sorry!

[Smollet]

I was returning from.a lunch when working in the City of London. Didn't realise until a couple of days later that people I used to work with died in it.

[S10GTA]

Oceanic said:

Not sure, I can't remember where I was on the 11th of November even last year, sorry!

Bugs me too, I did toy with writing the date correctly but it's commonly known as 9/11 so went with that.

So where were you 11th September 2001.

[AnotherClarkey]

On a flight from Boston to Dallas. Landed in Detroit from where I flew home 5 days later. I spent the whole time airside with my fellow displaced passengers - the atmosphere was extraordinary.

[S10GTA]

AnotherClarkey said:

On a flight from Boston to Dallas. Landed in Detroit from where I flew home 5 days later. I spent the whole time airside with my fellow displaced passengers - the atmosphere was extraordinary.

Stay in touch with any?

[Oakey]

Hosenbugler said:

Had a lie in that day , got up , switched the TV on to see film of one of the Towers collapsing with no commentary. I vividly recall saying to my ex "Funny time of day to be showing a disaster movie" .

After a brief period came the jaw dropping realisation, of the real situation. Not the sort of thing to forget in a hurry.

You'd slept in until 3pm?

[B'stard Child]

Was at work - only place with a TV was the security hut.......

Like many we assumed some terrible accident initially......

[AnotherClarkey]

S10GTA said:

AnotherClarkey said:

On a flight from Boston to Dallas. Landed in Detroit from where I flew home 5 days later. I spent the whole time airside with my fellow displaced passengers - the atmosphere was extraordinary.

Stay in touch with any?

I suppose it may sound odd but no and I think that was the case with the whole group. It was such a strange, self-contained, experience that although there was much conversation it was all quite anonymous. Difficult to explain the atmosphere.

[don'tbesilly]

I was driving through the one way system at Surrey Quays.
A colleague rang me to ask where I was and had I seen what was happening in the States.
Like many, it could have happened yesterday, it was an unforgettable and extraordinary disaster.

[BJG1]

I was walking home from school, had barely got past the gates and my Dad called me to tell me. Was 12 at the time.

[HTP99]

At work, I didn't really understand the impact of it all at the time as I TBH I had never heard of the Twin Towers, scary though now how things have panned out from those actions.

[Hosenbugler]

Oakey said:

Hosenbugler said:

Had a lie in that day , got up , switched the TV on to see film of one of the Towers collapsing with no commentary. I vividly recall saying to my ex "Funny time of day to be showing a disaster movie" .

After a brief period came the jaw dropping realisation, of the real situation. Not the sort of thing to forget in a hurry.

You'd slept in until 3pm?

Yes, we'd been away and had arrived home exhausted in the early hours. Body clock right messed up. Slept right through the unfolding events.

[EvoDelta]

I was working at a local evening newspaper at the time. The atmosphere in the news-room was weird. Everyone was shocked and amazed, and at the same time excited to get the story out first.