New images of 9/11
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I remember the day this happened very clearly, as I'm sure most everybody does. I was working at AT&T and happened to be on a call about someone bitching about their bill. Thier long disatnce was billed at 12 cents a minute instead of 10 cents. The lady was in NYC looking out her window(a couple of blocks away) and saw the plane hit the first tower and literally dropped the phone from the shockwave of the plane hitting. She then calmly picked the phone back up, told me what happened, and went back to bitching about her bill.
Was chilling for me because I was probably the first person outside of NYC to know what had happened.
Was chilling for me because I was probably the first person outside of NYC to know what had happened.
parrotbeak
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Shick Brithouse said:
Did she get her phone bill resolved?
That's a pretty crazy story. You know stuff like that happened all over but I haven't heard anything like that before. Most 9/11 stories are either eye witness to the event, or people saw it on tv. Your's is somewhere in between and centers around such a mundane but detailed event. It's very interesting and should be collected.
Yeah I fixed her bill, logged out of my phone so I wouldn't get anymore calls and told my supervisor what had just happened. About 5 or 10 minutes later it was all over the news and we had shut our call center down. They sent everybody home a couple hours later because they said phone infrastructure buildings(any utility for that matter) was considered a possible target and had to be evacuated.
I was a kid back then...
damn I still remember looking out my school's windows and see smoke coming from Manhattan...
I also remember one of the school's teachers comes screaming down the hallway saying that her husband works there and he don't pick up
as a kid I didn't noticed the impact of that, but now as I recall it.
I was scared shit back then...
I remember that I curl up in my bed and never felt so scared in my life.
I remember looking up coming from school and saw F18s in the Bronx, damn that day...
damn I still remember looking out my school's windows and see smoke coming from Manhattan...
I also remember one of the school's teachers comes screaming down the hallway saying that her husband works there and he don't pick up
as a kid I didn't noticed the impact of that, but now as I recall it.
I was scared shit back then...
I remember that I curl up in my bed and never felt so scared in my life.
I remember looking up coming from school and saw F18s in the Bronx, damn that day...
Horrible images of course, but nothing compared to the videos. The "real" video's taken by randoms on the street.
I understood and appreciated that 9/11 was a horrible event, but about a year or so a go, something made me go on YouTube and look it up.
The moment I saw the plane hit the building. Actually hit and explode in a ball of fire... I wanted to throw up. It was surreal.
I understood and appreciated that 9/11 was a horrible event, but about a year or so a go, something made me go on YouTube and look it up.
The moment I saw the plane hit the building. Actually hit and explode in a ball of fire... I wanted to throw up. It was surreal.
8+ years later, and I am still numb and indifferent to the event. Can we focus on something else already? How about actually putting a building in its place. They are taking far to long, at this point I say just get the blue prints to the original buildings, update them a bit as needed, and rebuild them looking mostly the same.
Count Dookkake
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I've never gone back to the site and I don't think I ever will. Too many weird feelings. The smell was terrible.
WJD said:
this one really does it for me, when that dust comes over the buildings its just unbelievable
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJbGm7GE1tA&feature=channel
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Count Dookkake said:
Count, correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't you working at a store in the basement of one of the towers? I can remember a thread a while ago about that day and people talking about where they were and I thought that was you.
I more or less go by that place every day. I live across the Hudson and from my apartment you can see the area. It sucks, but one of the best sights I see every single morning when I wake up is the red steel girders of the new building being built.
It's not far away from being visible from many places. It's going to be good when everyone can see that there is hard work being done down there and that a couple buildings ARE rising.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2WC0B-XQic&feature=related
looks like a warzone...
in a way, this would had scar me for life, if I saw this as a kid..
looks like a warzone...
in a way, this would had scar me for life, if I saw this as a kid..
Skittleguy
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Interesting to think how different things would be now that everyone has camera phones...
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Yeah, the smell was bad, it lingered for days. Living in North Manhattan, the north blowing winds brought it all to me, many miles away.Count Dookkake said:
The first time I actually saw the site was a couple years back when I had jury duty. It was kind of depressing, seeing all of the tall buildings, and this obvious, empty gap where they once were.
Jedeye Sniv
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Man, just watched a couple of those videos and started to tear up, those images and sounds are so powerful. I only live in England and it affected me that much, I can't imagine how it must feel to be a New Yorker and see this stuff.
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what a strange reactionShick Brithouse said:
-x.Red.x- said:
I was in middle school when it happened. It was English class when my Social Studies teacher came in and told my English teacher to look out the window. I never realized how well you could Manhattan from our school until that day. I remember not really understanding what was happening. Why was there smoke? Was there a fire in Manhattan? How come there's so much?
My English and SS teacher had no idea either, but a couple doors down some of the teachers had set up a TV and were watching the news. Just as the teachers began to explain to us what had happened almost instantly announcements for kids to come to the main office because their parents had come to take them home started blaring over the PA system every couple of seconds.
After understanding that it was a terrorist attack, I remember being so fucking scared for my mom and brother who both worked in Manhattan(My mother worked not that far from the WTC) and wondering whether my father knew what happened yet(he worked in JFK).
Luckily my mother wasn't feeling very well that day and left early to friends place and my brother was in Manhattan but far way from where the attacks took place. They were both stuck in the city for a while (all the trains were shut down and bridges/tunnels closed.) It was the first time in my life I watched the news so attentively and for so long.
Sorry for the wall of text, your post and this thread suddenly made me remember all of this stuff. Surprised I remember it so well.
TheRagnCajun
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So are these satelite photos or was there a helicopter nearby at the time?
WJD said:
This same thing happened to me. I was in 7th grade, and we didn't get alerted like other schools had, instead I found out on the way home. It never really hit me for w/e reason I remember feeling guilty I wasn't more saddened.
I got more invested years later looking back. One day I just woke up and realized that this horrible thing happened in my lifetime, and it wasn't even that long ago. After watching the videos I felt sick to my stomach and it lingered with me for weeks even months. I still am horrified by the images.
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neorej said:Funny, because the US makes damn sure we never forget. How about we never forget about this instead:
![QUOTE]How about both](http://www.masternewmedia.org/images/before_after_tsunami_2004_500.jpg[img][/QUOTE]How about both?)
There are definitely far greater tragedies throughout the world, some of which seem to happen on a yearly basis. However none of them can really compare to the effect this had, specifically for Western cultures, because many people were "there" whether it was via live TV or in the city itself.
What a horrible day. I was in Chile watching it all unfold on a crappy black and white TV at a corner market that was using a coat hanger as an antenna. It was just heartbreaking to watch and quite scary. If you think American media is sensationalist, then you need to check out some South American coverage. They made it sound like all of the United States was under attack and nukes were going to be flying at any moment.
Lionheart1827
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Man I was still in high school at that time. I remember getting home that day and being totally depressed since I live on Long Island and my brother worked in the city. We hadnt heard back from him yet. My mom told me that he was in Connecticut in a training seminar. Thank god.
I also remember on the IGN gamecube boards, some asshole made a topic worried that because of 9/11, the GC wont launch on time. He totally got torn a new one in that thread.:lol
I also remember on the IGN gamecube boards, some asshole made a topic worried that because of 9/11, the GC wont launch on time. He totally got torn a new one in that thread.:lol
LQX
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It sure as hell felt like it. If you didn't have cable or satellite then nearly every TV station was gray fuzz in NY. I remember my brother calling and telling us they were on def-con 4 or (some number) and they were all outside in positions with there guns. Another story I heard which kind of scared me was how all the military jets were taking off all over the country. One dude was like how they were all taking off at steep angles, not even using the full runway.Jeff-DSA said:
Moreover that night there was a crazy lightning storms in Brooklyn which scared the shit out of me as swore it was bombs going off. That whole week felt uneasy especially after seeing and hearing jets fly so low. The only time I have ever seen a military jet in person was when it was flying low over Brooklyn. My other friend was like there is a big ass war ship parked in the water which you can see from his college. So it sure as hell felt like something was coming.
H_Prestige
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Still remember the day vividly. Was the fourth day of 9th grade. I walk into first period english class and my teacher already has the radio on covering the event (live in the west coast) and immediately started telling us what was going on. That entire day all we did in every class was watch the news on TV.
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neorej said:Funny, because the US makes damn sure we never forget. How about we never forget about this instead:
What is this?
Mecha_Infantry
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I remember it so clearly, walking into my living room and seeing a plane fly into a building and thinking what film is this? Unaware of the BBC News logo on the screen. It's horrible
I hope to be there this year to pay my respects, although next year will be weird
I hope to be there this year to pay my respects, although next year will be weird
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