I was in Los Angeles and heard it on the Stern Show... Called my Dad in Boca Raton and we both watched the 2nd plane hit live.
I was going down 680 heading into San Jose to work. It felt like traffic stopped. I saw a bunch of people pull off the freeway. Got to work and in 5 minutes was on my way back home.
Also heard it on the Stern Show. My high school band class met off site, I was driving back to campus and thought they were fucking around. Wasn’t til I got back into class and saw a teacher running screaming crying that I knew something was wrong.
Just a horrible day. I was working in finance back then. I had an office in northern Jersey and another one in the MetLife building. I was supposed to go to the MetLife building that morning but I had a migraine. I remember leaving my secretary a message on the answering machine that I would be in later in the day. I woke up to about 25 messages and saw everything after the fact on the television. Just painful.
I was living in Columbus, OH at the time. Was on 270w on my way into work when I heard it over the radio. Got to the office and the widescreen TV was showing the flames and destruction. I think what I remember most was the people jumping out of windows above the 50th fl. You could see the shapes plummeting.. I used to go into both towers occasionally for both work and pleasure as there was a really nice club were the after work folks would hang out in the basement where the NJT station was located. Felt a chill when I went to the monument a few years back. Just an eerie feeling knowing 3000 souls died there and quite a few of the bodies never recovered... I still get chills thinking about it.
Fished with guy injured at the towers. He was a fireman. Told a story about surviving the falling buildings by sheltering with others in a rescue vehicle flipped on its side sharing a scott pack mouthpiece with another guy. Spots on his lungs, multiple gastro surgeries. Hero.
Same here. I was on the B6 Bus when Howard Stern announced that the first plane had hit the towers. I got on the F train Platform on Bay Parkway, which is elevated so you could see the smoke coming from the first building. I rode in the first car so I could look out the window. The train conductor and I screamed out when the second plane hit. It's incredible how sometimes you can "feel" memories.
I live on the coast in southern CT. We all went to the beach after school got out and I will never ever forget seeing a huge cloud of smoke engulfing the view of the NYC skyline that we have from our beach.
I was fresh out of college, still living with my parents in Bensonhurst Brooklyn. The next morning, we found papers from the World Trade Center in our vegetable garden.
