"TWO Planes!!! This is scary!!!" - The original, stickied threads from 9-11-01

[Electrode]

Also, since everyone seems to be talking about their 9-11 stories, here's mine:

Just like every morning, My mom and I woke up at 4 AM, left for the health club at 5, swam for an hour, and got back home around 7:30. She went back to sleep, and I played some Quake 3. After about 2 hours of virtual genocide, I checked ATOT to see what everyone was neffing about at the time. Instead of neffing, I saw confusion. The entire first page was full of threads with all-caps titles, shouting about a plane crash in New York. I decided to start up my TV Tuner and check one of the cable news channels, specificly MSNBC. The first thing I saw was smoke pouring out of a building. Over the course of about 5 minutes, I tried to figure out what was happening:

A plane hit the Empire State Building?
Terrorism? Another bomb at the World Trade Center?
A plane hit the WTC?
TWO planes? WTF?

I decided to turn on the TV and wake my mom up. Around that time, they showed the clip of the second plane hitting the WTC. A little later, the report of a plane circling the White House came in, and then the report of smoke nearby, and the panic that ensued. Then the first tower collapsed, and then the second. I couldn't believe it!

After watching it all unfold for a few hours, I went back to playing Quake 3, with the TV tuner running on my other system. I jumped into a good looking CTF server, and noticed that everyone there was talking about the attack too. It's not every day you see news being discussed during a CTF match...

 

[NakaNaka]

Reading peoples inital reactions, rehashing it all in accounts like these has brought chills to my spine and tears to my eyes. It is even more emotional for me, because I was only three blocks away from the WTC, at school, saw the first plane hit. Frantic evacuation, walking up and across almost the entire bourogh of Manhattan to get home. Took me and my friend almost 4 1/2 hours to get home. A couple of stops. One was of my friend on 34th street to his dads office. Then on 42nd to pick up my friends mom. Then the three of us walked home to my house.

Anyway, very sad thread.

 

[fatalbert]

Just rereading those old threads brought me back to that morning when I first read about it on ATOT,

I actually started to tear up again while reading.


Although I have often been to NYC I have not been there since last year, and I have not felt ready for it yet. But after rereading I think I just realized that I will never be ready for the first sight of the empty skyline. I now think that it might be best for me to go sooner rather than continuing to put it off. It might help me to finally start to feel normal again.

 

[datalink7]

I watched the news nonstop for litereally over 24 hours. I couldn't move from the set, exept for some posts here. Saddest day of my life.

 

[Pepsi90919]

check my signature.

 

[SHoddyCOmp]

I just registered this year some time but about when it actually happened i woke up and started watching it on TV. Almost forgot to go to math, then when I got there the class just watched it on the class tv and the teacher just asked if we wanted to watch it or go home...I think a test was scheduled that day too

 

[sciencetoy]

Thanx for posting the original-thread links. It brought back a lot of emotions I'd forgotten about. I was watching TV and trying to locate all my employees (now most of them ex-employees, our business went to h*ll) clients family and friends, sorting out the missing - and at the same time my daughter was in labor, it was her due date - I drove her to the Childbirth Center in Englewood, right at the Jersey end of the GW Bridge, and they were setting it up as an emergency facility. (She freaked out, stopped labor, started up again 3 days later - I have a healthy year-old grandson, thank goodness) Bringing her back home, they had closed the roads and there was no one on 4 or 17 except fire, police, emergency vehicles headed to the city. We ended up with a bunch of our employees at our house for weeks since they couldn't get back home.

I didn't get a chance to check ATOT for quite a while afterwards.

 

[BD2003]

Nice job on the original links. That was such a crazy morning. I remember being up all night kinda hung over, with a cat walking around my dorm room! (LOL, check about halfway down the page, the original link is still there)

I found out about it when my roommate woke me up. Both towers were already hit, but standing. The first thing on my mind was "How about that modern american engineering! Planes hit them, and theyre still standing!" Wasnt long before I had my foot in my mouth.

Running back and forth between my room and UDT89's, wondering wtf was going on, and I have to admit, I was a little bloodthirsty at the time...

But to be honest, I didnt think it was the start of WWIII or nuclear war or anything like that. It was just "like....wow...umm...ok....yeah. Riiiiiight. Wtf just happened?"

 

[Electrode]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
check my signature.

Cool! Where'd you find that?

 

[Cuda1447]

I just went thru and read 10 pages of that thread. It is amazing how peoples emotions change from confusion to fear and then to anger. And how at one pont people thought it was impossible for the WTC's to go down, because they were designed to withstand something like this, but 100 posts later, and very few minutes the towers start to fall.

 

[dethman]

damn i get chills just reading the thread...

 

[Jgtdragon]

Chills and amazes still. :Q

 

[TallBill]

brings back tough memories...

 

[Bomex]

yeah same here...chills...

 

[Blindman]

Just watched the documentary of NYF on CBS.
Remeber how angry I was then, and how I have forgot my anger.
My anger is back and I don't feel bad abount wanting justice.

I hope we the United States take care everyone that had a hand in it.
Let thier death be quick and swift.
Let thier suffering be dealt with in eternal hell.

For the heros and the innocent life that was lost.
We will see you again in heaven.

For the famlies and friends that lost love one.
My love goes out to you.

And I pray God bless the USA.

This is what I want to say a year after.

 

[fluxquantum]

interesting to see the events unfold as anandtech members posted. what a day. i used anandtech as a news source since many sites were jammed.

 

[LordJezo]

I remember when I first started that thread...


I was sitting in front of the TV watching Good Day NY on Fox when the first one had already hit.

Everyone thought it was a small plane, an accident.

They were talking about it when all of a sudden another jet comes cruising in from the right and smashes into the other tower.

Everyone was in shock, as was I.

I ran into my roommates room yelling like an idiot waking them up. They had no idea what I was talking about.

The TV wouldnt go on right so I started hitting it and they were starting to wonder why I was so worked up and unable to speak.

Then the picture came on, the shots of the two towers in flames was in front of them and well, the rest is history.

ATOT was one of the few places that day I could actually get to and read and post to other people.

Thread his like 2000+ posts or something and was broken up into two parts.

Lets hope I never have to post something like that again.

 

[smp]

I can't believe it's been a year.

I was in class, went out for a butt, a friend called and told me what was happening. I went back to class, informed the instructor what was going on and left. Planted myself infront of a TV and watched for the rest of the day. It was a very sad day.

 

[tigerwannabe]

yesterday, 1 year to the day of the world trade center disaster, my 10 year old beagle suddenly died. he was a good dog. now i'm a pretty bad skeptic, but i find this very strange! i hope he's hanging out & making friends with all the other good folks who died a year ago

 

[teddymines]

While the day of the attacks was pretty sad, the first-hand stories that followed months later was much worse. To hear firefighters describe those they lost, and to hear the experiences of people who were in the skylobby in the south tower...wow.

Did anyone see the animation ABC news did last night (9/11/02) while survivors described what they experienced? I thought it was pretty neat seeing what the inside probably looked like.

 

[LongCoolMother]

still reading, didnt get to the part when the towers collapsed yet...i rememmber that day so clearly...waking up in the morningm flippin on the TV and seeing it there. i didnt believe it, i really didnt believe it, i literally rubbed my eyes. headed off to school and only about a third of the people there knew what had happen...

http://home.attbi.com/%7Esept11/ a touching video, in case anyone hasnt seen it.

 

[berserker]

Even on that day, there were people on AT saying that we asked for it, deserved what we got, and had it coming.