7 years ago...

An article in yesterday's Herald had people saying what they were doin the first time they heard various Beatles songs...
Got me thinking..

What were you doing when you first heard of the Terror bombings in the US?

I was woken up by DH (it was my first day of a much awaited two week holiday) shaking me saying "WW3!! WW3 is here!!" Nice.

My Dad lives in Chicago and my sister was travelling (by car) from NY to LA at the time, and I had no idea where she was (having a bath in a New Mexico motel room, I later found out). I spent the day glued to the TV, eating chocolate, hitting the redial button on my phone to try to get through the jammed phone lines in the States.

What was everyone else doing?

DH had just moved to CHCH to be with me, I rang him as I was on my way to work to get up and watch it and keep me informed.
We sat at work with the radio on listening to it

DH and I both had the day off and we both spent the day glued to the tv screen too.  I still remember watching the live cam of the 1st tower smoking away when suddenly another plane came into view and crashed into the 2nd tower - it was so unexpected, so shocking.

 

I also clearly remember the weeks of fall out that followed and had an affect (even on us in little old NZ) for years afterwards.  I work for a finance company and we weren't even able to provide fund values on our clients investments for weeks afterwards because until American markets recovered we had no idea what everyones money was worth.  Funds took a huge plummet.

i was on a fishing boat, knocked off shift to see it all on tv, very scarry.

We were getting ready for work and had the TV news on, our bed was set up in the lounge as we were replastering out bedroom at the time. We sat on our bed for most of the morning and just watched.

Having been in the middle of London and caught up with the July 05 bombings, I can imagine (but obviously never to the same extent) the horror of those poor people in NY.

Was in the cowshed milking the cows... when I heard what had happened, I was in shock and disbelief.... so so sad

I was 16 and getting ready to go on a school concert band trip to Rotorua. I got up in the morning and my parents had the tv on watching the news (they didn't usually). It was freaky. Everyone at school was talking about it and I remember worrying if all these attacks were gonna keep happening, and imagining what it would be like if NZ was attacked too and we lived in a war zone (dramatic I know).

They had the radio news on in the mini van during the drive to Rotorua and then on the tv when we got to the motel. I was so sick of seeing the plane crash over and over again, there was so no point, so me and a few others asked for it to be turned off. Everyone was just getting more worried by seeing it time and time again.

But yeah it was a freaky day.

I was on the way to work and heard it on the Edge they were trying to get the flight numbers, I had no idea what was going on - but thought it must be terrible as JJ sounded SO upset.

When I got to work I asked what was going on, so we turned the TV on and saw, it was just terrible wasnt it.

One of my good friend from school was over there at the time, it was a very scary time waiting. Thank goodness he was ok.

I agree seeing people throw themselves off was just heart breaking. I still see the image now when I think of it.

Wow Mum2sam - that is FAR to close for comfort!

Oh duh now Ive just clicked today is September 11!

That means my friend flys out for London today - shes a bit scared! Only going for a month but she wishes they chose another date!

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