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NO POLITICS PLEASE, 911 NYers?
This is just a general info question about Personal experience. Please no politics, though I avidly support, it is Not what I want to know here. I have some things I'd like to hear from you if you have heard of/or remember - (warning this might be a little disturbing, read with caution, no children)
1 That WTC Smell?
2 Where the smoke/ dust all blew?
3 The phrase 'September 11th weather'
4 The way all the subways kept getting spontaneously rerouted?
5 How long your commute was pre/post? Was your boss a jerk about it?
6 What did You call the 'twin towers' and 9/11, personally, in those first few days?
7 (Finally) What worked/ didn’t work communications wise - phones, tv, etc.?
This is a question, as is clearly stated, for NYers. You 'don't get it' because you don't live in New York, although there are other reasons I'm sure. I'm asking, actually, about people's memories of what happened because they are fading and being replaced in our national consciousness by babble from a bunch of nutjobs and air headed suburbanites.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
I'm a teacher in NYC and my classroom windows faced the World Trade Center. On September 11, 2001 I was teaching a lesson on climate and turned to the windows to make a point about the weather. I saw the smoke pouring out of the north tower and without thinking about it, said to my students, "The World Trade Center is on fire." There was no announcements so I went on with the lesson.
The bell rang, and the next class came into my room. I went to the classroom next door and asked the teacher there what she thought. She said one of the kids said a helicopter had crashed into the World Trade Center.
I returned to my classroom and started to teach. After a few minutes I looked out the window again, just as the second plane hit the south tower. All the kids ran to the window.
Shortly afterwards the principal made an annoucement about the safest place to be was in school, but he gave no detail. When the period ended I went into the hallway. Panic everywhere and no ones cell phones worked, in fact, almost every call someone could make got a busy single. After the entire school witnesses the fall of the towers from ALL those windows the situation got worse. By noon hundreds of parents were in the lobby trying to get to there kids. And it was hot, so hot.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I don't get get the questions?