Do you remember exactly what you were doing during the 911 attacks?

Question

What did you do for the rest of the day after that news?

HNIC: What are you doing on YA at school???? You better get in them books. Don't make me come over there.

I was 21 at the time and I was half drunk still in bed from a wild night before. I had class that morning, but was awakened at 8 something by my roommate who told me that a plane crashed into the twin towers. Soon after the second one got hit. The ironic thing was that I was at the World Trade Center in NY about 2 weeks prior to this event. It was an eerie feeling.

For those who asked: This is in the Rap and Hip Hop section because this is where I most frequent. The topic of 9/11 can relate to almost every category on YA.

Answer 1

I was at work at the Dept of Energy in DC...First a car's engine blew up in front of our loading dock ramp...Then a car caught fire at the State Department...And I was thinking whats gonna happen next...My sister call me at work tell me she was watching the news and a plane hit the twin towers...I was like it had to be a charter plane...She was like no it look like a big plane...I was like get the hell out...Nobody flys a big as s passenger jet that low over Manhattan...Then she was like Omigosh another one just flew right into it...Nobody knew what was happening where I was at until a plane hit the Pentagon. Ppl went crazy we had to evacuate our building...And DC/MD/VA's traffic was a mess...You couldnt get into DC's capitol hill area unless you were law enforcement. I tried to get in contact with my family in NY...but the cell phone lines were all out of service.

The funniest part about that day was that after that everybody that didnt speak or didnt like me...Started to speak and act friendly towards me...lmao It was a tragedy that brought everyone together.

Answer 2

I'm on the west coast. I got a call from my homie at 6 am telling me that a plane had crashed into the WTC and like ten minutes later he called me again to tell me a plane had also gone into the Pentagon. I switched on the news and just saw the chaos. I woke my dad up and let him know what was going on and we sat there and watched the news until I had to go to school (it was my Senior year in High School) most of the teachers were playing themselves and talkin bout "We are not going to turn on the news because we are not even sure what happened. We do not want a panic". Yeah right. I spent most of that day in the ROTC room where they had the news on round the clock.

Answer 3

I was at work and the woman I work with came in my office and said that one plane had crashed into the first tower. I turned on the radio and soon the other plane crash and yet another and another!

They bought the tv in the main office and we watched footage all day. It was an eerie day in that I live in Chicago and there were NO planes in the sky and the air just felt different. Then you go home and turn on the tv and all you saw was footage an there were some stations that were just not on.

Answer 4

I remember getting ready for school (the 7th grade, but now in college.) And turning the channels, and seeing something about a plane hitting into a building. Then I remember changing back to cartoons, thinking what idiot flies a plane into a building, and couldn't he see a big huge building in the middle of a city. I laughed at the time, thinking how stupid for someone trained to fly, to fly into a big noticeable building. Then I went to school where my friends told me what was going on, then we sat in class all day listening to the news. We didn't do much. All day I felt bad for all those people, and for laughing at a plane crashing into a building. Though I didn't know anybody in or know anybody who knew someone in the 9/11 event, but I still felt pretty bad. So that's my story.

Answer 5

I was in 8th grade and didnt hear anything about it until I went into my tech. ed. class (2nd period). this guy I sat next to was talking about, "The Twin Towers got hit by planes" but I live in Dallas and the furthest north I been is Ohio so I had *NO IDEA* what the hell he was talking about. He drew a picture for me to show how they look, but by his picture I thought they were some small buildings and that the plane's just crashed without fire... I didn't realize how huge they were and how serious it was til I got home and saw the news and all the fire and chaos... I was shocked beyond belief... the only other time I felt like that was when Virginia Tech happened

Answer 6

I was in my 2nd year at the University of Houston and I got up early to go get the Jay-Z Blueprint CD. I was in Circuit City when I was checking out everyone was around the TV and that's when i saw they first building had been hit then i watched as the 2nd plane hit. I drove home and watched on TV as the towers fell. My teammate from Jersey's father works there and they could not get in touch with him that day so my whole team was worried. Luckily he missed his train from Jersey to go to work at the WTC and was late. Nervously sad day for the country.

Answer 7

I was working at SkyTel at a call center and all of a sudden all the lines went dead for a moment and then it was total chaos. So many People were trying to send messages that it crashed our systems and we couldn't get any info in or out. Only getting bits and pieces of what happened after reps were coming in or coming back from lunch..I spent the rest of the night up watching any and all new broadcasts...horrific tragedy.

Answer 8

I was gettin' some morning nookie when the alarm went off and Howard Stern was talking about a plane hitting the WTC.

Turned on the tube to see the second plane hit.

Me and the gal ripped numeorus bowls and then watched everything in disbelief for the next 3 days or so.

Answer 9

of course i remember.....
i was in 7th or 8th grade at the time. i believe it was 8th. anyway this was around the time that the airline workers were on strike. i woke up at early in the morning, i live in cali so i think it was around 6 or 7. anyway i turned on some cartoons and all of a sudden they switched over to breaking news. the first tower had been hit. so im thinking to myself omg the airline workers have gone crazy. well some lady was on the phone with the news anchor on the east coast. and then all of a sudden i see something fly acrossed the screen and another explosion. i witnessed it myself. its crazy you know, i actually witnessed the second tower being hit from a whole country away. in a sense i saw the death of all those people on the second plane. without really actually seeing them.... anyway that was my expirience with the 911 attacks

Answer 10

I had a class at 10:30 and I woke up around 10 and had no idea what had happened until I got to school and the board said "Go home and watch the news". Then at about 4 I had to go into work.