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Yeah watching it was a bit unpleasant. We were lucky in one way though. The video (and sound) feed was chopped pretty much instantly as the US conference room must have been in the area where the plane initially hit and exploded.
It would have been far far worse if it had been say a couple of floors above and we would have been forced to witness much more. At the time, the enormity of what we witnessed didn’t really sink in. It was only several hours later that we finally realised what had happened live before us.
The worse bit for me was actually watching the whole thing evolve on a live satellite feed. I clearly remember thinking (and saying to the service tekkies) words to the effect that bloody US pilots ought to learn how to fly. You see when the first pictures were transmitted, we all thought that it was some sort of awful aviation accident and that the first plane had made an awful navigation error.
It was only as we watched the second plane fly into the secong tower that it dawned on us with a sickening clarity that the entire thig was deliberate and wasn’t just an aviation accident.
Also, I remember watching (again live as it actually happened) the tower occupants jumping out of windows to their deaths and watching the bodies falling and falling. You end up with a tremendous emptiness inside and nobody watching it could find any words at all to express their feelings. I know that we all went home that night and cuddled our families and held them close and were quietly grateful that at least they were safe and alive.
I remember the planes landing here cos they wouldn’t land in the USA and us all going to the airport to offer accommadation…..everyone had a place to stay!
I have spent many a happy hour on top of the world trade centre. Peering down and watching the little ants bustling around below, admiring the curve of the earth as the sun set over New Jersey, and being treated to a fantastic light show as the skyscrapers across Manhattan change from their daytime outfits into evening wear.
Visiting New York has never interested me again since 9/11
My husband was back home in Carolina visiting family, so when my mother called to tell me to switch on the television, I was panicking (unrealistically given the distance, but then I convinced myself he might have been in NY with friends) that he might be caught up in what I was seeing. When I couldn’t get him on his mobile I was hysterical and then by the time that he called me, it became apparent that flights were grounded and he wouldn’t be flying home for the forseeable future.
I was sick with anxiety and couldn’t bear to watch the footage, as imagining the final desperate moments of so many thousands of people, made me hyperventilate.
I was convinced I would never see my husband again.i was behind the bar, the day it happened, we had a small t.v on in the corner. at first i thought he footage was a movie being made. then my friend phoned and told me to put he big t.v on and tune into sky. we did, and the rest as we know is history. we only had a handful of customers in the pub. but the effect on us all was a feeling of utter helplessness. i still see the vision of the falling man to this day.
the evil parasite that lied and said she was there, should get a bullet thru her fat head.pb your experience must have been awful, to have seen it literally happen,it must have been terrible for you all when you realised all those people in that office had been killed.
@forumhostpb wrote:
Also, I remember watching (again live as it actually happened)the tower occupants jumping out of windows to their deaths and watching the bodies falling and falling. You end up with a tremendous emptiness inside and nobody watching it could find any words at all to express their feelings. I know that we all went home that night and cuddled our families and held them close and were quietly grateful that at least they were safe and alive.
And how did you manage that when you had apparently lost connection?
@sword wrote:
@forumhostpb wrote:
Also, I remember watching (again live as it actually happened)the tower occupants jumping out of windows to their deaths and watching the bodies falling and falling. You end up with a tremendous emptiness inside and nobody watching it could find any words at all to express their feelings. I know that we all went home that night and cuddled our families and held them close and were quietly grateful that at least they were safe and alive.
And how did you manage that when you had apparently lost connection?
i dont know if anyone ever old you…? but.. when it happened… it was all over the t.v and even on the radio. he saw it on another screen as he explaned you muppit. :shock:
I was at work when one of the women came in and said ‘The twin towers have fallen down’ I thought she was mental, towers don’t just ‘fall’ so I just kinda ignored it, thinking that she’s probably got the wrong end of the stick about something.
When I saw it for myself at home, it was like watching a film. Things like that just don’t happen in reality, or so I thought. The mentality of folk round here is weird, the next day there was a ‘before’ and ‘after’ picture of the scene in the paper. One of my mates said ‘Are they sure it wasn’t David Blaine?’
@waspish wrote:
@sword wrote:
@forumhostpb wrote:
Also, I remember watching (again live as it actually happened)the tower occupants jumping out of windows to their deaths and watching the bodies falling and falling. You end up with a tremendous emptiness inside and nobody watching it could find any words at all to express their feelings. I know that we all went home that night and cuddled our families and held them close and were quietly grateful that at least they were safe and alive.
And how did you manage that when you had apparently lost connection?
i dont know if anyone ever old you…? but.. when it happened… it was all over the t.v and even on the radio. he saw it on another screen as he explaned you muppit. :shock:
Well we all saw that you, errrrr ‘muppit’
I only gave it three stars on YouTube.
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