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09-11-2009, 10:07 AM
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I was in my office at work listening to Howard Stern on the radio. He announced the plane hitting. I went to see if anyone else had heard anything and the person in the office next to mine poked her head into my office and said did you hear what I just heard. About 10 of us were huddled around the radio for the next few hours. The other side of the building is a call center. They took the fewest calls in the history of the company that day. I guess everyone was a little preoccupied.
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09-11-2009, 02:57 PM
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Was finishing up an on-call night at Nyack Hospital and getting ready to head home to rest, clean up and get ready to go to the Yankee-White Sox game that night. A bunch of people were gathered around a TV watching a report of a small plane crashing into WTC. Thought it was weird since it was such a clear day...One of my buddies joked that it wouldn't be so weird if the pilot was wearing a turban. Then we watched the second plane hit and it wasn't a joke anymore. Later in the day they announced they were setting up a triage area at Chelsea Piers on the west side of Manhattan. A couple of the guys in my practice got together and decided to head down to see if we could help. It was the eeriest feeling I've ever had driving down the Palisades Parkway without another car in sight. We were the only car going over the George Washington and got stopped by an NYPD checkpoint entering Manhattan at the West Side Highway and only got through when we showed our hospital IDs. Driving down we could still see the smoke plume from WTC and we could smell the burning which was a combination of burning rubber, and an electrical fire. The pier was a great set up of makeshift ER and Trauma center, but the saddest thing is we never saw a single person from the towers. We treated a couple of firemen for smoke inhalation, that's it. We headed home around 6 the next morning with the burning pile behind us.
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You have a million dollar set of legs and a five cent fart for a brain.-Herb Brooks
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09-11-2009, 03:07 PM
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Was living in Las Vegas and getting ready to go to work - caught a backward glimpse of the television in the mirror and saw smoke and flames and at first thought it was an earthquake in Cali, but soon found out different! Lived not far from McCarron so there was always a low undertone of jet engines overhead pretty much 24/7, but shortly thereafter you could honestly hear the air traffic trickling to a slow but full stop, was totally unreal... later was told the casinos started sending employees home as soon as they heard the airport had shutdown, total panicked that their source of incoming $$$$ had pretty much screeched to a halt...
Special thoughts and prayers today for the families who had loved ones who perished...
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