Where and what were you doing on 9/11/2001? (1 Viewer)

[CJ_London]

Reminds me of the guy who worked in a building yard. Every evening he left with his lunch box, tools and work clothes in a wheel barrow. Security regularly checked and verified all this stuff was his.

Turned out he was stealing wheel barrows

 

[moke123]

OK, you KNOW it has to be asked... what did he do with a stolen bulldozer?

He pushed stuff around at ground zero for a while and then left it there. Things were a little chaotic so I don't think anyone was really looking for it.

BTW, He had never driven one before either.

 

[ColinEssex]

I've no idea. There's two things to this.
1) where were you when it was happening?
2) when did you hear about it?

Most American incidents happen at (UK) night time. So what day was it? And what time (UK) did it happen? To be honest, I don't remember. I suspect it made the papers here next day. I don't usually watch the TV news - too miserable.
Col

 

[The_Doc_Man]

As to "when" - The terrorist attack happened starting at 08:46 Eastern Daylight Savings (USA) Time zone on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. USA Eastern Daylight Savings time zone is 4 hours after Greenwich mean time, so that means it would have been just after Noon, London time (if I did that right.) It was televised as a network news event. We had a TV in our "break room" so someone heard the news bulletin almost immediately and called us in.

I heard about the first plane hitting the north tower (of the World Trade Center's two towers) within a few minutes of it actually happening. The second plane hit the South tower shortly thereafter, and a plane hit the Pentagon. A fourth plane crash-landed in Pennsylvania and was thought to have been aimed at either the Capitol building or the White House in Washington, DC. (Which of those two was the target is not clear.) The passengers overpowered the highjackers but could not safely land the plane.

Many of us have already answered the "where" part of your question. My business day started at 07:00 so I was in my place of work, as described in an earlier post.