It didn't really hit me all at once like it did most people. I was 3 hours later and in college, so still sleeping when it all happened, and I've never been to New York, so it all seemed really distant and took awhile to sink in.
But the weather here has been appropriately gloomy this week.
It was all sort of unreal for me - partly because it happened very late, and I kept hearing updates from the truck drivers as they brought the trucks in for loading. I think all the drivers had their radios tuned to news that night.
Pictures-wise it didn't really hit me until the following day when I saw them - and the pictures that stayed with me, and made it hit home, were the families of the AON workers, who were all gathering together to try and get information, the brother and sister who were going from hospital to hospital to try and find their dad, the man looking for his wife... that was when I had to turn off.
My mom called me at the ungodly hour (for a student) of 7am, completely incoherent. Or maybe she wasn't that incoherent, I was half-asleep. I tried to go back to sleep but I had to figure out what she was talking about, so I turned on the TV and flipped channels until I found CNN. I watched until the towers fell, and went back to sleep. I didn't go to class that day. Turned out the university excused all absences that day, and for 2 weeks it was eerie not to hear the planes from Sky Harbor flying overhead.
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Date: 2008-09-12 12:36 am (UTC)But the weather here has been appropriately gloomy this week.
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Date: 2008-09-12 01:21 am (UTC)Pictures-wise it didn't really hit me until the following day when I saw them - and the pictures that stayed with me, and made it hit home, were the families of the AON workers, who were all gathering together to try and get information, the brother and sister who were going from hospital to hospital to try and find their dad, the man looking for his wife... that was when I had to turn off.
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Date: 2008-09-12 05:12 am (UTC)