same here, was eerily calm and beautiful... when the news came, me and about 4 friends sat at my house, ripped tubes and talked shit, watching in horror and just sayin to ourselves, well.. if we go down, we go down together.
-- tony Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. -- siddhartha gautama On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:07 PM, G Money <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It was an eerily beautiful day in Kansas City. Sitting outside, the only > indication that anything was wrong were the strange, looping contrails in > the sky, as airplanes had pulled 180's in the sky. > > I sat in my back yard, with a beer in one hand, petting my dog with the > other, looking up at the loops in the sky........feeling...........i > dunno....indescribable feelings. Thinking back to that moment just now, I'm > able to feel that way again, if only briefly...and it's a bit terrifying. > > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Jacob wrote: >> > I remember watching it on TV at 5:50am. Breaking news about a plane >> hitting >> > the first tower. I thought it was your "typical accident." At 6:03am, >> when >> > the second plane hit, that was no longer a thought... >> > >> >> I was working in the airline industry and hadn't left for the office >> when I saw the first report on the news. I remember thinking, >> "whaaaattt the fuuucckkkk?" I thought it was some type of massive >> mistake, but I couldn't figure out how anything like that could >> happen. >> >> I called my boss and he told me to "sit tight" because he'd heard all >> hell's breaking loose and they weren't sure if any of the airports >> were safe. The crisis management center was firing up, but since it >> was located at the airport they quickly set up another one 10 miles >> away. >> >> Within an hour we had to get 400 aircraft on the ground world wide, >> deal with the logistics, passengers, etc. >> >> By the end of the day I was developing a company wide photo ID >> database that would work at any airport web terminal worldwide. It >> went online the next morning. >> >> Then, sometime after that they layed off 30% of airline employees and >> security was crazy. >> >> The big story in MN was the guy who lead an attack on the hijackers by >> saying, "let's roll" >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:268990 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
