What were you surveying on 9-11-2001?
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I wasn’t, stayed home and watched tv all day.
I was slumbering that morning after finishing a boundary project the day b4 listening to 99.2FM and they an ounce that a plane had struck a tower and I turned on TV and saw second plane hit other tower about the time my comrade a few houses away called to inform me what he heard.
After that I went online to American Singles chat and it was some live witness info from NY, close to Pentagon and Pennsylvania and stayed on there for about a week all waking hours and watching everything unfold on TV.
I was working on a power plant layout in Alabama. The power company shut the job down and evacuated the site. It was several days before we were cleared to resume work.
I was in the office.
I was in Lexington, KY still as I had just graduated from college that summer and was still working at my internship – not survey. I was just getting to the office and turning on the computer when one of the other guys who I worked with walked in and said that he heard on the radio that a Cessna crashed into the World Trade Center. We got online and saw that in fact it wasn’t a Cessna. A few of us drove to Wal-Mart to buy a portable TV for the office. When we got to the electronic section every TV was turned onto to CNN and we saw the second plane hit. We grabbed a small TV and headed back to the office. Everyone was glued to the TV the rest of the day and no work was done.
One of our co-workers was stuck in San Diego. Couldn’t fly home and he couldn’t find a rental car for a week.
I listened to a good podcast today with this author. Would be a good book for the younger generation who was too young to remember.
Like a lot of others, I noticed the sky was eerily void of planes. I only remember seeing a few military jets. I stopped at the Espresso stand and the Barista was watching on a small TV, a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center…
I get to the office and it’s hard to get on the internet. I drive out to Anderson Island to meet a contractor to discuss laying out the new Ferry Landing. We were told that they might suspend all Ferry Traffic, but we made it off OK.
I remember reading posts on the old POB board; first hand from surveyors in NYC. Lots of stories…
I can’t watch any footage from that day; got to much of it as it was happening I guess. I’ll never get images of people jumping out of windows, out of my mind.
I hope everyone has a great day; I know I will!
I was at home getting ready to head out to work. Had the NBC Today show on, and they broke in about the first plane hitting the towers, the announcers were talking about navigation problems with the jet. I distinctly remember when the second plane hit, the announcers were claiming “must be something wrong with GPS”. I was so infuriated with the announcers my wife had to calm me down. I was in shock with everyone else.
At the time I was the Survey/Aerial Data Acquisition/Flight Department manager for the AeroMetric Anchorage office. Of course when getting to work, I had to cancel all of the day’s project flights, and it was really eerie on how quiet the skies were. Other than the F-16 jets scrambling from nearby Elmendorf AFB to intercept those small GA planes, many who originated flights out in the bush with no way to know what had happened. One of our project managers was one, heading back to Anchorage from on the other side of the Alaska Range after a successful moose hunt, when he suddenly is getting intercepted and forced to land out 100 miles from Anchorage. Took him a while to get back to town.
Its amazing its been 18 years, like most, I still vividly remember going through the day with shock, apprehension, and uncertainty of “how big this was” and what the world would be headed in the next week. America rose to the occasion.
I’d rather forget everything about that day. Just wipe it clean. No use remembering it.
I was laying out sanitary sewer in the 11th addition of Deerfield subdivision in Springfield Illinois, when our crew received a phone call from another crew informing us what had happened. Then we stood there watching the wide open blue skies and all the planes turning and preparing to land at the nearest airport.
Was shooting monitoring wells at the airport for the Air National Guard as the environmental team was installing them, we all were sitting in the trucks listening to the radio when someone from the guard came out and told everyone to evacuate immediately. As we drove out they were scrambling the F-16’s to cover Air Force One into SAC in Omaha.
@dougie
are there any links to the old POB board?
I was local to our office, just been surveying a boundary. Switched on the radio as I got back into the car and the news was just breaking – no details. Arrived back in the office to break the news – everybody thought I was making it up. the the details came through…
Unfortunately, many can’t forget and will never forget for personal reasons. Too many reasons. All the innocent victims will be remembered.
I have been wearing this Tee once or twice a month for 18 years. I wore it yesterday and decided to wear it again today.
I first got the news when I walked out of the bathroom at Hayes Instrument Company.
That was my first trip there. I was afraid of making a second trip.
Thank you to everyone who shared their story. I am still shocked and horrified by the events of that day, but I don’t want to, nor will I ever, forget. It’s a reminder that you can never be too complacent. That doesn’t mean we should all go around worrying that something will happen, but I do feel like we should be aware of our surroundings and pay attention. That doesn’t seem to be a problem with this group, since that’s what you do — survey your environment.
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No idea what I was working on that day (looks like an office day by my records, I do know it was NOT field work). I woke to the news on the clock radio. Here on the west coast the 1st plane to crash into the towers was at 5:46 am so when the alarm clock went off that morning they were reporting a “small plane” had hit one of the towers. I think I will always associate that 1st news with this horrible attack. I initially kind of dismissed the news as way less than the event it was as I went about getting ready for my day not realizing the enormity of the attack.
SHG
was standing there drinking a cup of coffee in the boss’ home office while he calc’ed some set points for us, watching CNN when plane #2 hit. i don’t remember anything remarkable work-wise about the day, only that it would have been a routine day of 3-5 house lots. but i do know we were out in the cedar park area (when it still actually lived up to its name- might could call it “concrete park” now).
had lunch at jason’s deli; it was packed, and everyone was dribbling broccoli cheese soup and french dressing all over their shirts with their necks crowed up at all the TVs up high. i remember having that eerie feeling of “it’s all different now” and actually bringing up the george carlin bit about how different the american experience would be were it not divorced from terrorism like no other society on earth is (was).
after lunch we walked out to the van and parked next to us was some shiny little texas lady, smoking one of those skinny, shiny-little-texas-lady cigarettes, with a look on her face like somebody just punched her puppy in the nose. she’d pulled her sequin stars and stripes jeans jacket out of the mothballs and was wearing it despite it being about 108 degrees outside. all the windows were down in her big ol’ lexus, and she just stood there in front of the hair salon next to jason’s, weepily singing along to that damn lee greenwood song i hadn’t heard since sometime before people started making bird-sh*t jokes about gorbachev’s forehead. and that’s when i really thought “oh hell, it’s all the same again.”
I was already at Esri. I usually went to the office around mid- to late-morning. My boyfriend woke me up as his start time was earlier. I grumbled at him about it until I saw the tv…
I went to the office so I could use their faster internet connection, probably a T-1 or T-3 at the time. I don’t remember getting much work done.
A friend worked in Manhattan. She had to walk over to Long Island before she could get a train back home. Another friend knew people on one of the high floors.
I’m just one of those evil GIS people. Bwah-hah-hah! Seriously, I do coordinate systems and transformations at Esri.I’m sure there is, I’ve seen them posted here in the past. I’m just not that savvy to help; maybe someone else knows?
Dougie
I hope everyone has a great day; I know I will!
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