Do you remember, where were you and what were you doing? I was in the office and wife called me to tell me and she used the word ‘accident’
Yahoo was alomst blocked because of the number of hits, I went to the confrence room where we had a projection TV showing CNN live.
Oh btw, an amazing image I found on the internet
This is Pakistan Airline, promoting its flights to NY, in 1979
re: What were you doing at 8:46 AM EST, Sept. 11, 2001
I was at work and my co worker came running to my office that she heard on the radio - the world trade center was hit. SO I called my sister in law and she was like Hinaaaaaaaaaaaaaa mainey TV pey dekha....woh girrrrrrrrr raha hai.....Yeh kya ho raha hai, and the there was all this hustle and bustle, I called hubby, my boss, etc, ran out to the patient waiting area and saw it live on TV.
We all left for home early as they were evacuating high rise buildings.
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I was getting ready to go to college. Before I left house, I came to the living room and the TV was on and they were showing it live. The first plane had hit but the 2nd one hadn't hit yet. I thought this is just an accident, some plane got their coordinates wrong and hit the building. I went to my class and everyone was talking there and making it a big deal. I remember that evening my friend's family had arrived from Pakistan and I was dropping them off at their home and every radio channel was talking about it.
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i was in school and the principle came on loudspeaker and asked if anybody has family working in or around wall street, a few minutes later, they made the announcement that the towers were hit…i called my mom (cz my brother worked and lived in midtown manhattan at the time) and she was crying (out of relief)..
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It was really something, buildings going down, the Pennsylvania flight, Pentagon...all one after the other.
That's all we talked about for days. Many people I know had family and friends who witnessed the actual hit, etc.
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i was in an IT class when whilst browsing on my fave chat site (as you do) folks online were talking about it, that's how i heard about.
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On that dreaded morning, i was in my class. I'd just gotten there 10 minutes earlier. Class ws to start at 8:30AM.
Everything started as usual, we were just warming up into the lecture for the day, when the professor was called outside by security personnel. She came back and informed us that an aircraft had hit a building in NYC. At first people just shrugged their shoulders like maybe it's one of those light cessna type 2 seaters, got lost, brushed against a window or something. I remember another guy joked saying could be another Timothy McVeigh.
After about 10 more minutes we were ordered to evacuate the building, and everyone was sent home. Still puzzled and clueless because it was something that almost never happens. Came home and it just blew my mind seeing the tragedy unfold. I remember being glued to the t.v. that entire day and pretty much for the rest of the week as well.
It was sad and confusing at the same time seeing all that happening...could not believe my eyes.
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I think people in North were a bit more shocked/frightened instantly, while it took some time for the folks in our town/class to realize what was going on. My wife (who is from NY) tells me that she was in school and as soon as it happened, they were sent home. When she arrived at her bus stop, her parents and other kids parents were there to receive them. Everyone was scared, confused, and just sad.
As for me, as Teggy said, I took it lightly at first (watched the news only for about 10 minutes and left for class) thinking some small plane got lost, crashed, BIG DEAL! But it was really terrible to see people jumping from the building and the buildings collapsing when I later saw the coverage on the news.
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I was also in my office , a female co-worker started going cubicle to cubicle to inform poeple about the hit. She had a 9 inch b/w tv on.
Ab PIA ki shamat bhi naa a jay ky 30 sal pehly mansoba banya twin towers ko barbad kerny ka or pura ker dikhaya.
Ady khalq ko naqaray khuda samjhu** ho giya yeh tu :(**
main so rahi thi uthi TV chalaya tu mehsoos howa kuch ho giya hy. Ziada dimagh per zor nahi diya fitty mun sanun ki keh ker. channel badal diya. ky kissi dost ka phone aya jis ny batya ky MUSLMANON per aik ilzam or lag giya or batya ky os ka cousion bhi wahan kam kerta tha magar abhi ham ny phoon kiya tu patta chala ky woh aj sota rehny ky sabab late ho giya nashta kerty hoy os ny TV lagya tu yeh khabar a rahi thi. Os waqat sy woh sakty ki halat main hy:(
Re: What were you doing at 8:46 AM EST, Sept. 11, 2001
i dont remember what i was doing 
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I think i was sleeping
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I was driving to a client site, listening to a cd, changed to radio and some morning show dj was talking about a plane hitting wtc, i thought it was another one of his stupid stunts or some commuter plane of some exec hit the bldg, went back to listening to the cd, a little while later turned back to radio, heard that a second plane had just hit..thought that the stunt was getting dumn, switched back to cd..got to work and realized it was all real.
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any reason you chose that PIA ad from 1979 for the thread? im trying to understand the logic or is it just random?
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5abi remember this discussion?
http://www.paklinks.com/gs/pakistan-affairs/274651-pia-ad-wjbo.html
GS ka X2 itna bykhabar:desimunda:
Re: What were you doing at 8:46 AM EST, Sept. 11, 2001
I am very baykhabar, i dont even know when pp change nicks and what nots nor do i know about lil GS soap operas.
My view is I only need to know about stuff, when i need to know it, and not before 
PS: kyun ji, aap ko hafta bhar pehlay say khabr thi kya? :nono:
Re: What were you doing at 8:46 AM EST, Sept. 11, 2001
:D Shaid hu bhi! Magar Ibn-e-safi ky X2 ko sab kahbar hoti thi:D
Re: What were you doing at 8:46 AM EST, Sept. 11, 2001
i was sleeping in my history class.
Re: What were you doing at 8:46 AM EST, Sept. 11, 2001
Itni Ualalsubhu history ki class khula zulm nahi hy kiyaaaaaaaaaaa(Waraich style)