Where were you...

Dun laoire

when 9/11 happened?

Was in work and got a phone call from a mate that one of the trade towers had been hit by a plane. I had no access to the internet or a tv where i was working so i didnt get to see anything live. Got the second phone call "Holy sh1t another plane is after hitting the second building and it was on live on sky news" At that point i just wanted to go home. Didnt do much in work that day and it was all we talked about.

And you?


P.s
Sorry if this is a repost.

Heyes

I was in New York a couple streets away from the twin tours standing on top of my appartment looking at this with shock and incrediable nerves. Our street was closed nobody could go near the area, had to carry my passport everywhere with me. I will never forget it, the sounds of ambulances, the sight of the smoke and people covered in ash walking the streets, the que s of people lining up to give blood, the air fighter planes circuling the city and the navy coming in to protect the city incase of further attacks. It was all very sureal.

WhiteWashMan

doing an interview for a job i didnt get.

CerebralCortex

I was working on a building site in Galway as a labourer. It was a Thursday when it happened right? It was quite a shocking event.

Slippin Jimmy

I was in 6th class in Cannistown. I remember coming home, just got off the bus and my mam was at the door crying. I didn't know what had happened, then she told me. It was horrific watching it on tv.

kittenkiller

IN work with the radio off & no tv or anything.
I'm always behind the times!

Ag marbh

I dont mean to be an asshole but who cares? Aren't we all sick hearing about it.

Kiith

i was in maths class, and i remember the teacher saying the world trade centre had been hit by a plane. i didnt even realise at the time that it was the twin towers, until i went to the shop at lunch time, and say them burning. i couldnt believe it. seemed like something out of a film.

monkeyfudge

I was in Dun Laoghaire... and no! I wasn't having sex with the OP.

PowerHouseDan

Was in School didnt hear anything about it... Was walking home and some guys started shouting "WORLD WAR 3"

Hermione*

At home in Limerick, making lunch for my sister who was walking home from school

fade2black

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054861354&highlight=alibi

and

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=300624

I think that'll do.

Dun laoire

monkeyfudge wrote:

I was in Dun Laoghaire... and no! I wasn't having sex with the OP.

Howya love;)

kittenkiller

monkeyfudge wrote:

I was in Dun Laoghaire... and no! I wasn't having sex with the OP.

Fine then, "making love"!

whizzbang

Working in a datacenter in the Netherland, just back from Lunch and some one mentioned it to me.

Lump

Don't know.

This was done a few months ago btw.

John

monkeyfudge

Lump wrote:

Don't know.

So you don't have an alibi then?

WhiteWashMan

Ag marbh wrote:

I dont mean to be an asshole but who cares? Aren't we all sick hearing about it.

then dont post?

Tar.Aldarion

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

On my way to technical drawing I believe.

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

dossing around with friends.i vaguely remember the conversation...

So, dossing around on the way to TD.

Huggles

I was on my way to tour the Whitehouse in Washington DC. When we got there loads of cops came running with guns drawn, mad stuff!

netwhizkid

I remember I was at home and watching some TV show, I first flicked to CNN and saw a helicopter view of the first tower on fire. I then remember going over to Sky news and Jeremy Thompson announced that a second plane had hit the Towers and how it was looking more and more unlike an accident as was the earlier speculation due to only one tower being hit. I remember that RTE were showing news feeds from CNN and a few others.

I then remember my grandmother ringing looking for my Aunts & Uncles phone numbers, I told how I had already tried and all the switchboards were jammed. I had a fair Idea that they were okay as they live in Queens and having visited the city the year before (2000) was fairly familiar with their habits. My uncle however was working in a construction job only a few blocks from the Towers and saw the plane fly in over them before hitting the towers. It will be to our generation the memory "of where were you?" like JFK's assassination was to our parents.

clarkwgriswold

Lying in bed in London with jet lag having just come in from Minnesota.

Pigman II

I was at home watching it all on tv and learning to hate Kay Burleys evil face and news-people in general.

Somehow behind her facade of mock-shock you could tell she was secretly lovin every second of it all, like this was her WorldCupFinal or something. :mad:

Thirdfox

Our German teacher runs into our class and tells us that someone crashed a plane into the WTC... on my way home I pass an electronics store and see the second crash live on Sky News - pretty memorable day.

zuutroy

On my way to work in Toronto listening to Howard Stern. I thought he was making it up, to get away from a grilling he was getting about going out with Pamlea Anderson. Spent 1/2 the day in the pub watching CNN, then we all just went home.

Lump

monkeyfudge wrote:

So you don't have an alibi then?

****, I've been rumbled!

EKRIUQ

Is there anyway of looking at the after hours threads for the 11th of September 2001???

Maybe by search

dundalk cailin

day before my junior results (so that would make it a tuesday??) my mam was glued to the tv, i dont think i realised how huge it was till later,cos i was so wired up at thought of my results!!

netwhizkid

BingoBongo wrote:

Is there anyway of looking at the after hours threads for the 11th of September 2001???

Maybe by search

Not that I know of, but I have found this it is like a picture of the front page taken on 26th September 2001, I got it from the Internet wayback machine. I have tried a few ways but can't search by exact specific date. Maybe the mods or Admins have the facility but I haven't anyway.

[EDIT] September 11th 2001 fell on a Tuesday btw [EDIT]

eamoss

At school didnt hear anything at school so when I was walkin home I was met by my m8s from a diff school who wer just the bus & one of them told me that there had been a plane crash in the u.s but I replyed wit na im not interested in it. When i got home I found out all what happened. It was the best 14th b-day ever *cough it was sh*t cough*

fuzzywiggle

In hosptial.

Heyes

netwhizkid wrote:

I remember I was at home and watching some TV show, I first flicked to CNN and saw a helicopter view of the first tower on fire. I then remember going over to Sky news and Jeremy Thompson announced that a second plane had hit the Towers and how it was looking more and more unlike an accident as was the earlier speculation due to only one tower being hit. I remember that RTE were showing news feeds from CNN and a few others.

I then remember my grandmother ringing looking for my Aunts & Uncles phone numbers, I told how I had already tried and all the switchboards were jammed. I had a fair Idea that they were okay as they live in Queens and having visited the city the year before (2000) was fairly familiar with their habits. My uncle however was working in a construction job only a few blocks from the Towers and saw the plane fly in over them before hitting the towers. It will be to our generation the memory "of where were you?" like JFK's assassination was to our parents.

Switchboards were jammed yes, however some of the phone connections / sataliets ( im not sure of the exact description) were actually located on the top of the world trade centre, so nobody was really able to ring interntionally for a few hours until some changes had been made.

It was unreal, i was trying to ring home for hours, and the lines were all dead. In relation to the news coverage for a period of about three days we were been showen the exact same clips over and over, we were not showen exactly what was going on due to cencorship within the country. I remember coming home and people telling me everything that they had been showen and even looking at all the papers, it was unreal. It was like to some extent living a dream, because what we saw and what all of you saw where two totally different things

Sam Vimes

i was working with george bush at the time so we were very busy that day. its very difficult to organise such an event let me tell you

Ruu_Old

I was in an internet cafe in London watching the footage on the TV, every place came to a standstill. I thought it was some sort of a stunt at first, couldnt believe it!

natter

In PE class, didnt hear about it til I got home when my little brother told me a plane crashed into the Two Towers.. I thought something had happened the filming of Lord of the Rings!

Winters

Dunno tbh.

Probably posted where I was at the time in a thread somewhere.

dubtom

In my back garden digging foundations for my shed.
Something that bothered me then and still does is why helicopters weren't used to get people off the roof's. I remember something been said about it being too windy or backdrafts or something which doesn't seem to bother the coastguard when they go out in force 9 gales to pick people off boats which are a lot smaller than the roof's of the towers.There is probably a reasonable explaination for it but I have never heard it.

Mr_G^_^

I was glued to the television, watching with awe and enthuasiasm.
I'm sure George was rubbing his hands with glee that he now could roll out the next generation of war machine in the Bush dynasty.

The Bollox

I remember I was told by my oul wan when getting into the car outside my grans house, and I thought she was pulling my leg, but I watched it all live on tv then

Hail 2 Da Chimp

Heyes wrote:

I was in New York a couple streets away from the twin tours standing on top of my appartment looking at this with shock and incrediable nerves.

Oh you always have to go one better...

Well i was in Playa De Ingles on holiday. Watched it from a pub...was havin a full Irish and dying... pretty surreal.

Heyes

Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote:

Oh you always have to go one better...

Well i was in Playa De Ingles on holiday. Watched it from a pub...was havin a full Irish and dying... pretty surreal.

Mwah

Hail 2 Da Chimp

Heyes wrote:

Mwah

This one-up-manship must stop Heyes!!!

jenndudess

me and the hubby seen it on sky news.

it took us a while to cop on that it was real, for a moment, it looked like a seen from a movie

Tar.Aldarion

Nightwish was getting her head scanned in Waterford. They think she caused the crashes with her mind or big head or sth.

sturgo

I was in a pub in Sydney at around 11 in the evening when my mother rang me from Ireland to tell me that terrorists had hit the twin towers. When I got to a TV I saw the Pentagon was hit also. I had a few beers on me and genuinely thought the Opera House was next.

Hail 2 Da Chimp

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

Nightwish was getting her head scanned in Waterford. They think she caused the crashes with her mind or big head or sth.

Nightwish = http://www.thefinalphase.com/images/Osama_Bin_laden.jpg ????

Heyes

Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote:

This one-up-manship must stop Heyes!!!

Never my little Chimp

Red Alert

I was in Room 3 in Gonzaga College where we in fact had a free class because our English teacher wasn't in. Head-man came in and said the twin towers were hit and we were free to go.

Lump

Where were you during the London Bombings? I was literally just about to leave my house to head into the centre of London, I spent the day watching it on BBC News 24 after that.

John

Heyes

Lump wrote:

Where were you during the London Bombings? I was literally just about to leave my house to head into the centre of London, I spent the day watching it on BBC News 24 after that.

John

Was in work at the time, came out of a meeting later on to hear about it, had a few friends in london so was quick to jump on the phone. All were fine thank god.

Dooom

Sitting at the back of Business class learning to twirl a coin around my fingers.