9/11 (morbid, I know)

branie

anyone here remember where they were ten years this sunday when New York and Washington D.C. came under attack?

kelle

I was at work, we were all gathered in the staff room watching all the events unfold before our eyes. Next, we realised patients were in the waiting room, some waiting over an hour and complaining about the delay!
As I brought in my patients I explained why we were delayed, they were gobsmacked - one girl laughed at me and refused to believe the twin towers could be turned to rubble on the ground (she laughed "nice one!")as she had only been on the top of one of them a few months beforehand.
I just told them to switch on their car radios on leaving!

stargazer 68

I was working in the middle east so it was around 4.30pm. All left the office and headed to the pub to watch the tv. A lot of my friends knew people in the finance industry in NY so we were all watching intently.

Quest

Will never forget it! Had RTE radio 1 on as usual when Joe Duffy interrupted his broadcast to take a call from Niall O'Dowd who was in Manhatten. Went straight in and turned on Sky News and then rang my Dad and sister to tell them. At first I assumed it was a small plane that had somehow gone out of control.
Then the second plane struck. Shocking.

Would love to know what time Niall called in to Joe to announce it? I think I was watching Sky when the second plane struck, but with the passing of years I 'm wondering did I just imagine that. Knowing what time Niall called at would confirm either way. Anyone?

Rubberlegs

I was doing some washing up, and heard the newsflash on 2FM. Ran in to turn on Sky news, in time to see the second plane going in. Totally surreal:(

gbee

Yea, I was driving out the Mallow Road to a job when my son phoned me with the news, I was shocked, I was in fear and I cancelled the job and just drove and drove.

Finally at home and I saw the TV images and I pointed at the screen and I said to a shocked household that this isn't right.

youtube!

Nah cant remember sorry.

kc66

Was working in a pub at the time. People were coming in just to watch it. So surreal. There was just silence in the pub.

x_Ellie_x

I was shopping in Liffey Valley that morning. When I first heard about it, I was queuing to pay for something in one of the shops and then I was going home. I heard people talking about it in the que but I assumed it was just an accident. I got home, turned on the tv and started flicking through the channels as I normally do, till I got to sky news and I couldn't believe my eyes. I turned it on just has the second plane was crashing into the WTC.

GarH

My friends and i had just flown from Washington to Orlando 24 hours earlier.
And 1 week before that, we were in the Windows on the World restaurant on the 107th floor. of the North Tower.

Kalimah

I think it was about 5 past two when Niall O'Dowd called in to Liveline. The reason I remember is that I'd been in town that day and was on my way home to get the kids who were off school at 2.30. I was on Templeogue Bridge at the time and raced home to turn on Sky. I saw about 15 minutes and rang hubby to tell him and then dashed to get the kids. I don't think we even had mobiles then. I never saw a school car park empty so fast. We raced home and then two of my sisters arrived and we sat there all afternoon incredulous.
I was ringing hubby every 10 minutes or so to fill him in as they had no TV in his office. He couldn't believe it when the buildings fell down. I couldn't either.
I think dinner in my house was a very badly put together affair that night. I remember seeing a photo the next day of a fireman going up one of the stairwells. It was taken by someone going down. He looked so young and my sister and myself were nearly in tears when we found out he had survived.

Lawrence1895

I was at home, cleaning the cage of my pet rats when it happened. In the first moment, that was totally unreal, like a Science Fiction movie

paddy147

I was working in Gateway 2000 Computers in Claunshaugh Ind Estate when the towers fell down.It was an American PC makeer that was based here in Dublin at the time (since gone bust).

I never seen so many people in a building trying to ring friends and family in New York to see if they were ok.

Very eery and freaky indeed.:(

3rdDegree

I was at work some time shortly after 2pm when some one said "did you heart about the plane that hit World Trade Centre?". I honestly thought it was the opening line of a joke until she showed me the headlines on the Internet.

ratedR

Double German, 6th year.

Dude111

I was @ home in bed and my mum came home crying and said to turn on the TV

tfitzgerald

I was at work when I heard it left work and went to pub to look at tv . My mother who was visiting new York was actually in the trade centre the night before 9/11 and was stuck in new York for a while after she says it was the worst time of her life