https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:00:22 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-were-you-on-september-11th/page/2#post-290951 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:46:49 +0000 Crisark 290951@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was at my mom's getting my hair highlighted. I was just out of High School.<br /> I remember we sat there stunned. My then Fiance was in boot camp at the time and I was terrified something was going to happen to him.<br /> It's a day I will never forget. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-were-you-on-september-11th/page/2#post-290931 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:28:10 +0000 SugarplumsMom 290931@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>In my old apartment with my ex-husband. He was just about to leave for work. I was glued to the TV, horrified and scared. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-were-you-on-september-11th/page/2#post-290930 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:28:08 +0000 Turd Ferguson 290930@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was actually in the Middle East. I did a semester of school in Dubai (UAE), and was staying with my aunt and uncle. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-were-you-on-september-11th/page/2#post-290910 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:08:01 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 290910@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was homeschooled at the time, so I think I was home watching it on tv. I didn't get how serious it was at first at all. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-were-you-on-september-11th/page/2#post-290900 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:04:43 +0000 BoogieBea 290900@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was working several blocks away too. As I was walking over the manhattan bridge back over to Brooklyn, I watched the first tower collapse. It was so surreal and get chills to this day when I think about that morning. The next few days, all the awful stories started flooding in. I was pretty much in zombie mode for the next few weeks. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-were-you-on-september-11th/page/2#post-290888 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:53:11 +0000 mrsjyw 290888@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Senior year in hs, ap english class... lockdown watching it all unfold on the tv... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-were-you-on-september-11th/page/2#post-290862 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:36:57 +0000 matador84 290862@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was a sophomore in high school...I remember that day we were doing a socratic seminar over the Scarlet Letter and all of a sudden my teacher randomly turned on the TV in the room...she must have gotten an email about it--and we watched the 2nd tower get hit. Super surreal. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-were-you-on-september-11th/page/2#post-290860 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:36:09 +0000 Andrea 290860@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsjazz: Sorry to hear about your sister's bronchial infections. It does seem likely that it was from that day. =( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-were-you-on-september-11th/page/2#post-290854 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:31:27 +0000 kayakgirl73 290854@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was at work in Washington DC. I remember my boss coming in from the office kitchen after she got her usual morning coffee. She said a plane hit the World Trade Center I said what? WE both got online ans started reading. Both towers had actually already been hit.n I'm not quite sure when we heard about the Pentagon. I remember hearing that there was a bomb at the State Dept. We also keep hearing about other planes supposedly headed for DC. We were unable to leave until after 3:30 because the hotel next door had a bomb threat. I remember finally walking to the Metro and seeing Fighter jets circling. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-were-you-on-september-11th/page/2#post-290841 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:20:33 +0000 Shutterbug 290841@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrs. wagon: Wow, I'm glad your brother was ok!</p> <p>I forget sometimes how much it affected Boston, too, since two of the planes came from there. My dad's boss was on one of the planes, and my friend's dad missed his flight (big dig traffic), and it saved his life.</p> <p>I went to school near an airport, and I remember the complete silence in the air for the next few days being so eery. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-were-you-on-september-11th/page/2#post-290830 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:13:06 +0000 mrs. wagon 290830@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was a junior in college, asleep in my dorm room. My roommate woke me up and told me to turn on the radio (I think someone called her to tell her). We didn't have a tv in our room. My dad called because he couldn't get in touch with my brother, who worked nearby. Turns out he spent all day walking home to New Jersey totally covered in soot. He lost a few friends that day, including a guy who was supposed to be a groomsman in a wedding the next weekend :(</p> <p>My friend worked in the twin towers but was randomly called to a training in Jersey City that morning. His entire team made it out ok though.</p> <p>I remember attending memorial services at school because a student lost both of her parents. They were on one of the two flights departing from Boston... they were on their way home from visiting her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-were-you-on-september-11th/page/2#post-290815 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:02:48 +0000 Smurfette 290815@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I just just graduated in May, so I was at my first real job. I don't remember who first told us about it. But there was an old TV in the building and we watched the coverage all day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-were-you-on-september-11th/page/2#post-290762 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:28:44 +0000 mrsjazz 290762@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Andrea: So scary! I can't even imagine. My sister worked over there, too and also had to run for her life! She's had recurring bronchial infections since 9/11 and we think it's from running in that cloud of ash.</p> <p>I was in NYC, but not near the towers. I was working on Park Avenue. But I was so scared because both my mom and sister worked near the trade center (my sister was closer). We didn't hear from my sister until that evening, thank god she was safe! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-were-you-on-september-11th#post-290758 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:27:09 +0000 owlmom 290758@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was in college. I woke up late for my first class that day and was rushing to get ready and was really worried about being late. Then my roommate walked in to our room and told me what was happening. Among a lot of other emotions, I distinctly remember feeling ridiculous for worrying about being late for a class and realizing how trivial a lot of the things I stressed about were. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-were-you-on-september-11th#post-290749 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:22:46 +0000 Mrs. Pen 290749@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was young, almost a teenager and my mon was homeschooling us. It was 9am where I was and I was folding a hamper of laundry when we turned on the tv. I remember not really understanding it at the time. At least, at first. Over the next week it was evident how serious it was.</p> <p>@looch: oh wow... I couldn't imagine watching it.</p> <p>@Andrea: That had to have been the scariest and most traumatizing experience ever. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-were-you-on-september-11th#post-290747 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:21:54 +0000 mrskc 290747@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was a sophomore in high school. I was sleeping when my mom was yelling through the house for me and my siblings to get up and watch the news. I watched the news in every period at school that day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-were-you-on-september-11th#post-290731 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:15:19 +0000 wheres_c 290731@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was living in Washington DC at the time and had to go to court that day for a traffic violation so was up early.<br /> We had the news on as we were getting ready to go to court, so pretty much saw the very start of the coverage.<br /> I went to court and my case was the first and last they heard before shutting down for the day.</p> <p>Driving much to DC was awful. All of the local radio stations were broadcasting bogus news of other attacks going on in Washington DC.<br /> They mentioned something at the State Department, which is where my Stepfather worked. Mom kept trying to get ahold of him but all of the cell reception was down.</p> <p>I could see the smoke from the pentagon from my apartment and was panicking – had no clue if there was more to come.<br /> I got in my car that afternoon and drove 10 hours to Canada, where my dad lives because I felt safer.</p> <p>It’s so hard to believe that it was 11 years ago… </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-were-you-on-september-11th#post-290718 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:09:31 +0000 Cherrybee 290718@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was 20 and was working for an older people's project. Tuesday afternoon was pensioners bingo and it was my turn to call the numbers. The first plane hit at around 2pm UK time and, by then, bingo was well underway. </p> <p>A colleague came running into the community lounge and turned on the TV, which was located behind me. He'd heard about it on the radio and had come to the TV to see what was going on. The second I heard the coverage, the sirens and screams, I knew something really, really terrible was happening. I turned around and saw smoke billowing from one of the twin towers - and just then, as I was watching, the second plane hit. </p> <p>A groan went up in the room and several of the older people called "carry on" and "call the next number". I announced over the microphone "something really terrible's happening, the world trade centre appears to be on fire and I think a plane has just crashed into them..." More groans. "Carry on!" someone else cried and the inpatient murmurs that resounded around the room echoed that sentiment. </p> <p>So, as the sirens and the screams continued behind me, I continued calling the bingo, "two little ducks, 22" "Downing Street, number 10". </p> <p>I think it is one of my most vivid (and harrowing) memories. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-were-you-on-september-11th#post-290678 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:45:36 +0000 bpcmarj 290678@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was in 11th grade in art class. Our principal came over the loudspeaker and made an announcement about the events in NY. None of us knew what he was talking about. Since Logan is the closest airport to us, I know there were parents of students flying that day. Our school wouldn't allow anyone to turn on the tv or be dismissed early. It was crazy. Luckily, my last class was spanish and my teacher thought we needed to know what was happening so she let us watch the tv. I just remebered everyones reaction was "holy shit". It was the only time I remember not being told to watch our language...it was a terrible day. Pretty sure vball practice was cancelled that day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-were-you-on-september-11th#post-290668 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:37:54 +0000 BabyBruins 290668@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It was (is) my birthday. I was getting ready for work and couldn't comprehend that it was intentional. I kept thinking it was a really bad accident.<br /> I have since spent several birthdays in NY because of work and I love that it is a special day there full of tributes and memories.. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-were-you-on-september-11th#post-290664 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:33:09 +0000 BSB 290664@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was in a 12th grade high school history class. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-were-you-on-september-11th#post-290660 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:32:16 +0000 pregnantbee 290660@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was two years out of college and was working at another college. I was sitting in my closet of an office when my coworker arrived and told me that a plane hit one of the towers. I continued working because, while still sad, I assumed it was a little plane with only a couple passengers. Coworker continued listening to the radio and told me when the second plane hit. That's when I realized it was serious. I was a technology teacher, and I was also about to start teaching a class. I didn't know what else to do so I started teaching even though only a couple people were there. They were all checking CNN online, and we couldn't concentrate, so we all left and watched the TV in the lobby's building. Definitely a day I will never forget. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-were-you-on-september-11th#post-290658 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:29:59 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 290658@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was in my 7th grade history class. My math teacher came to the door and whispered to my teacher to turn the tv on. We watched coverage all day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-were-you-on-september-11th#post-290644 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:23:06 +0000 Andrea 290644@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bree72: thank you. </p> <p>@Rachel: No, we were displaced for about four months after that to an office in CT and then my company moved to midtown permanently after that. No one wanted to be downtown anymore. </p> <p>@looch: Definitely, no decision is too small to matter! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-were-you-on-september-11th#post-290641 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:20:56 +0000 DillonLion 290641@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was a freshman in high school at the time. I was actually running late for school that day. I turned on the TV and saw what I thought was a movie playing, but it was the news. I woke up my parents and alerted them to what was going on. My mom dropped me off at school but a couple of hours later she came to pick me up and take me home. Our whole family is from NY and there was too much going on with trying to get into contact with everyone. My mom wanted me home during that process. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-were-you-on-september-11th#post-290634 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:17:49 +0000 looch 290634@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Andrea: Gosh, isn't it amazing the choices that we make some times? I had several coworkers that were spared that day because they were running late and weren't on the subway at their usual time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-were-you-on-september-11th#post-290633 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:16:20 +0000 Shutterbug 290633@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Andrea: Wow, so terrifying. Do you still work nearby? Glad you were ok </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-were-you-on-september-11th#post-290619 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:04:09 +0000 BananaPancakes 290619@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Andrea: So glad you're alive and well! What a terrifying experience. </p> <p>I was a senior in high school and was already in 1st period. We were in the library and were watching the news anyways. They were discussing the first plane hitting when we all watched the second plane hit and all quickly realized this was not an accident. It was just the most heartbreaking day. I think the entire school watched until classes ended that day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-were-you-on-september-11th#post-290603 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 08:56:47 +0000 Andrea 290603@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaMoose: thank you. I was incredibly blessed that day. Before work, I was debating whether or not to go to the bank because I was low on cash. I decided to wait until my lunch break instead. That was the best decision I have ever made because my bank was in the first tower that was hit. So blessed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-were-you-on-september-11th#post-290602 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 08:56:30 +0000 SAHM0811 290602@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was one year out of college, but taking classes for nursing/grad school, so I was living with my mom again temporarily in L.A. I remember rushing out the door and noticing a news story on TV, but I was in such a hurry, I didn't stop to see what it was about. By the time I got to my anatomy class, people were leaving because class was cancelled. I went back in my car and listened to the radio. The parking lot was gridlocked for a while and I just sat there, listening... completely horrified and scared. </p>