Did you also not leave the house or speak to anyone for two days? I’m trying to imagine how it was possible to miss the events for that long.
Yeah. …it was kind of a big fucking deal. How can you avoid hearing about it for two days?
No one spoke about it. Why would they? I don’t routinely have conversations with people about news. I only found out when a co-worker said something about considering cancelling an upcoming flight and I asked why.
I know LOTS of people whom don’t watch or talk about the news. This was the ONLY topic everyone was talking about. Your story sounds very odd to me to say the least.
That was all everyone - anyone - talked about for days. I wasn’t a “news watcher” when it happened but the djs on the radio interrupted the broadcast.
I was in my car headed to court of all places. The first plane hit, And the djs made some sort of snarky remark about how bad a pilot would have to be to hit a building. The second one hour and the conversation changed to "wait a minute. …what? " in court, the second a recess was announced, everyone hit their phones. What’s going on, are you ok, I’m ok, what the hell?
Then court resumed and then finished up.
ETA : " No one spoke about it. Why would they? " seriously? ?
Why would they speak about it? Seriously? It wasn’t just on the news. It was all stations, all the time. Every newspaper. Websites. It was all-consuming.
I don’t believe that anyone leading a normal life could go until 9/13 without knowing what happened.
Anyone remember how long all flights were grounded? someone said they were considering canceling a flight?
Perhaps my memory is faulty but i think all flights were cancelled for a considerable time afterward.
I lived right in the flight path of Logan airport at the time. It was weird to have no airplanes overhead for days. I don’t recall how many days it was, though.
at least a day or two. I live near -ish dc and my sister could see the smoke from the Pentagon from her office. No planes for a couple of days at all after.
According to Wikipedia, some airlines resumed on 9/13, chiefly flights which had been diverted, then limited commercial flights.
So. … on the 13th do you think someone would be considering canceling their scheduled flight? Or perhaps fretting that perhaps that flight would be already cancelled
I haven’t watched live TV since hmm, I was 12? Better alternatives were invented. I’ve never listened to the radio. I don’t read newspapers, who does? It was not all-consuming for many of us who prefer to live our actual real lives.
I woke up, got ready, and drove to school (college) in a car that didn’t have a radio. In art class, we were doing presentations and they involved fictional situations that scare people (mine was about news/media hyping up rare bad events and making the world/area seem less safe than it was). So when I was first hearing someone on the other side of the room talk about terrorism before class had started, I was thinking it was something to do with the presentation. Then I heard more and started to realize what had happened. Someone had a radio with headphones, and told us all the second tower had fallen. Those of us scheduled to do presentations that day (myself included) did so. I doubt anyone paid attention. After that it was glued to the radio and tv for a few hours. Then I took a break and looked up fictional stuff on the Internet (occasionally checking for headlines, in case there was anything new). There was a degree of burnout on seeing the same things over and over again with no new info on the 24-hour news stations, and I wasn’t close to it, didn’t know anyone close to it, and was not in an area where I worried about any attack, and it was just not useful or helping or even news at that point.
Speaking of memorable events, while not exactly a single event, how many here are old enough to remember the Cuban Missile Crisis? How many were really scared v. didn’t think nuclear weapons would be launched? I wasn’t born yet, and I always hear about the fear of that time, but I’ve wondered how universal that fear was. And how it varied in different countries and so on.
It was our actual real lives. That’s my point.
How so? Never affected my life at all.
You didn’t encounter other people in public who were talking about it? That doesn’t sound like anyone with an actual real life. It sounds more like someone locked away in a dungeon.
I can’t imagine much of anything affecting you living in that bubble of yours. :rolleyes:
Well, could be hanging out at home for a few days. Seriously though, a few of these messages seem to be verging on personal insults because someone did or did not hear about this event in a given timeframe.
"Armageddon? Bah. Who would notice THAT? "