# New York Dopers Check In Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 11, 2001, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dopers-check-in-thread/80861 "2001-09-11T13:50:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dopers-check-in-thread/80861/21 "2001-09-11T14:33:52Z")
Cell phones aren’t working. If vix is downtown there’s no way for her to get in touch with anyone. I heard both buildings were evacuated before they collapsed. Good to see stuyguy. I’m speechless. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dopers-check-in-thread/80861/22 "2001-09-11T14:38:33Z")
Checking in…I’m doing alright. Got a voicemail from my brother but I can’t get through - all the phone switches are fucked. I’m stuck at work - can’t get home. ☹ 😕 :mad: ---
**Author:** ![SqrlCub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SqrlCub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SqrlCub)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dopers-check-in-thread/80861/23 "2001-09-11T14:38:33Z")
I hope you guys are ok. DC is pretty badly shaken right now. MY work has a branch office that is directly next door to the WTC. I hope any of you guys that work near there are ok. EXTRA BIG HUGS! Sqrl ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dopers-check-in-thread/80861/24 "2001-09-11T14:41:36Z")
I’m okay in Englewood, New Jersey. But I am shaking like made and scared as hell. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dopers-check-in-thread/80861/25 "2001-09-11T14:43:35Z")
Please, God, let vix be okay… ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dopers-check-in-thread/80861/26 "2001-09-11T14:46:49Z")
Bill, when you talked to Pucette did she say anything about Maeglin? ---
**Author:** ![soulsling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@soulsling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulsling)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dopers-check-in-thread/80861/27 "2001-09-11T14:48:46Z")
I can’t go home to Brooklyn from Manhattan apparently so when I leave work in a few minutes, I’m going downtown to look for my friends. It’s all I can think to do. Good luck to anyone else trying to connect downtown. I’m not waiting for phone calls. ---
**Author:** ![Mercutio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mercutio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercutio)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dopers-check-in-thread/80861/28 "2001-09-11T14:52:55Z")
**The Cajun Man & DrMatrix** are **OK**! Cjaun went to go pick up Matrix. They’re both fien, just DrMatrix doesn’t know when they will let him leave. I repeat, they are both ok! ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dopers-check-in-thread/80861/29 "2001-09-11T14:57:49Z")
**Nen** is ok, just talked to him. I tried **Maeglin’s** phone too but couldn’t get through. I can’t watch this anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dopers-check-in-thread/80861/30 "2001-09-11T15:00:15Z")
When the WTC towers went down they took a lot of antennas. A lot of cellphones are out. ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dopers-check-in-thread/80861/31 "2001-09-11T15:07:40Z")
I believe that Maeglin was travelling to Houston today. Cell phones are highly sporadic today. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dopers-check-in-thread/80861/32 "2001-09-11T15:17:14Z")
Yeah, “Tuesday night to Friday.” With luck he’s cursing the traffic on the way to the airport. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dopers-check-in-thread/80861/33 "2001-09-11T15:20:38Z")
Well, to save future strain on the Search function and the server, I will report, FTR, that the last time Vix posted was 9/7 in the [Return of the NYC Thursday Night Dope-Dinners](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=1588472#post1588472) thread. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dopers-check-in-thread/80861/34 "2001-09-11T15:22:13Z")
Maeglin couldn’t have been on any of those planes, right? He wasn’t due to leave until later tonight? ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dopers-check-in-thread/80861/35 "2001-09-11T15:24:28Z")
I saw a BBC interview with a woman who’d been evacuated from the 56th floor. It was a lot of stairs and a lot of panicked people, but she made it. A lot of people did make it. If Doper vibes have anything to do with it, vix is among them. ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dopers-check-in-thread/80861/36 "2001-09-11T15:25:23Z")
**friedo** posted in another thread. ---
**Author:** ![c\_goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@c\_goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_goat)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dopers-check-in-thread/80861/37 "2001-09-11T15:29:44Z")
My sister worked on the 78th floor of 1 World Trade Center. She went to the Gym this morning and I don’t think she was there at the time of the attack. I don’t know the exact details, all I know is that she’s ok, and she’s on her way over. I’m sorry for everyone who lost a loved one in the attack. I’m still quite shook up from the worry and relief… I can’t imagine how I’d feel if she wasn’t ok. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dopers-check-in-thread/80861/38 "2001-09-11T15:33:44Z")
I’m checking in. This is terrifying. I got on the subway in Brooklyn at about 8:45 am, just about when the first plane was hitting. We were then stuck in the subway, for ages, with no news at all. Everyone was very calm, because it seemed like another NY subway snafu. When the train started moving, it didn’t make any stops in downtown Manhattan. When I got off at my stop in the Village, I came out of the subway to see the south tower falling, and crowds of people standing and watching, crying, trying to reach people on cell phones. I remember during the bombing a few years ago, leaving my office and looking at the towers. Despite the car bomb, you couldn’t see any damage at all. The towers were standing as solidly as ever. I remember thinking how surreal it was that a bomb had exploded, and yet nothing seemed different. What a scary contrast to today. Of course I am thinking of **Vix** and trying to be very hopeful. This is a strange request. We don’t have any working telephone lines in my office building, and no one seems to have a working cell phone. Is there any Doper in the Western New York area that could call my mother to let her know I am ok? If someone could do this for me, please email me at emk1@nyu.edu ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dopers-check-in-thread/80861/39 "2001-09-11T15:34:51Z")
By the way, if any dopers are trapped in Manhattan, feel free to drop by my place. Bill ---
**Author:** ![c\_goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@c\_goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_goat)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dopers-check-in-thread/80861/40 "2001-09-11T15:35:20Z")
Sorry if this already posted, lots of traffic today… My sister worked on the 78th floor of 1 World Trade Center. She went to the Gym this morning and I don’t think she was there at the time of the attack. I don’t know the exact details, all I know is that she’s ok, and she’s on her way over. I’m sorry for everyone who lost a loved one in the attack. I’m still quite shook up from the worry and relief… I can’t imagine how I’d feel if she wasn’t ok. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dopers-check-in-thread/80861.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-dopers-check-in-thread/80861.md?page=3)