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<blockquote data-quote="robaustin" data-source="post: 334116" data-attributes="member: 2703"><p>Was sitting at my PC at work, like millions of Americans. Got an IM from a friend who told me what happened. Like millions of Americans I headed right to the CNN site, which was down.</p><p></p><p>The rest of the day was spent switching from various internet radio stations to different web sites trying to get the latest info.</p><p></p><p>Working in New Jersey, having gone up to the WTC numerous times, it was very weird. Folks in the office, people I knew, all wondering if they knew someone in the WTC. My cousin worked across the street in the World Financial center. My friends lived and worked in midtown - were they downtown today? My dad sometimes had meetings in NYC -was HE downtown? Gradually everyone came on the IM and let me know they were OK. We discussed. I have never IM'ed so many people as I did on that day. The PC was my connection, not the TV.</p><p></p><p>Than I realized:</p><p></p><p>A friend and I had planned a scavenger hunt in NYC two years previous. Our scavenger hunts were more than that, they were events. It was he first time, and only time we had done one in NYC. It was more of a "rally" type scavenger hunt, where you read a clue and have to figure out the next place to go. We generally had a theme with each hunt, to keep it interesting and to give the day a plot. The theme that year? Terrorists blowing up the WTC. Each team was a team of spies trying to stop it from happening.</p><p></p><p>We put clues all over the city. In Port Authority, in the NY publc library, on the bull down on wall street, in Rockefeller center, in CHinatown at Confucius circle. And yes, at the top of the WTC. It was then that I realized that one of thelast times I had been up there - and probably the last time any of my friends in the scavenger hunt had been up there - was that day two years previous. It left me dumbfounded. We had made a game of this, a mere two years pervious. Now it was no game. Now it was real. I had a sinking feeling in my stomach.</p><p></p><p>But the next day, something left my wife and I even more dumbfounded. You see - she had dropped off pictures to be developed on September 10th. We had forgotten what was on the roll, and it had probably been in the camera for months. The due date for the pictures was September 11th. Well, my wife didn't get there on the 11th to pick them up. She got them on the 12th. She opened up the pictures. The first picture was a picture of her and her niece - at the top of the WTC. Six months before - we had taken her niece to the top of the WTC. There were the pictures, clear as day. Their due date, 9/11.</p><p></p><p>You can see the pictures here:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://robaustin1701.tripod.com" target="_blank">http://robaustin1701.tripod.com</a></p><p></p><p>--*rob</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="robaustin, post: 334116, member: 2703"] Was sitting at my PC at work, like millions of Americans. Got an IM from a friend who told me what happened. Like millions of Americans I headed right to the CNN site, which was down. The rest of the day was spent switching from various internet radio stations to different web sites trying to get the latest info. Working in New Jersey, having gone up to the WTC numerous times, it was very weird. Folks in the office, people I knew, all wondering if they knew someone in the WTC. My cousin worked across the street in the World Financial center. My friends lived and worked in midtown - were they downtown today? My dad sometimes had meetings in NYC -was HE downtown? Gradually everyone came on the IM and let me know they were OK. We discussed. I have never IM'ed so many people as I did on that day. The PC was my connection, not the TV. Than I realized: A friend and I had planned a scavenger hunt in NYC two years previous. Our scavenger hunts were more than that, they were events. It was he first time, and only time we had done one in NYC. It was more of a "rally" type scavenger hunt, where you read a clue and have to figure out the next place to go. We generally had a theme with each hunt, to keep it interesting and to give the day a plot. The theme that year? Terrorists blowing up the WTC. Each team was a team of spies trying to stop it from happening. We put clues all over the city. In Port Authority, in the NY publc library, on the bull down on wall street, in Rockefeller center, in CHinatown at Confucius circle. And yes, at the top of the WTC. It was then that I realized that one of thelast times I had been up there - and probably the last time any of my friends in the scavenger hunt had been up there - was that day two years previous. It left me dumbfounded. We had made a game of this, a mere two years pervious. Now it was no game. Now it was real. I had a sinking feeling in my stomach. But the next day, something left my wife and I even more dumbfounded. You see - she had dropped off pictures to be developed on September 10th. We had forgotten what was on the roll, and it had probably been in the camera for months. The due date for the pictures was September 11th. Well, my wife didn't get there on the 11th to pick them up. She got them on the 12th. She opened up the pictures. The first picture was a picture of her and her niece - at the top of the WTC. Six months before - we had taken her niece to the top of the WTC. There were the pictures, clear as day. Their due date, 9/11. You can see the pictures here: [url]http://robaustin1701.tripod.com[/url] --*rob [/QUOTE]
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