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<blockquote data-quote="Tzarevitch" data-source="post: 99322" data-attributes="member: 1792"><p>I am a born and bred New Yorker who now lives in DC. I work mainly in the District of Columbia courthouse about 4 blocks from the U.S. Capitol building and right across the street from the District Federal Courthouse. </p><p></p><p>Word got to us very late about what was going on. I was already at the court. By then word had apparently been circulating in whispers that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. I was told this about 9:30AM. Apparently no official word had as yet came down from the Chief Judge or the Clerk of the Court as to what to do. </p><p></p><p>Within minutes we heard additional whispers that planes had hit the other WTC tower and the Pentagon right across the river from us. Confusion was turning to near panic in the building as no word had come to us as to what exactly was going on or what we should do. We heard all sorts of panicked rumors about a plane coming to the Capitol building (4 blocks from us) and at that point people started leaving the building. </p><p></p><p>The next word we received (at almost 10AM) was from the court marshals. They were going through the buildings telling us to E-V-A-C-U-A-T-E NOW! NOW! NOW! OUT! OUT! OUT! </p><p></p><p>By now all of the government buildings around us had had evacuated into the streets. There were crowds in the streets and on the sidewalk. The buses and the metro had all stopped running. Traffic was jammed all over and people just opened their car doors and played the radio loudly so passers by could hear the news. I remember thinking it looked like scenes you see in disaster movies. </p><p></p><p>Pretty much all of us had to walk home that day. I live very close to work so the walk wasn't bad, but with all the rumors of planes heading for the Capitol (my apartment is only 8 blocks from the Capitol) I was starting to regret being so close. </p><p></p><p>Once I got home I looked out on my balcony and realized that I had a view of the Pentagon (it is about a mile from me across the Potomac). I could tell because of the flames and dense columns of smoke trailing up into the sky and the helicopters that continued to circle the building with their searchlights trained on the wreckage. It occured to me then that if I had left for work ten minutes later, I could've seen and heard it hit the Pentagon. </p><p></p><p>From home I spent 2 hours trying to call home to find out if my mother and cousin were ok (both worked about 2 blocks from the World Trade Center and my mother regularly took the subway to work and exited at the WTC subway station. ) As it turned out, my mother was in New Jersey that day, and my cousin had opted to work from home that day. </p><p></p><p>The sheer panic in Washington, the worry about my family, the sight of the WTC collapsing, and the firsthand sight and smell of the Pentagon burning are things I will never forget. (BTW I still remember exactly what I was doing when I heard of the Challenger disaster too.) </p><p></p><p>Tzarevitch</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tzarevitch, post: 99322, member: 1792"] I am a born and bred New Yorker who now lives in DC. I work mainly in the District of Columbia courthouse about 4 blocks from the U.S. Capitol building and right across the street from the District Federal Courthouse. Word got to us very late about what was going on. I was already at the court. By then word had apparently been circulating in whispers that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. I was told this about 9:30AM. Apparently no official word had as yet came down from the Chief Judge or the Clerk of the Court as to what to do. Within minutes we heard additional whispers that planes had hit the other WTC tower and the Pentagon right across the river from us. Confusion was turning to near panic in the building as no word had come to us as to what exactly was going on or what we should do. We heard all sorts of panicked rumors about a plane coming to the Capitol building (4 blocks from us) and at that point people started leaving the building. The next word we received (at almost 10AM) was from the court marshals. They were going through the buildings telling us to E-V-A-C-U-A-T-E NOW! NOW! NOW! OUT! OUT! OUT! By now all of the government buildings around us had had evacuated into the streets. There were crowds in the streets and on the sidewalk. The buses and the metro had all stopped running. Traffic was jammed all over and people just opened their car doors and played the radio loudly so passers by could hear the news. I remember thinking it looked like scenes you see in disaster movies. Pretty much all of us had to walk home that day. I live very close to work so the walk wasn't bad, but with all the rumors of planes heading for the Capitol (my apartment is only 8 blocks from the Capitol) I was starting to regret being so close. Once I got home I looked out on my balcony and realized that I had a view of the Pentagon (it is about a mile from me across the Potomac). I could tell because of the flames and dense columns of smoke trailing up into the sky and the helicopters that continued to circle the building with their searchlights trained on the wreckage. It occured to me then that if I had left for work ten minutes later, I could've seen and heard it hit the Pentagon. From home I spent 2 hours trying to call home to find out if my mother and cousin were ok (both worked about 2 blocks from the World Trade Center and my mother regularly took the subway to work and exited at the WTC subway station. ) As it turned out, my mother was in New Jersey that day, and my cousin had opted to work from home that day. The sheer panic in Washington, the worry about my family, the sight of the WTC collapsing, and the firsthand sight and smell of the Pentagon burning are things I will never forget. (BTW I still remember exactly what I was doing when I heard of the Challenger disaster too.) Tzarevitch [/QUOTE]
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