story7280.xml
Title
story7280.xml
911da story story
I was home studying, in fact taking a nap, but jumped up with an odd urgent feeling around 2pm, standing on a toolbox and breaking it.
Turned on CNN, there was the first tower burning. Phoned my parents to turn on their TV and began hours of watching, unable to work.
When the towers fell I phoned my boss at his desk and told him that between 10,000 and 100,000 people must have been killed. I said that business would be scarce for a long time, and told him to send any urgent emails, in case the Internet got attacked by teams of hackers organised by the same terrorists. News websites were slow. A webcam near the WTC showed a street filled with nothing but grey dust. In my chat room, one of our group said her husband had been high up in a WTC tower. He never came home.
David
Turned on CNN, there was the first tower burning. Phoned my parents to turn on their TV and began hours of watching, unable to work.
When the towers fell I phoned my boss at his desk and told him that between 10,000 and 100,000 people must have been killed. I said that business would be scarce for a long time, and told him to send any urgent emails, in case the Internet got attacked by teams of hackers organised by the same terrorists. News websites were slow. A webcam near the WTC showed a street filled with nothing but grey dust. In my chat room, one of our group said her husband had been high up in a WTC tower. He never came home.
David
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Created by Author
yes
Described by Author
no
Date Entered
2002-09-13
Collection
Citation
“story7280.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed October 1, 2026, https://911.dev.chnm.gmu.edu/items/10658/.