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Brandon-
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Done With Tobacco
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Topic Author's Original Post - May 1, 2011 - 11:43pm PT
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I was working at Squaw. I watched it in Alex Cushings house.
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MTucker
Ice climber
Arizona
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Recovering from a hangover then made my 11 am class.
Political Science class even.
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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I had just moved into an apartment of a friend a few weeks earlier. He had moved out and left me a TV, but with no antenna, so I couldn't use it. I hadn't watched TV in decades in any case. So the night before 9/11 I decide to go ahead and buy an antenna. Then on 9/11 morning while I'm dressing for work and drinking my coffee I flip on the switch, sort of out of curiosity: "what does morning TV look like these days anyway?". And then there is this plane going into a skyscraper. I think its like fake...
weird coincidence - first time I had turned on a TV in 10 years, and there is this earth shattering, history changing event going on - live.
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Dayton, Ohio listening to the sonic booms as the Airforce cleared the airspace in front of Airforce 1
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Three months prior, I rode from Connecticut to Manhattan to take a look at the towers and battle the traffic on a bike to see if it was harder than LA.
On 9/11, from the safety of my living room on the West coast, I remember a sickening feeling in my stomach as as I watched the towers fall and thousands of souls leaving this earth in a few seconds.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Pounding nails in the sweltering heat of Bishop and listening to NPR and the topic of the day...Should America be the world policeman...?
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OR
Trad climber
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Stuck at Jackson H airport with a guy who's wife was in 2 World Trade and my gf at the time was across the street at World Financial Center. Not a fun memory.. we did not hear from them for hours. They left the buildings just after first plane hit :)
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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I check my email first thing in the morning and was surprised to see an announcement from our administration that the home campus of the University of Maryland was shut for the day due to the "explosions on the East Coast".
I rushed to the television to see the first of many showings of the planes flying into one trade tower and another.
We're supposed to keep a low profile here in Okinawa but that night I lined my front window with Christmas lights that were red, white, and blue.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Catching the early market reports, saw T2 live, but then spent 5 days trying to reach my sister who was 8 blocks away!
She could never talk about what she saw.
Her husband has suffered from multiple mialomas many times since.
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p-owed
Trad climber
Ramona ca
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ha a tv in my room at the lakes house i was renting. woke up to the first fire. whent to work and watched it to the internet for a few houres then to work in lakeside ca
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Had just dropped my kids off at their little Catholic elementary school and turned on Howard Stern for the drive to work. He went news reporter that day. Now I listen to NPR for the morning drive and my kids go to public high school.
Proof that the attacks led to liberalism, apparently.
My 11/9 story, climbing related even.
I don't have TV, and so usually listen to the CBC morning news on the clock radio, at 7 or sometimes 8 AM. However, that day Fred Beckey called me at about 6 AM and asked if I wanted to go climbing. He'd done some climbs with my brother, and was trolling for a third (second) to go with him and another climber from Seattle for some climb up north. He gave me the Fred sales pitch about perfect weather and conditions, etc. (It was a lovely day here.) Of course, he wouldn't tell me exactly what or where. So I said I might be interested, and could he give me a call later once I'd had a chance to sort things out.
So I turned off the clock radio, and went about the usual morning pre-work stuff. At some point I had a shower, and someone called and left a message. When I checked, it was my girlfriend Cathy (US citizen), telling me that terrible things were happening on the east coast and in New York, and that I should go to my father's and tell him, and see it on TV. (My father's hard of hearing, and my mother was away.) Which I did.
Later I came home, and Fred called again. More of the sales pitch. He even told me where the climb was (Monarch area), and that he "had a pilot lined up and waiting to go". I didn't have the heart to ask if him if he'd heard the news, or knew that virtually no non-military aircraft were flying anywhere in North America.
My sister works in Whitehorse, and they landed about 20 jumbo jets there that day. Rather a scramble.
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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On my way to work at my fire station in downtown Los Angeles. Heard about the first plane on the radio and watched the second hit the tower on tv in the station kitchen.
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oldtopangalizard
Social climber
ca
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I was working in Tiburon, north of the Golden Gate. Weird morning, nobody wanted to get on the bridge. It was open but everyone felt it was too risky. No air traffic over the bay, all around, a very surreal day.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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A lot easier to just tell Fred there are some women under 60 that want to meet him.
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Chinchen
climber
Way out there....
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Working at Breedlove Guitar Co. Heard it on the radio, then ran across the street to my house with most of my co-workers to watch the TV. We closed down the shop that day and went home to our families.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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No tv or radio- drove to work super weird vibe on the freeway.
Got the news and realized my bro in law was on business for AmEx, right there.
Sent home from work and rode straight to my home surf break, Lower Trestles. I waited for a call as perfect, empty waves came in.
Soon, another local showed up, got the news that my family member was okay, and we shared a good, emotional surf.
My bro's experiences at ground zero that day were heavy to say the least.
Never forget.
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Aya K
Trad climber
New York
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on my way to teach invertebrate zoology lab at stony brook university.. heard it on the radio, heard the fall of the seond tower live... sat in my car for a while in the parking lot listening, and when a fellow grad student parked next to me got out and told him... he said "Huh. I hope this doesn't mean we're going to start mandatory enlistment..."
I went in and left a note on the door of the lab and then tried to drive the 45 minutes to manhattan to find my mom and sister, but got turned back b/c all the bridges and tunnels were closed... so i went home and watched tv the rest of the day. I finally got through to my mom who was fine, and told me sister was fine. Of course my mom lived near Columbia and my sister near Lincoln Center and there was no reason for the to be down thert ebut it was still nerve wracking.My sister was actually in class and they all left and went up on the roof at Juilliard where she was going to school to watch and saw the second tower fall, she said it was their one moment and then poof, it was gone.
It was all pretty surreal and I just remember the months following, I cried nearly every day biking home from school as I passed every single house with American flags hanging out front. pretty crazy. subsequent to that i made a ton of friends through a radio show (ron & fez) going on sposered bar crawls down in the ground zero area (to support bars affected by it all) with whom I am stkll good friends with to this day.
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Seamstress
Trad climber
Yacolt, WA
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Finished a job interview in Alaska. Managed to get a flight from Anchorage to Seattle earlier than ticketed. Landed in Portland early in the morning. Instead of going to bed, we got our daughter ready for school. I flipped on the TV and saw this awful movie. That same awful movie was on every channel. My husband and I never got to bed. We just watched the news. All my family is in CT. Several commute in to NY. My cousin's husband worked in the WTC.
Knew immediately that life would not be the same. It was awful to be so far from two of my kids and all of my family during this crisis. I knew that this would mean economic hardship and a new job wasn't coming soon. This also would mean war.
The next day I climbed St. Helens and was all alone. I never noticed before how much air traffic comes over the mountains. The dead silence was broken only by fighter jets screaming low in the sky.
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10b4me
Ice climber
Happy Boulders
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was out of work at the time. saw the second plane crash into the tower on tv
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