Tim
07-07-2005, 01:32 PM
I don't know how many international members we have here, but I just wanted to express my profound sadness at today's horror in London.
When the towers got hit, I was working in DC. We got evacuated and sent home. Things were a mess. As in London today, cell phone usage was almost nil because of the emergency. I was riding a commuter bus and just went to my bus stop, for lack of anything else to do. There, I found a couple of dozen others who ride the bus, despite the fact that our bus wasn't due for four hours.
Traffic was a mess. People in our group started hanging out signs, trying to get someone to pick us up, which eventually did happen for me.
To make a long story short, it was 5.5 hrs before I got home to my wife. Our last contact had been me Messaging her with, "I'm being evacuated. I'm okay." To make matters worse, she had just returned from a doctor visit in which she found out she was pregnant. So, for 5.5 hrs, she wondered if her unborn son would ever meet his dad.
On my arrival home, our joy over the pregnancy was massively overshadowed by the horror of the day. We sat unspeaking, holding each other as we watched the horror of the day unendingly repeated before us. Previously a news junkie, 911 wiped away all that remained of my desire for news that endless inuendo about Clinton's cigar escapades hadn't.
Today, thinking of the senselessness of the anger and violence has me just wrung out.
If you are affected in anyway by today's violence, my thoughts and prayers are with you in hope you will be able to minimize the horror you will continue to face in the coming days.
When the towers got hit, I was working in DC. We got evacuated and sent home. Things were a mess. As in London today, cell phone usage was almost nil because of the emergency. I was riding a commuter bus and just went to my bus stop, for lack of anything else to do. There, I found a couple of dozen others who ride the bus, despite the fact that our bus wasn't due for four hours.
Traffic was a mess. People in our group started hanging out signs, trying to get someone to pick us up, which eventually did happen for me.
To make a long story short, it was 5.5 hrs before I got home to my wife. Our last contact had been me Messaging her with, "I'm being evacuated. I'm okay." To make matters worse, she had just returned from a doctor visit in which she found out she was pregnant. So, for 5.5 hrs, she wondered if her unborn son would ever meet his dad.
On my arrival home, our joy over the pregnancy was massively overshadowed by the horror of the day. We sat unspeaking, holding each other as we watched the horror of the day unendingly repeated before us. Previously a news junkie, 911 wiped away all that remained of my desire for news that endless inuendo about Clinton's cigar escapades hadn't.
Today, thinking of the senselessness of the anger and violence has me just wrung out.
If you are affected in anyway by today's violence, my thoughts and prayers are with you in hope you will be able to minimize the horror you will continue to face in the coming days.