Just a memory now. My daughter was in her fourth day of Kindergarten in Manhattan’s Chinatown, half a mile from WTC I and II. Getting her home to Brooklyn was what took (most of) my attention that day. And when her school finally reopened over a week later, President Bush and entourage came to visit. I will always be grateful to the staff at her school as well as family and friends who picked her up from school and eventually brought her home.
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Oh my. You had an experience that was way too close for comfort.
Exactly 24 years ago today I was sitting in Logan airport in Boston, waiting for a flight that never happened. About 5 minutes before the flight was supposed to leave there were lots of passengers waiting but no activity at the gate. I wondered what was happening. They had shut off the TV sets apparently so that us passengers would not freak out (probably a wise move). Then they announced that the airport was shutting down and we should all go home. I didn’t understand what was going on until I got home.
I remember it like it was yesterday. It was a beautiful day with a clear blue sky over Boston.
One colleague had a friend who was stuck in San Francisco airport with a colleague, waiting for a flight to Boston when the airport shut down. They went to a car rental agency to try to rent a car to drive to Boston. The agency only had one vehicle left, which was a van that could hold 15. They said that they would not rent it to them, but they would hold it for them. If they could find 10 people (including themselves) going to Boston, then they would rent it to them. The two of them wandered around SFO airport saying something like “van to Boston”, and ended up with 12 people, three to JFK and the rest going to Boston. They all rented the van and drove the entire way.
One neighbor was supposed to be on AA flight 11 to LA that day. The entire family was going on vacation. Their son (same age as my older daughter) got an ear infection so they all stayed home and watched it on TV.
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