[Panzer909]

My sister worked in Manhattan at the time. After the second plane hit (I was convinced that the first plane was some kind of freak accident at the time), I immediately tried to call her on her cell#. All I got was that "we're sorry, but the Verizon wireless number you're attempting to dial has been temporarily disconnected" or something to that effect. Frantic, I called her office number..............

Nothing. Kept ringing without going to a voicemail.

This went on for a painful 45mins or so when the phone suddenly rang.


It was my sister. She couldn't call from anywhere because the phone lines were so overloaded & she finally got through. Turns out her office told everyone to go home because of "the plane accident on the World Trade Center building" (this was well before they collapsed) and she came out of her underground Metro stop to find that all hell had broken loose. People were covered in soot, crying, chaos everywhere. Five minutes before, her main concern was wondering what she was going to do with her unexpected day off!