I was driving up to college at the time listening to it on the radio. I sat there in stunned silence for a few minutes and then I was like do I go to class?
So I went into class. And this was before smartphones so no one else but me knew what happened. I raised my hand to tell the teacher and just as I was about to speak someone barged into the room and said that the school was closing due to the attack.
And she was like as a joke? And I was like no it's it's not. I heard it on the radio before I came in.
Oh, and I couldn't make a phone call on my fancy new cell phone because all circuits were busy. I've never seen that happen since.
It was my freshman year at college. Upstate NY, with my family still in the city. I had a fancy new cell phone too and it took a few hours to get my folks on the phone.
I was a freshman in college, but living at home. I was driving my sister to her school when the first plane hit. Got home and watched the coverage until I had to leave for class.
I remember I was making myself breakfast, reached into the fridge to get milk, I looked up and the first tower was just gone.
I still drove to campus, because it just seemed like the thing to do. And email wasnt something every had at their fingers all of time, so there hadn't been any kind of official communication. It was practically deserted on campus. I ran into some I had gone to High School with and we were both just kind of shell shocked.
Not long after that all classes were officially canceled until further notice. I think it was maybe around 1 or 2?
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u/Thatroyalkitty 15h ago
I was in school for a couple hours by this point in the day. Some memories never go away.