I guess it was around 8.45 am over here -- i was in my wonderful high school Biology class -- I didn't find out about that whole thing until around 10.00 or 11.00 - fourth period, when i was in Math…
It's all so horrible…thank god I live on Long Island
Alek, I'm glad to hear you're ok. I've got a few friends in NY, most of them made when I was over at CNN - I've been trying to find out how they are but with very little success.
Undoubtably one of the worst events any of us will ever have the misfortune to witness.
I'd actually heard nothing of the events that had been developing, until I got home and turned on Channel 4 and saw a picture of the Pentagon. Very hard to take in and after being initially gobsmacked and then saying 'oh my god' to myself for about 10 times I began to actually take it in.
I was in the Sixth Form common room watching people throw M&Ms at Jamie (don't ask). We had been watching the BBC News at 1 - little did I know what would be happening minutes later.
When I got home at about 3.10, I switched on the television with the legendary blue breaking news aston on ITV. To find out that one of the WTC towers had collapsed was pretty awful - I shouted 'Christ' a few times, and ran into the next room to watch Sky News. Less than half an hour later, both towers had collapsed.
This afternoon's events have been terrible - if somebody said to you that one day the WTC would be demolished by two passenger jets deliberately, followed by an attack on the Pentagon, you simply would not believe it.
Television coverage on ALL channels has been excellent, regardless of who produced it or what name it was. I also think the BBC's radio coverage was very good.
Bloody hell! I was just walking back into town, after walking half way to my old school with a friend(he wanted to harras teachers!), and did not know anything until 4:15 when I got a lift home, and heard it on the radio. Its utterly unbelievable. Its quite something that after I heard, I thought of A: the thread that would probably be about 15 pages long. and secondly B: Where all of our American visitors we're from, and hoping that they weren't caught up in it. Its just horrific, to think of being on one of those planes, a black day.
JM
James Martin
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Just like any other normal day, and then Crossroads started....but never actually finished
Does anybody know if they're intending to finish it? It just seems a little unprofessional of a channel like ITV to skip through 15 minuts of a serial drama. You can skip an episode of Only Fools and Horses/Delia Smith/Ground Force, but not really a soap opera or anything else that continues through all it's episodes.
Just like any other normal day, and then Crossroads started....but never actually finished
Does anybody know if they're intending to finish it? It just seems a little unprofessional of a channel like ITV to skip through 15 minuts of a serial drama. You can skip an episode of Only Fools and Horses/Delia Smith/Ground Force, but not really a soap opera or anything else that continues through all it's episodes.
A recap was shown at the start of Wednesday's episode.
Plus it was (apprantly) shown in full on ITV2 at 5.30pm
BP
Big Phil
Well I was in an English Language lesson at college at that time and was briefly told via a text message from a mate in my French lesson later ('World Trade Centre's been attacked, bad ****
' were his exact words). In my naivity, I presumed that some protesters were having a bit of a barney or something, not realising the extent until on the bus home when someone mentioned that thousands had been killed. Quite possibly the most tortuous bus journey I've ever had.
I was preparing to go to my gardening job. I garden for an elderly man who through illness has become unable to tend his own garden. He did not have a radio on or television so I did not know about it during the two hours I was there. I finished at 4:00 and upon coming home, chatted with an elderly woman on my estate for half an hour before arriving home at just after 4:35. I put my tools back in the shed and all of a sudden, my mum opens the kitchen window with a haunted expression on her face and tells me in a choked-up voice to come look at the television, saying it's huge news. Immediately, I ask her 'Queen Mum?' To which she said it was something bigger than that. Incredulously, I asked 'The QUEEN?' It was something even bigger. I couldn't think of anything bigger than that.
I went into the lounge and upon seeing what it was, just shouted '****!' at the top of my voice. I could feel the life draining from my body as my eyes took in the scene on the screen. It just wasn't real. It was as if I was looking at the worst kind of disaster movie ever conceived in a director's brain. I spent the next two hours just staring numbly at the television.
I hope I never see something on that magnitude on television again in my life.