Please be safe everyone.

[moe22]

My brother woke me up and told me what was happening out in New York and Washington D.C. I can't believe it. I really really really hope everyone is ok and my prayers are with you all. Please stay safe.

[pmeares17]

shoosh someones trying to destroy our country. i hope you new yuckers are ok:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :frownsqua :frownsqua

[Baseball Guru]

I am trying to get in touch with my Uncle.....Ihave cousins that work in that area.....I can't reach anyone!!!!
This sucks!!!
I have never seen anything like this:ohno: :ohno: :ohno:

[pmeares17]

someones trying to destroy our fn country:crying2: :crying2: q:crying2: :crying2: there saying a plane has crash in PA also. and maybe another plane is still missing that may have been hijacked. and now they hit camp david:crying2: :barf:

[moe22]

James,

I tried to reach Cynthia, but no luck, either. I don't think you're gonna be able to get through anytime soon. All of the lines are busy or down. They're trying to get lines going in NY so that family members can reach people, but I don't know when that will be set up. I can't believe this. I'm worried about the people in NY, I keep crying, and honestly I'm really scared that something will happen in Los Angeles, too. :ohno:

[pmeares17]

im listening to an old broadcast of the pearl harbor attack and i think it parallels. they thought that was the worst that could happen......

[Misha77Piazza]

I'm in shock! I couldn't believe what's happening in both NYC and DC!!!!! I'm saying the prayers for the people in both areas.

All nationwide airports are closed for security reasons.

I hope Cyn is all right!

[Addict Sports]

I am in Colorado watching what is happening in many of your backyards. I sincerely hope that you and your families are well and safe.

Many people are leaving work today to go donate blood to help, and we have heard that many shipments of food and medical supplies are on the way as well.

I wish you all well,

Chad

[amazinmets]

I work in Newark....ferries are being transported here with people who've been hurt. They evacuated us. I've never seen such panic before and getting out of the city was the hardest thing on earth.

I have 5-6 friends who work in NY and two friends who work in the world trade center. Pray to god they're safe. All circuits are busy so I can't call them.

I hope Cyn, Colin, Nanner, etc are all safe.

[Misha77Piazza]

Nanner and LeiterFan are safe and all right but I don't know about metmagic and colin yet. I sure hope they are all right and safe.

[pdaj]

I'm right in Boston, and the people here are hysterical.

My prayers go out to all the victims and their family members.

God bless.

[loser69]

Can't express the feeling, but I can sure be concerned. I was actually afraid to look here today fearing the worst. It's bad enough what happened, but if you know somebody hurt in this it is unbearable. I'm not sure where all of you Mets and Yankees fans in New York live but after the initial shock of what happened wore off I began to worry about my fellow Baseball fans in New York:( I saw that Cyn is ok and I still worry about everybody else. I don't know all of you personally but I do care. Everyone is affected by this.

[Nymet31]

I'm glad to hear that you all are ok!!!! I have many friends that work in the area and in those buildings that all are accounted for and safe! Mike had just gotten home this morning from work and was called back into the city. The last I heard from was this morning!!! I'm sure that he is ok. Well I pray that he is ok! this is so horrible! Everytime the phone rings I praying that it is Mike telling me he's fine.

[Yankee 21]

Originally posted by loser69
Can't express the feeling, but I can sure be concerned. I was actually afraid to look here today fearing the worst. It's bad enough what happened, but if you know somebody hurt in this it is unbearable. I'm not sure where all of you Mets and Yankees fans in New York live but after the initial shock of what happened wore off I began to worry about my fellow Baseball fans in New York:( I saw that Cyn is ok and I still worry about everybody else. I don't know all of you personally but I do care. Everyone is affected by this.

You took the words right out of my mouth, Loser! Iwas thinking the exact same thing. Please let everybody be safe! and Please let this be over!

[Nanner]

Physically okay here.

Emotionally is another story. A horrific, scary, awful day. My heart aches for the friends and families of those who have perished today.

Kathleen, have you heard from Michael?

Purva, have you heard from your friends?

I myself went to church. I was at the office, thinking I would put in a few hours before going to dress a fashion show at 2:00. At about 10:00 the office was closed, and I went to church. All I could think was, "If this can happen, terrorists can do anything." And I was kind of scared.... and sick to my stomach. All I could think was to go to church. I sat in the sanctuary and prayed. My pastor came in and sat next to me and asked if I knew anybody in the World Trade Center and I started crying and said, "No, I don't think so. I'm just sort of scared." He said, "You're in the safest place." He then threw open the doors, in the face of cops saying they were closing all the entrances to the Citicorp Center. He said, "The door to the church will not be closed." Then people started drifting in, lighting candles and praying. We started reading psalms, and Mandy (the pastor) held a small service, and gave us communion. I must have been there for 3 hours. I didn't want to leave.

When I did leave I walked across town to my apartment. Very weird on the streets. By then, not much trafffic as you went further west, and so strange to not have any planes flying over, because all flights had been grounded by then. Hundreds of people on the streets. A weird thing was we heard a jet, and everyone's heads turned upward... all at the same time... to see fighter jets. It was like something out of The Day After.

And it's so quiet outside now. When I do hear something, it's a siren. And there's still smoke billowing if I look south.

What a horrible day.

Hold your loved ones close.

Love and peace to all.

[RockieBill]

I have spent all day driving back to Colorado from Texas listening to the horrors on the radio. Just in the last half hour have I been able to see the videos being shown on CNN. I sincerely hope all of you New York folks that I've posted with for nearly a year are OK, and your family and relatives and friends are also. Please take care of each other, and see that all who need a hand get one if you can.

There will time for anger later - for now just help those you can.

Please take care, Bill

[amazinmets]

Originally posted by Nanner

Purva, have you heard from your friends?



I heard from one friend who works at the SEC (across the street from the world trade center). It's one of those stories....had she caught her bus in time she'd have been a casualty, but fortunately she was late and is fine.

But I haven't heard from anyone who works in the twin towers. I'm praying for the best, but since I saw footage of bodies falling out of the buildings I haven't been able to stop crying. It's so f'n scary.

Kathleen, I'm praying for Mike. Please let us know as soon as you hear from him.

This has been probably the worst day in our nation's history.

[caughtstealing]

o.k. everyone just checking in I am o.k. except for having to see that as it happened and just knowing why I was sick to my stomach, all my planes are on the ground I only had to work for 13 hours and managed to talk the FBI into letting other dispatchers in to the building so I could go home its like a police state at the airport and it is completely silent I have worked there for 6 years and have never been there and heard nothing......... this is scary I have to go back there tommoro 6 am and see if anything else happens

[Baseball Guru]

Originally posted by JamesMetFan
I am trying to get in touch with my Uncle.....I have cousins that work in that area.....I can't reach anyone!!!!
This sucks!!!
I have never seen anything like this:ohno: :ohno: :ohno:


OMG!!! I just talked to my mom and she finally got thru to my Uncle....My cousin works at the Trade Center on the 34th floor...He had just got off the subway when the 1st plane hit....
He saw everything and was among the people running for their lives....
Thank God he is ok... A little shaken up but he's ok....
My other cousin was away in Chicago so he is ok as well..:)

[metmagic]

Hi everyone, and thank you for your concern..... I am ok, but feeling very strange.... like this is some kind of dream...... I had worked at 7 World Trade Center for many years and watching it collapse on tv was just too unreal...... I know i have friends and former co-workers who were working at the Twin Towers, and I guess I won't know what happened to them til after they release the names of those who were there:crying2:

My sister is not doing so well...... before she was in shock and kind of just shaking a little as she was telling me the story..... I was hanging out with her at her apt pretty much all day, and she kept getting into this weird DAZE......

but when i finally got home, i called her and she was crying, telling me she couldn't stop smelling "that smell" (the peculiar burning smell) and she can't stop seeing feet and blood (she said there were body parts everywhere, but mostly hands and FEET).... the images of feet scattered on the street keep haunting her....... and she gets startled and jumps up everytime she hears a loud noise.........

her girlfriend, Jen, is pretty sad cuz she knows some of her co-workers were killed (they were on the floor where the plane crashed)..... it's a miracle that being laid off last month saved her life..........

[Nanner]

Originally posted by JamesMetFan



OMG!!! I just talked to my mom and she finally got thru to my Uncle....My cousin works at the Trade Center on the 34th floor...He had just got off the subway when the 1st plane hit....
He saw everything and was among the people running for their lives....
Thank God he is ok... A little shaken up but he's ok....
My other cousin was away in Chicago so he is ok as well..:)

James!!! OMG, that's good news that he's OK, but I feel for anybody that had to see that happen.

I have a cousin who went back to being a flight attendant a couple of years ago. She went back to her old airline... United.
She's based in Boston. The flight she usually flies is Boston to L.A. She took the day off today. The second plane that went into the second building was the flight she usually does.

[Piazza'sbabe]

Grace as many as you know is a nurse, volunteered her services to the Red Cross after a call came out for all off duty Nurse and Doctors were needed.
She called me around 5:00 saying that they called her in and she needed to go to NYC (getting past the closed bridges by showing ID and her nursing license) so I'm waiting for her to call me when she gets home.
I'm sure she'll check in eventually when she gets back.

[Jade Sabre]

my old school is not far from there and got damaged a lil. my friend's school is even closer, he was there to see the planes and the ppl jumping and everything. took me all day, but i found out everyone is fine. my uncle was supposed t be there at 8:30 for a meeting, on the same floor the plane hit, but he was feeling sick and canceled at 7:30 an rescheduled for thursday. THANK GOD HE GOT SICK!!!

[Nymet31]

I finally heard from Mike about an hour ago!!! Thank god he is allright!!! He is stationed down in the trade center local and said that you can't believe the what it looks like. He is pretty stunned and numb right now. One of his Friends is missing that was on duty this morning and was sent to the trade center in the beginning. All of his Fellow Police Officers are hoping for the best, but fear the worst. I really just want him home and in my arms right now.

Through out the night I have heard of some horrible things from friends and families that have lost friends in this disgusting tragedy.

Thankfully all of my friends that work in the area are ok!!!

Cyn: My prayers go out to your sister tonight. She has been though a horrible ordeal and thankfully she has you and your family there to help her get through this.

[trublu22]

I'm glad that everyone here seems to be okay and all we can do is pray for the victims and families :frownsqua

[metmagic]

Kathleen, thank you....... it is so great to have everybody's kind thoughts and support...... my sister is really traumatized from the whole thing...... she will eventually have to go back to work (I believe her building is still intact, if I'm not mistaken) and I think it's freaking her out just to think about going back..... when I was at her apt, I had thought about taking a cab back to my place cuz the trains were still kinda wacky, so I asked her if she had $10 I could borrow..... she slowly turned around and gave me this weird look, "My backpack and everything in it is at the World Trade Center....." (her wallet, her money, everything) And she reminded me how when she first saw the stampede of people, and them screaming "RUN!" to her, the last thing you think about is your "stuff"..... you just kinda drop everything and run and pray you don't die..... she said the debris was like Asteroids and bullets flying..... she asked me if I'd go back there and get her backpack......

I think it's almost midnight, I'm not even sure..... and I should be exhausted and my feet and my back are killing me from walking like 12 miles today from midtown Manhattan to Brooklyn......but I can't sleep.... I can't relax...... I just feel weird..... not sad, although I wish I could cry...... just kinda freaky.... with this weird energy..... I was on the phone with pdaj for like an hour talking his ear off...... it still doesn't seem real..... and I don't want to believe that one of my favorite places is gone.... and that the building that I worked at for many years is gone and please God don't let any of my friends be dead.... I had lost touch with alot of them, my former co-workers, but when we see each other on the street it is always so great to talk to them and remember old times......

And I'm worried about Colin who is acting very funny and who has to work so much at the airport where no one is allowed in and all these FBI guys are surrounding the place with these M-16s or whatever he said they were.... something about machine guns or rifles..... please God don't let the terrorists decide to bomb airports......

Kathleen, I am so relieved for you that Mike is okay..... and I pray he finds his friend.... and I know too well how he feels about being numb..... I walked by the Trade Center on my way home and it's not real...... this crazy illusion...... another Bruce Willis Die-Hard sequel....... all of Manhattan looks like a movie set.......

Farin, THANK GOD your uncle got sick and rescheduled...... and I hope your friend is ok and not have nightmares after the horrors he saw today.......

James, have you spoken to your cousin? I am glad he is ok..... thank God he didn't get to work early!!!

Nanner, THANK GOD your cousin took the day off today!!!!!!! OMG that is just too scary...... My brother would have been on the Newark/San Fran flight today (one of the ones that blew up, can't remember which, my brain hurts) but my sis convinced him to stay another week so he'd be here for my dad's b-day this weekend!!

[Nymet31]

Everyone in my house keeps telling me just to go too bed and try to get some sleep, but I just can't. I know how you feel about the weird energy stuff. It's hard to explain, I think everyone is feeling this around now.

I keep thinking about Mike's friend Brian. Just hoping and praying that somewhere he's allright. Maybe in a hospital somewhere. I can't believe this actually happened as much as I kep seeing it on Tv I just am in shock. I spoke with Brian's wife before and she is just so strong. She keeps saying you know him he's probably sitting in a bar somewhere getting drunk! My Cousin from England called before she said the people in England are shocked and in disbelief too. Candles are being lit thru out the world for the people of Ny and DC tonight.

Cyn I can't imagine what your sister must be going though. It's just so unimaginable. A friend of mine works at one of the buildings across from the WTC and was on the train in when this happened. She starts to cry just talking about it!!!

It's weird, but there is a part of me that feels lost today. Like something is missing. I guess that would be my safety huh?

[metmagic]

I have so many memories of the WTC area..... working at 7WT for several years at a job I loved and having some of the best memories with some of the coolest people ever..... visiting all my scattered friends at the twin towers and meeting for lunch.... all the events they always had going on over there and sharing some great laughs with the girls from the office...... my commute to work and wandering the area when i got there early..... i was just at 1WTC two months ago, was it? now who was i visiting, i can't remember right now.......

i am so sad....... i don't wanna believe it's gone...... too many great memories over there......:crying2: