Reply #46: In bed. We got a phone call from my partner's sister

[LisaM]

He kept saying, "you're kidding! you're kidding!" He hung up the phone and told me, "there are hijacked planes all over the country crashing into buildings". At the time, there were a couple of planes not accounted for. We got up and turned on the TV - by then, both towers were down, but it seemed like a horrifying swift sequence of events, as if it were all live. I work in a skyscraper, and my work ended up being closed (I'm in Seattle), so I didn't go in, just walked around in a daze. I tried to call his other sister in NYC, who worked about three blocks away. We couldn't get through - it kept saying the circuits were busy and finally, that due to tornados in the area, the phones were down. She had managed to contact her father that she was okay, but he is a non-TV, non-radio kind of person and didn't realize what had happened and didn't call any of us until two days later!