From: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org (support-system-digest) To: support-system-digest@smoe.org Subject: support-system-digest V4 #232 Reply-To: support-system@smoe.org Sender: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk support-system-digest Thursday, September 13 2001 Volume 04 : Number 232 Today's Subjects: ----------------- just checkin in [rickilake@juno.com] [none] ["Katie Brown" ] Re: Shocked [BobDsn@aol.com] Re: support-system-digest V4 #231 [Standingsixfeet1@aol.com] Bounced message [owner-support-system@smoe.org (by way of Jason Long ] Shaken [Erin Cashel ] safe [MangoHula@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 02:25:35 -0400 From: rickilake@juno.com Subject: just checkin in Hi everyone, I wanted to write and offer my hopes and prayers(for lack of better word here) to everyone who has loved ones involved in todays tragedy. I feel very lucky today that all my folks that live or work in the city are safe and have only suffered a bit of a scare. I am so thankful that I live in the suburbs today as much as I malign the Levit-lifestyle. Tomorrow morning I am going to donate blood and I hope everyone in a position to donate will do the same. It's the scariest thing I've ever seen and all I could think of when watching the footage was that it was a movie because we've never experienced something like this in the US. Everyone in the affected areas please check in so we all know you're okay. - ---melissa ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 07:22:44 From: "Katie Brown" Subject: [none] jase i am still waiting to here from lani i can't get through to brooklyn at all my other peeps are all accounted for here's emails from three of them.... this is th email i sent to my family earlier kb [TABLE NOT SHOWN][TABLE NOT SHOWN] i wanted you all to know how much i love you... i know you don't need anymore news, but i wanted to share with you two messages from some close friends in new york... god bless and let's keep praying... and i don't mean to dramatize, i just thought you might be interestedlove you, katie. here's steph's account of her bus ride from brooklyn to manhattan... she ended up running out of the tunnel back to her apt in brooklyn... before my bus went into the tunnel, we heard the MTA make an announcement over the broadcast system that something was desperately wrong... they diverted us to the tunnel to the right, when we usually take the one on the left. so we realized something was going on, traffic was bearly moving. then little by little we found out what was going on. people were freaking out, some were actually trying to make light of the subject. i came close to attacking one girl who was making jokes. i finally got a signal on my cell and starting calling people frantically. i got through to my brother. he was telling me what was on the news. i just burst into tears. as i looked up, smokey soot started coming toward the tunnel and there were people trying to out run it, just like in the movies. it was so surreal. then a big guy jumped up and told everyone to stay calm. he yelled for the bus driver to open the door. the bus driver refused. the big guy then dove toward a window and busted it open. everyone started doing it. people were just jumping out of the bus. jumping out of their car. cars were left running. it was so fucking smokey. i just kept screaming and yelling and running. i still can't believe i made it home alive. i really wish joe was here with me. and jimmy wrote: i saw it happen i've never felt so helpless. ever. my office moved from downtown ny (right around the corner from steph) to jersey city nj. our office is right on the water. literaly right across from the wtc. i was getting out of the train as the 2nd plane hit and just watched them fall. so horrible and another friend wrote: I just saw the most unbelievable thing I have ever seen in my life. It makes you wonder what is happening in the world. The message is to say, please enjoy all moments be careful and share your love with your friends. At 8:55 I see debris outside my window on the 50th floor of 1 New York Plaza - East and South of the Twin Towers. From my view, I can see the South Tower which blocks our view of the North Tower. The North Tower was hit first by the first plane and all we could see was massive smoke and debris that looked like a ticket-tape parade. No one new what was happening or what was about to happen. Let me reiterate that our building has a direct view of the South Tower and nothing blocks our view of it. At about 9:10, as we gawked in amazement, like a bullet from our left, we saw the second plane barrel into the South Tower. Really - it was a jetliner on a bee-line into the building and and the explosion that ensued was like in the movies. I still haven't been able to fathom this reality. We all quickly evacuated the building and luckily I found others I knew and they had a car. We left the mayhem driving North, listening to the radio. About 15 minutes later, the woman on the radio screemed that the building was falling down -- we turned around in the car and just happened to be in the right place to see the builiding collapsing. Again - -- luckily we were heading in the opposite direction. This is the most fucked up thing I have ever seen in my life. I am so lucky and so are all of you. I can reiterate enough to count your blessings. Take nothing for granted. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 08:31:43 EDT From: BobDsn@aol.com Subject: Re: Shocked I don't post often, but I read the digest everyday. I live in Boston-- and frankly I'm scared. Two of the planes used in the World Trade Center attack originated from Boston's Logan airport. I never liked flying. I may never fly again . . . I used to work in NYC, in mid-town for about 10 years. I also worked in a design studio near the Holland Tunnel-- not far from the World Trade Center-- for about a year. I was trapped in the Holland Tunnel the day the WTC was bombed in '93. Judging from the TV coverage, this is many, many times worse than that incident in '93. I'm praying that more survivors are found today. God bless us all. I hope the cooler heads prevail and that there is a way to end these terrorist attacks without starting a war . . . - -Bob Kosturko ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:36:09 EDT From: Standingsixfeet1@aol.com Subject: Re: support-system-digest V4 #231 "See the sun rise So loud, This whole town Gets drowned out. Sky writing with the sweep of a flashlight I'm driving over that way Some pot of gold, it's just a carpeting store on opening day. See the moon rise So slow, And shallow, It burns halos in my eyes. It's harder to swallow, It's harder to breathe, So many opals, nobody here knows what to believe. They've got me underground." Still not sure what his song is all about . . . but somehow it feels right for this morning. james ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 15:17:13 -0400 From: owner-support-system@smoe.org (by way of Jason Long ) Subject: Bounced message From: "Andrea Steiner" Subject: Re: support-system-digest V4 #231 I am stunned and in shock. Yesterday, as I travelled into Manhattan, I saw the damaged Twin Towers from my bus window. And I also stood on the street near my office and watched the second tower fall down. I just can't believe I saw that with my own eyes and that it's real. I can't believe any of this. And I am sitting here at work and have no idea why. Why are any of us here today? I feel like I am going to cry at every moment. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 15:08:09 -0400 From: Dan MacDonald Subject: re: shocked Jase, I know how you feel about the whole thing. I live in Canada - but literally minutes from the Canadian-American border (Detroit City). I was really freaked out because they closed down the border, and the 401 even, which is ridiculous and of course the Rennaisance center is right there - I know I spelled that wrong, sorry Americans. It makes me really scared - not because of what happened - but what is ABOUT to happen. The backlash is going to be horrid if it does turn out to be war of some kind, I'm pretty freaked. I'm happy I am in Canada right now - but it is still terrifying...it just shows that no one is safe I guess -and situations change over night. From the news footage I've seen - it looks like New York "ground zero" area has been reduced to a third world country disaster area - which is both an awful tragedy as well as a major symbol against American pride..what a blow. It's really freaky hearing all the "officials" talking about revenge, and how this has not "blurred" the colours of the American flag... I am sure it hasn't - it has probably only strengthened the country's pride - but at the same time - fuck - from here - it looks like a damn good blow...it was a big fucking strike against them - I don't know how the terrorists pulled it off...but it really says what you can do to a developed country with 4 airplanes and a few Exacto-knives. The next few weeks are going to be terrifying.. too sad to be real, Dan. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 19:07:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Erin Cashel Subject: Shaken I don't know what to say, or what even to think. I guess I'm still in shock. I was in my US History class Tuesday morning, when we're talking about the French and Indian War and my teacher gets a phone call from his wife, she told him to turn the tv on. We were shocked and horrified when we saw what was going on, it was hard to tell it from a bad dream, or a movie. I can't believe this happened, and I'm so sorry to everyone that is immediatley affected by this. I know I called home after I found out it 2 American Airlines planes that were hijacked. My father is a captain for American, he flies the 767 and 757. I knew he was supposed to go into work, but I didn't know where he was going, or what time he left. That could have easily been my father, he flew a Boston to LA pink eye flight last month! I just want to express my sorrow for everyone affected immediately, and to everyone in general. Erin ===== __________________________________________________ Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? Donate cash, emergency relief information http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Emergency_Information/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 22:12:34 EDT From: MangoHula@aol.com Subject: safe I live outside of DC and sometimes have duties at the P'gon for my job. Luckily I wasn't there, or anywhere near there. I was in the Virginia burbs. I hope everyone else is safe too. My thoughts are with you all and your families. Lynda ------------------------------ End of support-system-digest V4 #232 ************************************