9/11/2001 on the Lair

[TD_6082]

How many of you guys were on the Lair on this day 14 years ago? I vividly remember watching Squawk Box on CNBC and being on the Lair that morning. Everybody was numb from the loss to USF and was looking foward to rebounding against UAB, then suddenly football didn't matter much any more. Its hard to believe that was 14 years ago.

 

[JHud986]

Totally agree. I was teaching carpentry and one of my inner city seniors made the comment " whats the big
deal, I've seen people get killed all the time." I was shaken twice due to what had happened in New York and Washington and due to his comment. Still remember the kids name today.

 

[9nationalchampionships]

I was calling on a client and there was an employee in their conference room eating breakfast and she called us in and we watched it unfold together. Crazy world we live in

 

[CaptainMurphy]

I had just gotten back to my dorm from playing raquetball at Trees. I spent the rest of the day glued to the television, until the wee hours of the morning, as did everyone else on my floor in Lothrop. For at least a while, everyone believed that more planes were coming.

 

[upitt33]

I was in Greentree trying to lock 3 mortgage rates. When it occurred, nothing could get locked in with financial world went in shut down mode.

 

[pittzap]

How many of you guys were on the Lair on this day 14 years ago? I vividly remember watching Squawk Box on CNBC and being on the Lair that morning. Everybody was numb from the loss to USF and was looking foward to rebounding against UAB, then suddenly football didn't matter much any more. Its hard to believe that was 14 years ago.

I was driving to my sales territory in Delaware listening to Howard Stern for my first week of a new job. Howard was talking about a party they were at with Pam Anderson and they thought he could have hooked up with her. He disagreed. Once I got to Villanova to get ready to get on the highway, they said," whoa, a plane just hit the World Trade Center."

My wife, who was still in Atlanta trying to sell our house, called a few minutes later to tell me it was a commercial plane. It wasn't very long afterwards that my CEO canceled the day.

I remember vividly after they suspended all flights that any time I was driving and heard a plane overhead, everyone in their cars would look into the sky. They were hoping it wasn't something else that was happening, but also realized it was a military plane flying to Dover with human remains on board.

I've said this on here before, but Howard did a great job with coverage that day. He had people calling from all over the city giving their insight of what was going on.

 

[wbrpanther]

How many of you guys were on the Lair on this day 14 years ago? I vividly remember watching Squawk Box on CNBC and being on the Lair that morning. Everybody was numb from the loss to USF and was looking foward to rebounding against UAB, then suddenly football didn't matter much any more. Its hard to believe that was 14 years ago.

There was no lair then. I think the main board was the Frank Sokol board. I was at work and when I got home the last thing I thought about was getting on a message board.

 

[JSSTartan]

I had an 8am on Carnegie Mellon's campus. Shortly afterward, the entire campus was evacuated while the flight went down in Shanksville was close to the city....

#NeverForget.

 

[wbrpanther]

Totally agree. I was teaching carpentry and one of my inner city seniors made the comment " whats the big
deal, I've seen people get killed all the time." I was shaken twice due to what had happened in New York and Washington and due to his comment. Still remember the kids name today.

Is he still a total a$$hole?

 

[Pghfan]

I went golfing, my boss called me, said there is nothing we can do so let's go golfing.. Not the most sensitive guy in the world... Was anyone at the game after 9/11, I remember football shut down for a week or two and we had a Thursday night game against the hurricanes, might have been one of the first college / nfl game since the attacks. Flag covering the field, Lee Eastwood singing "Proud to be an American" damn, that was an emotional scene.. Not a dry eye in the stadium..

 

[Consultant Panther]

There was no lair then. I think the main board was the Frank Sokol board. I was at work and when I got home the last thing I thought about was getting on a message board.

I'm pretty sure PLCP's Pantherlair did exist at the time.

I was consulting for a client in Columbus. Everyone was watching a small TV in the break room. Management told everyone to go home after a while. I was so numb that everything is kind of a blur. I was on my cell phone with my then girlfriend (now wife), parents and friends all day. It was good that all the cell phone companies waived fees or I would have had a $1,000 phone bill. I remember going to my hotel to get my stuff and leaving for home. I forgot to check out.

 

[Chris Peak]

I was driving to my sales territory in Delaware listening to Howard Stern for my first week of a new job. Howard was talking about a party they were at with Pam Anderson and they thought he could have hooked up with her. He disagreed. Once I got to Villanova to get ready to get on the highway, they said," whoa, a plane just hit the World Trade Center."

My wife, who was still in Atlanta trying to sell our house, called a few minutes later to tell me it was a commercial plane. It wasn't very long afterwards that my CEO canceled the day.

I remember vividly after they suspended all flights that any time I was driving and heard a plane overhead, everyone in their cars would look into the sky. They were hoping it wasn't something else that was happening, but also realized it was a military plane flying to Dover with human remains on board.

I've said this on here before, but Howard did a great job with coverage that day. He had people calling from all over the city giving their insight of what was going on.

Same here: I was listening to Howard Stern, too. That's how I heard about it first happening and I can still remember how it all unfolded that day. He was really good.

 

[OH Pete]

Was anyone at the game after 9/11, I remember football shut down for a week or two and we had a Thursday night game against the hurricanes, might have been one of the first college / nfl game since the attacks. Flag covering the field, Lee Eastwood singing "Proud to be an American" damn, that was an emotional scene.. Not a dry eye in the stadium..

I was at the game. We didn't play well. The highlight of the game was the student section chanting "F*ck Bin Laden, clap clap clap clap clap, F*ck Bin Laden".

 

[NTOP]

Was at a Board "retreat" at Oglebay....we learned of the first tower during a coffee break. Watched the second hit in the lobby, ended the meeting, bolted for home. My kids all over the country(CA/OH/CO) all were concerned, as I used to travel a lot by plane. Finally got through to all. Picked up my 10-year old at school, went home in shock.
Frankly, we've been spared anything close to that for 14 years....good job by our systems.

 

[geeman2001]

Learned of it while listening to Stern too. At work, no cable, but our call center in the building had an old tv with rabbit ears because they'd work 24x7. About 50 crowded into a conference room meant for 20 to watch the grainy, hissing news reports. Our own kids hadn't come along yet but my wife was expecting with our first. Worried about her, but I felt worst for folks among me with kids who were increasingly frantic as fears and rumors ran rampant. Schools were randomly letting out, teachers were leaving classrooms, our folks had no idea if their school or their kids were out, where they were etc. Traffic snarled quickly as businesses emptied seemingly en masse. In retrospect some really poor reactions. Understandable though I guess.

Many aspects of daily life have sucked a little or a lot more ever since, no matter how you view it or who you want to 'blame'. Awful awful day and aftermath.

 

[Pitt79]

I went golfing, my boss called me, said there is nothing we can do so let's go golfing.. Not the most sensitive guy in the world... Was anyone at the game after 9/11, I remember football shut down for a week or two and we had a Thursday night game against the hurricanes, might have been one of the first college / nfl game since the attacks. Flag covering the field, Lee Eastwood singing "Proud to be an American" damn, that was an emotional scene.. Not a dry eye in the stadium..

On 9/11, I was at the same place I am right now. I've gotten promoted since, new office, same building, with a better view. Today is almost an exact day like that one, bright sunshine, not too hot.

It was the 1st year of Heinz Field, I had tickets to the 1st game ever of the Steelers that was cancelled, vs. Cleveland 9/16, I still have the commemorative ticket. And I actually ended up going to the Bengals game which turned out to be the real Steelers debut @ Heinz, and the Browns game was actually played in the 1st week of January on a snowy day, actually it was fun, throwing snowballs at the tailgate party keeping warm by the fire.

 

[deepelemblues]

i was a freshman in high school in computer class when the teacher got a call and turned on the TV

ironically enough i was chatting about football on the internet (i never did what i was supposed to in computer class lol) but i did not know the lair existed then

 

[Atlanta Panther]

I was at work in staff meeting when someone mentioned that a plane hit the center...we didn't think much of it...assumed it was a small private plane and an accident. Of course, when someone came in and said it was a jetliner and a second one hit...and then one hit the Pentagon it was obvious that terrorists were responsible. I came out of the conference room and saw everyone glued to the windows looking out. You see, we were on the 15th floor of one of the Federal buildings here in Atlanta and you could see the fear on people's faces as they looked out towards Hartsfield airport half expecting another one coming for them. I sent my 200 people home immediately...got chewed out later by my boss for not waiting for clearance from above.

Remember going home and being glued to the TV and crying that night recognizing that it would never be the same here in the US again and our kids would live in a much different world.

 

[pittmeister]

I was taking my usual morning stroll in the prison yard, when a fellow inmate told us about what had happened...

 

[Pitt79]

I was taking my usual morning stroll in the prison yard, when a fellow inmate told us about what had happened...

Yeah, right! Lol! I told Abdul and Mohammed that morning that I couldn't go through with it, so I backed out and left the airport!

Yeah, I think it's FUNNY!

 

[Pghfan]

Yeah, right! Lol! I told Abdul and Mohammed that morning that I couldn't go through with it, so I backed out and left the airport!

Yeah, I think it's FUNNY!

BOOOOO....... Too soon. Too soon.

 

[pitt-girl]

I had just dropped off my youngest son at the play center of my gym and was walking into class when I passed by a TV in the lobby area with the desk person standing there. We stood wondering what the heck had happened and then watched live as the second jet rammed into the other tower. I remember not being able to wrap my brain around what had just happened and it took another 10 minutes or so for the reality to hit. My husband worked for IBM and was at their NYC offices often but that week he was in Disney World for annual meetings. I called and begged him to get in his rental and drive out the resort, then I called his folks and mine to let them know he wasn't in the city. Jumped on an elliptical, and after they announced another plane had hit the Pentagon, I jumped off, gathered my son and drove home. Walking into our home my phone was ringing non-stop. First call was my brother-in-law who told me that another plane had gone down outside Pittsburgh. I too vividly remember going out and standing on my deck for hours watching plane after plane descending into the airport and in my mind repeating "Keep going, keep going...." like a chant.

Later my kids had CCD at Sts John and Paul. While they were there, they had a Mass and everyone in attendance cried, not just for the death, destruction and shock, but for the fact that you knew everything had changed forever. Horrifying and sobering all at once.

Took my husband 4 days to get home. He was convinced they would start flights up immediately so he waited. Finally road tripped it back on that Friday with a cooler of Diet Cokes and Slim Jim's.

 

[Somerset Panther]

I was working in Johnstown where I work today. Our office was behind Lino's restaurant, which was Bethlehem Steel old semi CC Westmonth section of J'town. We could walk outside and see across to what Johnstown people call the "other"hill to the airport. If you recall, the plane that crashed in Shanksville turned around and was heading straight for Johnstown airport on it's way to DC. The FAA advised the airport to get all but the most essential staff members out cause they were not sure what the jackers were trying to do. The plane crashed about 3/4 mile away from my in laws who have a place at Indian Lake off of route 30 near Stoystown, PA. The smoke cloud was clearly seen from her back deck. The coroner who handled the mess is from Somerset, and was year ahead of me in school 1975. he handled that situation about as well as a rural coroner and funeral diretor could given the magnitude of the circumstances. if you've never been to the Flight 93 site I would recommend the trip of you ever in the area. I recollect that cell phones, that were relatively new (to me at least) not working, and no planes in the skies for about a week or so. My brother in law was on a business trip to Vegas, and rented a car and drove home. we had big whigs from our home office in B'ham, AL here, and they also drove home. Because of that event, our company purchased a Skype like product that allows our five offices to have meetings (before Go to Meeting.com.

 

[USN_Panther]

I was working at Bethesda Naval Hospital. Really didn't know what was happening when they called for the mass casualty team to muster. I thought that it was weird to be having a drill of that size without knowing in advance. Then it was announced that it wasn't a drill.

I was assigned to the hospital ship USNS Comfort at the time. The ship departed Baltimore for New York. The medical and support staff were to board buses the following morning to meet the ship at NWS Earle in New Jersey. Before departing, most of the medical staff were told to leave the buses as there were not going to be large numbers of survivors. The support staff departed and the ship stayed in New York and housed and aided the recovery workers who turned up from all over the country to help.

I know people who saw the plane strike the Pentagon, and I know people who responded to the Pentagon that day. Those conspiracy theorists are whacked.

 

[usf2pitt]

I was in a economics class on main campus...pandemonium broke. I remember watching the news with some older buddies in the basement of the lawschool...complete silence. That night went to work at a warehouse, older coworker walked over and I started talking about the attacks..... He said " maaaan college boy, nobody cares about that s#!t, who is going to win this weekend, miami or oakland?"-- ill never forget that quote.

 

[Pitt-Chains]

I was in a economics class on main campus...pandemonium broke. I remember watching the news with some older buddies in the basement of the lawschool...complete silence. That night went to work at a warehouse, older coworker walked over and I started talking about the attacks..... He said " maaaan college boy, nobody cares about that s#!t, who is going to win this weekend, miami or oakland?"-- ill never forget that quote.

Sitting in a daily production meeting and our lead engineer walked in said a plane crashed into one of the towers..
Came out of the meeting back to my cube and everyone was in the lunchroom glued to the tv in disbelief.

 

[cruzer]

I was in NYC on 9/9 for a conference. The conference was actually being held on the QE2, departing the evening of 9/9 from New York Harbor. The original plan was to sail down the coast to the Carolinas and return to NYC on the evening of 9/11. Bad weather off the Carolina coast aborted the cruise, so we literally cruised down the Jersey coast and dropped anchor just off of Atlantic City. Since the QE2 was a British ship, the only TV was had was the BBC. When the first plane hit, we were in meetings. Once word spread, everyone on the boat went to the main ballroom where they were broadcasting the events live via BBC. My most stark memories were peering off ship deck but we were just far enough away that the NY skyline was below the horizon. The most eerie thing ever was that we could see the huge pillar of smoke on the horizon. The second thing that struck me was the BBC was cutting between live feeds from NY, people on the street in London reacting and finally crowds on the streets of Palestine. I will never forgot the images of thousands literally dancing in the street with joy at the site of the World Trade Center. Those images were not played by the mainstream news in the US. Think our news isn't censored? Think again.

One other memory....I had dinner that evening with the Chief Technology Officer of Verizon. He explained that the Verizon network center was located in the WTC and that he knew that at least 20-25 of his collegues had lost their lives that day. He broke down and wept at the dinner table.

Since we were scheduled to sail back into NYC we had to find another port...NY Harbor was closed. The organizers arranged to have us dock in Boston. I arrived in Boston with no flight possible back to California. Fortunately, I had friends in Saratoga and stayed with them until flights resumed. I finally got a flight out of Albany to CA. Our departure took us down the Hudson River turning west just over the GW Bridge. As we turned, I got a full view of what was left. The smoke was still rising, but no WTC.

A truly horrible day in our history that I will never forget.

Cruzer

 

[CrazyPaco]

 

[mdpitt]

How many of you guys were on the Lair on this day 14 years ago? I vividly remember watching Squawk Box on CNBC and being on the Lair that morning. Everybody was numb from the loss to USF and was looking foward to rebounding against UAB, then suddenly football didn't matter much any more. Its hard to believe that was 14 years ago.

I seem to oddly remember one of our football players family lived near Shanksville and a chunk of the airplane was on or near their property. Am I selectively remembering something else but I thought about this detail last night.

Anyone back me up on this one?

Living in the DC area, seeing the warning sign above the Beltway saying " Do Not Enter Capitol Area. national Emergency" got my attention.

The night before I got a late flight into BWI with no security. The next weekend I flew to Buffalo to watch the Steelers and it was the most machine guns I have ever seen in an airport including London during IRA bombings. That flight to Buffalo was the closest thing to feeling like a mob traveling waiting to tackle a terrorist. That's how people were feeling.

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

I remember so vividly. I had a consultant in working on a project and we were sitting in my office when our secretary said "a plane hit the World Trade Center". We immediately blew it off thinking a traffic helicopter or small plane. About what, 20 minutes later, she blurted out "another plane hit the other tower". I immediately yelled out...."TERRORISTS! IT HAS TO BE INTENTIONAL". Again no knowledge of it being commercial airliners or what was going on.

Again, I had a consultant. As we were now completely distracted from the work at hand, I saw my Manager run down the hall looking for a TV. And then carrying a TV into the conference room (remember this was 2001, since this date TVs are much more commonplace at work). And I told the consultant "oh shit, something really bad is going down and we go down to the conference room with like 20 some other people". Only then we started to get a real idea on what was going on and the magnitude.
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I will never forget when the first tower started to collapse, we were all in the conference room and all I can think of was how many people were dying. I remember my one co worker who was at his desk wanting to work with the consultant and I said dude, "me and Jess (the consutant) are going out to lunch at some bar, this could be WWIII, this is our Pearl Harbor, forget about what we had to get done today". He was nervous, "I said, "we are drinking, watching this, we may not be here tomorrow". And we left.

I cannot believe he did not grasp nor want to grasp reality and was more worried about accomplishing the tasks of the day. I also can just remember going home that night and all I can think of was those towers falling, and at the time, no one knew, I was thinking 20,000 people died right there.

And yes, like all of us, I wanted us to nuke the Mid East. Right then and there.

 

[noelr]

Running for my life when i got out of the subway and saw the second tower fall 4 blocks away.

 

[Zeldas Greenhouse]

I was at home that day getting ready to cut grass and work on the yard. It was a beautiful, crisp sunny morning. I was putting a new string on my weed wacker when the news of a plane hitting the WTC tower. I was sitting there thinking that this was a very unusual accident. I went in the house, put CNN on,,and watched the second plane hit.

I was stunned. My thoughts were the couple times I was in the WTC. How huge that place was. Then my thoughts were directed to the people there. A very sickening feeling that I still have today. That day showed how horrid the human species is. It also showed how heroic human beings can be.

 

[razzaba]

It was my senior year of high school at Seneca, sitting in 2nd period Spanish class. My history teacher, who made the morning rounds with the absent student sheets, walked in and said "plane just hit the Workd Trade Center, you might want to turn on the TV". After some pleading, our teacher turned it on in time for us to see the second plane hit. There was a girl in my class who had a parent that was on Flight 427 that crashed on its way to Pittsburgh years before. It hit her pretty hard.

I remember the eerie feeling walking the halls between periods, everyone talking about what was happening, and most not fully grasping it.

3rd period was calculus and I recall our teacher refusing to put the TV on, and going through class as if nothing happened... until we heard the screams and commotion coming from the other classrooms, which we soon learned was the 1st tower falling. She finally put the TV on.

We saw the 2nd tower fall during 4th period. I remember thinking, while watching it, "it's only a matter of time" - just knowing it was going to come down, and how strange and even guilty it felt to be thinking that way.

 

[Black Panther]

There was no lair then. I think the main board was the Frank Sokol board. I was at work and when I got home the last thing I thought about was getting on a message board.

I joined Pantherlair July 9th 2001. So Pantherlair did exist back then.

 

[TD_6082]

I was at work in staff meeting when someone mentioned that a plane hit the center...we didn't think much of it...assumed it was a small private plane and an accident. Of course, when someone came in and said it was a jetliner and a second one hit...and then one hit the Pentagon it was obvious that terrorists were responsible. I came out of the conference room and saw everyone glued to the windows looking out. You see, we were on the 15th floor of one of the Federal buildings here in Atlanta and you could see the fear on people's faces as they looked out towards Hartsfield airport half expecting another one coming for them. I sent my 200 people home immediately...got chewed out later by my boss for not waiting for clearance from above.

Remember going home and being glued to the TV and crying that night recognizing that it would never be the same here in the US again and our kids would live in a much different world.

You made a great call Atlanta Panther. You should have been praised for your decision and leadership. Nobody knew what the hell was going or the size and scope of the attacks.

The assumption by the guests on Squawk that morning was also that it was a small private plane. The host at the time, Mark Haines, kept noting the size of the hole and damage, and he was pretty quick to pick up that it was a terrorist attack.

 

[TD_6082]

There was no lair then. I think the main board was the Frank Sokol board. I was at work and when I got home the last thing I thought about was getting on a message board.

Perhaps I didn't explain that well. I was already reading the message board at the time the attacks occurred. And yes, it was the Lair. I'm pretty sure the Rivals network was up and running by either 1997 or 1998.

 

[Marshall30]

We were in Epcot. Parks evacuated and closed for the day. If you had dinner reservations at a resort, you were OK. Had dinner at Chef Mickey's Buffet. On the shuttle were me, wife, son, a grandmother and her grandson. Parks and resorts were desolate, you couldn't rent a car or RV anywhere. Things didn't get back to normal until Saturday, we were on the first flight out. No flights all week long.