I was at work in NYC in Midtown. Someone across from received a phone call and yelled out (A plane it the WTC). It was still another 5 or 10 minutes before it was on TV. At my house in Brooklyn my wife went to the Elevated AVE P. subway stop and recorded the smoke coming from downtown 6 miles away. From my house the column of smoke went right over up in the sky. The wind was blowing from the north. After the buildings fell my was has it recorded on film the ashes dust but it looked like snow. One day i will post the video and probably on here first.
Wow. I cannot imagine seeing it first hand like that. It was hard on TV, but that had to be truly awful- in every sense of the word.