[NYC GOP Chick]

I know that feeling. As someone who lives about 5 blocks from the WTC site, there are constant triggers of different little memories.

[bootless]

Of course, the 1989 earthquake was nowhere near the magnitude of 9-11, and was a natural cause disaster, but I had never been IN an event where people died. I lived in the city of SF at the time, was commuting home from the Financial District, so I was outside for the quake. I watched the Bay Bridge deck collapse on my little TV while waiting for the bus. Took 2.5 hours to get home - normally a half hour ride.

And interesting thing - on my walk to the bus, I spoke to a man visiting from Minnesota. He had been in Stacey's Bookstore, looking for a book on the Great Quake of 1906.

I was just about paralyzed for the next day or so. Our house was basically OK - just stuff knocked over, but I couldn't do anything about it. It was just strange. It took a while to get back into my life. I felt horrible about it, because I hadn't been hurt, but there was this pall over the city for a while, even in the midst of many people helping other people.

And, I can still hear the dull roar of the quake, and the facing of the Palace Hotel hitting the sidewalk.

God bless you...

[bootless]

A touching side note - I just watched part 2 of a Frasier episode, where Frasier was dithering between his two girlfriends (Claire and Lana).

At the end, Martin and Niles leave the apartment to go to a movie. Martin (Frasier's father) said bye to Frasier, and then "Let's roll."

Fade to black and the words: "In loving memory of David and Lynn Angell" - their executive producers who were killed on 9-11 - on AA Flight 11, which crashed into the north tower.

It gave me shivers. And what a touching moment, for them to honor them with "Let's roll".