[knittnmom]

I was at work. I do phone tech support. My coworker across the cubicle said "someone just flew a plane into the World Trade Center!" I thought he was reading e-mail, and said it must be another scam e-mail. He was talking to his wife, who was watching it on television. All the US letter network web sites were overloaded, and I couldn't connect to them. I was an L-dotter at the time, so got all the news from them and from the BBC. Deskside and server support kept stopping in to get the news from us. Since then, our building has a television in the cafeteria.

My husband had gone on a bicycle camping trip, and knew nothing about it until he came home on Sunday and I filled him in.

One of my husband's nieces was on her way out the door to catch a plane to her mission field. Her sister called out, and said, "better listen to the news. They've cancelled all flights."

[knittnmom]

A couple of Sundays later, I was on call for work. (We provide tech support for the LEOs) Got a call from one of the district HQs - the FBI had contacted them, and wanted a report of all the commercial drivers who’d applied for and received a hazmat endorsement on their license in the prior two years. I called the area FBI headquarters, and verified that the person named was actually an FBI agent, then spent three hours calling until I could find someone with the authorization to pull the data, who wasn’t either camping, at a ball game, or putting on a new roof. Since they weren’t on call, I also had to get permission from their supervisors to call them in. The FBI had done this in all 48 contiguous states, according to a report that week in the Washington Post.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I can’t believe your husband didn’t know all that time! There was no one with him or he ran across who would pass it on?