[katnip]

Your awesome live coverage of what was happening that morning saved my sanity I think.

I was driving over the Throgs Neck Bridge on my way to work when the second plane hit. I could see the smoke. I almost crashed my car.

I had to continue on to work in Scarsdale as I couldn't turn around and go home. They had closed the bridges so quickly.

I logged on to Free Republic as soon as I got to my office. Most of our phone lines were down and FR was my link to what was going on.

I hung on every post you wrote.

Thanks.

[CasearianDaoist]

Me too! I worked in midtown and my only real source of information was FR. I remember reading these very posts.

[hellinahandcart]

Thanks, but I didn't hold it together for too long, as evidenced by my little memory lapse beginning around 10:15 that day. I also had to get off the computer and call relatives and friends out of state well before that time. Other people kept the thread going.

I do remember trying to get back to FR later in the day and it was moving like a crippled snail because of the sheer number of people on board. Thank God it stayed up, though, I think I would have flipped out altogether if it had gone down for any length of time.