[DCBryan1]

Little Rock, AR:

Gov. Mike Huckabee is in route with State Police escort coming from Kentucky.
All Law enforcement agencies preparing for briefing from FEMA;
All State, County, and Municipal Police are reporting to work;
Police at major intersections in pairs and teams at malls, downtown office buildings;
Department of Energy Emergency Response team on full alert at Arkansas Nuclear ONE in Russellville, civilians sent home.
State Police at all Bridge/Highway intersections; NLR and Little Rock PD at Murray Lock and Dam barring all entry;
Little Rock Police at Little Rock National Airport with full Fire crews on station;
32 planes on ground at LR National Airport, most forced to land as per FAA orders;
Little Rock School District on high alert with closed down campuses;
RED CROSS pleading for blood and clothing donations;

Nothing follows, things seem to be calming down.

[DouglasKC]

I'm so mad at my wife. Called her at home from work at about 11 and asked her to fill up the 6 five gallon gas cans we have because I read on FreeRepublic that gas prices were jumping. Called her again an hour later, she still hadn't done it. Called her again an hour later, still no, but said she was going.

Got home and on the way home every gas station I passed had huge lines and prices were up at least 50 cents from when I left for work. I was smug knowing that I had at least 30 gallons of cheap gas. AAAAAARRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH....she got to the gas station (no lines) but she didn't fill them up because she said the gas was too expensive!!!!!AAAAAAARGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHFFFFFF....it's rumored to be three bucks a gallon in Lansing Michigan. I live out in the country, the closest gas station is sold out.

Lord help me get over this anger....

[A.J.Armitage]

Northern Illinois University campus, DeKalb, Ill.: On my way to my first class, I overheard someone say, "have you heard the news?" The answer was, "Yeah, I saw it on TV this morning." I walked past before I could hear the rest of it, but I could already tell it wasn't something good. In class, everyone was talking about it. I heard that one tower of the WTC had fallen(I think both had by that time, but we didn't know it) and that the Pentagon had been hit. Afterwards I walked back to my dorm, and everyone on the way was talking about it. Everyone you met asked if you'd heard the news. A lot of us gathered in someone's room and watched the news. One of the people who live on my floor had seen a girl crying near the Student Center. Her father was on one of the planes. Later I ate lunch(there were much fewer people than usual), and they had a TV set up by the tables, tuned to CNN. I had a meeting with the coach of the I.E. team, and she was very shaken. The meeting was very short, and she said at the end she was going to go pray and then go home. In my other class today, people again talked about it before class. The teacher came in and said something like the obvious question was would we have class today, and that we would if there were enough people, and it appears that there are, and if you can focus on the subject. We then went into English population patterns during the time America was settled, and then into American population patterns at the same time. It looks like all the colleges in Chicago have closed, but we haven't, being away from the city by a good distance, but the attacks are clearly the main topic of conversation. The obvious comparison to Pearl Harbor's been made several times, and every time it's answered that this is worse, which it is. I'd say the Civil War as a whole was much worse, but this is the worst single day in American history. Everyone's a lot quieter than normal, and a girl on a computer near mine looks like she's about to cry.

[strela]

Dallas/Fort Worth Texas

(Some material courtesy of http://www.wbap.com and http://www.nbc5i.com/static/cancellations.htm)

Dallas (AP) -- Dallas' World Trade Center has been evacuated. A spokeswoman said the office building on Interstate 35E, about a mile north of downtown Dallas, was evacuated about 10 o'clock this morning. She said the evacuation was purely precautionary, and that no threat had been received.

The federal buildings in downtown Dallas and Fort Worth have also been evacuated, as has Dallas' World Trade Center. The evacuations were said to be precautionary and not in response to any threat. The Naval Joint Reserve Base in Fort Worth also has been locked down.

Richardson (WBAP) -- Authorities have shut down the Holy Land Foundation's offices in Richardson. The group has been suspected of having ties to the mideast terrorist group Hamas.

Dallas/Fort Worth (WBAP) -- Most public secondary schools continued to hold classes after word of the attacks came. But, many school districts cancelled evening activities. Texas Christian University suspended classes for the day and evening as did the University of North Texas, Texas Womens University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Many area churches have scheduled prayer services for this evening.

Dallas (AP) -- Dallas city officials say NO city or federal government buildings have been ordered evacuated. However, officials say employees are being allowed to leave if they are too frightened to work after today's terrorist attacks on the United States.

DALLAS - A steady stream of people flowed through the entrances of Reunion Arena to give blood -- always a needed commodity, but more so following Tuesday morning's tragic events.

Carter BloodCare staff, with the assistance of Reunion Arena's staff and security, opened the doors for a massive blood drive at about 11 a.m.

Mayor Ron Kirk was among the hundreds filling out forms and waiting for a technician to draw blood. "When you've had a horrific tragedy, especially like today's, I think people want to do something," he said. "I think people know intuitively that they need to do this."

DALLAS - Many places of worship around North Texas made special provisions to keep their doors open for prayers throughout the day. In downtown Dallas, some employees went to Thanksgiving Square to reflect. Grace Temple Baptist Church held a special service at the request of upset congregation members. The Catholic Diocese of Dallas offered a special mass at the downtown cathedral. While there were many services Tuesday, many more were scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday night.

Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Airport and Dallas Love Field are closed. No general aviation flights are being allowed.

The scheduled demolition for fund-raising purposes of the old Hyatt Hotel at D/FW Regional Airport, scheduled for this weekend, has been postponed.

Greyhound Bus Lines is closing the Fort Worth and Dallas terminals and sending all employees home effective immediately. Nationally, they have closed ALL terminals that are within one mile of a federal building or facility. That total as of this writing is 22 terminals.

All Major League Baseball games cancelled.

Dallas Soars event at Republic Center cancelled.

Texas Christian University classes cancelled.

Texas Wesleyan University classes are canceled from noon on today on the main campus only. Classes will resume tomorrow at 8am.

All campuses in the University of North Texas System UNT-Denton, UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth, and the UNT System Center at Dallas are closing for the day at 11 a.m.. Classes are expected to resume as scheduled tomorrow, September, 12, 2001, unless otherwise notified.

Texas Woman's University Campus in Denton, Dallas and Houston closed and will resume tomorrow.

Cassata Learning Center closed tonight

All of the following closed tomorrow (Wednesday) and no activity after 3pm today:

Riley Academy in Dallas, Inspired Vision both campuses in Dallas, A+ Academy in Lancaster

Wednesday night's Dallas Burn game vs. the Washington DC United has been postponed.

All activities at the Dr Pepper Star Centers (hockey) in Duncanville, Euless, Valley Ranch, and Plano have been cancelled.

Dallas Baptist University - classes cancelled after 5pm on campus and off. Resume regular schedule Wednesday.

Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD - School in session parents may pick up students. Evening events cancelled.

Blue Ridge ISD - School on alert still in session.

Coppell ISD - School on alert still in session.

Birdville ISD - School in session parents may pick up, if parent decide to pick up their child this will be counted as a excused absent. No student will be released without a note.

Northwest ISD after school activities cancelled.

Texas Christian University Tuesday classes cancelled.

Springtown ISD - After school events cancelled.

Lewisville ISD - All evening events cancelled.

Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD - All evening activities cancelled.

Mansfield ISD - All after-school activities have been cancelled.

Texas Women University in Denton, Dallas and Houston - All classed closed today.

John Robert Powers - Auditions and classes cancelled Tues and Wed classes resumes Thursday.

Texas Wesleyan University- classes cancelled from noon main campus only.

Dallas ISD - allowing parents to pick up children.

Richardson ISD - evening and all events cancelled.

Fort Worth ISD - Voluntary parental pick up.

Irving ISD - Voluntary parental pick up.

Castleberry ISD - all after school and evening events have been cancelled.

** North Hills School, all after school and evening activities cancelled.

** Southern Bible Institute in Dallas, tonight's classes cancelled.

[Florida native]

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has declared State of Emergency. Will re-open state offices tomorrow, Disney re-opens tomorrow, as will Courthouses, schools, etc. From what I heard around Ocala, Belleview area today, it is time for WAR!!

And Clinton is very responsible for this happening IMHO. If not for his panty-waist coddling of the Arabs/Palestinians along with the equal pressuring of Israel to knuckle under to those towel heads, those we lost just might be alive today.

I dare any Demorat to whine about the Palestinian problem just one more time. It's time to bomb them back into the time of Moses.

[babyfreep]

Dallas area - at least one local gun shop was PACKED with customers at around 1:30pm. Went down the street to Big K and there was a sign on the door that said "All sales of firearms and ammunition have been SUSPENDED." (Of course, we expected something like that from them.)

[NYCVirago]

I live on the north shore of Staten Island, but work in Manhattan. As I work nights, I was asleep during today's carnage, but people in my neighborhood said they could hear the second plane hovering and they also could hear the explosion.

I can't explain how incredibly eerie it was today; I woke up late this morning to my clock radio talking about the World Trade Center, and I made a sleepy assumption it was some recap show about the bombings 8 years ago. Then I heard them say "reporting live", and I woke up into this nightmare.

Needless to say, the World Trade Center is *the* major part of the skyline that you can see from the island. After I heard about the reports, and checked my email (I had a ton of messages from friends and family members checking to see that I was OK) I went out this afternoon at about 1 p.m. to see what I could see. Due to buildings in front of the harbor, I had to walk about 1/4 of a mile before I could get a good view of the skyline. But I could see the smoke in the sky before I saw the carnage. I can't explain how astonishing it looked to see a plume of smoke where the World Trade Center used to be, especially since I hadn't seen any video or pictures of the action yet. The police were out directing traffic, which is something you never see in this sleepy little borough. I saw five fire trucks go by with their sirens blaring. People were oddly calm -- stunned, more than anything.

Don't know when I'll be back at work, as there's no way to get into Manhattan right now. These events are just an unbelievable horror.

[GSWarrior]

Oakland, CA All city services suspended. Mayor and city council nowhere to be found. Armed thugs roam streets of downtown.

Oops. You said post-attack... My bad. Sorry about that.