[nfbwatlk] WCBS 880 New York Just After First Tower Was Hit

Tue Sep 13 15:15:26 UTC 2011

that will be an experience to share with grandkids. Happy for you it had an 
awesome ending.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Albert Sanchez" <albertsanchez at suddenlink.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 12:25 AM
Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] WCBS 880 New York Just After First Tower Was Hit


>I was in a home servicing the piano. Having finished tuning I was putting 
>the front piece back on this upright when WHAM!!! The house shook and 
>things began falling off the mantle. The people of the house turned on TV 
>and I could hear talking about the towers. They then told me that from 
>their front window they could see smoke pouring out of the Pentagon. I 
>tried to call for a cab since I had finished my job only to be told that it 
>would be approx 4 hours before they could pick me up. We watched TV for a 
>while more then they offered to drive me to the Metro station at Pentagon 
>City so I could try to get home from their. When we got to the metro you 
>could hear fire truck sirens and smella very powerful scent of smoke. I 
>took the metro to Roslyn stop planning to get a city bus from that station 
>home--not a bus to be found--they had all been diverted to the evacuation 
>of the Pentagon. I tried to make calls on cellphone but, as others were 
>finding out, the system was so overloaded that nothing got through. So, 
>here I am, standing with my tool kit at my feet and cane in my right hand 
>when a car stopped in front of me and a lady got out and introduced herself 
>to me saying "Sir, you tuned our piano several weeks ago--can I take you 
>anywhere? You can imagine my response! She then proceeded, with my 
>directions, to drive me home. She got her next tuning free! A.S.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
> To: "'NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List'" <nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 10:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] WCBS 880 New York Just After First Tower Was Hit
>
>
>> Wow! I had WTOP on when the plane hit the Pentagon but don't have a
>> recording of it. I had just gotten cable television so had CNN on TV, the
>> local NPR station on the radio and alternated between WTOP and the BBC on 
>> my
>> computer. WTOP said all Federal employees were to stay at home and I 
>> wasn't
>> sure whether this meant just in the district of Columbia or throughout 
>> the
>> U.S. So I called up BPA' CSM (control system monitor) and he said 
>> *everyone*
>> was to stay home.
>>
>> What a day!
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Albert Sanchez
>> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 4:52 PM
>> To: NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] WCBS 880 New York Just After First Tower Was Hit
>>
>> I was right there, within 1/4 mile from the pentagon! A.S.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
>> To: "NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List" <nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 5:54 PM
>> Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] WCBS 880 New York Just After First Tower Was Hit
>>
>>
>>> Definitely puts you right there!
>>>
>>> Mike Freeman
>>> sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sep 12, 2011, at 13:24, "Albert Sanchez" 
>>> <albertsanchez at suddenlink.net>
>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey Mike
>>>> Thanks for the download! Amazing! A.S.
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
>>>> To: <nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 11:40 AM
>>>> Subject: [nfbwatlk] WCBS 880 New York Just After First Tower Was Hit
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Fellow listers:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Normally, I don't put things that aren't blindness-related according 
>>>>> to
>>>>> our
>>>>> list guidelines on this list. However, given that tomorrow is the 
>>>>> tenth
>>>>> anniversary of the destruction of the World Trade Center, I'm posting 
>>>>> a
>>>>> link
>>>>> to a recording of WCBS (one of the two all-news stations in New York)
>>>>> beginning just *after* the first plane hit. Right-click on this link 
>>>>> and
>>>>> choose "save as ." to download the file.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Remember.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21264582/wcbs-wtc-9-11-01.mp3
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Mike Freeman, President
>>>>>
>>>>> National Federation of the Blind of Washington
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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