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

[Albert Sanchez]

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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