Briosafreak
Lived Through the Heat Death
At this time last year i was entering a bus to take me to the place i am right now. when i was close to get here, i got a SMS message saying "Banzai. Turn CNN on NOW" . I got out of the bus and listened to a couple of girls saying "oh my god..." near a Tv shop. Wondered what was happening, so i filled my cell phone with credit using a debit card, as i intented to do, and enter this mini-mall.
When i reach the 4th floor i finally receive a message sayng i can use the cell-phone now, i prepare to phone my friend that send me the message but...
...I hear a large roar, turn my head to the left where´s a tv in a fast-food restaurant and see tens of people staring to the tv set; i ask very loudly "What is happening?" and a guy with a nervous smile says "the planes hit the world trade center, the fucking pentagon, a bomb blew up the state departement, it`s fucking world war three man!!!"...
... i don`t know whatelse he said because at that time i pushed around whoever was in front of me and i was just staring at the tv, with my mouth opened, in disbelief and horror...
...i call my wife and scream "turn CNN on, now!!" and she says with tears "i know, i know, J. is still here [she meant her younger brother was in Portugal at the time, and not in Harvard as we thought] one tower has collapsed, L. wants to go to London to pick his wife [her older brother was supposed to pick his wife at London by plain], call him and tell him how serious this is, he´ll listen to you, i`ll call later" and hang up the phone, then the next tower falls...
...i get to this cybercafe, a tv is on transmiting live, a guy says "who did this?" i reply "the americans are going to attack afghanistan in 48 hours" (well, it took more time, wich was a good thing in the end) and sit in front of a computer in the smokers zone. I press the NMA url in one window, i try cnn.com in another, fail and try BBC instead, open another window to keep track of events all over the net, start icq and send a few mails and icq messages.
Basically i left messages all over the place, almost everyone seemed to be alright, after the Pensylvania plane crash i search for Aptyp, Slinky and True_Raven`s sister (they were all fine), and start searching even more with the help of DJ Slamák, we were specially worried with the new-yorkers from Unwashed Villagers. Slamak puts "the war has started x years before it was expected" because of a sad coincidence with dates fron fallout in #fallout, and i spend my afternoon using the cell-phone, the computer, the tv to see if anyone was hurt and to find answers.
A year has passed, at the moment i`m writing this it`s exacly a year after i started a thread here in NMA "USA under attack" i think it was called. I don`t know why i posted this here, i just had too.
"In Memoriam 9/11 victims, we`ll never forget, God Bless you all"
When i reach the 4th floor i finally receive a message sayng i can use the cell-phone now, i prepare to phone my friend that send me the message but...
...I hear a large roar, turn my head to the left where´s a tv in a fast-food restaurant and see tens of people staring to the tv set; i ask very loudly "What is happening?" and a guy with a nervous smile says "the planes hit the world trade center, the fucking pentagon, a bomb blew up the state departement, it`s fucking world war three man!!!"...
... i don`t know whatelse he said because at that time i pushed around whoever was in front of me and i was just staring at the tv, with my mouth opened, in disbelief and horror...
...i call my wife and scream "turn CNN on, now!!" and she says with tears "i know, i know, J. is still here [she meant her younger brother was in Portugal at the time, and not in Harvard as we thought] one tower has collapsed, L. wants to go to London to pick his wife [her older brother was supposed to pick his wife at London by plain], call him and tell him how serious this is, he´ll listen to you, i`ll call later" and hang up the phone, then the next tower falls...
...i get to this cybercafe, a tv is on transmiting live, a guy says "who did this?" i reply "the americans are going to attack afghanistan in 48 hours" (well, it took more time, wich was a good thing in the end) and sit in front of a computer in the smokers zone. I press the NMA url in one window, i try cnn.com in another, fail and try BBC instead, open another window to keep track of events all over the net, start icq and send a few mails and icq messages.
Basically i left messages all over the place, almost everyone seemed to be alright, after the Pensylvania plane crash i search for Aptyp, Slinky and True_Raven`s sister (they were all fine), and start searching even more with the help of DJ Slamák, we were specially worried with the new-yorkers from Unwashed Villagers. Slamak puts "the war has started x years before it was expected" because of a sad coincidence with dates fron fallout in #fallout, and i spend my afternoon using the cell-phone, the computer, the tv to see if anyone was hurt and to find answers.
A year has passed, at the moment i`m writing this it`s exacly a year after i started a thread here in NMA "USA under attack" i think it was called. I don`t know why i posted this here, i just had too.
"In Memoriam 9/11 victims, we`ll never forget, God Bless you all"