Dreamer
Dream Weaver Designs
Sorry your not well Pen
@Satira Capriccio thats sounds like a small bit of hell
@Satira Capriccio thats sounds like a small bit of hell
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The Anchorage, Part 3
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Lorraine
The Wicked Witch of the North
Glad to hear that!
Oh noes! Or should that be oh nose! Hope you get well real quick.
Little monkey!
That she is. She was wearing it this morning, but slipped out of it a bit later. I'm home with her today because we walked down 10 flights of stairs last night. Well, Tsuki didn't. She rode in her carrier. All 12.70 pounds of her!
Apparently, some kid thought it would be funny to pull and break fire alarm pull stations on the fourth floor. So the firemen couldn't reset the pull stations and the fire alarm kept going off.
Poor baby was so scared when the alarm went off (think air raid siren in your living room) that she ran into the middle of the room and just froze. But she is a real trooper. Once I got her in her carrier, she was calm. Even as we sat in the lobby for more than an hour with dozens of other people and unhappy wee ones ... much of that time with the shrilling of the fire alarm. We get air raid sirens in the hallway and our apartments, the lobby has a quieter, but shriller alarm.
Apparently, some kid thought it would be funny to pull and break fire alarm pull stations on the fourth floor. So the firemen couldn't reset the pull stations and the fire alarm kept going off.
Poor baby was so scared when the alarm went off (think air raid siren in your living room) that she ran into the middle of the room and just froze. But she is a real trooper. Once I got her in her carrier, she was calm. Even as we sat in the lobby for more than an hour with dozens of other people and unhappy wee ones ... much of that time with the shrilling of the fire alarm. We get air raid sirens in the hallway and our apartments, the lobby has a quieter, but shriller alarm.
YIKES, that's no fun. I know we had the fire engines here one evening during the summer because someone smelled smoke, but we don't have fire alarms on every floor. We just call the doorman, who informs the superintendent and calls the Fire Department.
Didn't turn out to be anything more than someone leaving the light under an empty pot after eating breakfast. Luckily I had already taken the elevator down to the lobby, before the firemen came in and turned off the elevators.
Didn't turn out to be anything more than someone leaving the light under an empty pot after eating breakfast. Luckily I had already taken the elevator down to the lobby, before the firemen came in and turned off the elevators.
Dreamer
Dream Weaver Designs
@Satira Capriccio that does not sound like fun at all!
Sure isn't!
Every apartment has an fire alarm (aka air raid siren) inside ... outside the bedroom (or outside one of the bedrooms if more than one bedroom), plus every floor has several. Since I'm an end apartment, next to the fire tower, there is also one right outside my apartment door. The only place that it's bearable when the fire alarm goes off is in the fire towers. Then the alarm is muted ... rather well, in fact. Each hallway has a set of doors on the opposite end of the fire tower doors that automatically close when the alarm goes off. The elevators also automatically return to the lobby and shut down with the doors open.
Every apartment has an fire alarm (aka air raid siren) inside ... outside the bedroom (or outside one of the bedrooms if more than one bedroom), plus every floor has several. Since I'm an end apartment, next to the fire tower, there is also one right outside my apartment door. The only place that it's bearable when the fire alarm goes off is in the fire towers. Then the alarm is muted ... rather well, in fact. Each hallway has a set of doors on the opposite end of the fire tower doors that automatically close when the alarm goes off. The elevators also automatically return to the lobby and shut down with the doors open.
Exactly! Or worse, allowing people to use them during an actual fire.
Nope definitely not good. We have large signs near our elevators specifically stating to use the stairs in case of fire, and a diagram of where the stairs are located in relation to where they're standing. Often wonder if anyone would ignore the advice, and try taking the elevator anyway.
quietrob
Extraordinary
There is always a human factor, Miss B. I remember when we had a fire during work. A woman screamed and I went out to see what was happening. Some people ran to the exit immediately. Some people froze unable to move. One person ran to the fire, ran to the fire extinguisher which was RIGHT BY THE FIRE and calmly put the fire out. You never know what people will do during an emergency.
quietrob
Extraordinary
Miss B, if you don't mind....
I was in Southern California on 9/11. I worked in a repair depot (Boundless Technologies) whose home office was located in New York. On that day, we did no work. We manned the phones for customer support and service.
There were no incoming calls. We watched the Towers fall on TV and went home a half hour early.
Miss B. Where were you? If it is still too much to speak upon I think everyone would understand.
I was in Southern California on 9/11. I worked in a repair depot (Boundless Technologies) whose home office was located in New York. On that day, we did no work. We manned the phones for customer support and service.
There were no incoming calls. We watched the Towers fall on TV and went home a half hour early.
Miss B. Where were you? If it is still too much to speak upon I think everyone would understand.
Back then I was taking an express bus to work every day, and we were stopped and backlogged on the overpass leading into the Midtown Tunnel (I don't live in Manhattan). One of the passengers, who happened to be standing yelled OMG a plane just smashed into the WTC (I was seated on the side with a clear view south from there all the way downtown), and everyone on my side of the bus looked out the windows to see it. From there it looked like it could've been an accident, but when we tried to call our offices, none of us had cell service, because the equipment was on the roof of one of the Towers (I don't recall which one).
Once we got through the Tunnel and took the highway downtown, we couldn't get all the way down, so several of us got off and walked the rest of the way, and the bus went home. What I saw when I turned the corner where the Towers were in full view, the second plane had crashed into the other Tower, and one of the regulars on the bus, with whom I was walking, and I stopped dead in our tracks as we were in total shock. That's when we knew it wasn't an accident.
When we got to the street we'd have to walk to our offices, everyone was walking north to get out of the area. I probably should've stayed on the bus and gone home, but large law firms here in NY (don't know about other cities), are open 24/7, so I was expected to be there. In fact, I was amazed at how many people actually made it into the office that day.
Anyway, the law firm I worked at was located in a building 4 blocks due east of the Towers. Now in the downtown area, most of the crosstown streets are very long, probably equal to a 1 1/2 to 2 standard block lengths, so maybe you could say 6-8 blocks, right in the line of sight of the Towers if we were on the west side of the building.
My office was on the west side of the building, and I heard, felt and saw the first Tower come down, and then I was out in the hallway yelling for everyone to close their windows, because a huge (I was on the 18th floor, and it was higher than my floor) cloud of grey smoke was heading our way.
By the time the second Tower came down, many of us were down in the law library watching everything on TV, and this time we were on the east side of the building and saw a whole lot of rubble falling after it passed over the roof of our building (40 stories high). The worst part for us was we had one client who had offices in the Towers, and one of our partner's wife was due to be at the Towers for a meeting. Luckily her meeting was postponed, so she wound up at our offices instead. A huge sigh of relief went up when she walked into the library where her husband was watching the action with the rest of us. One of the secretaries lost her brother-in-law that day, as he was one of the firefighters who had responded.
We were closed for over a week while they got the building back to a habitable condition, and most of us in my firm, myself included, walked around in the downtown area with surgical masks over our faces for months, because it took a long time to get the air quality back to anywhere near normal.
It also took a long time to get the express bus routes back to normal, because on a good day we drove down the street that passed the back of my building, and then turned around at the southern tip, and then drove up the street in front of the Towers, so needless to say that wasn't going to happen for a long time.
OK, that's a pretty long accounting, and there's lots of details I didn't include, but it was an experience I would NEVER wish on my worst enemy, that's how horrible a day it was, and a horrible week rewatching the events on TV for the week we were home before it was safe again for us to be in our office building.
Once we got through the Tunnel and took the highway downtown, we couldn't get all the way down, so several of us got off and walked the rest of the way, and the bus went home. What I saw when I turned the corner where the Towers were in full view, the second plane had crashed into the other Tower, and one of the regulars on the bus, with whom I was walking, and I stopped dead in our tracks as we were in total shock. That's when we knew it wasn't an accident.
When we got to the street we'd have to walk to our offices, everyone was walking north to get out of the area. I probably should've stayed on the bus and gone home, but large law firms here in NY (don't know about other cities), are open 24/7, so I was expected to be there. In fact, I was amazed at how many people actually made it into the office that day.
Anyway, the law firm I worked at was located in a building 4 blocks due east of the Towers. Now in the downtown area, most of the crosstown streets are very long, probably equal to a 1 1/2 to 2 standard block lengths, so maybe you could say 6-8 blocks, right in the line of sight of the Towers if we were on the west side of the building.
My office was on the west side of the building, and I heard, felt and saw the first Tower come down, and then I was out in the hallway yelling for everyone to close their windows, because a huge (I was on the 18th floor, and it was higher than my floor) cloud of grey smoke was heading our way.
By the time the second Tower came down, many of us were down in the law library watching everything on TV, and this time we were on the east side of the building and saw a whole lot of rubble falling after it passed over the roof of our building (40 stories high). The worst part for us was we had one client who had offices in the Towers, and one of our partner's wife was due to be at the Towers for a meeting. Luckily her meeting was postponed, so she wound up at our offices instead. A huge sigh of relief went up when she walked into the library where her husband was watching the action with the rest of us. One of the secretaries lost her brother-in-law that day, as he was one of the firefighters who had responded.
We were closed for over a week while they got the building back to a habitable condition, and most of us in my firm, myself included, walked around in the downtown area with surgical masks over our faces for months, because it took a long time to get the air quality back to anywhere near normal.
It also took a long time to get the express bus routes back to normal, because on a good day we drove down the street that passed the back of my building, and then turned around at the southern tip, and then drove up the street in front of the Towers, so needless to say that wasn't going to happen for a long time.
OK, that's a pretty long accounting, and there's lots of details I didn't include, but it was an experience I would NEVER wish on my worst enemy, that's how horrible a day it was, and a horrible week rewatching the events on TV for the week we were home before it was safe again for us to be in our office building.
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Terre
Renowned
Like Rob, I was a long way away. The first I heard of it was a home deliveries customer asking (on the phone) if I'd heard anything about a plane hitting the WTC. I was helping the main lady who did that on that day because her usual helper was out for a reason I've long since forgotten. All of the people we delivered groceries to that day had it on the TV. We also had long lines at the pumps at the gas station. I remember being angry all day as well as upset.
My husband learned a while later that he lost a childhood friend there. The guy had just gotten a job in one of the towers.
Still painful to think about. It must be much harder for Miss B than Rob and I as she was right there.
My husband learned a while later that he lost a childhood friend there. The guy had just gotten a job in one of the towers.
Still painful to think about. It must be much harder for Miss B than Rob and I as she was right there.
Terre
Renowned
I had to go in to work for a little while this morning because of a problem with the 3 day sale that starts today. I got out shortly before 8am. The next property to the west of the strip mall the store takes up half of is an elementary school. Good thing I can go east from the parking lot then turn north the turn west to get home. LOL
quietrob
Extraordinary
Being three hours behind, I was able to see the towers being hit while at home. With the horror of what was happening, our boss called in from New York with instructions. Thus we didn't have to work but just be there to take calls from our customers. But what made it home again was a few days later he called and we talked. He said he was used to see the towers every day on the way to work and it felt strange that they weren't there anymore. It made me realize just how close he was to the devastation. To those that live abroad it might sound strange. We were indeed 3000 miles away but we felt the same as those that saw those towers every day.
@Pendraia Hope you're feeling better and this talk isn't depressing you any further.
@Terre Why is there a three day sale already? Are the holiday displays up already? I remember when the unwritten rule was that you waited until Thanksgiving to start Christmas sales. That rule is GONE!