Plane crashes and bombing in NYC and DC

[CD]

Two planes were highjacked and run into the WTC. Bombs are going off. Terrorisim is kicking in BIG time.

[Tastey]

Is there asses ain't playing. :(

We need to be praying. Big time.

To my Hush fam in major cities. Be blessed...be safe.

I am thankful for living in the boonies but even with that Port of Charleston is a major port if this escalates.

Again...God bless...Stay safe Fam.

[djackso]

The thread about the middle east & how it affects us. America is where the finger is pointed.

[Juicey1]

The Pentagon was hit too. There was a presidential threat on the White House and a aircraft flew over the restricted airspace of the White House.

I hear they are calling all military troops. My husband is Army National Guard and I am a little worried.

I saw the falling of the World Trade Center. It was a horrifying site. I have been sitting at my desk just praying.

Don't we have a Hush member that works at the Pentagon?

[Tastey]

Que used to work at the Pentagon. He doesn't anymore.

I spoke to BE and Qjai by IM they are safe but worried about family. I did not speak to him but I'm told that Que is home and safe as well.

Djackso you are on point. I've been praying since DNS posted that. :(

[Andre98]

I work across from the Trade Center at the World Financial Center, and I happened to be coming in later to work. I was driving down the Northern leg of Jersey Turnpike and saw this weird pillar of smoke. I then turned on the news radio, and as you can imagine the nyc area news is going apeshit.

This is some real armageddon type stuff.

[CD]

There are no trains, buses, cars, airplanes comeing into or out of NYC..............SHIT! I want to go home....:(

They got the national guards on the street. The World trade center buildings have collasped. Each one has about 110 floors. Thousands of people have died. What a tragedy. Somebodys going to pay!

[Admin]

I just woke up............Huh? not the WTC again? Dayuuum. They need a new target.:beating

Holla

[CD]

It just seams like too much strange shit is going on right now.

[Lisa_Lisa]

This is such a terrible tragedy. I have family that works in Manhattan. My company's headquarters is very close to the Pentagon. I can't get in touch with anyone.

My father (retired army guy) says this is the beginning of WWIII. I think this is the beginning of the end.

God Bless everyone affected by this mess.

[yendys]

I agree with CD completely. It is just sad. Is everyone accounted for on here from these areas?

[Admin]

Man, Now they are saying that they have several planes missing? How can they be missing? Don't they track these planes on radar or with Air Traffic Controllers?

Holla

[Admin]

Can I hear from Colin Powell? Can I hear fro George Bush?

Where are they? Theses fools are in hiding? Shyyyyyyt, do ya job and at leat call CNN on the cell phone so I can here your voice.

Dayum!
Prayers to all loved ones who are in and around the city....and I hope the missing planes are recovered and everyone is okay.
Holla
:confused: :(

[Tastey]

How do you just hijack a plane in the 01 and don't nobody know it until it crashes into a major building? :confused:

How come planes are not equipped with an alarm system...like the banks...that say "Hey a fool is up here with a gun. help us."

I mean you can't ground planes forever...how can anyone getting on a plane ever feel safe again? :(

I don't think this is going to be WWIII because it seems to be a small yet organized unit responsible. But hey I could be wrong. I'm praying I'm not.

[seductive_tee]

I made it home ok.I live an work in the MD area, which is like 5-10 minutes from DC..i work with Dept of Defense and things were crazy where i am in Bethesda.

It took forever to get home.

I'm sure by now ya'll have heard all the details by watching the news.

Considering where i work and who is in my building you would think certain folks would be notified sooner. I told the Associate Dean where i work and he had not heard anything. He called an emergency meeting right after that.

All those military students and no one knew a thing........

The pentagon is still burning...

Curious though..all the planes were headed for California......

[KissableSexyShortStuff]

Heard about this morning when I got to work....


Tidewater has almost competely shut down because of the military bases. Just about everybody is on watch.....

[Brightness]

Praise God for those that were untouched. . .

Andre, you were heavily on my mind this morning when I heard this. . .I am so glad you are alright.

Same goes to Tee, Que and the rest of the DC, MD, NY fam that's checked in. . .my prayers are going out not only to them but to all that have personal connections and I am praying for us as a country.

[Brightness]

That's because they were fully fueled to make that long trip. . .10,000's lbs of fuel. . . .

Originally posted by seductive_tee+
Curious though..all the planes were headed for California......

[lasttry]

hope everybody is ok....they landed 19 planes here in indy as an emergency and sent some people headed to milwaukee on the bus instead...

my paper i work for had two extra editions and i'm reading it all on the wires now...i'ma give yall the full details later...

folks making runs on the bank, gas stations ($4 a gallon:eek: in some places...out of gas at others and they even saw an increase at the gun shop:rolleyes:

them dudes was not playing...watching tv looked like watching independence day again.

[Toffee]

Toffee is checking in. It took me forever to get home. Thank God I don't work in that area anymore. But like Bright said they chose planes that had a lot of fuel. I know I am very thankful to be alive.

[14KBlaqWmn]

I thank God that everyone here is ok.

[CLSmooove]

Thank God for everyone who has checked in and are ok.... I was at work when I heard about it and couldnt wait to get home....

The first person to pop into my mind was Que and then Andre98 and Toffee.... I am so glad everyone is ok and my prayers out to any loved ones still unaccounted for....

[Babygirl]

This has to be one of the saddest days I have ever experienced, and as a military wife, my worst nightmare. All the bases here in Diego on are on Treat Com Delta. I had to run off base to pick-up my girlfriend and the guards at the gate are armed with m-16 rifiles. They have one way in, one way out. Coming in the gate they are checking your car for bombs, guns, ect...
My deepest sympathy to every American citizen today. I pray we all stay safe, and sound. God Bless

[HulaSista]

Praise God you are all alright...

Naw...this ain't THE end...but we on our way...

Read Revelations...

and if that is confusing...go here...there's a lot that will help you understand the state of the world yesterday, today and tomorrow...

Are we living in the end times? (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/002-5658304-2222425)

if that don't work...try...


End Times (http://www.leftbehind.com/relatedbks.html)

Other great sources of end times reading:

Don't get left behind (http://www.leftbehind.com/)

[Andre98]

It still feels like a bad dream... I woke up just now, 3am, after the day of the tragedy, and for a couple seconds, thought I had just had a very bizarre dream. Then it comes flooding back! The awful reality! No movie would be this perversely extensive. Doesn't your very soul want to reject the comprehension of this horror? Just the fact that we cannot understand how anyone can do this is a good thing, because to understand it is to be the kind of demonic miscreant that they are. I wasn't in harm's way in the least yesterday. But the irony of why I wasn't walking across that plaza right at 8:45am, and especially, my tendency to imagine what it must have been like to have been in any of these people's shoes, shakes me to the bone.

The people on the planes, some calling their love ones as they realize the plane is under siege in flight. Then the horror of realizing what was about the happen. Those love ones that heard everything up to the impact(s) on the phones.

And the people in the WTC towers, my God! Then to be in the adjacent tower, looking over at the burning tower next door and BAM! You are hit! We'll never be able to forget the image of that second plane going into the 2WTC , knowing both were loaded with passengers. Knowing all 4 planes had total fatalities. That second WTC jet went all the way in clean, an instant before the multi-floor fireball exploded. That was an instant meltdown, a 2,000+ degree incineration. People just disappeared! My god, those that jumped, those that were escaping, feeling there is hope, but then the building collasped! There was a day care on the WTC plaza level, there were families that were just getting up and getting dressed in the Marriott Hotel that is wedged between the two towers for a day of sightseeing in NYC, countless meetings gathering to start off at 9am...thousands of people...

I can't help it fam, I am a product of Sci-fi, and action movies, as many of us are fond of .... I can't help but think of each detail, and it haunts me :
The debris that rained down on all the folks on the street! You can't pick a busier time than when folks are trying to make the 9am bell at work. People pour out of the subways and the NJ train under the WTC plaza like herds of buffalo stampeding to Wall St. and surrounding offices on the average day. The bastards waited until after Labor Day when the workforce was at full attendance, they had fully fueled planes.... Damn, at so many angles, the planning was at the height of what would exact the most devastating toll.

Alright, I'll try to stop it, I was too graphic, but believe me, I am not saying half of what I am thinking about in the horrible variety of ways thousands of people died. It's not a morbid fascination, it's the way I empathize, and to tell the truth, I feel a sense of guilt that I wasn't at work to help out in the evacuations, and any other efforts. My heart, as I am sure all of yours', is heavy with sadness. The inhumany. The pundits on TV keep saying we can't jump to conclusions about whether its even an islamic thing. We don't know who did it! PLEASE! Okay, then, let's look at Sweden! Or the Dutch, maybe Holland had it in for us! Fuck That! We know who, we are just handcuffed by our own principles of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, and that could be nearly impossible when it is crafted to conceal just that. It's also nearly impossible to avoid being consumed by pure uncut rage. I am on BP meds and this stress is the worst, so I am writing to "get it out", to purge, and then maybe I can get a grip.

When I heard them interviewing one of the many islamic factions, that said they didnt do it, they don't condone it, BUT then launched into a diatribe about how it is what the U.S. should expect as payback for it's atrocities around the world, and proceeded to note things like how the bombings of Iraq's cities during the Gulf War exacted worse casualties, it just was shielded from worldwide view. If I was that reporter, doing the interview, they would have had to pull me off him.

They said there were hardly any taxis in town, and I thought okay, they closed the bridges and tunnels, but the cabs basically stay in Manhattan, and above 14th street, there would have been a bonanza of rides that money could be made from. Never knew cabs to pass up a buck. Two things then crossed my mind:
1. Many of the cabbies are middle easterners, many even right from the very countries that would be likely suspects. Such is our global community. They knew as soon as it happened, that pandemonium would be in the air, and swarthy looking types would be subject to individual abuse, or acts of rage. It would have been advisable that especially those many cabbies that wear turbans or are otherwise visually redflaggable, would not want to be on the street during the aftermath. I think I recall hearing years ago, that many of the various Taxicab and Private car-for hire companies are Arab owned. In fact, the newsstand business for the most part are east indians, Pakistanis, but they would have been wise to have also bolted, because the blind rage would have a broad scope, and may have made them targets, just for being "in the ball park", so to speak. They closed the Paramus NJ malls, so I was in National Wholesale Liquidators, and they are heavy with east indian store staff. A female clerk in a sarong, head dress thing and all was getting long stares, and mumbles among customers. There was an arabic school and a house of worship I drove by that had police cars guarding it.

2. Or, here's the kicker, and yes it reflects the paranoia of the moment: What if many of the "turban-types" had been given the "high sign" of sorts. I want to know if anyone noticed if there was an abnormal lack of cabs in the morning, before the attack. How many with cousins that are "connected" in that radical sense happened to call in sick, or happened to call vacation this week? I can believe that the total lack of any weapon besides special plastic-based knives made it easy to get on these flights, since the plane and fuel was the intended "bomb" itself. But I refuse to believe that somebody didn't say to their stateside S/Os, "don't be around the WFC Tuesday."

I feel bad that I am reduced to such bigoted insecurities, but I am operating on raw emotion, I have to release it. I wish I had a kickboxing bag to hit. I know, I know the priest this coming Sunday is going to be commenting on the tragedy, the grief, and seek to bolster our faith in God and re-energize our resolve. But I also know he is going to ease in there the notion that we must find it in our hearts to forgive the perpetrators of this slaughter. I might be hard pressed to avoid making that moment the first booing of a man of the cloth in Catholic church history.

Damn, it washes over me again, the enormity of it all. Just when I feel normal, like in waking up, it comes back hard. I was weary from talking about it all day yesterday. The way my wife cried when she first heard my voice on the phone.... My sisters, even my brothers were sniffling, one at the sound of my voice on the phone tape when they called the house. In the end, I was miles away, and life around Jersey the rest of the day was oddly uneventful. In fact, it was downright peaceful and the sun was shining bright. I live less than 5 miles from the GWB. But turn off the TV, and don't look to the southeastern sky, and maybe you can put off the horrid feeling for a while. Then, again, I think about the folks that died, and those that, as the hours passed, came to realize their horror of no longer having their loved ones and friends, and I curse myself for having the gall to feel I am encumbered at all. I could have been right in there, I should have been right in there, and I am glad I wasn't right in there, as selfish as that sounds. It just keeps going like that in a circle. You know I am not short-winded, but this time, I feel it is good therapy to vent like this, right from my head to the keyboard. Thanks for indulging me and reading this. Dang, it's after 5am now! On a normal weekday I'd be dreading a sleepy day at work after being up like this. On a "normal" week day.... damn......

[Brightness]

You know, Andre. . .you are not alone in your thinking. . .I didn't sleep well at all myself and I was no where near danger or so I thought. . .one of those planes did a detour over Cleveland, it could have easily crashed in Ohio by accident.

I am praying for clarity, understanding, healing. . .I have so many prayers to pray and I too, feel rage and want vindication for this senseless act. I refuse to believe that there weren't people clued in on the day's happenings either. . .I'm sure if they do some checking that there was some mass communication. . .perhaps on one of the radio stations a coded message went out or maybe in one of their daily/weekly papers which you can pick up just about anywhere. . .As diverse as NY is you know that there would just about have to be relatives or friends in harm's way. The way I understand it is that there are a chosen few who agree to go on these death missions and they realize they're expendable for the greater cause. . .which is to destroy the U.S.

I have a friend who is in Boston and was thinking he could have very well passed these men on the street or at the airport the day before while picking someone up there. It's since come out that they have identified some of the suspects through airplane passenger logs and rental car information.

If this doesn't make us wake up and smell the coffee I don't know what will. . .we just need to close our borders and quit letting every Tom, Dick & Harry in here with a visa, student visa, whatever. . .I know that's harsh but when you think about how easily these fools can get into this country and after the fact be identified as "KNOWN BIN LADEN SUPPORTERS"???? I have a hard time fathoming this. . .

Anything you can ever imagine is not out of the question in light of these events. . .gas prices climbing, our economy is already screwed up. . .I just started back to work so I know this chain of events aren't going to do anything positive for U.S. morale. . .

I feel very vulnerable at this point, if we can get infiltrated and hit like this from the inside so hard and strong, where is the safety? Do I need to move to fucking North Dakota and live on a ranch?

I am nervous and jittery and this can make anyone feel like slapping anyone with a turban or other Mideastern garb on. . .

Okay, I'm done. . .not really but I'm done typing at least, we just have to keep praying because this is not over by a long shot. . .my prayers are know especially going out to the military personnel because this will indeed have to be brutal and bloody to make a statement on our behalf. . .

I hate to think it but yesterday I was feeling we should just go and bomb Afghanistan off the map. . . .I've got to get over it. . . .

[Toffee]

ON the news last night I did see some bombs going off in Afghanistan. I wonder who was doing that. Now to my knowledge there was a 5th plane that was hijacked. Now from what I heard it was shot down. But now they are not mentioning it.

But amazing how vulnerable this country is. We have all the technology and big planes and large military. But how do u fight the unknown enemy? There are no rules to the game these terrorists are playing.

But I know my heart did stop yesterday. My co-workers were going to Harlem to chill at a friends house. I had to wait till the subways started running agan. As I walked up 6th AVE to 43rd St. I saw people running straight at me. Now u know we black people don't ask questions we get up and start running. Later I found out that some Idiot called in a bomb threat to the Chrysler Building.

But I must say Andre I did see cabs passing people right on by. Muhammad was not picking up anyone. Other livery cabs and airport shuttles were charging $40 bucks to get people around. Everyone is an opportunist. The 3rd largest Financial District in the World has been crippled. The lives lost, the financial repurcussions and the huge amount of job loss is devastating. But what makes my blood really boil is to see them in Pakistan cheering.

They are finding survivors they found a group of firefighters that were able to get under some beams to protect them. My friend in Itay told me that they had been showing coverage all day over there. She said that Milan was on shut down. They closed everything. She also said that their public trans. system was also on shut down. Its amazing how countries have reacted to this, which puts more pressure on our government to retaliate.

[Tastey]

The day after...

Dre98 that was graphic...however it was so on point and oh so neccessary. :(

Thank you. That post is something I will print and save and possibly even pass along someday. It's a fitting, acurate, and honest commentary on the events.

Thank you my brother, you and yours as well as the rest of the Fam are in my prayers.

Be blessed.

[shtalker]

This has been like a scene out of a movie. I still am in shock and can't believe this shyt has happen. My prayers go out to all of America. We will get through this one way or another.

I have a little bit more respect for G Bush now. His words where a bit encouraging. I was able to sleep.

[que90nek]

what do you do when the chips are down?
do you get stronger! do your rally and unite as one United State...

or will the terrorists...win?

terrorrism is really tough.....the symbolism...the feelings of helplessness...all by design...

we must remain strong and calm in these moments.

[Babygirl]

Dre,
I just wanted to tell you that your post hit home,. I believe it may incompass the feelings of alot of us, but we couldn't or were not able to verbalize it. Even today in the aftermath, there is an errie silence on base, strained smiles, and an abundance of hugs. Last night I tossed and turned for hours. My spirit is restless and in pain. So many lives lost, so many homes broken. I can only pray for strength and understanding during this chaotic time. I pray that the country heals in every sence of the word. My prayers are with you guys.

[adaya]

I thank God that the Hush members in and around the NY & DC areas are OK. My prayers go out to all the families and friends of the victims of this horrible act.

I saw the WTC crashes on tv when it happened, before I went to work, and listened to the radio throughout the workday. I didn't see the images of the buildings collapsing, people jumping out of windows, etc., until this morning. everything was so surreal and mind-numbing for a long while, but when the reality and the enormity of it began to sink in...........

Thanks for your post Andre. after i listened to reports on the radio all day, i couldn't bring myself to watch it on tv last night, because that would force me to allow everything to really sink in, and i wasn't ready to handle it. your post helped and it verbalized many people's emotions.......

[RaiOfSunshine]

I was completely horrified when I saw those planes hit WTC when I was watching the news. I thought to myself, this couldn't be no accident, they did this deliberately. I was devastated when I actuallly saw these buildings collapse. My heart is broken, I'm angry, I really feel for the victims and their families. Seeing the people in fear, injured, sad by all of this, it tore me apart.

This is truly an act of evil. The devil is at work. The people behind this, the people cheering for this, they have no soul. It is simply a cowardly action that is stemmed by hatred. Those sick cowards will get theirs.

I was hurt when I saw the news this morning when people were tearfully calling in to ask about their loved ones who are missing. But, what was heartwarming was the thousands of people who went out there to volunteer and donate blood. One dude came all the way from Georgia to volunteer. I commend Giuliani and Pataki for coming through for the victims.

My heart, thoughts and prayers are for the families and the victims.

[Juicey1]

It was devasting to me also. Its still unbelieveable.

Yesterday when I first heard of this, all I wanted to do was to leave work, get my kids from school and go home to my husband and just sit with them. I just felt a helpless fear and I don't like feeling like that.

[Vronni]

This is so sad. I have seriously been praying.It feels like the end of the world

[OhSoPrecious]

Originally posted by Andre98+
I feel it is good therapy to vent like this, right from my head to the keyboard.

Yes, and we should continue to talk about it here~!! That's the only thing that makes me feel a little better~!! :(

Andre, I've told you in a PM already. . . that you were one of the first people I thought about yesterday. . . and just prayed that you were OK~!!

Keep venting my brotha. . . believe it or not, you are speaking for some of us~!! ;)

Thanks~!!


Btw, CD. . . I guess I was looking out of my office window at the smoke (the only thing I could see from Edgewater, NJ - office sitting right on the Hudson River) when you were posting this. . I knew the FAM would be talking about it. . . but, I had to wait til I got home to check it out. . and even then, I didn't feel up to posting~!! :(

I hope that you're doing OK as well~!!