Our entire office spent about 4hrs watching the unfolding sequence of events from the main-floor eatery in downtown Calgary. It was definitely surreal and felt like I was watching a bad slow movie that day.
A friend and his wife were supposed to go up the WTC on that day. They bailed early morning on account of visiting friends and other stuff came up and then as they were leaving to go there... things started happening. So if they had stuck to their schedule they woulda been there, at the top of the building that collapsed, at that time. Still blows my mind.
A friend was supposed to fly back to YYC from California that day. Took him several days just to find a car rental so him and a couple co-workers could drive home since there were zero flights for a while.
In reality, security and life in north america hasn't been the same since.
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