Becky and I were on vacation, having spent the previous week in Estes Park, Colorado and were on our way to Minneapolis, Minnesota. We had spent the 10th visiting Nebraska's odd tourist attraction Carhenge, in Alliance, and then some of Becky's relatives in Valentine, where we spent the night in a motel.
Becky was in the bathroom finishing up a shower (I think) when I turned on the motel room's TV on the morning of the 11th to see what kind of weather the Weather Channel was predicting for our drive across southern South Dakota and Minnesota. I somehow ended up on one of the network morning talk shows, where they were regularly interrupting for news updates about "a plane that had hit one of the towers". I called Becky out of the bathroom and we both watched the live coverage as the 2nd plane hit. We debated whether to continue our vacation or just drive back to Lincoln, and decided to continue. We then drove most of the 11th, watching the eerily clear blue skies (no jet contrails) all day. The next day, at The Mall of America, most of the stores were closed all morning to allow employees to attend a memorial/counseling service. I was then interviewed in our Minneapolis hotel, by a local reporter looking to get the stories of travelers trapped in the Twin Cities by the airport shutdowns. Several of the folks stuck in our hotel were from the New York area and were trying to get rental cars so they could drive home from Minneapolis.
Because it was "premiere week" on TV, I had set two VCRs to record 6 hours of episodes of shows I was interested in, so I had (and still have) a few hours of "live" network coverage of the events on tape, but from the evenings of the 11th and 12th.
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Date: 2008-09-12 05:52 am (UTC)Becky was in the bathroom finishing up a shower (I think) when I turned on the motel room's TV on the morning of the 11th to see what kind of weather the Weather Channel was predicting for our drive across southern South Dakota and Minnesota. I somehow ended up on one of the network morning talk shows, where they were regularly interrupting for news updates about "a plane that had hit one of the towers". I called Becky out of the bathroom and we both watched the live coverage as the 2nd plane hit. We debated whether to continue our vacation or just drive back to Lincoln, and decided to continue. We then drove most of the 11th, watching the eerily clear blue skies (no jet contrails) all day. The next day, at The Mall of America, most of the stores were closed all morning to allow employees to attend a memorial/counseling service. I was then interviewed in our Minneapolis hotel, by a local reporter looking to get the stories of travelers trapped in the Twin Cities by the airport shutdowns. Several of the folks stuck in our hotel were from the New York area and were trying to get rental cars so they could drive home from Minneapolis.
Because it was "premiere week" on TV, I had set two VCRs to record 6 hours of episodes of shows I was interested in, so I had (and still have) a few hours of "live" network coverage of the events on tape, but from the evenings of the 11th and 12th.