And, yes, my step-brother (who I didn’t know all that well at the time, but was worried for my step-father’s sake) was ok. I believe he was stuck in Canada that day.

Everyone single person I knew or ran into or met at stores, gas stations etc It was all we spoke of. All we were thinking of.
Everything else just went into a holding pattern that day for sure.

I worked at a daycare and we kept our computer on cnn all day (it wasn’t in the same room as the children!) so that we knew what was happening (with the time difference all the major events had occurred before we openend — west coast)

I am totally shocked that there wasn’t open defiance at an order to return to work! This guy must have been some kind of boss. Most offices I heard of sent everyone home for the day or gave them the choice.

I think it was a good thing you didn’t stay there — those people sound like heartless automatons!
(hey did he just have a viewing program or did the other guy rat you out?) {clearly you are talking to a non-computer tech type}

Sadly, yours is the story closest to mine, but thankfully mine wasn’t anything like that.

To make a long story short, my coders kept trying to have serious meetings with me about the project, like anyone was doing any sort of work. Apparently they were.

One guy was watching the TV someone had pulled into the cube farm and was making really bizarre comments, like it was all a movie or a game. I remember him just sort of chuckling as he mentally added up what he thought the whole thing would cost, adding of the price of planes and buildings and saying his forecasts out loud. It was the most surreal day.

I just worked, even though I wasn’t sure where my family was.