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walking over to attempt to give blood, we kept hearing planes overhead.... F15's, patrolling NY airspace
scary to hear planes
>From: "Mohan, Ross" <MohanR_at_STARS-SMI.com>
>Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>Subject: TERRORIST ACTS
>Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:00:18 -0800
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>This Reuters report is spot on accurate from my seat, in downtown DC,
>about five blocks from White House.
>
>I am going out to have another look now, and will report back, but....
>...I have NEVER seen anything like this...people are shocked...there
>is NO "business as usual" attitude here.
>
>more later......
>
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>Panic Reigns on Washington Streets
>Reuters
>Sep 11 2001 11:31AM
>
>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Panic-stricken Washington pedestrians froze in their
>tracks when they heard the whir of a plane overhead on Tuesday after plane
>attacks demolished New York's World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon.
>Washington workers flooded the streets near the White House and elsewhere
>after all federal buildings were ordered evacuated and other businesses
>shut
>down. But some people seemed bewildered about what to do next.
>
>"I'm totally freaked out. Hearing the plane going over my head was
>frightening," Elissa Brainard, 29, told Reuters as she joined the 150 yard
>line to get her car from the parking garage.
>
>But even with her car, Brainard faced a long wait to get home, as gridlock
>hit Washington's roads.
>
>Drivers ran red lights and sped across intersections, sending pedestrians
>scattering. Police near the White House tried to direct traffic, but a few
>blocks away chaos reigned, thwarting the efforts of emergency vehicles.
>
>Wailing sirens from fire engines, police patrols and ambulances mingled
>with
>car horns, whistles and human cries.
>
>"Everything is going crazy. People are getting so stressed out," one office
>worker said.
>
>CELLULAR TELEPHONE MELTDOWN
>
>Pedestrians hurried away from the federal quarter and clutched cellular
>telephones to their ears, desperately trying to reach loved ones. But
>cellular telephone networks seemed to be disrupted and people began to line
>up at public phones.
>
>"I'm terrified. We tried to call on the cellphone but they weren't
>working,"
>office assistant Val Thornton said.
>
>Thornton, whose commuter bus takes her past the Pentagon to her Virginia
>home, did not know how she would get out of the city.
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>Author: Mohan, Ross
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