Where Were You?

[OlDawg]

September 11, 2001

I was sitting at my station in the top floor of what was then a Williams Energy Bldg. in the Energy Corridor in Memorial designing a plot plan for a proposed, massive cogeneration plant that was going to interconnect the Texas energy grid to New Mexico, Arizona, and west. There were no TV's. Security came up & informed our engineering office that everyone had to evacuate to the ground floor immediately. We didn't find out why until we were all at our assembly points downstairs.

I remember people thinking Houston's Energy Corridor was going to be hit as a strategic target because of all the engineering firms dealing with the oil and gas industry.

La Porte ISD released, and my wife called and said she had left work to go pick our son up from school, and that the ship channel plants were all on high alert.

I've heard that 1/3 of the people living in in the U.S. now weren't even born yet.

Where were you?

[5GallonBucket]

I was at Lamar University in my junior year.  Coach Jolly let us out early but didn’t say why…walking to the front of setzer center. I open the doors and tons of students gathered looking up at one of those old grey box tvs hung up on the wall…whatever channel it was on the headline said America Under Attack….

never forget it.  Called numerous friends of mine that we re in the military that day just to check in with them….i knew that things were about to really change for them.  Said many prayers

[AggiesAreWe]

Was in a boat fishing in East Bay. Didn't know about it until around 1pm when I got back to Stingaree boat ramp to clean fish.

Spent the rest of the day watching it on the tube at beach cabin.

[thetragichippy]

I was at home, my Son was 8 months old and I was freaking out a little. 

I remember how everyone was on edge for a long time. 

[OlDawg]

1 minute ago, AggiesAreWe said:

Was in a boat fishing in East Bay. Didn't know about it until around 1pm when I got back to Stingaree boat ramp to clean fish.

Spent the rest of the day watching it on the tube at beach cabin.

Love Stingaree. Used to pull the boat up and take a break just for the crabs and Stingaritas. Only motorcycle uh-oh I've ever had--after riding for all my life--was filling up after about 3 large Stingaritas on the way back home. Told my wife to keep her feet on the rear pegs, got off to fill up, forgot (too drunk in fact) to put the kickstand down, and watched her slow motion fall. Still with her feet on the pegs, looking at me with a dumbfounded look pinned by the bike, calmly saying, "You told me to keep my feet on the pegs."

Yep. Too young and stupid even in my 40s. lol